Bay Ridge: Developer Andrew Kohen —Â who wants to build a new Home Depot and hundreds of units of lucrative housing along a vacant Bay Ridge rail yard — was forced to stand silently for an hour as members of Community Board 10 committee slammed him as greedy on Monday night. Comment.

Cell tower wars in Ridge

By Matthew Lysiak

Yellow Hooker: There’s a new cellphone tower battle brewing. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

The sky’s the limit (at least in this picture)

By Dana Rubinstein

Downtown plan: Here’s a new rendering of a glitzy new mall on Fulton Street in Downtown. Comment.

Permits a plague on Pierrepont

By Homer Fink

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist goes undercover to solve the parking mess on Pierrepont Street. Comments (3).

Screamin’ for ice cream

By Beethoven Bong

Downtown: Defying weeks of claims that he was just “closed for renovations,” Sven Lapiner finally admitted this week that he had closed the Ben & Jerry’s parlor on Atlantic Avenue, claiming the lack of business forced his hand. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

3 pols in same Gowanus boat

By Ariella Cohen

Carroll Gardens: The three Councilmembers who represent communities surrounding the Gowanus Canal have united to demand several key amenities in the city’s planned redevelopment of the historically industrial area, demanding affordable housing and low-rise buildings. Comment.

Sweatin’ with the weirdies

By Ariella Cohen

Brooklyn South: Our columnist discovers that people say the craziest thing in the sauna. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Wrong way on Carlton Avenue

By Dana Rubinstein

Greene Acres: Our columnist discovers that the city’s best-laid plans sometimes don’t get finished. Comment.

General electric

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: A Fort Greene luminary’s plan to light a neighborhood statue — in much the same way he lighted iconic treasures like the George Washington Bridge and Washington Square Arch — has fallen through the gaping cracks of city bureaucracy. Comment.

She’s star(fish)

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: The Clinton Hill lady who transforms her stately mansion every Halloween into the neighborhood’s spookiest haunted house can pin another fantastical achievement onto her lapel: a winner at the Mermaid Parade. Comment.

Park Slope

War ends over Minerva?

By Ariella Cohen

Park Slope: A tightly packed row of narrow brownstone homes could end a bitter dispute over a notorious building that was once slated to rise in the famous view corridor between the statue of Minerva in Green-Wood Cemetery and the Statue of Liberty. Comment.

Rats! Nica is hot and bothered

By Nica Lalli

PS … I Love You: Our columnist smells a rat. And it’s freaking her out. Comment.

Park Slope catches charter school fever

By Dana Rubinstein

Park Slope: A group of Park Slope parents that is concerned about the dearth of good middle schools in the neighborhood is starting a charter school that will draw fifth graders from the Slope, Sunset Park and Gowanus. Comments (2).

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