Those really are the directions to 62 18th Street, an industrial, end-of-the-world type of industrial Brooklyn location. Once there crowds were helpfully shown to a huge loft elevator, which took guests upstairs where volunteers signed people in.

Published by Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn on October 4, 2008.

Number 581 5th Avenue at 16th Street will be a coffee shop, according to DOB filings that reveal a $42,000 interior renovation.

Published by Brownstoner on October 3, 2008.

Three weeks after the DOB green-lighted it, and over a year after DCP approved it, Fifth Avenue Committee's 35,000-square-foot affordable supportive housing project 5th Avenue and 16th Street is under way. The five-story, 49-unit building will aim for LEED certification when it's done, which folks hope will quell the opposition the project once endured.

Published by Brownstoner on October 2, 2008.

72nd Precinct Community Council. Monthly meeting. Mariem Heim Center (4520 Fourth Ave., at 45th Street in Sunset Park), 7:30 pm. Call (718) 965-6311 for info.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 2, 2008.

Sunset Park lost a large private high school in 2000 when Our Lady of Perpetual Help H.S. was closed down after 40 years at 60th Street and Sixth Avenue.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on October 2, 2008.

A tipster sent in this info about a new café on 8th Avenue and Prospect Avenue: "It's called Gialeti's Cafe, and promises fresh-baked pastries, paninis, and crepes." Should help fill the hole left by the closing of Café Eleven and Tea Lounge; the latter space remains vacant, by the way.

Published by Brownstoner on October 2, 2008.

The high school with space for 1,500 students has been under construction for a about a year on Fourth Avenue at 35th Street. The all-new five story-tall building for the $80 million project is on the site of an old candy factory, and behind it on Third Avenue is the a city park.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on October 2, 2008.

Just after midnight on Sept. 10, cops from the 72nd Precinct found the suspect hard at work, allegedly smashing the glass of a car’s window with a hammer at the corner of 18th Street and Terrace Place, according to the District Attorney’s office.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 2, 2008.

Community Board 7. On the agenda: Budget for 2010 and two liquor license applications. Board office (4201 Fourth Ave., at 43rd Street in Sunset Park), 6:30 pm. Call (718) 854-0003.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 2, 2008.

...With a modest attendance, it eventually folded. Shortly after, the Sunset Park Greenmarket opened on Fourth Avenue and 60th Street, a Community Board Seven neighborhood...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on October 1, 2008.

Going up at 572 5th Avenue, just across the street from the Fifth Avenue Committee's affordable housing project: a seven-story, 70-foot, 18-unit building designed by Karl Fischer. No rending on his

Published by Brownstoner on October 1, 2008.

Where:  Lutheran Family Health Center Sunset Park Site, 150 55th Street, Brooklyn

Published by Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn on September 30, 2008.

1670 10th Avenue GMAP

Published by Brownstoner on September 30, 2008.

But that was then and this is now. At New Voices, her new middle school 18th Street near Sixth Avenue, the principal, Frank Giordano, urges the kids to get to school on time — and OSFO is taking that very seriously. She rides the Seventh Avenue bus by herself now and is determined to catch the 8 am. There’s nothing like a bus schedule to get you moving in the morning.

Published by Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn on September 28, 2008.

Sunset Park has schools! A brand spanking new state of the art, 1650 seat HS building is going up on 34th St. and 4th Ave. to open Sept. 09. The construction authority was there to give progress reports (not grades.) It is on schedule.

Published by Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn on September 26, 2008.

Amalgamated's new Sunset Park branch at 4502 Fifth Ave. is also expected to energize the neighborhood's economy.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 26, 2008.

I am donating a painting along with 99 other excellent artists, support the cause and take home some art!

Published by Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn on September 24, 2008.

But that was then and this is now. At New Voices, her new middle school 18th Street near Sixth Avenue, the principal, Frank Giordano, urges the kids to get to school on time — and Smartmom is taking that very seriously. She rides the Seventh Avenue bus by herself now and is determined to catch the 8 am. There’s nothing like a bus schedule to get you moving in the morning.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 23, 2008.

Community Board 7, which covers Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park, will sponsor a Town Hall meeting on Wednesday. It will be held at MS. 136, located at 4004 Fourth Ave.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 22, 2008.

Cops released a video of the man they believe raped a woman in her Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, apartment building Wednesday.

Published by New York Daily News on September 20, 2008.

She and her husband live in a three-bedroom postwar co-op, and it tookthem two years and countless trips to Bay Ridge, Fort Greene and CarrollGardens to find it. They paid $313,000 for their apartment back in 2004,and similar units in the neighborhood are now on the market for over$500,000.

Published by Kensington blog on September 20, 2008.

Dubbed Park(ing) Day NYC, the event saw participants from numerous companies and community groups roll out carpets of lush sod onto the streets at locations from Park Slope to Long Island City to Harlem.

Published by New York Post on September 20, 2008.

Authorities say the man raped the 39-year-old woman Wednesday morning near Fort Hamilton Parkway in Bay Ridge.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 19, 2008.

"Fourth Avenue is the dividing line between Park Slope and Gowanus," declared Mr. Brennan. "Unless you talk to a realtor. A realtor would tell you something else."

