Bay Ridge: A Bay Ridge councilman wants to crack down on film crews hogging scarce parking spaces at the expense of local motorists — but the city wants to keep the cameras rolling on … and the dollars rolling in. Comment.
Bay Ridge: A former Dyker Heights movie theater that the city hoped to turn into a school will instead become a grocery store — and local residents are overjoyed. Comment.
Bay Ridge: The Bensonhurst Volunteer Ambulance Service has put its building up for sale in a last-ditch effort to save the 30-year-old life-saving institution. Comments (1).
Bay Ridge: The city Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering a request by residents to create a historic district on Ovington Avenue between Third and Ridge avenues. Comments (1).
Carroll Gardens: The abundance of quasi-porn magazines on city-owned newsstands has got some parents in Boerum Hill all hot and bothered. And not in a good way. Comment.
Fort Greene: A local preservationist has appealed to Gov. Spitzer in a last-ditch effort to save the century-old mansions in the Navy Yard’s Admirals Row, which will be demolished to make way for a supermarket. Comment.
Park Slope: A popular woman’s department store on Fifth Avenue has closed — even as its owner is working to create a business improvement district along the strip. Comment.
Park Slope: A plan for the long-shuttered Katina’s Diner to become a southern outpost of the New Purity Diner fell through suddenly last week, leaving fans of the Seventh Avenue greasy spoon wondering if the other soufflé had fallen. Comment.
Park Slope: The non-profit group slated to run a single-room-occupancy building in the South Slope fought back this week against charges that the building will bring dangerous people to the area. Comments (1).