Yellow Hooker: Our columnist tries to solve the mystery of how a home without a driveway can get a ticket from the Sanitation Department for having a dirty driveway. Comment.

New block on the block

By Matthew Lysiak

The Brooklyn Paper / Dennis W. Ho

Bay Ridge: Ovington Avenue and Senator Street are both worthy of landmark status. But which is prettier? Comment.

Gentile blasts R shuttle

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: The MTA leaves Bay Ridge R-train riders stranded at rush hour by taking trains out of service, Councilman Vince Gentile fumed this week. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Greasing the wheels in DUMBO

By Christie Rizk

Downtown: Keeping DUMBO green is going to be a lot easier, thanks to an innovative program to transform used restaurant cooking oil into bio-diesel fuel. Comment.

Fire makes school building hotter

By Christie Rizk

Heights Lowdown: The fire is out at St. Charles Borromeo School in Brooklyn Heights, but the building is hotter than ever — thanks to a decision by the Brooklyn Diocese to close the school and sell or lease the property. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Espresso arms race in Gardens

By Ariella Cohen

Brooklyn South: Why does the new Starbucks have two espresso machines while the old Starbucks three blocks away have one? Comment.

Help him find his assailant

By Ariella Cohen

Carroll Gardens: Boerum Hill cyclist Sergio Revah is trying to find people who saw him get hit by a Cadillac coupe traveling east on notoriously dangerous Atlantic Avenue (a.k.a. the “avenue of death and destruction”). Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

A sour mail-female relationship

By Dana Rubinstein

Greene Acres: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill join the race to complain about the Postal Service. Comment.

This icy woman is just too hot

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: A naked snow goddess made a short-lived appearance on a Fort Greene ledge this week, arousing admiration among area neighbors, before finally succumbing to Tuesday’s above-freezing temperatures. Comment.

Manhattan dancers in Brooklyn? Fuhgedaboudit!

By Dana Rubinstein

BAM District: Community leaders are crying foul at the city’s decision to give a Manhattan-based dance troupe prime real estate at the center of the developing BAM Cultural District. Comment.

Myrtle gets pruned

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: Myrtle Avenue’s trees are getting a long-needed trim. Comment.

Park Slope

Protesting the lack of protests

By Nica Lalli

PS … I Love You: Our columnist gets so appalled at the armchair liberals that she gets out — literally — and hits the streets to protest the war. Comment.

Power only half on at gym

By Josh Saul

Park Slope: The first floor of a popular children’s gym remains closed, despite a promise that it was to have reopened by now — seven weeks after the Fire Department shut it down. Comment.

Holy teardown! Slope church to be razed

By Christie Rizk

Park Slope: A long-shuttered Polish church on 15th Street will be torn down to make way for apartments, the latest house of worship to end up as housing in the former Borough of Churches. Comment.

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