By Matthew Lysiak
The Brooklyn Paper / Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Five days after an extremely rare tornado ripped through Bay Ridge, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency —Â you remember them from Hurricane Katrina — surveyed the damage to determine whether some residents are eligible for federal aid. They made no promises.
Comment.
By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: The situation at the Great Wall Supermarket on Fort Hamilton Parkway still stinks, according to neighbors.
Comment.
By Matthew Lysiak
Yellow Hooker: Our libertarian columnist had to admit something after last Wednesday’s tornado: Sometimes government can work.
Comment.
By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge’s Marine Captain John McKenna, 30, who died in Iraq after being shot while coming to the aid of fallen comrade, will be honored with a charity golf tournament on Sept. 24.
Comment.
By Ariella Cohen
DUMBO: A Brooklyn Heights lawmaker has blown a spitball at DUMBO real-estate baron David Walentas’s controversial plan for an 18-story, 400-unit complex near the Brooklyn Bridge by demanding that the 300-seat school —Â which was included in the project to generate support for the entire plan — actually be built in the state’s Brooklyn Bridge Park development nearby.
Comment.
By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist stalks the less-than-elusive source of the raw meat stench in the Hillside Dog Park on Columbia Heights.
Comment.
By Ariella Cohen
The Brooklyn Paper / Sarah Kramer
Carroll Gardens: You can’t miss this mural rising over Third Avenue — and maybe it will help drivers stop hitting kids.
Comment.
By Ariella Cohen
Crime: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has declared the bad old days officially over in fast-changing South Brooklyn — but, like Faulkner said, the mayhem of the past isn’t dead. In fact, it’s not even past.
Comment.
By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn South: Our columnist can’t understand what the city has against her beloved Red Hook taco vendors.
Comment.
By Dana Rubinstein
The Brooklyn Paper / Robin Lester
Fort Greene: This boarded up brownstone, on Fulton Street between Clinton and Waverly avenues, was recently snapped up by a development group for $953,000, presumably to be converted into luxury condos.
Comment.
By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: Cops are examining why there has been an “uptick” in alleged rape cases in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
Comment.
By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: Fort Greene Park may get three-dozen new benches — but don’t start plopping down in celebration just yet. The park only gets the goods if people “sponsor” the benches by coughing up $3,000 a pop.
Comment.
By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: It’s taken six years for the city to build a community center in the Ingersoll Houses.
Comment.
By Yvonne Juris
Park Slope: Work has begun to turn a former Lincoln Place brothel into luxury condos.
Comment.
By Leon Freilich
Perspective: Our poet weighs in on the conversion of a former brothel into luxury condos.
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