Nightlife: The Saint is marching in! Comments (2)

Rhymes with Crazy: And we also need to stop violent crime before it happens. Comments (3)

Sunday Read: Nearly 60 years ago, the now-rundown barn at Brooklyn’s Kensington Stables sparked the career of Benny O’Meara, who briefly dominated the sport of horse jumping in the United States before dying in a plane crash at the tender age of 27. Comments (3)

Letters: I am writing this letter both as the American-born child of Jewish immigrants who came to this country in the early 1920s to escape religious persecution and probably death in Russia, and as a politically disenfranchised resident of Gravesend, Brooklyn. Comment

Books: Brooklyn booksellers give their top picks. Comment

Bay Ridge Nights: We’re not giving up partying for Lent! Comment

Editor’s Picks: This week we’ve got great bands, a Purim party, a reading by Gillian Anderson from “The X-Files,” and much more! Brooklyn is the place to be! Comment

Fort Greene: There’s another stop, but still no start. Comments (4)

Sunset Park: Sunset Park is getting a new pre-K center. Comments (1)

Music: They’re raising the roof! Comment

Standing O: Leaders of NewYork-Presbyterian and New York Methodist Hospital came together to cement the deal on NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Comment

The Orange Wave booked a return trip to the city final on March 7, defeating No. 2 Wings Academy in lopsided fashion at St. John’s University. Comment

Sheepshead Bay: They ended on a high note! Comment

Fearless Living: This week, Stephanie wants to make sure her son has his priorities straight. Comment

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High School Sports: The Lincoln boys basketball team erased a double-digit halftime deficit to take down Curtis 72–58 in the Public Schools Athletic League ‘AA’ semifinals on March 7. Comment

Mean Streets: This corner just isn’t cutting it! Comments (4)

Marine Park: Plus a host of other crimes from Marine Park’s 63rd Precinct. Comment

Event: No puppet? He’s the puppet! Comments (4)

Not for Nuthin’: It’s an “Epi-c” disgrace on the part of everyone — the insurance companies, the drug companies, the White House and anyone else you can think of that the price of an EpiPen was allowed to skyrocket to $600. A quick Google check revealed that the price has dropped down to below $300 for a double pack, but that is still unacceptable and still a disgrace. Comment

Fort Greene: But not with bagpipes — those were all taken. Comment

Bay Ridge: These legos are building leaders. Comment

High School Sports: The Bishop Loughlin boys baketball team rolled to an 87–70 victory over Iona Prep in the Catholic High School Athletic Association ‘AA’ quarterfinals on March 5, setting the tone from the opening tip. Comment

Gerritsen Beach: Heather “The Heat” Hardy defended her International Featherweight Championship at Barclays Center on March 4, despite a lack of fans for her early undercard fight. Comment

High School Sports: Fotbonne Hall topped Monsignor McClancy twice during the regular season, but the Bonnies couldn’t get that third win, falling to the Lady Crusaders in the Brooklyn-Queens ‘A’ final on March 4. Comment

Gerritsen Beach: Fire marshals are investigating a blaze that broke out in a Lester Court home in Gerritsen Beach on March 1, devastating a family who was almost set to move back in after the city’s housing recovery program Build it Back rebuilt it from scratch. Comment

Brooklyn Heights: Residents claim vandals and crooks have been targeting their houses since the stretch became a popular entrance to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Comments (9)

Changing Brooklyn: It is a LICH-ectomy! Comments (4)

Gowanus: It is a sign of the times. Comments (10)

The St. Joseph’s girls basketball team defeated Cristo Rey in the Brooklyn-Queens champinoship game, clinching a title in the program’s very first year. Comment

Bensonhurst: They cast the first tombstone. Comments (1)

Sunset Park: Workers at a Sunset Park recycling facility voted to join the Teamsters union after a heated labor confrontation and threats to strike. Comment

Carroll Gardens: An under-renovation Carroll Gardens brownstone owned by former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has caught the eye of neighbors. Comments (12)

Marine Park: A new city law increases fines slapped on utility companies — such as Con Ed and Verizon — that don’t remove abandoned poles when they add new ones. Councilman Alan Maisel (D–Marine Park) introduced the legislation because of the staggering number of wooden poles in his district left to rot and fall over, including two in Gerritsen Beach that were tilted over at nearly 45-degree angles, he said. Comment

Marine Park: Marine Park author Paul Moses will lead a panel discussion about past and present intolerances based on ethnicity, race, and religion at the Carmine Carro Center on March 16. Comment

Crime: There were bomb scares at schools in Crown Heights, Park Slope, and Midwood — and police say they could be related. Comments (1)

Sunset Park: Sunset Park could see a boom in shelters as the city scales back its use of homeless hotels. Comments (9)

Cobble Hill: It is the third time in less than a year that there has been an accident on the massive development site. Comment

It’s role play with a purpose. Comment

Flatbush: Strong winds Thursday morning knocked over a massive tree onto the tracks at Cortelyou Road, snaring service in both directions, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Comment

Mill Basin: The city’s largest minority-owned car dealership — Kristal Automall in Canarsie — is finally making progress on moving into its controversial new home on Flatbush Avenue in Mill Basin, right next to the big box toy retailer, Toys ‘R’ Us. Comment

Brooklyn Heights: They got railroaded! Comments (16)