The vicious villain struck at around 2:30 am while the victim was buying beer and chips from a bodega at the corner of Moore and Humboldt streets.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 8, 2008.

The crook shoved the victim to the ground near the corner of Manhattan Avenue and Jackson Street at around 9 pm, and snatched a pocketbook containing credit cards, IDs, keys, cellphone, iPod, and $150.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 8, 2008.

The cruel crook confronted his victim at around 7:45 pm on Orient Avenue between Metropolitan Avenue and Olive Street, cops said

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 8, 2008.

Monday, October 6. 6:30 p.m. Swinging 60's Senior Citizens Center, 211 Ainslie Street.

Published by Brownstoner on October 6, 2008.

BACK IN WILLIAMSBURG, BEYOND 20 Bayard's view of the BQE, sits 22 Monitor Street, a four-story building closest to the Graham Avenue stop on the L line. On the corner was a handwritten sign announcing the open house where apartments start at $379,000.

Published by The New York Observer on October 6, 2008.

BACK IN WILLIAMSBURG, BEYOND 20 Bayard's view of the BQE, sits 22 Monitor Street, a four-story building closest to the Graham Avenue stop on the L line. On the corner was a handwritten sign announcing the open house where apartments start at $379,000.

Published by The New York Observer on October 6, 2008.

90th Precinct Community Council. Monthly meeting. 30 Montrose Avenue, between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, in Williamsburg, 7:30 pm. Call (718) 963-5309 for info.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 2, 2008.

The criminal couple confronted the victim on Moore Street between Manhattan and Graham avenues at around 1:10 pm.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 1, 2008.

• Three thugs attacked a 36-year-old woman at the corner of Varet Street and Manhattan Avenue at around 5 pm on Sept. 26, pummeling her before grabbing her phone.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on October 1, 2008.

The decrepit home at 59 Orient Ave., which hosted scenes from the underappreciated 2004 Jim Carrey film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” became a den of debauchery for drifters this spring.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 28, 2008.

...crooks jacked a 9-11 plaque from St. Cecilia’s Church at the corner of Monitor and Herbert streets, and three plaques lauding World War II veterans from St. Francis of Paola Church...

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 25, 2008.

• A thief snatched a 21-year-old woman’s nameplate necklace on the corner of Lorimer and Grand streets on Sept. 19.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 24, 2008.

The 14-year-old suspect struck when the victim passed the corner of Manhattan Avenue and Boerum Street at around 10:50 pm, punching him in the face then kicking him in the eye, a witness told cops.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 24, 2008.

...lien of $463,509. Second pick of the week: A one-story commercial building at 83 Seigel Street in Bushwick. The 2,500-square-foot space has a lien on it of just...

Published by Brownstoner 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.

Even before the migration back to Poland began, the Polish community in Greenpoint was fracturing under the pressure of gentrification, which drove up property values. Young families, new immigrants and those of modest means have in turn settled in nascent Polish communities in the city, including Maspeth and Ridgewood in Queens, and Borough Park in Brooklyn, while others have moved out of the state.

Published by New York Times on September 21, 2008.

Even before the migration back to Poland began, the Polish community in Greenpoint was fracturing under the pressure of gentrification, which drove up property values. Young families, new immigrants and those of modest means have in turn settled in nascent Polish communities in the city, including Maspeth and Ridgewood in Queens, and Borough Park in Brooklyn, while others have moved out of the state.

Published by New York Times on September 21, 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.

Tuck yourself into the Huckleberry Bar and you might feel the Manhattanization of Williamsburg is complete. The space is well-designed, with plenty of low-lit booths perfect for unwinding, both indoors and out.

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

588 Grand St. (near Lorimer St.), Brooklyn, 718-218-8555 huckleberrybar.com

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 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.

94th Precinct. Tips to protect your car. 11 am to 2 pm. Key Food (224 McGuinness Blvd., between Calyer Street and Greenpoint Avenue in Greenpoint). Call (718) 383-8253 for info.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 18, 2008.

She decided about two years ago to organize her own group and started recruiting members through the Internet. Eventually, several performers were meeting at Ms. Sapozhnikova’s loft in Ridgewood, Queens, teaching one another different skills.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

Kevin Shields’ woozy guitar sound on the band’s 1991 album Loveless hangs over every skinny-jean twenty-something with a six-string from Williamsburg (A Place to Bury Strangers) to Echo Park (Silversun Pickups).