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

"I don't think we live in Park Slope," my roommate said to me one evening, sitting at the kitchen table in our new walk-up. "I think we live in Go-anus. I don't even know how you pronounce that."

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

Park Slope is eating Fourth Avenue alive!

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

With The Grocery’s debut in 1999, Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens—once the land of lawn chairs and “social clubs”—had its culinary coming out party. Chef-owners Sharon Pachter and Charles Kiely, late of Savoy, brought a Manhattan finesse to then-barren Smith Street, and enterprising foodies braved the F train for slow-rendered duck breast.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

Boogiedowner is the brainchild of Lou and Erin Cicalese, both 28. He’s a high school theology teacher and she’s a new mother. After being priced out of Park Slope, Brooklyn, they moved to East 201st Street, a few blocks off the Grand Concourse in the Bedford Park neighborhood in the northwest Bronx.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

The woman told neighbors in her Bay Ridge building about the ordeal after they came to her aid Wednesday morning.

Published by New York Post on September 19, 2008.

The cobblestone streets, turn-of-the-century row houses, and industrial buildings that characterize Red Hook, which has been shaped by years of relative isolation from the rest of Brooklyn, often surprise first-time visitors.

Published by amNY.com on September 18, 2008.

The 39-year-old victim opened the door of her Bay Ridge apartment about 9 a.m. to find her attacker waiting in the hallway, police sources said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 18, 2008.

The victim, 39, was leaving her Fort Hamilton Parkway building in Bay Ridge just after 9 a.m. when the pervert hit her in the head with a screwdriver and forced her to the basement.

Published by New York Post on September 18, 2008.

The battle for the soul of the Gowanus Canal begins on Thursday night. That’s when a local community board will kick off the rigorous public review process for a proposal by Toll Brothers to build a 447-unit mixed-income residential, commercial and open space project between Carroll and Second streets along the banks of the fetid waterway.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 18, 2008.

1 pm: Ragamuffin Parade. Costumed kids march along Third Avenue in Bay Ridge from 72nd to 92nd streets. Call (718) 833-4928 for info.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 18, 2008.

The transformation of the industrial Gowanus Canal zone into a high-class high-rise zone will take its first baby steps this week.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 18, 2008.

Police are searching for a man who attacked and raped a Bay Ridge woman on Wednesday morning as she was taking out her garbage near Fort Hamilton Parkway.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 18, 2008.

The developer Toll Brothers has begun the approval process for a huge residential project on the still-dirty Gowanus Canal.

Published by The New York Observer on September 18, 2008.

In 2005, he was ordered to undergo anger management training after he was charged with punching a traffic agent in the face for writing him a parking ticket in Flatbush.

Published by New York Daily News on September 18, 2008.

"Basically this morning when I left, the victim, she was on the first floor, and she was really hysterical, and explained that someone attacked her in the basement," said Karine Lafonte, the victim's neighbor. "She said she went there and they attacked her and hit her over the head, and he had a screwdriver and so on and he raped her. A lot of people think Bay Ridge is safe, but you're not safe anywhere you go."

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 18, 2008.

Sunset Park Library, 5108 4th Avenue (at 51st Street)

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 17, 2008.

Even with the intercom on its lowest setting, residents of Bay Ridge’s northwest corner can hear plant announcements clearly.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 17, 2008.

On the other end of the spectrum were the Hellenic Classical Charter School in Brooklyn and the Amber Charter School in Harlem, which received F's.

Published by New York Post on September 17, 2008.

Windsor Terrace Library, 160 E. 5th St. (at Ft. Hamilton Pkwy.)

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 17, 2008.

A Bay Ridge woman was sexually assaulted in her apartment building on Wednesday morning after police say her attacker struck her in the head with a screw driver.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 17, 2008.

At present, Walk Score has a number of blind spots, most notably the absence of transit data. (Mr. Mathieu says the company is talking to Google about including it. Google did not respond to emails or phone calls.) And there continue to be glitches with the information used to tally amenities. In Park Slope, for example, the Brooklyn Artists Gym, an artist's studio, is listed as a fitness center.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.

Since 1981, I've taught public management at Columbia, and I am not one of those people who believe that government is incompetent and only the private sector is efficient and effective.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.

Police say, a woman was raped on her way to work in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 17, 2008.

Economic troubles be damned, people are still snagging Brooklyn homes—just not where you’d expect. First-time buyers are eschewing familiar environs like Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and Prospect Heights for the borough’s far south and east corners.

Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.

Enrique Pizarro, 25, was awaiting arraignment yesterday on second-degree murder charges for the bloody confrontation outside the apartment of his former girlfriend on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park.

Published by New York Post on September 16, 2008.

There are more than 40 neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and of the 3,766 homes sold under $525,000 in Brooklyn so far this year nearly half are within the 10 neighborhoods of Sheepshead Bay, Kensington, Flatbush, Gravesend, East New York, Clinton Hill, Bay Ridge, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburg and Park Slope. Of those 10 neighborhoods, only Clinton Hill, Park Slope and Williamsburg are northwest of Prospect Park.

Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.