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Published by NY1 on August 28, 2008.

The 215 teachers at nearby Brooklyn Technical HS in Fort Greene, meanwhile, have to compete for 47 spots, plus another six reserved off street.

Published by New York Post on August 28, 2008.

That's because their moms and dads are members of the Prospect Heights Babysitting Co-op. It's a child care solution popping up in neighborhoods all over the country.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 26, 2008.

...s independent bookstore, FGIBI is hosting an event in Fort Greene at the Cumberland Greene (237 Cumberland Ave) on September 16, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm. The event will feature local Brooklyn authors...

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

Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo, the events coordinator at the Nolita bookstore McNally Jackson, has been public about her intention to open a new independent bookstore in Brooklyn since at least January, when she won a $15,000 grant for the project from the Brooklyn Public Library. Since then, she seems to have zeroed in on Fort Greene as her neighborhood of choice ...

Published by The New York Observer on August 25, 2008.

At the popular Target in downtown Brooklyn yesterday, shoppers were surprised to hear about the chain's security measures.

Published by New York Daily News on August 25, 2008.

On a sunny day in July, I jumped around the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a photographer, amazed at the scope of the 300-acre, 40-building site.

Published by New York Daily News on August 22, 2008.

138 S. Oxford St., Fort Greene. (718) 398-3078.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

A 3-alarm fire is burning at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, CBS 2 HD has learned. Officials say the fire was first reported just after noon on Friday.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 22, 2008.

“The public needs to understand my brother, that he does this because he is autistic,” said the sister, who requested anonymity because there have been threats against her brother as he’s walked his flier-removal beat throughout Park Slope and nearby Prospect Heights.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

138 S. Oxford St., Fort Greene. (718) 398-3078.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 21, 2008.

Investigators believe Abson followed France, 85, from her bank on Eastern Parkway and then slipped behind her and into an elevator at a Prospect Heights apartment building.

Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.

Those repairs directly undermine the vision for the so-called Bridge Plaza described in Brooklyn Bridge Park planning documents, which describe the Purchase Building site as a major link between the northern and southern end of the park and condo development that stretches 1.3 miles along the DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights waterfront.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

The race to complete renovations of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park by its November centennial remains delayed by the fallout from an allegedly corrupt former contractor and cost overruns.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

...York State Housing Finance Agency for the 335,000-square-foot building under way at 80 DeKalb Ave. Critics point out that this translates into tax payers underwriting each affordable unit to the...

Published by Brownstoner on August 21, 2008.

Developer Bruce Ratner, who is struggling to line up financing for his Atlantic Yards mega-project, finally sealed a money deal to build what will be his company’s first residential tower, the 34-floor, Costas Kondylis-designed building at 80 DeKalb Ave. in Fort Greene.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 20, 2008.

The apparently inexorable rise of a skyscraper city on the edge of Fort Greene continues apace, with developer Bruce Ratner's announcement on Wednesday that Forest City Ratner had secured financing for its first residential tower in Brooklyn, the Costas Kondylis-designed, 34-story 80 DeKalb Avenue.

Published by The New York Observer on August 20, 2008.

The apparently inexorable rise of a skyscraper city on the edge of Fort Greene continues apace, with developer Bruce Ratner's announcement on Wednesday that Forest City Ratner had secured financing for its first residential tower in Brooklyn, the Costas Kondylis-designed, 34-story 80 DeKalb Avenue.

Published by The New York Observer on August 20, 2008.

The glass building will join the Forte Condo (at Ashland Place and Fulton Street), and the soon-to-be-built Danspace project across the street to form a small mini-city on the edge of Fort Greene, bordering Downtown Brooklyn -- but a taste of the 16-skyscraper-and-arena Atlantic Yards complex to come.

Published by The New York Observer on August 20, 2008.

Cops have stepped up their patrols in and around DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights and Downtown hoping to thwart a spate of car break-ins that have prompted area residents into organizing themselves into a “Citizens Patrol,” The Brooklyn Paper has learned.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 20, 2008.

138 S. Oxford St., Fort Greene. (718) 398-3078.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

FORT GREENE — Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) reports that it has closed on financing for its 335,000-square-foot building at 80 DeKalb Ave. in Downtown Brooklyn.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

The glass building will join the Forte Condo (at Ashland Place and Fulton Street), and the soon-to-be-built Danspace project across the street to form a small...

Published by The New York Observer on August 20, 2008.

The developer announced today that it closed on financing for a 335,000-square-foot rental building at 80 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene.

Published by The Real Deal on August 20, 2008.

This delay is the latest in an seemingly never-ending string of disappointments in the decades-long effort to build a park along the Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO waterfronts.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 18, 2008.

“The rents are certainly much more attractive than they are in Red Hook, Dumbo or Long Island City,” says Healy, who pays $1,000 a month for her work space. “An artists community is evolving here because artists enjoy being in quiet places, and there are no distractions here.”

