Elsewhere

Coney Island: Coney Island rides again!

Brooklyn’s six-million-dollar view

Vox Pop: Spitz in your face: Are all men pigs?

Bloomy in the ’Hood: Bloomy pay-to-park plan pulls pols

Red Hook: The Red Hook vendors are back!

Cartoon: All drawn out

Better off dead?

Carroll Gardens: Hare today — and tomorrow?

The Stoop Archive

Williamsburg–Greenpoint–Bushwick

The tropic of Williamsburg

By Tom Gilbert

Beside the Point: Save Henry Miller’s boyhood home! Comment.

Fake cops

By Ben Muessig

Crime: Three gun-toting criminals impersonated cops late on March 3, invading a woman’s home and making off with $30,000 in cash and valuables. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Purse slip

By Michael Giardina

Crime: A thief stole a woman’s pocketbook as she shopped in a Bay Parkway department store on March 7. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. Comment.

Drive-by mugging

By Joe Jordan

Crime: A mugger grabbed a woman’s purse on 74th Street just after midnight on March 7. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights’ 68th Precinct. Comment.

Victory marches on

By Loren Bonner

Bay Ridge: A rushed shutdown of Bay Ridge’s beleaguered Victory Memorial Hospital was thwarted last week when state officials released more than $1 million to pay the staff. Comments (1).

Ridgites complain: too many cellphones!

By Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: Protestors in Bay Ridge are angry about their cellphones — but they’re not screaming for better service. In fact, they want less coverage! Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Swastika man moonlighted for NYPD

By Mike McLaughlin

Crime: The man charged with defacing Remsen Street buildings and cars with swastikas was reportedly working as an informant for the NYPD. As you might imagine, prosecutors had to dismiss that case! Comment.

The lobster is re-signed

By Ben Muessig

Brooklyn Heights: A legendary Brooklyn Heights restaurant will turn off its lights for the last time this week, unplugging an iconic sign that has cast a neon glow on Montague Street for decades. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

No end to BQE crashes in sight

By Mike McLaughlin

Cobble Hill: The state has no plans to improve a dangerous entrance to the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway despite an accident rate that’s six times higher than average, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comments (2).

Give it up

By Mike McLaughlin

Crime: Two men mugged a woman on Degraw Street. Plus all the other crime news from Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill’s 76th Precinct. Comment.

Hot Smith property

By Ben Muessig

Boerum Hill: Talk about a fixer-upper! This sealed-up building on a hot Smith Street corner will someday be more than just a dead zone, thanks to a just-announced plan by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to sell it to the highest bidder. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Teenage girls mug another

By Mike McLaughlin

Crime: Four teenage girls mugged another teen heading home from school on March 3 at the corner of Hanson and South Elliott places. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (1).

Park Slope

George Washington may retake Park Slope’s J.J. Byrne Park

By Mike McLaughlin

Park Slope: In a bid to rewrite a wrongly re-written history, a group of Park Slopers wants to change the name of J.J. Byrne Park so that it re-honors its original namesake — the one and only George Washington. Comments (3).

Rink donation not so dinky

By Ricky Barlin

Adelman / Prospect Park Alliance

Park Slope: The $60-million renovation of Prospect Park’s rundown skating rink into a multi-purpose, year-round venue took a small step closer to reality last week, thanks to a private donation of $1.5 million — the first outside grant for the ambitious project. Comment.

GUNMAN! Man in easy-to-spot jacket pulls gun on two

By Gersh Kuntzman

Crime: Two Park Slope women had run-ins with the same style-challenged gunmen in separate incidents on March 4, cops said. Comments (3).

Marauder, striking in Slope, grabs gal’s purse

By Gersh Kuntzman

Crime: A perp jumped a woman and fled in a bad-ass car. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Sex: It was always thus

By Wendy Ponte

PS … I Love You: The latest sex scandal reminds our columnist of a classic Slope affair. Comment.

Hits and runs

By Dana Rubinstein

Crime: There were at least two hit-and-runs in the neighborhood last week, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Prospect Heights’s 77th Precinct. Comment.

Drip master

By Adrian Kinloch

Park Slope: A nifty new piece of art shows up in the Slope. Comment.

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