Williamsburg: Knives are still in style among Williamsburg muggers, as at least three crooks used blades to intimidate and slash their victims. Comment.

Parking lot paradise on waterfront

By Ben Muessig

Donna Walcavage and Associates

Williamsburg Waterfront: A weed-strewn parking lot on the border of Greenpoint and Williamsburg will bloom with a lush waterfront area, a cutting-edge building topped with a slanted lawn and a playing field under the latest city plan to create a world-class waterfront park. Comments (1).

Carjack attack

By Ben Muessig

Greenpoint: A would-be car thief turned violent when police arrived on April 8 at the corner of Morgan Avenue and Beadel Street. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Greenpoint’s 94th Precinct. Comments (1).

Skatelifting

By Ben Muessig

Williamsburg: An extreme crook jacked the skateboard from a 13-year-old on April 9, but cops ended the four-wheeled joyride the next day. Plus all the crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Bathroom break

By Michael Giardina

Bensonhurst: A man had his West 11th Street home robbed of cash, jewelry and clothing while he was at work on April 10. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. Comment.

Gunpoint mug

By Emily Lavin

Bay Ridge: Two men cornered and robbed a teenager at gunpoint on 83rd Street on April 3. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct. Comments (1).

Happy ending to library renovation story

By Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: The Brooklyn Public Library has turned a page for Bay Ridge readers last week, doubling temporary service at a library branch undergoing two years of renovations. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Tour takes you into the Bossert!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Brooklyn Heights: Now this is a house tour with class: This year’s Brooklyn Heights Association’s journey through some of the neighborhood’s poshest digs includes, for the first time, an inside look at the Hotel Bossert. Comment.

Crowded PS 8 to be a trailer park

By Ben Muessig

Brooklyn Heights: The city has wheeled out a solution to make space at Brooklyn Heights’ overcrowded PS 8 — trailers. Comments (1).

High-priced Heights burglary

By Mike McLaughlin

Downtown: A burglar sneaked into a Willow Street apartment and stole a cornucopia of jewelry and electronics from the four female inhabitants on April 7. Plus all the crime news from Brooklyn Heights, Downtown, DUMBO and Boerum Hill’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Gowanus cure for what ails?

By Mike McLaughlin

Gowanus: The Gowanus Canal doesn’t kill microscopic life forms, it makes them stronger — and that could lead to medical benefits for humans. Comment.

A ‘narrow’ definition

By Mike McLaughlin

The Brooklyn Paper / Noelle D’Arrigo

Rezoning: The city will tweak an arcane zoning rule to restrict the scale of new construction on several blocks of Carroll Gardens. Comment.

America began … in Red Hook?!

By Merritt Gurley

Red Hook: To some, Red Hook is best known as a hard-to-get-to neighborhood that prosperity forgot. But it is also the birthplace of America. Comment.

Parking up the wrong street

By Mike McLaughlin

Boerum Hill: Vandalized parking signs near a Boerum Hill school touched off a brouhaha last week over one of the city’s scarcest and most vital resources — parking spots. Comments (4).

‘Sponge’ Bob unveils canal park

By Mike McLaughlin

Gowanus: Here’s yet another park that’s being proposed for the banks of the Gowanus Canal. Yes, parks along the Gowanus. Comments (1).

I’ll drink to that

By Mike McLaughlin

Brooklyn South: Local bar-restaurant pioneer Jim Mamary wins his battle with his Hoyt Street neighbors. Our columnist has one word: Good! Comment.

Quadruple play

By Mike McLaughlin

Carroll Gardens: A boy was robbed of his cellphone by four punks in some after-school misbehavior on West Ninth Street on April 11. Plus all the crime news from Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct. Comment.

Such sweet sorrow

By Mike McLaughlin

Cobble Hill: To be or not to be? Shakespeare’s Sister, a Cobble Hill gift shop, has gone with the latter and will close this month after a 15-year run. Comments (1).

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Bad Samaritan

By Mike McLaughlin

Fort Greene: A man beat up an employee of a Carlton Avenue bodega who had tried to stop a 10-year old shoplifter on April 10. Plus all the crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (1).

The Brooklyn Paper / Noelle D’Arrigo

Bike lane for DeKalb

By Ben Muessig

Fort Greene: The city will turn a stretch of DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene into a safe haven for cyclists, sacrificing parking in an effort to calm the hectic throughway. Comments (2).

Park Slope

From java to grapes on 7th

By Miriam Gross

Park Slope: Café Eleven, the Seventh Avenue coffee bar that closed barely three weeks ago after barely a year in existence, will reopen as a wine bar run by the owner of Big Nose Full Body, The Stoop has learned. Comment.

Broad daylight mug nets $5K

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: A brazen thief pulled a gun on a woman on Degraw Street in the middle of the day on April 11 and mugged her for her iPhone and $5,000, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

A win for bikes, cars and feet

By Mike McLaughlin

Prospect Heights: The city says it will pull off a rare win-win-win for all the various users of Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. Comment.

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