Bay Ridge: Residents of Dahlgren Place won a small victory this week when the city agreed to finally install a speed limit sign on the fast-moving street. Comment.

Is Kohen Ridge Ratner?

By Matthew Lysiak

Yellow Hooker: If Andrew Kohen’s plan to build a Home Depot in Bay Ridge is defeated, you can thank — or blame — Bruce Ratner. Comment.

Cell tower war off the hook

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: It’s getting ugly on 81st Street, where tenants of an apartment building — furious over the installation of cellphone equipment on their roof — confronted workers and nearly came to blows with their landlord’s relative after construction crews began installing more phone machinery. Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Alternate side of street parking

By Homer Fink

Heights Lowdown: The mystery “illegal” parker of Pierrepont Street has broken his silence! To our columnist! Exclusively! Comment.

No braking for alleycats

By Rachel Corbett

Downtown: DUMBO’s quaint cobblestone streets will be taken over next Saturday by thrill-seeking bike messengers in a renegade “alleycat” race across the neighborhood. Comment.

Center moving next to precinct

By Dana Rubinstein

Downtown: A Downtown Brooklyn homeless outreach center — which has recently sparked complaints of drug-addicts shooting up on brownstone stoops and homeless people using vestibules as toilets — is moving to a less-populated street. Comment.

Park or parking? DUMBO decides

By Chris Cascarano

Downtown: The once trash-strewn parking lot at Pearl and Water streets in DUMBO has been transformed into what supporters say will become a neighborhood hangout, but others feel isn’t worth the valuable parking spaces it is sitting on. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Dogs and costumes and shrubbery — oh, my!

By Ariella Cohen

The Brooklyn Paper / Gregory P. Mango

Carroll Gardens: A developer’s plan to build apartments on a gritty block in the Columbia Street Waterfront District has turned into a near parody of the old saga of builders and their displaced tenants. This time, the displaced tenants are not the needy, the sick or the homeless, but pampered cats and dogs, fancy costumes, and lush foliage. Comment.

Taking a bite out of Smith St

By Ariella Cohen

Brooklyn South: Our columnist takes a bite out of the $11 toothbrush that’s now on sale on Smith Street. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Cops grab cameraman: Lawyer says cops are running wild

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: Cops arrested a Brooklyn activist on Saturday morning after he tried to use his cellphone to photograph the allegedly brutal arrest of a Muslim man in Clinton Hill, according to the lawyer representing both men. Comments (1).

Thou shalt not make a noise

By Dana Rubinstein

Greene Acres: The city finally takes on God. Comment.

Hot middle school gets suspension center

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: The city announced it will squeeze a center for suspended students into one of Fort Greene’s best-performing middle schools, just days after it bowed to community outrage and quashed a plan to house a similar center in another junior high just a few blocks away. Comments (2).

Park Slope

Army Plaza must be really ‘grand’

By Chris Cascarano

PS … I Love You: Our columnist decodes the Grand Army Plaza plan. Comment.

Ninth St makes way for bikes

By Michael McLaughlin

The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg

Park Slope: The Department of Transportation kept its word and, almost overnight, added bike lanes to Ninth Street in Park Slope last week. Comment.

‘Block’ busted building is for sale

By Matt Hampton

Atlantic Yards: A Dean Street house that was the site of a bizarre attempt to seal in a family that was still living inside is on the market again. Comment.

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