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 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.

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.

The MTA could solve much of its financial woe by acquiring the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges from the city for just a buck and charging tolls, a transportation expert said Monday.

Published by amNY.com on September 16, 2008.

Ruiz and partner Juan Rios, summoned to the Myrtle-Willoughby G-train subway station in Williamsburg on July 15, found that a 31-year-old woman had suffered a seizure and collapsed, face down, on the tracks.

Published by New York Post on September 15, 2008.

“It’s got to be one of the best-kept secrets in New York,” said Greg Ivan Smith, 38, a filmmaker from Sunnyside, Queens, enjoying a picnic of tapenade and bruschetta with friends and neighbors on Saturday afternoon. “You feel like you’re on a New England college campus.”

Published by New York Times on September 15, 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 is what was proposed on Monday by Lucius J. Riccio, a former city transportation commissioner, who called for the mayor to sell the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

An apologetic New Jersey dad whose troublemaker son threatened to shoot a Hasidic shopkeeper in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in a boozy tirade last week insisted yesterday that his wayward offspring is mentally ill and not an anti-Semite.

Published by New York Post on September 14, 2008.

Williamsburg cyclists are on a roll.

Published by New York Post on September 13, 2008.

A group of Hasidic Jews meted out swift street justice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to a man they say threatened to shoot a neighborhood storekeeper.

Published by New York Post on September 13, 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.

Earlier Thursday, a worker was critically injured when he fell three stories at a construction site on Union Ave. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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

The temporary lane planned for Kent Avenue would be a precursor to a 14-mile greenway stretching from Newtown Creek in Greenpoint to Sunset Park.

Published by New York Post on September 12, 2008.

The temporary lane planned for Kent Avenue would be a precursor to a 14-mile greenway stretching from Newtown Creek in Greenpoint to Sunset Park.

Published by New York Post on September 12, 2008.

"I have to admit, it's a major issue, women passing through here in that dress code," Simon Weisser, a member of Community Board 1 in Williamsburg-Greenpoint, told The Post.

Published by New York Post on September 12, 2008.

They're young, hip, and in a hurry. And on any given day, anyone can find female cyclists cruising through a predominantly Hasidic section of Williamsburg, where conservative religious views frown upon less than buttoned-up commuters.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 12, 2008.

"I have to admit, it's a major issue, women passing through here in that dress code," Simon Weisser, a member of Community Board 1 in Williamsburg-Greenpoint, told The Post.

Published by New York Post on September 12, 2008.

UPDATE: 30 Rock is filming at St. Cecilia’s church on North Henry St and Herbert Street in Greenpoint. (Thanks Katherine!)

Published by On Location Vacations on September 11, 2008.

On Withers Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the towers once loomed above the Williamsburg Bridge on the western horizon, Theresa Cianciotta, an assistant to a state assemblyman, said she never left her house now without casting a rueful glance at the skyline.

Published by New York Times 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.

Opponents are calling on the city to put the breaks on a one-and-a-half-mile portion of a bike lane that would stretch from Newtown Creek to Sunset Park — saying Williamsburg doesn’t need more bike lanes.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 11, 2008.

At the moment, Dosa Garden is the only Indian restaurant to serve dosas. Indian Clove in Sunnyside soon will be opening an offshoot to their upscale dining room with a vegetarian-Indian Dosa place next door. Dosa Garden delivers to some parts of the North Shore.

Published by SI Live on September 11, 2008.

A 9/11 Memorial at Conselyea Street and Graham Avenue (Williamsburg) bearing the names of eight area residents who perished in the attacks will be the site of a prayer service at 7 p.m. organized by the Knights of Columbus.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 11, 2008.

The pig butchering class starts at 6:30 pm at the Brooklyn Kitchen (616 Lorimer St., at Skillman Street in Williamsburg, [718] 389-2982). $75. Register in advance.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 11, 2008.

Crooks tried to mug a 44-year-old man as he passed the Grand Street and Morgan Avenue — while he was in his car!

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 10, 2008.

"The Q is a solid train. And Ditmas Park is our amazing, affordable, tree-lined little secret (shh!). But please don't let south Brooklyn turn into Williamsburg! It's lovely as it is without hordes of Facebook-addicted, angsty, post-college types in skinny jeans!

Published by The New York Observer on September 10, 2008.