He and his partners are willing to spend $15 million for a bigger brewery that would employ at least twice as many workers as he has now and would have a beer garden where customers could sample his growing roster of specialty brews. But after four years of searching and two failed bids to be included in redevelopment projects in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens, they have not found a suitable building in the borough at a feasible price.

Published by New York Times on July 19, 2008.

He and his partners are willing to spend $15 million for a bigger brewery that would employ at least twice as many workers as he has now and would have a beer garden where customers could sample his growing roster of specialty brews. But after four years of searching and two failed bids to be included in redevelopment projects in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens, they have not found a suitable building in the borough at a feasible price.

Published by New York Times on July 19, 2008.

Supermarket magnate and likely mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis’s project to build 650 apartments has become the bane of Downtown Brooklyn for some residents and elected officials because it flattened a neighborhood supermarket, pharmacy and Laundromat — and now no longer includes 215 below-market rate units that had been promised.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 18, 2008.

Ikea has changed course and will now offer its free ferry service to its customers first — and only then allow non-shoppers to set sail to Manhattan from the Red Hook superstore.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

Since developing Q Tonic Water back in 2002 in his Fort Greene yard, Silbert has come a long way. He moved to Prospect Heights, and now his tonic — made with organic agave, Peruvian quinine, lemon juice and triple-purified water, and distributed out of a loft in DUMBO — is up for the “Best New Product” prize at this week’s “Tales of the Cocktail” festival in New Orleans.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

The ferry service offered by Brooklyn's new IKEA to and from lower Manhattan is so red hot that the store this week quietly began hand-stamping customers to ensure they get first crack at the free boat rides.

Published by New York Post on July 17, 2008.

Over in Brooklyn it's looking like your average morning commute with heavy traffic on the Gowanus around 38th Street as you approach the Battery Tunnel split. The rest of the BQE once you get past that spot is looking OK, and there aren't any major issues at any of the East River crossings.

Published by SI Live on July 17, 2008.

The commuter free-for-all aboard Red Hook's Ikea water taxi is over, with shoppers getting first dibs on the precious seats to and from Manhattan.

Published by amNY.com on July 17, 2008.

Most of Kiska’s experience, if not all, has been as a GC or a developer, right? Most of Hudson’s experience has been working with a GC. We agree that the CM experience is more coordination intensive but it's all for the $$ savings. What do you expect to be the biggest challenges on Third & Bond?

Published by Brownstoner on July 17, 2008.

At around the same time, a house on Henry Street was also tattooed with graffiti. In this case, the menace practiced his technique by repeatedly spraying “Sam” in black paint on the garage door of the house between Sackett and Union streets, reportedly between 2 and 7 am.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

Officials are trying to reunite New Yorkers with their belongings from an evicted storage facility. The possessions were stored at All City Storage at 253 Bond Street in Brooklyn, New York.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 16, 2008.

An auxiliary car, parked at the corner of Hicks and Sackett streets — just a block away from the 76th Precinct stationhouse — was vandalized with graffiti the night of July 12 and 13.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

An unattended purse in front of a Henry Street house was stolen on July 7. The pocketbook, which was briefly unguarded between Baltic and Kane streets at 6:30 pm, contained a cellphone, $55, credit cards and ID.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

A thief broke through a lock to steal a bicycle that had been hitched up on Atlantic Avenue on July 10. The less-than-year-old Peugeot bike was locked near the corner of Hicks Street from 5 am to 9 am, according to the penny-farthing’s former owner.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

A pickpocket swiped a man’s wallet from his shirt while the victim snoozed in his parked car on Union Street on July 12. But the victim woke up at 2:05 am as the crook was reaching through the rolled-down window, between Smith and Hoyt streets, giving him a chance to get a good look at the hooligan who took his $103.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

The newstand in the Parisien-style plaza at the corner of Smith Street and Second Place closed for good on Tuesday in anticipation of construction of a new condo building.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

The question of where MTV's "The Real World, Brooklyn" will be filming this summer remains unanswered, but one spot that came close to landing the show has now been ruled out: 116 Third Place in Carroll Gardens.

