Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights

Downtown, DUMBO

Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill

Fort Greene

Clinton Hill, Crown Heights

North Brooklyn

Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick

Park Slope

Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights

GO Brooklyn

Brooklyn Cyclones

The Brooklyn Bride

Art: Mind over ‘Matters’

Fort Greene: Toothless crime

Bay Ridge: He leaves bar, then is jumped by 7

Downtown: A midnight mugging on Montague Street

Bay Ridge: Drive-thru rob

Carroll Gardens: Green thugs

Park Slope: Robbed at knifepoint

Williamsburg: He threw out the umbrella so they chose to stab him

Downtown: New group starts ‘watching’ DUMBO

North Brooklyn Archive

Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007

He threw out the umbrella so they chose to stab him

By Dana Rubinstein

Williamsburg: Two thugs stabbed a guy with his own umbrella on Oct. 27 after he discarded it near the car in which the men had been sitting, said police. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Power plant’s gas pains

By Adam F. Hutton

Williamsburg: The Bloomberg administration wants to pull the plug on plans for a massive power plant on Brooklyn’s northern waterfront and is pushing ahead with its own plans for a 28-acre park surrounding the Bushwick Inlet by condemning the property parcel by parcel. Comment.

Capt. Vorbeck gives us the 411 on 911

By Dana Rubinstein

Williamsburg: Greenpoint continues to be the Mayberry of Brooklyn, with crime rates remaining low, at least according to Paul Vorbeck, the commanding officer of the 94th Precinct, which encompasses the neighborhood. Comments (1).

Greenpoint factory ‘penciled’ in as city landmark

By Gersh Kuntzman

Williamsburg: A city panel has landmarked Greenpoint’s Eberhard Faber pencil factory and several surrounding buildings — just in time, one commissioner remarked, to protect the building from “development fever [and] fires.” Comment.

Will Greenpoint museum be next victim of city land grab?

By Adam F. Hutton

Williamsburg: While the city turns up the heat on TransGas, a smaller landowner is feeling the pressure from a city plan to condemn property to create Bushwick Inlet Park. Comments (3).

Riders don’t see L of a difference

By Adam F. Hutton

Williamsburg: L train commuters certainly didn’t notice much of an improvement on their crowded line on Monday, the first day of newly expanded service. Comment.

Reader mail — a tradition

By Tom Gilbert

Beside the Point: Our columnist opens the mailbag. Comments (2).

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