The 64-year-old man parked his red Toyota Camry at 1 pm on Lincoln Place between Underhill and Vanderbilt Avenues, leaving his key on the driver’s seat, and his doors unlocked.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

A popular ice cream joint on Underhill Avenue got some funny money on July 17. A young woman came into the parlor, which is between St. Johns and Lincoln Place at around 9 pm, where she purchased herself a tasty treat and handed over a phony Jackson.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

A patriotic-sounding apparel store on Flatbush Avenue was robbed of a fancy digital camera early on July 14. The owner of the chain location, which is in a former movie theater near Seventh Avenue, told cops that no one was in the store between 10 pm on July 13 and 10 am the next day.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

The city is moving toward protecting a wide swatch of Prospect Heights — but the proposed “historic district” would not bar a project that some neighbors think is the biggest destroyer of the area’s history: Atlantic Yards.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

Park Slope residents in the normally-serene neighborhood got a jolt this month by report of a sexual predator. The man exposed himself to a 14-year-old girl after pushing his way into her apartment building two weeks ago.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.

Two crooks used the old distraction ploy — twice! — on a man as he walked on Sixth Avenue on July 18, and got away with his iPod. The 25-year-old victim told cops he was at Sterling Place at around 1 am when two men approached.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

A barber shop on Washington Avenue got the buzz on July 17, when an overnight baron skipped the pomade and went straight for the $1,400 in the register. Sometime after the shop closed at 7 pm, the crook entered through the security gate of the shop, which is between Prospect and Park places.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

So this grizzled insider was surprised to see that both 42-year-old congressional upstart Kevin Powell and 13-term incumbent Rep. Ed Towns (D–Fort Greene) have been making such a big deal about wooing the Loch Ness Monster of demographics — the often sought but never delivered niche of 18- to 29-year-olds.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

A young woman stopped on July 18 at Lincoln Place to argue with her boyfriend and suffered further communication barriers. The 17-year-old was walking between Underhill and Washington Avenues at 12:30 am with beau, when they stopped for a lover’s quarrel.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

The city is moving toward protecting a wide swatch of Prospect Heights — but the proposed “historic district” would not bar a project that some neighbors think is the biggest destroyer of the area’s history: Atlantic Yards.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

Monday mornings have become a stinking mess at Prospect Park this summer, where overflowing piles of trash, rotting food, and more litter than you can shake a half-eaten chicken leg at have become a weekly ritual.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 22, 2008.

People in the Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope neighborhoods had been asked to stop using all nonessential electrical appliances, including air conditioning. The energy firm said as of Sunday night it suspended its request for those customers to reduce their electricity use.

Published by Crain's New York Business on July 21, 2008.

Park Slope, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Borough Park suffered a power outage on Sunday after a malfunction that left roughly 2,000 homes and businesses in the dark.

Published by New York Times on July 21, 2008.

More than 89,000 customers living in the Park Slope, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Sunset Park neighborhoods have been urged to stop using nonessential appliances, including air-conditioners and washers and dryers, as crews attempt to fix the problem.

Published by New York Sun on July 21, 2008.

Some 2,000 customers lost power in parts of Bay Ridge, Borough Park, Park Slope and Sunset Park on Sunday. Con Edison showed up not just with cable splicers and other work crews, but also tons of dry ice. The state’s Public Service Commission requires Con Edison to distribute dry ice to customers whenever power is out for more than 48 hours.

Published by New York Times on July 21, 2008.

People in the Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope neighborhoods had been asked to stop using all nonessential electrical appliances, including air conditioning. The utility says as of Sunday night it suspended its request for those customers to reduce their electricity use.

Published by amNY.com on July 21, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope to discontinue their use of non-essential electrical appliances, including air-conditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 20, 2008.

Con Edison is asking all customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope to discontinue their use of nonessential electrical appliances, including airconditioning, until problems on electrical power lines serving the area can be resolved.

Published by WNBC on July 20, 2008.

Close to 90,000 customers in the Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Park Slope neighborhoods have been asked to stop using all non-essential electrical appliances, including air conditioning.

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

The utility is reporting power outages to approximately 2,000 customers in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Borough Park, and Park Slope at this time.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

The ESDC determined the 17-acre area in Harlem "blighted" on Thursday, and according to the anonymous urban affairs source, once the ESDC determines an area is blighted, it has the authority to "undertake the condemnation." The source notes that this is the same concept that was used in Atlantic Yards.

Published by GlobeSt on July 18, 2008.

“If you’re running for mayor of the city of New York, you have to address the issue of affordable housing,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort Greene), backed by anti-Catsimatidis protestors chanting “You won’t win” across the street from the construction site, between Prince Street and Ashland Place.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 18, 2008.

Elected officials said this should shatter Catsimatidis’s political ambitions. “We certainly don’t want him,” said state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D–Park Slope).

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 18, 2008.

Paul Spencer Byard, a land-use lawyer who returned to school in his late 30s to be an architect and who became an important figure in the renovation of some of New York’s most prominent landmarks, died on Tuesday at his home in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. He was 68.

