NEW YORK — 28 Brooklyn residents were part of the more than 100 business owners, employees and building owners arrested...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on October 13, 2008.

The kick-off street festival (along Fulton Street between New York and Kingston Avenues) is Saturday, 9am to 6pm; Bed-Stuy Alive! events run throughout the week.

Published by Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn on October 10, 2008.

11 am: Clowning with Julie the Clown. Brooklyn Public Library’s Eastern Parkway branch (1044 Eastern Pkwy, at Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights). Free. Call (718) 953-4225 for info.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 10, 2008.

The face of Sterling Green, at 580 Sterling Place on the Crown Heights/Prospect Heights border, has been bricked up. The developer, Seth Brown...

Published by Brownstoner on October 9, 2008.

House of the Day: 1380 Dean Street

Published by Brownstoner on October 9, 2008.

BROOKLYNITE GALLERY: 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Bedford-Stuyvesant. www.brooklynitegallery.com

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on October 8, 2008.

St. John’s Recreation Center, 1251 Prospect Place between Troy Street and Schenectady avenues.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on October 8, 2008.

Fifth Annual Studio Strut. Oct. 11 and 12. Explore Bed Stuy’s various art galleries and growing creative community. Participating galleries and venues include: Zion Gallery, 152 MacDonough St.; Afro Art Designs, 3126 Stuyvesant Ave.; Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St.; George Washington Carver Gallery, 677 Lafayette St.; Ken Wright Gallery, 583 Jefferson Ave.; Stephan Davis Gallery, 152 MacDonough St.; and Leroy’s Framing and Gift Shop, 1549 B Fulton St.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on October 8, 2008.

32-year-old Edward Hunt was shot in the chest outside 857 Lincoln Place at around 5:30 a.m.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on October 8, 2008.

Also indicted were the company, Nu-Way Crane Service, 405 Ralph Ave., Copiague, and one of its employees, authorities said.

Published by amNY.com on October 7, 2008.

Saturday, October 4. 12 p.m. $20 for advance tickets, $25 on the day of the tour. Meet at St. Gregory’s RC Parish Church, 991 St. Johns Place.

Published by Brownstoner on October 3, 2008.

The suspect was later identified as 31-year-old Ronald Gibbs of 1511 Sterling Place. Police arrested him on Tuesday afternoon.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on October 1, 2008.

...shop with delectable-looking lemon tarts and chocolate/raspberry florettes, is soon-to-open at 727 Franklin Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant. A little googling turns up another address, at 1012 Bedford — maybe one...

Published by Brownstoner on September 26, 2008.

Some time this afternoon, a burglar broke into The Kehal Chassidim Shul at 1612 Carroll Street, and tore the Poroches off the Aron Kodesh in an attempt to break in to...

Published by Crown Heights Shmira blog on September 25, 2008.

BROOKLYNITE GALLERY: 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Bedford-Stuyvesant. www.brooklynitegallery.com

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 24, 2008.

Thirty years ago, Billy Joel wrote a song in which the narrator proclaimed his own recklessness by pointing out that he “walked through Bedford-Stuy alone.” A poster child for dangerous urban blight in those years, the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn is today “one of the most exciting examples” of the borough’s redevelopment,

Published by GlobeSt on September 23, 2008.

...Shmira members the suspect dropped the bike and fled. Shmira members followed the suspect to 825 Crown Street, between Utica and Rochester Avenues, where he fled into an apartment in the building. Police...

Published by Crown Heights Shmira blog on September 23, 2008.

"They enforce it," said Grace, who worked as a mail carrier at a Bedford-Stuyvesant post office and others for 22 years before quitting last year.

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

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is back, with double the space and triple the fun. The museum will officially open to the public this weekend at 145 Brooklyn Ave., Crown Heights.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 19, 2008.

Brooklyn Children’s Museum (145 Brooklyn Ave., at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights) will reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 20, at 10 am.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 18, 2008.

But in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, Ernest Cooper, 53, a forklift operator out of work on disability, said he sympathized with the executives in suits who left work with cardboard boxes in their arms this week.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

...Carol Enseki and Chair of the Board of Trustees William D. Rifkin, as well as 50 Brooklyn schoolchildren, to open the newly renovated Brooklyn Children’s Museum...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 17, 2008.

The museum, at 145 Brooklyn Avenue, at St. Mark’s Avenue, formally reopens to the public on Saturday. Planning for the project began in 1997.

Published by New York Times on September 17, 2008.

10 a.m. The city Housing Development Corporation hold a ribbon-cutting for the David Chavis Apartments complex at 230 Kingston Ave., Brooklyn.

