Books: He’s written a book that spans the years! Comments (2)

Bensonhurst: They want them to stop cutting corners! Comment

Dining: Welcome to Brooklyn, mates! Comments (1)

Sunset Park: Talk about backpedaling. Comments (5)

I find this curious: New York City’s Department of Transportation is giving bicyclists the same pedestrian rights at 19 intersections throughout Brooklyn. Essentially, city officials are telling cyclists to violate state law (as if cyclists needed that permission in the first place.) I promptly reviewed the New York State Vehicle and Traffic (VAT) laws in this matter. As listed on the website: www.public.leginfo.state.ny.us, I found the most interesting information. A pedestrian, under Sect. 130, is defined as “any person afoot or in a wheelchair.” However, under Sect. 102, a bicycle is defined as: “every two- or three-wheeled device upon which a person or persons Comment

Books: Brooklyn booksellers give their top picks. Comment

Marine Park: Happy Earth Day! Comment

Event: A city community running organization will debut its free weekly group runs — also open to walkers — in Shore Road Park in Bay Ridge next month. Comment

Editor’s Picks: This week we’ve got samurai swordfighters, stripping superheroes, a medieval meal, and much more! Brooklyn is the place to be! Comment

Bay Ridge Nights: Get sweaty and literary this weekend in the Ridge! Comment

Army Capt. Breanna M. Owens knows a thing or two about meeting the Army’s physical and mental challenges. As an intelligence officer and a functional fitness center working group member at the newest gym at Hohenfels, Germany, she can be found leading the way and setting an example for anyone bright enough to follow. Comment

Sheepshead Bay: They’re finally going to shove off! Comment

Fort Greene: Bigwigs at car-hailing business Uber are scooping up a Fort Greene bicycle manufacturer in a deal that its founder hopes will bring the Brooklyn-made two-wheelers to more metropolises worldwide — including New York City, where the company’s pedal-assist-electric and dockless cycles may soon be allowed to cruise streets. Comments (5)

Marine Park: One team thought it had the game locked up, but the other team was on fire! Comment

Williamsburg: These bookworms have deep pockets! Comment

Music: All Eyes on the band! Comment

Music: She will sing the music of Kings! Comment

Party Line: The two Democratic candidates challenging state Sen. Marty Golden (R–Bay Ridge) are joining locals in slamming the Brooklyn Republican Party for inviting former President Trump staffer Sebastian Gorka — a firebrand Islamophobe with alleged ties to neo-Nazi groups — to headline its spring gala next month. Comment

Standing O: Let’s hear it for Helen Keller Services for the Blind, Darcy Stacom and Robert B.Catell. The venerable institution will culminate its year long celebrations of its 125th year on Sept. 13 at a gala at Liberty Warehouse in Red Hook as well as honoring Stacom, the Chairwoman of CB Richard Ellis, New York City Markets and former chairman of National Grid Robert Catell (below). Comment

Fearless Living: This week, Stephanie figures it’s best to let boys be boys. Comments (1)

The Right View: Shouldn’t we all get together and denouce crazy speach when we hear it? Comment

Digital editions: At The Brookyn Paper, we never plead the fifth, we plead the first! That’s because it is our right to speak our mind no matter what the naysayers naysay! For years we’ve told it like it is, damn the consequences — and the torpedoes! So keep reading what we write, speaking the truth, and answering the question asked without copping out. And as always, keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Read more…

Bay Ridge: The police is asking for the public’s help finding a 18-year-old Bay Ridge woman who has been missing since Sunday. Comment

Canarsie: This Earth Day celebration was a real tree-t! Comment

Crime: Cops busted a man suspected of brutally slashing another guy and leaving him for dead on a Borough Park street early Sunday morning. Comment

Music: They’re not the boys from Oz! Comment

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

Gravesend: Talk about a tall ship! Comment

Bay Ridge: Four Bay Ridgites have created a podcast focusing on Bay Ridge’s past and present after last year’s divisive Council race fueled discussions about what — and who — made up the “old neighborhood.” Comment

Greenwood Heights: The top brass at a local graveyard will meet with critics seething over a plan to adorn the necropolis with a polarizing statue that city officials banished from public display. Comments (9)

Sheepshead Bay: Police are looking for a man they believe beat up another man on a subway last month. Comment

Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: The city pulled the plug on a promoter’s April 21 party planned for a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens residential building the day before the event — the second year in a row officials stopped the host from partying at the complex due to lack of permits. Comments (7)

Marine Park: Marine Parkers want the city to stop, look, and listen to their worries about an Avenue T intersection. Comment

Prospect Heights: Cops are searching for an alleged exhibitionist who revealed his genitals to a woman while aboard a subway in Prospect Heights. Comments (4)

Blind Spots: Mayor DeBlasio is okay with the city’s multi-million-dollar business with private-sanitation company Action Carting, whose drivers have hit and killed five people in the last decade, according to his spokesman. Comments (12)

Downtown: A Downtown street may soon bear the name of a pioneering African-American journalist who settled in Kings County amid her career using the pen to fight racism and champion civil rights. Comment

Co-op d’Etat: Members of a Clinton Hill co-operative market are clinking glasses of kombucha because do-gooders donated enough cash for the store to set up shop inside a new space after its landlord sold its current building last month. Comment

Sheepshead Bay: These protesters are keeping bus-y. Comment

The owners of an East Flabush market are responsible for the death of a Queens man because they were illegally using the makeshift hoist that crushed him, lawyers for the deceased man’s family claim. Comment

Boerum Hill: Civic gurus on Wednesday unanimously rejected a real-estate firm’s plan for a five-building megadevelopment on the edge of Boerum Hill. Comments (11)

Bedford-Stuyvesant: Funnyman Tracy Morgan returned to his native Bedford-Stuyvesant this week to snip the opening-day ribbon at a pair of revamped basketball courts in the neighborhood’s Marcy Playground. Comment