Published by The Real Deal on July 15, 2008.

And, Gregory De John, the owner of the Cobble Hill Chapels on Court St. in Brooklyn, offered to provide the funeral for free.

Published by New York Daily News on July 15, 2008.

The beloved Latino food stalls of Red Hook Park announced will return to their traditional haunt this weekend — and the grand re-opening couldn’t come a moment too soon for vendors, who have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt to comply with tightened city regulations.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 15, 2008.

The 25th District includes parts of the Lower East Side, Alphabet City, the Financial District, Tribeca, Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn. It is home to two of the largest and most controversial development projects in the city: the World Trade Center site and Atlantic Yards.

Published by Gotham Gazette on July 14, 2008.

The show appears to be moving to a five-unit, six-story brick walk-up at 116 Third Place in Carroll Gardens, between Smith and Court streets, as first reported by Brownstoner.com. The 4,500-square-foot prewar building was renovated in 2006, according to public records.

Published by The Real Deal on July 14, 2008.

Similarly, Leary predicts the newly opened Ikea site will be “one of their most successful sites,” due to the density of Brooklyn’s population, the plenitude of public transportation and the borough’s accessibility by car, thanks to three bridges into Brooklyn.

Published by GlobeSt on July 14, 2008.

Leary cites the borough’s population density—2.5 million, the city’s highest—and “the tremendous transit hub that is in place throughout the borough, not just downtown Brooklyn. Any retailer would be able to acknowledge very quickly that there’s an opportunity in that market.”

Published by GlobeSt on July 14, 2008.

How long have you lived in Carroll Gardens? This is a pretty common re-routing solution for the C, F and G lines so hopefully you’ve learned from your mistakes — and better to learn them on the weekend than when they re-route the F to the G line randomly during the morning rush hour.

Published by New York Times on July 14, 2008.

The Department of Environmental Protection workers were walking to their car on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn when the bucket suddenly fell from a building.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 14, 2008.

He and Bert Rosenblatt, 36, were part of a group of real estate developers who left Red Hook for a tour of the falls with the nonprofit Long Island City Community Boathouse.

Published by New York Daily News on July 12, 2008.

Bert Rosenblatt, 36, and Vladimir Spector, 37, of Cliffside Park, NJ, were paddling along on the Brooklyn side of the bridge with a boating club from Red Hook at 3 p.m.

Published by New York Post on July 12, 2008.

"I lost my shoes because the current was so strong," said Rosenblatt, who lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and owns Vicus Partners on Madison Ave. "My life didn't flash before my eyes or anything like that, but I was definitely scared."

Published by New York Daily News on July 12, 2008.

A man walked into a mugging on Centre Street after a Sharpie deceived him on July 1. Initially at 2:50 pm, the con man asked his unsuspecting mark if he had any money. When the man answered, “No,” the swindler told him to follow him to an area of the block between Clinton and Court streets.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

On Red Hook’s other key line, the B61, which connects the neighborhood (and its new Ikea!) to Downtown Brooklyn, ridership went up 74 percent, yet service went up just 7 percent.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

Parents say the kid zones have been more jungle than jungle gym since the hospital won a protracted conflict in 1994 to build a 430-car garage on the site of Van Vorhees Park, at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Hicks Street, in exchange for building and keeping up the three Henry Street playgrounds.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

The old Independence Bank building at the corner of Court Street and Atlantic Avenue is finally beginning to look more like a Trader Joe’s. Insiders say the supermarket, the quirky chain’s first in Brooklyn, is on pace to open in September.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

Long Island College Hospital says it’s going to fix up dilapidated playgrounds on its Cobble Hill campus this summer after a flurry of complaints from parents thrust the beleaguered hospital into action.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

After 9-11, Cadman Plaza East — the only direct link between Borough Hall and DUMBO — was sealed off to vehicular traffic. At the time, officials said that the federal courthouse on the block between Tillary Street and Red Cross Place needed to be secure (the city’s Office of Emergency Management has since opened its headquarters on the same block).

