Williamsburg: A local lawmaker has opened a new front against the proposed Domino Sugar mega-project, demanding that the developers behind the glassy waterfront high-rises open its books so that he can independently assess the project’s finances. Comments (1).

Elvis lives!

By Ben Muessig

Williamsburg: Two no-goodnicks threatened a Williamsburg man with a knife on May 22, forcing him to hand over his wallet, cellphone and Elvis keychain. Plus all the crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Armed robbery

By Ben Muessig

Williamsburg: A crook with a handgun burst into a Lombardy Street trading company on May 23. Plus all the crime news from Greenpoint and Williamsburg’s 94th Precinct. Comment.

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

You’re fired?

By Marie Cunningham

Bay Ridge: Someone stole $5,000 from a Fifth Avenue car dealership — and the three employees who had the only access to the cash say they didn’t do it. Plus all the crime news from Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct. Comment.

Spaces everywhere, but no place to park

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper / Sebastian Kahnert

Bay Ridge: Teachers at a Bensonhurst-area school are in open revolt against a plan to take their parking lot and turn it into a new park. Comment.

Victory loses emergency

By Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: Victory Memorial Hospital’s emergency room became an “urgent care center” on May 22, bringing the ailing Dyker Heights hospital one step closer to its scheduled June 30 shutdown. Comments (1).

Quick(er) fix for Verrazano

By Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: Repairs of the Staten Island–bound lanes of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge could be completed before July 4, two months earlier than expected and more than a year ahead of schedule, state officials announced this week. Comment.

Cropsey’s new light reviewed

By Sebastian Kahnert

Bensonhurst: A new traffic light on Cropsey Avenue is annoying drivers — and pleasing pedestrians. Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

DOT tries to cool hot corner

By Sarah Portlock

Downtown: The city will reconfigure one of Brooklyn’s most-dangerous intersections — at Adams and Tillary streets in Downtown — but the work won’t happen without a fight. Comments (9).

Building, hope collapses on Clark St.

By Sarah Portlock

The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan

Brooklyn Heights: Emergency demolition is underway at a landmarked Brooklyn Heights building after two partial building collapses rained bricks and mortar to Clark Street over Memorial Day weekend, leading some neighbors to suspect that the owners of the “For Sale” building are trying to force out their last few rent-stabilized tenants. Comments (1).

Fancy gizmos are flying out of nabe homes

By Sarah Portlock

Downtown: Burglars easily broke into at least three Brooklyn Heights apartments last week and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of electronics. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Downtown and Boerum Hill’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Hank’s a lot: Honky tonk break-in

By Sarah Portlock

Boerum Hill: Two gun-strapped thugs raged into a beloved Boerum Hill saloon on May 19 and held patrons hostage while they emptied the cash register, cops said. Comment.

Cry if he wants

By Mike McLaughlin

Carroll Gardens: In a possible setup, a videographer was robbed on Baltic Street on May 18. Plus all the crime news from Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct. Comments (1).

City keeps Latino vendors on the Hook

By Mike McLaughlin

Carroll Gardens: Weekend warriors have kicked off fútbol season in Red Hook Park, but the beloved food vendors who have ringed the sidelines for decades are stuck in a morass of red tape that could keep them out of business for another month at least. The bureaucratic snafu is a bitter irony for the vendors, who last year — for the first time ever — were required by the city to compete for the right to retain the locations they established almost 30 years ago. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Sorry thugs

By Mike McLaughlin

Fort Greene: Two hooligans violently mugged a woman on Adelphi Street on May 21, cutting her with a knife. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (1).

Park Slope

Smoking hot donation!

By Ben Muessig

Park Slope: A famed philanthropist donated $10 million last week to restore a 26-acre stretch of Prospect Park to its original glory, but even with the generous contribution, funding for the expansive project is only halfway secured. Comment.

She $creams over ice cream

By Laura Silver

PS … I Love You: Our columnist discovers a true food crisis: The price of mini-ice cream sandwiches is now 50 cents! Comments (1).

Crack is back at check joint

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: A crack addict was arrested at a check-cashing place on Flatbush Avenue — but not for the rock, but for trying to cash three bad checks, cops said. Plus all the crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Bicycle thieves

By Emily Lavin

Prospect Heights: At least two bicycles were stolen last week in separate incidents. Plus all the crime news from Prospect Heights’ 77th Precinct. Comment.

Murder site reopens

By Ben Muessig

Park Slope: Less than two weeks after the vicious murder of the beloved owner of a Windsor Terrace dry cleaner, employees removed flowers, stuffed animals and scrawled notes from the security gate of the 10th Avenue storefront and opened the shop for business on May 27. Comment.

Bad start at Elk’s Club

By Ben Muessig

Park Slope: Workers began tearing down a former Windsor Terrace Elk’s Club to make room for three new townhouses in the increasingly popular parkside neighborhood — but they got off to a rocky start. Comment.

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