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Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Green warrior gets litter ticket!

Bay Ridge: Here’s a story about the Bensonhurst environmentalist…who got a littering ticket! Comment.

Cut! Ridge councilman wants crackdown on filming

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.

Searching for Tony Manero

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist goes in search of Brooklyn’s (Increasingly) Little Italy. Comment.

New market for Dyker Heights

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.

Bensonhurst volunteer ambulance in last-ditch effort to survive

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).

Ovington nearing history

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).

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Defending the barber of the hill

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist defends a Brooklyn Heights barber under fire for his “hideous” neon sign. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

The greening of Red Hook

Carroll Gardens: Is it possible? Red Hook is getting trees? Comment.

History being sunk in the Hook

Brooklyn South: Our columnist finds that history has become a low priority in Red Hook. Comment.

Skin patrol in Boerum Hill

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–Clinton Hill

Drink ’til you drop at Yards-area bar

Atlantic Yards: A neighborhood establishment wants you to come in and get completely wasted — and you can thank Bruce Ratner for it. Comment.

Money just waiting to be spent

Greene Acres: Our columnist tries to figure out why Fort Greene Park declines, even though money is available to fix it. Comment.

Architect fan to Spitzer: Save the Admirals Row

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

No fury like a stroller scorned

PS … I Love You: Our columnist defends Barnes and Noble in the recent “Strollergate” controversy Comment.

Aaron’s closes, but Fifth’s future is bright

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.

Katina’s ‘Purity’ plan scrambled!

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.

Group: This is not a homeless shelter

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).
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