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

...four years, the Park Slope-based property management firm has grown to care for over 50 Brooklyn buildings. And most recently, in August, the firm added insurance and real estate brokerages, dramatically...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

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.

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.

A reader sent in this photo from Carleton and Dean Streets in Prospect Heights.

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

The Times reports that an off-duty emergency medical technician was stabbed to death at his companion’s apartment in Brooklyn; The Post reports that hardworking paralegal was found shot in the head in her Bedford-Stuyvesant home.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

That change is also evident when you talk to people who are investing new money in the area, like Matthew Roff, co-owner of the recently opened Franklin Park.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 15, 2008.

More and more, young professionals are finding the area more affordable than nearby Park Slope or Prospect Heights.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 15, 2008.

At previous "Crack the Bank Vault" contests at Amalgamated branch openings in Bedford-Stuyvesant and lower Manhattan, a few hundred people tried, but no one entered the right code.

Published by New York Daily News on September 13, 2008.

And so it ends. 408 Stuyvesant Avenue, a beautiful limestone mansion in Stuyvesant Heights that we've covered closely since December 2006...

Published by Brownstoner on September 12, 2008.

Residents in Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, the four neighborhoods it separates instead of unites, are hard pressed to figure out how to reach the Bailey Fountain and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch without becoming roadkill. The traffic whizzing around the plaza has been called “the only concrete and asphalt roulette wheel in the world.”

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

...000, but quite a bit more than the $1,115,000 a couple paid for 404 Stuyvesant Avenue last spring. It's hard to take this as anything but a vote of confidence...

Published by Brownstoner on September 12, 2008.

The development, at 1570 Prospect Place, sold for $750,000 to a Brooklyn investor.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 12, 2008.

The three-story building at 408 Stuyvesant Avenue near Fulton Street in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District had seen a series of price...

Published by The Real Deal on September 12, 2008.

853 Prospect Place

Published by Brownstoner on September 12, 2008.

Chadon Bell launched his tattoo parlor, Brooklyn Ink Spot, Franklin Avenue and Park Place in 2006. "I'm into the culture of ink, and people moving into the neighborhood are obviously into it," he said, adding that the business is seeing its sales increase by about $2,000 a month. Over the last two years, Mr. Bell said, police patrols and sweeps of drug dens have encouraged merchants to open more stores in the area.

Published by New York Sun on September 11, 2008.

...times the current rent roll," reports the New York Real Estate Journal. The buildings are 715 St. Marks Avenue, 649 Empire Boulevard and 621 Lefferts Avenue, in Crown Heights, and 114 Albemarle Road in...

Published by Brownstoner on September 11, 2008.

The court resoundingly reversed a 2000 victory, awarded by a Brownsville, Texas jury, for the heirs of the original settler of Padre Island, who claimed Mr. Kerlin had defrauded them of oil and gas royalties for 60 years.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.

"Williamsburg has moved over here," Anthony Fisher, whose family has owned Fisher's Supermarket on the Lincoln Place and Franklin Avenue since 1981, said recently. The market has begun stocking organic produce, and even organic beer, to satisfy the growing demand from health-conscious residents.

Published by New York Sun on September 11, 2008.

...September 20 and Sunday, September 21 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 145 Brooklyn Avenue (at St. Marks Avenue). The Museum’s new daffodil yellow building will be bursting with...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 11, 2008.

"There's a massive change on Franklin now and I wanted to be part of that," the owner of Bristen's Eatery, Carleen Haughton, said. The café, Franklin Avenue and Sterling Place, serves salads and paninis named for local streets and boasts a spacious backyard, where Ms. Haughton, who moved from Clinton Hill in March, hosts outdoor concerts.

Published by New York Sun on September 11, 2008.

Jessica Williams, 17, is set to undergo surgery at Woodhull Hospital to insert metal plates in her jaw, broken in two places, after she says Officer Desmond Nichols knocked her out Sunday outside the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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

3. Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and State Senator Eric Adams. Races for district leadership positions within the political parties rarely attract much attention or energy. But in the Assembly district represented by Mr. Jeffries, anchored in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, there was a spirited campaign.

Published by New York Times on September 10, 2008.

If life imitated Sesame Street, then every restaurant would be as idyllic as Peaches Market.

Published by Village Voice on September 10, 2008.

The museum is at 145 Brooklyn Ave., corner of St. Marks Avenue.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 8, 2008.

"We don't want to have Barack Obama in the White House, and all of a sudden lose the seniority that Ed Towns would bring to us," said City Comptroller Bill Thompson at a reasonably well-attended tribute to the 13-term congressman this weekend at the Berean Baptist Church just south of Atlantic Avenue in Crown Heights.

Published by The New York Observer on September 8, 2008.