Canarsie: A plan to make Canarsie streets safer is speeding along. Comment

A woman was found dead in a Cypress Hills hotel Saturday morning. Comment

Williamsburg: Police arrested a man they suspect of brutally murdering one woman and seriously injuring another with an axe at his Flushing Avenue apartment in the early hours of April 20. Comment

Downtown: Police are looking for a man they suspect of robbing two women inside a Downtown bank on Fulton Street last week. Comment

Crown Heights: Cops are hunting for a pair of young punks wanted for allegedly robbing teenage boys amid a string of subterranean heists in Crown Heights on April 17. Comments (2)

Boerum Hill: Members of Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee voted in favor of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to tear down Atlantic Avenue’s House of Detention to make way for a larger jail in order to close down Rikers Island. Comments (2)

Hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge April 19 to demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo reject a plan to build a massive oil pipeline off the Coney Island coast. Comments (1)

Music: This party is right in the swing of things! Comment

Speak Out: Councilman Kalman Yeger spoke truth to power, and power in turn spoke its concept of truth to Kalman Yeger. Comments (6)

Books: Brooklyn booksellers give their top picks for April 20. Comment