Williamsburg: A controversial Williamsburg bar that has run up thousands of dollars in fines is about to be sold to a new owner who is vowing to clean up the joint’s act. Comments (2).

The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Gilbert

Hawk moves into Greenpoint

By Tom Gilbert

Williamsburg: In a move with grave implications for the pigeon community, a Red-tailed hawk appears to be shopping for a new home in or around North Brooklyn’s hip McCarren Park. Comments (1).

Exxon a no-show at spill hearing

By Adam F. Hutton

Williamsburg: ExxonMobil officials blew off a City Council hearing on the company’s clean up of Greenpoint’s 30-million-gallon underground oil spill — and by doing so, the energy giant missed an opportunity to defend itself from accusations that it isn’t doing all it could to expedite the process. Comments (1).

That’s a Satmar party!

By Dana Rubinstein

Williamsburg: Thirty-thousand Hassidic Jews will party as only the Hassidim know how to under an enormous white tent in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday, the largest party the condo-and-greenspace development has hosted yet. The festivities commemorate the arrival of European Jews to the Unites States after World War II. Comments (1).

This hawk is full of talk

By Tom Gilbert

Beside the Point: Our columnist gets an exclusive sit-down (or is that flyby?) with the new Red-tail hawk that’s taken up residence in McCarren Park. Comments (1).

With roomies like these, who needs enemies?

By Dana Rubinstein

Williamsburg: Two rather poorly matched roommates called the cops twice in the matter of just two days, accusing each other of exceptionally bad behavior. Plus all the other crime news from Williasmburg’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

2 men, in uniform, deliver newborn

By Michael Giardina

Bay Ridge: Two cops responding to a call of a woman in pain rushed to her Fifth Avenue apartment and got there just in time to deliver her baby boy on Tuesday morning. Comment.

Money for something

By Michael Giardina

The Brooklyn Paper / Gregory P. Mango

Bay Ridge: Brooklyn’s bravest at Engine 284 and Ladder 149 in Dyker Heights are holding a fundraiser for one of their own, supporting a 17-year vet who came down with cancer after volunteering at Ground Zero. Comment.

Suit demands: Keep Victory open!

By Loren Bonner

Bay Ridge: Three lawmakers have sued the state to demand that it keep the emergency room at Victory Memorial Hospital open, even if the rest of the medical center is forced to close down. Comment.

Thief makes a $170,000 score on 23rd Ave.

By Michael Giardina

Bay Ridge: Thieves stole a safe containing $170,000, plus some jewelry, from a 23rd Avenue apartment on Nov. 25. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. Comment.

Sliwa to city: Elect me!

By Matthew Lysiak

Yellow Hooker: Curtis Sliwa — Guardian Angel, radio host, self-promoter — came to Bay Ridge to talk about his future, which may someday be inexorably linked to yours. Comment.

From smut to Santa on school street

By Joe Jordan

Bay Ridge: Not on my kid’s school’s block! That’s what local parents were saying about a huge adult video advertisement that was plastered on a storefront just a few doors up from two Bay Ridge elementary schools. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Navy Yard to create a full-fledged media ‘campus’ at Steiner

By Dana Rubinstein

Downtown: A Universal Studios–like film and TV complex will rise on the East River, turning the industrial Brooklyn Navy Yard into a Tinseltown East under a new city proposal. Comment.

DUMBO subway purse snatch

By Harry Cheadle

Downtown: A woman walking out of the subway ran into a purse-snatcher who roughed her up before taking her bag on Nov. 21. Plus all the other crime news from Downtown, Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Reading machines

By Gersh Kuntzman

Downtown: Students at PS 8 are bucking the nationwide trend — and are reading. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Old Gardens church holds a party — or is it a wake?

By Zachary Kolodin

The Brooklyn Paper / Zachary Kolodin

Carroll Gardens: The oldest Italian church in Carroll Gardens — an old Italian neighborhood —Â is 125 years old. But how much longer can it hold on? Comment.

Fancy coffee, at D’Amico’s?

By Ariella Cohen

Brooklyn South: Our columnist discovers that the venerable D’Amico’s coffee shop on Court Street is considering a jump into Starbucks’ territory: flavored coffee. Comment.

One dead

By Ariella Cohen

Carroll Gardens: A 20-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car on Degraw Street on Nov. 16, police said. Plus all the other crime news from the 76th Precinct. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Van plumbed

By Harry Cheadle

Fort Greene: A plumber who was doing a job inside a Classon Avenue building on Nov. 20 came out to discover that someone had done a job on his van at the same time. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comment.

Park Slope

Pastor and rabbi unite to help Slope homeless

By Dana Rubinstein

The Brooklyn Paper / Nicole Braun

Park Slope: The three homeless men who sparked a flurry of soul searching in Park Slope — and the ire of a local pastor — after refusing to moderate their drinking and noise-making have abandoned their long-time hangout on the steps of the Old First Reformed Church, but they have left a legacy behind. Comments (1).

Sweet Melissa sours rivals

By Wendy Ponte

PS … I Love You: Our local baker does Brooklyn proud, winning a Food Network competition despite severe gastric distress (of course she was in distress, she was in North Carolina!). Comment.

Here’s some good advice: Don’t leave $23K in the car

By Harry Cheadle

Park Slope: Getting your car broken into is bad. Getting $23,000 worth of jewelry taken out of your car — which happened to a woman on Nov. 21 — is much, much worse. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

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