Williamsburg: A hooligan scared an 80-year-old woman so badly that she needed an ambulance after the 16-year-old suspect broke into her apartment in the middle of the day on Oct. 15. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Take this area history quiz!

By Tom Gilbert

Beside the Point: Our columnist offers a pop quiz for people who think they know North Brooklyn. Comments (1).

City plan is ferry good in Williamsburg

By Adam F. Hutton

Williamsburg: The city is sifting through several proposals from ferry operators to shuttle commuters between Manhattan and at least three stops in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, an effort that the city hopes will reduce congestion on the roads and also on the overloaded G and L trains. Comments (2).

CB1 to Navy Yard: Make ship shape!

By Adam F. Hutton

Williamsburg: Williamsburg community board is going to war against the Navy Yard. Comment.

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Lowen’s raided — again!

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: Five months after drug enforcement authorities raided Lowen’s, the popular mom-and-pop pharmacy at the corner of Third Avenue and 69th Street, state investigators pounded down the doors again on Tuesday, this time seizing enough raw powder to make nearly a million doses of human growth hormone. Comments (1).

Townhouses KO Ridge Victorians

By Matthew Lysiak

The Brooklyn Paper / Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: Talk about an extreme makeover! Three elegant Victorian homes on 74th Street have been reduced to rubble — and will be replaced by five, three-family townhouses, according to the Basile Builders Group, which owns the property. Comment.

Victorian era ends in Ridge?

By Matthew Lysiak

Yellow Hooker: Local activists are asking if the destruction of three beloved Bay Ridge Victorian homes is the beginning of a broader trend. Well, this columnist has an answer — let’s hope so! Comments (1).

Rogue sidewalk sale vexes Ridge

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: Two local merchants are under scrutiny for the “disgusting” display in front of their stores — they’re using the sidewalk as part of the selling floor, officials say. Comments (1).

The diary of Ann Castello

By Ann Castello

Bay Ridge: Our pal Ann Castello, a.k.a. the Bensonhurst Bubba, shared with us the diaries she started keeping (and still has!) when she was 11 years old in 1947. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Soul food to Gage & Tollner site

By Adam F. Hutton

Downtown: Amy Ruth’s, a Harlem soul food restaurant known for a fried chicken-and-waffles dish named after Al Sharpton, will open a second location at the landmark Gage & Tollner site on the Fulton Mall. Comment.

The Great Green Way in DUMBO

By Adam F. Hutton

The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg

Art: Galapagos Art Space — that hipster haven on North Sixth Street that has been Williamsburg’s home to outsider performance art since 2003 — is moving to DUMBO next year, and when it does, it’s going to be green. Comments (1).

Just saying ‘no’ may have led to this big-time theft

By Harry Cheadle

Downtown: A woman who followed Nancy Reagan’s famous advice to “just say no” to drugs ended up being robbed of $4,400 in jewelry early on Oct. 12. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Inconvenience pays: Movie crew tosses dough around Heights

By Adam F. Hutton

Downtown: Who said Hollywood types are heartless: after turning Brooklyn Heights into their own back lot, the Coen Brothers have started spreading some major green throughout the neighborhood. Comments (1).

Eating veg is good — but where?

By Juliana Bunim

Heights Lowdown: Brooklyn Vegetarian Week is all well and good, but the Heights doesn’t have any vegetarian restaurants! Comments (2).

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Pretty criminal

By Ariella Cohen

Carroll Gardens: A truck driver learned the hard way never to trust a flirt when a younger woman offered to share a drink with him — then stole a computer from his parked rig before the first sip was taken. Plus all the crime news from Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Cobble Hill’s 76th Precinct. Comment.

Gripping tale at robbed bar

By Ariella Cohen

Brooklyn South: Our columnist’s friend helped nab a wanted bar robber. Here’s the saga. Comment.

Smith Street dojo’s got to go

By Mike McLaughlin

Carroll Gardens: A 15-year-old martial arts school is being forced out of its Smith Street location by the end of the year, because its small operation can no longer afford one of Brooklyn’s hottest commercial corridors. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

The queen of Halloween

By Dana Rubinstein

The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan

Fort Greene: Janna Kennedy Hyten, the queen of Halloween, has outdone herself already. Comment.

Lost his bread

By Harry Cheadle

Fort Greene: A routine stop for a man delivering baked goods to a Myrtle Avenue supermarket turned into an armed robbery on Oct. 8. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comment.

Thar she blows at the Navy Yard

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: Brooklyn will soon have the honor of being home to the first building in the city to use wind turbines to harvest energy. Comment.

‘Model’ landlord is tenant-tough

By Dana Rubinstein

Greene Acres: Our columnist finds that the Pratt Area Community Council doesn’t always practice what it preaches. Comments (2).

Park Slope

City set to prune back Union Street planters

By Adam F. Hutton

Park Slope: The city has ordered 10 planters to be removed from Union Street — part of a crackdown on thousands of miniature cement parks citywide, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comment.

She spilled a drink, so they stole bag

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: A woman spilled a drink on the wrong person at a Fifth Avenue restaurant and ended up having her bag stolen by the angry and sopping wet spill victim. Plus all the crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

They all want me dead now

By Gersh Kuntzman

PS … I Love You: Why do all the drivers — and some bikers — want to destroy our bike-commuting editor? Comment.

Time for a change

By Dana Rubinstein

Park Slope: Flatbush Avenue’s two Victorian-style street-clocks will tick-tock-tick again by the end of October. Comment.

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