Published by New York Times on July 18, 2008.

At least 13 cars were ticketed on Eighth Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues on Tuesday, and close to that number of bright orange tickets were plastered on windshields on Prospect and Park places between Sixth and Fourth avenues — just a small portion of the scores of tickets that were written since Monday morning, when the new rules rolled in.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

Twenty-six community groups have just filed a legal brief in the State Appellate Court to reverse approval of the Atlantic Yards project.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

On July 27, Fort Greene locals will have the chance to become better acquainted with the history behind their picturesque neighborhood.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

“Everything we do reflects the menu and the style of the restaurant,” said Bull, who counts Franny’s in Prospect Heights and the Mexican food in Sunset Park as some of his favorite Brooklyn eats. “We’ll do a goat cheese tart with roasted mushrooms.” The class will also learn to make apple-braised pork belly.

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.

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.

It’s not often that this newspaper finds itself siding with city functionaries whose very job requires them to deliver suffering and pain to residents, but in the case of this week’s parking ticket blitz in Park Slope, we side with the traffic enforcement officers.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

All you drivers out there are a bunch of selfish, thoughtless jerks — at least that’s what one Fort Greene resident thinks.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

At least 13 cars were ticketed on Eighth Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues on Tuesday, and close to that number of bright orange tickets were plastered on windshields on Prospect and Park places between Sixth and Fourth avenues — just a small portion of the scores of tickets that were written since Monday morning, when the new rules rolled in.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 17, 2008.

A two-wheeled marauder swiftly got hold of a lady’s purse on Prospect Place on July 12. The 23-year-old woman told cops that she was near Underhill Avenue at around 2 am after a night on the town. The crook, believed to be 17, simply passed by on his wheels and grabbed her bag, which contained her bank cards, cellphone, and keys.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 16, 2008.

The annual Macy's fishing contest kicks off today at noon at the Prospect Park Audobon Center, near the Boathouse.

Published by amNY.com on July 16, 2008.

The last park to receive that distinction was Fort Tryon Park, in 1983. The other eight scenic landmarks, with their dates of designation, are Bryant Park (1974), Central Park (1974), Riverside Park and Riverside Drive (1980), Verdi Square (1975), Eastern Parkway (1978), Grand Army Plaza (1974), Ocean Parkway (1975) and Prospect Park (1975).

Published by New York Times on July 16, 2008.

Other potable-friendly parks include the Great Lawn in Central Park, Cunningham Park in Queens, Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, where hipsters recently swigged beer from brown paper bags while maxing on the lawn near the bandshell during a performance by the band Cold War Kids.

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

At Newswalk, a 168-unit condominium building in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, doormen have for years let residents know they have packages by putting little yellow sticky notes on their mailboxes.

Published by New York Times on July 16, 2008.

For the financing plan for the Atlantic Yards housing and sports arena complex in Brooklyn, and for one being considered for the planned middle-income-housing mega-complex at Hunter’s Point South in Queens, the city would need a favorable ruling from the I.R.S. or face substantially higher costs for both projects.

Published by The New York Observer on July 15, 2008.

Park Slope residents await changes to alternate-side parking rules after a two-month hiatus that left its streets littered with newspapers, coffee cups and water bottles.

Published by New York Times on July 14, 2008.

DeBlasio, who represents Park Slope, is running against a field that includes East New York Councilman Charles Barron.

Published by New York Post on July 14, 2008.

The return of alternate-side parking in Park Slope allowed Bernadette Morrissey a return to her routine: a short search for parking after driving from Sheepshead Bay to visit her family on Carroll Street (she does this in Brooklyn twice a week).

Published by New York Times on July 14, 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.

Opponents of the Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn are focusing on a new way to hem in the $4 billion development project: the landmark protection process.

Published by New York Sun on July 14, 2008.

Drivers beware. Starting Monday, alternate side of the street parking rules are back in effect in Park Slope after nearly a month break.

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

Judges have threatened a work slowdown to protest their salaries, which have been frozen for the last decade. Frustration among legislators regarding their own pay has boiled over to the point of prompting one lawmaker, Eric Adams, a Democrat who represents Park Slope and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to bellow "Show me the money" on the Senate floor. But the governor's office is one place in Albany where complaints about salary are rarely audible.

Published by New York Sun on July 14, 2008.

Prospect Heights is among the city’s smaller neighborhoods, but it is home to numerous attractions and to a vibrant dining scene.

Published by New York Times on July 12, 2008.

In the last few months, every Saturday and Sunday morning before 7 am, a thief has darted up brownstone steps in Park Slope and stole the freshly delivered New York Times, and cops and the delivery company say there is little they can do to prevent it.

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.

The hugely popular comic was the headliner at the $75-and-up fundraiser, but Powell, who is aiming to unseat 13-term incumbent Ed Towns (D–Fort Greene) in the September primary, said Chappelle missed two flights in his effort to get to Manhattan’s hip-hop club, Eugene.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 10, 2008.