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

Similar transformations of blacktop to plazas, walkways and bikeways have been completed across the city, including: Gansevoort St. in the Meatpacking District; 14th St. and Ninth Ave.; Pearl St. in DUMBO, Brooklyn, and Grand Army Plaza, also in Brooklyn. The Department of Transportation also is planning to ban cars from a section of 34th St. to create a public plaza and bus-only lanes.

Published by New York Daily News on July 11, 2008.

The two bikes will join the Beep’s existing fossil-fueled fleet of seven hybrid sport utility vehicles. Markowitz’s office purchased the new wheels at The Bike Shop on Union Street in the Columbia Street Waterfront District. The $1,020 taxpayer-financed project included the two bicycles, two helmets, two locks and two bells.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

On Red Hook’s other key line, the B61, which connects the neighborhood (and its new Ikea!) to Downtown Brooklyn, ridership went up 74 percent, yet service went up just 7 percent.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 11, 2008.

A fork lift hit something on the tracks at the Westchester Yard in the Bronx, blocking trains from leaving the yard.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 10, 2008.

Downtown Brooklyn is not particularly close to the Great White Way, but now it has become a place to get cheap Broadway and Off Broadway tickets.

Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.

Eric Cherry, a Red Hook resident, has been working as a comic book illustrator for 15 years, and now through July 31, a retrospective of his work, “The Art of Storytelling,” is on display at the Lucky Gallery on Richards Street. Cherry has put ink to paper for well-known comic books, children’s books and his own graphic novels, and now in his first gallery show, the artist himself gets to be the superhero.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 10, 2008.

For those who simply can’t get enough “petanque” — or pastis, Columbia Street’s French bistro Pit Stop will be hosting a tournament of its own in its spacious back garden the day before the Smith Street fete, on Saturday, July 12. (As this is slightly off the beaten path, you might have a better chance of actually playing, although nothing is guaranteed.)

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 10, 2008.

Turns out that some passengers hopping onto Ikea’s free buses are not setting foot in its new Red Hook outpost. A recent report cited that only 8 of the 19 riders planned to go and two were were employees. What does this say about mass transit? [2nd Ave Sagas]

Published by New York Times on July 9, 2008.

The two bikes join the Beep’s existing fossil-fueled fleet of seven hybrid sport utility vehicles. Markowitz’s office purchased the new wheels at The Bike Shop on Union Street in the Columbia Street Waterfront District. The $1,020 taxpayer-financed project included the two bicycles, two helmets, two locks and two bells.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 8, 2008.

Starting Monday, street cleaning rules in parts of Gowanus Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill will be temporarily suspended while 2100 street signs with new parking rules are put in place.

Published by WNBC on July 7, 2008.

Starting Monday, street cleaning rules in parts of Gowanus Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill will be temporarily suspended while 2100 street signs with new parking rules are put in place.

Published by WNBC on July 7, 2008.

The free bus service transports passengers from Red Hook to stops on Court St. and to subway stations at Fourth Ave. and Smith and Ninth Sts. every 15 minutes during store hours.

Published by New York Daily News on July 7, 2008.

...over to Trader Joe's yesterday (the old Independence Bank building at the corner of Atlantic and Court Street) and sure enough all kinds of lumber and building materials were in evidence. The shot...

Published by mcbrooklyn on July 7, 2008.

Countless commuters are taking advantage of Ikea's free bus and ferry - without ever setting foot inside the giant Swedish furniture store that opened last month in the waterfront neighborhood.

Published by New York Daily News on July 7, 2008.

"It's like a free car service," said Bianca Colon, 19, who works at a summer program at Public School 27 on Huntington St. in Red Hook, and takes the bus from downtown Brooklyn near her home. "It takes us straight downtown and I don't have to wait for the bus to stop every block to let people on and off."

Published by New York Daily News on July 7, 2008.

Starting Monday, street cleaning rules in parts of Gowanus Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill will be temporarily suspended while 2100 street signs with new parking rules are put in place.

Published by WNBC on July 7, 2008.