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

An unknown shooter walked up to the rising star as he hung outside the Sputnick bar in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and fired on him once, hitting his yellow hat.

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

In the Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Gowanus sections of Community Board 6 that are east of Court Street, where the second phase of this sign replacement project started on July 7 and is now complete, the 2,100 newly posted ASP regulations will become enforceable on Monday, giving residents two weeks to adjust to the new rules.

Published by WNBC on August 17, 2008.

A bullet pierced the front of a 20-year-old man's hat just before 4 a.m. on Taaffe Place in Brooklyn. The gold insignia associated with the Latin Kings gang cracked, and cops at the Clinton Hill scene speculated the crown prevented the bullet from doing further damage.

Published by New York Daily News on August 17, 2008.

Aug. 16, at 11 a.m. Explore the past and present of Fort Greene with journalist and local historian Norman Oder. Meet in front of BAM, corner of Lafayette and Fulton. For more information, contact the Brooklyn Public Library, at (718) 230-2465. www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org. GOWANUS:

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 15, 2008.

As they have every year since the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument was built a century ago on a hill in the Olmsted and Vaux-designed park, the Society of Old Brooklynites will remember the 11,500 prisoners of war who died in British captivity on scummy boats moored in what is now the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 15, 2008.

138 S. Oxford St., Fort Greene. (718) 398-3078.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 15, 2008.

For the 100th straight year, Americans prisoners who perished on British ships during the Revolutionary War in the East River will be honored in Fort Greene Park next Saturday.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 15, 2008.

31 South Oxford Street

Published by Brownstoner on August 15, 2008.

Blaring car alarms and busted windows. If you head over to the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, it's becoming the norm.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 14, 2008.

Developer Bruce Ratner may be facing challenges to his Atlantic Yards project, but he received nothing but support from top New York politicians at a gala in his honor yesterday.

Published by New York Sun on August 14, 2008.

Police are hoping an arrest they made this week will put an end to the high number of car break-ins in DUMBO.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 14, 2008.

“The Department of Transportation will be utilizing space under the Brooklyn Bridge to conduct necessary repairs to the bridge before that section of the park is completed. The precise timing and size of the space needed is being finalized,” said Warner Johnston, a spokesman for the state agency that is hoping to build the $300-plus-million development, which stretches along the DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights waterfront.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 14, 2008.

Two other developments where eminent domain could be used would likely not be effected. The Atlantic Yards project is a state-initiated development and Columbia University’s expansion has already run through the land use process.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 14, 2008.

138 S. Oxford St., Fort Greene. (718) 398-3078.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 13, 2008.

Aug. 16, at 11 a.m. Explore the past and present of Fort Greene with journalist and local historian Norman Oder. Meet in front of BAM, corner of Lafayette and Fulton. For more information, contact the Brooklyn Public Library, at (718) 230-2465. www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org. GOWANUS:

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 13, 2008.

The Freeman Street subway station, a few blocks south of Crotona Park in the south-central Bronx, could not seem farther from the art gallery precincts of Chelsea, SoHo and Dumbo. So New Yorkers might be surprised to know that a series of colored-glass panels on the elevated subway station has been acclaimed as an exemplary work of public art.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

It's grandly called Brooklyn Oenology, and its first releases of white and red wines can already be found at a range of local shops, including Blanc et Rouge in DUMBO and Morrell in Rockefeller Center. In a coup for her fledgling enterprise, Ms. Shaper's first merlot, vintage 2005, has made it onto the wine list at Gramercy Tavern.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

...buildinga;nd aesthetics. Turns out, the building is being marketed with a sister development on 264 Cumberland in Fort Greene as "classic modern"—the name of their campaign, which proposes the building...

Published by Brownstoner on August 13, 2008.

The company brews beers in Fort Greene as well as upstate in Saratoga Springs, and uses Brooklyn-grown talent for its Coney Island bottles — the tattoo artist Dave C. Wallin.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

Even in winter you’ll see New Yorkers of all stripes buying apples, root vegetables, breads, meats, dairy, even hothouse produce, at markets from Inwood to Fort Greene — hubs which, unlike supermarkets or bodegas, bridge communities.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

DUMBO is being plagued by a serial window-smasher and burglar who broke into at least two more cars on Monday night and has left glass littered around the newly chic neighborhood.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 13, 2008.

Donations for the family can be sent to Carver Federal Savings Bank, located at 4 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11217. Please make checks payable to Larene Kelly, for the benefit of...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 13, 2008.

The “alternate side” holiday follows similar hiatuses in Park Slope and Boerum Hill and Gowanus earlier this summer — hiatuses that led to dirtier streets, but an almost complete end to parking tickets for weeks.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

Erica Belgrave, 20, turned herself in for her role in the shooting of Enois Malbranche last week in Clinton Hill that left him blind in one eye.

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