September 29, 2007: Vol. 30, No. 38
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Williamsburg–Greenpoint–Bushwick
How to devour Polish food
Beside the Point: Love food? Love quantity? Hate high prices? Greenpoint is your neighborhood. Here’s a foodie’s-eye view. Comment.
Robberies, larcenies and muggings ruin all the fun in hipster Billyburg
Williamsburg: Robberies and grand larcenies again led the hit parade in Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct last week, with eight heists (up from three during the same week last year) and 16 grand larcenies (up from eight last year). Plus all the crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.
Big price paid for little plot
Williamsburg: It doesn’t look like much, but this little piece of factory at the corner of Meserole and Leonard streets just sold for $5,075,000. Comment.
Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst
Recchia seeks Fossella’s seat, but he’d have to move to get it
Bay Ridge: Councilman Domenic Recchia will go after five-term Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) — but Fossella is already firing back. Comments (1).
Thieves strike apartment building thrice in one day
Bay Ridge: A team of busy crooks broke into three Ovington Avenue apartments in just a few hours. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge. Comment.
This grass has cyber-roots
Yellow Hooker: A movement against a local crackhouse began with a mouse click. Comments (3).
Help me, Honda
Bay Ridge: Two Hondas crash — and we’ve got the pictures! Comment.
2 fests this weekend
Bay Ridge: Head for the Ragamuffin Parade this Saturday and the Third Avenue Festival on Sunday. Comment.
Brooklyn Heights–Downtown
Heights stands in for D.C.
Downtown: George Clooney and John Malkovich are turning heads in the Heights — as set designers turn the neighborhood into Georgetown. Comment.
Invasion of the film crew
Heights Lowdown: At least one woman — our columnist — is not so happy about the arrival of George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Comment.
iStuff lost in late-night grabs
Downtown: A violent attempt to grab a woman’s iPhone ended when the cops fortuitously passed by and arrested the attacker. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown. Comment.
Walentas gets soaked
Downtown: Even though they didn’t make any money, organizers of last week’s “fight night” fundraiser for DUMBO are calling it a success. Of course it was: David Walentas ended up in a dunk tank! Comment.
Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill
MTA extends itself for Ikea
Red Hook: New York City Transit has agreed to next year reroute the B61 and the B77 bus lines to stop at a corner of Red Hook that is fast turning blue — Ikea blue. Comments (1).
Accident-prone BQE now has its own blog
Carroll Gardens: The only thing worse than being stuck on the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway is being stuck living next to it — and now it’s inspired its own blog! Comments (1).
Crime ain’t new but it hits hard
Brooklyn South: Our columnist confronts crime — and her own white guilt. Comment.
They asked for the time, but stole kid’s iPod
Carroll Gardens: Four men roughed up a kid for his iPod on Smith Street. Plus all the crime news from Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill’s 76th Precinct. Comment.
Red Hook is turning green
Carroll Gardens: Two eco-friendly additions are coming to the neighborhood long known as a destination for car-burning arsonists and smog. Comment.
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Discredited
Fort Greene: A pair of hoodlums held up a credit union located inside a church and was thrown out by a heroic man after getting the money. Plus all the crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comment.
Finding a park in space
Fort Greene: Activists commandeered a parking space on Myrtle Avenue last week and turned it into a park. Hey, drivers: Take a hike. Comment.
These 3 guys need space
Greene Acres: The three founders of a nearly finished Fort Greene music venue and art gallery that the city intends to raze to make way for a new home for a Manhattan dance group in the BAM Cultural District need to find a new home of their own — now. Comment.
Park Slope
Two bad weeks for deliverers
Park Slope: Two thugs beat and robbed a pizza deliveryman at knifepoint on 13th Street early on Sept. 16. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope. Comment.
Fire this time
Park Slope: Two weeks, two fires: Sixth Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues has been the site of two car fires in consecutive weeks. Comment.
City still misfires at Armory
Park Slope: The renovation of the Park Slope Armory has … military drum roll … been delayed again. Comment.
Fourth Avenue freeze-out
Park Slope: The Park Slope Civic Council — fresh from rallying the troops to defeat the city’s controversial “One-Way Seventh Avenue” plan earlier this summer — now has its sights set on fixing an “unsafe” situation on much-busier Fourth Avenue. Comment.
