The Sunset Park church will conclude the series this fall with its last three concerts this fall, and then, during the Advent/Christmas season, its finale Messiah Community Sing-In. All four programs begin at 4 p.m. in the church sanctuary at 5406 Fourth Avenue.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 4, 2008.

On Sunday, the duo had been trotting through Bay Ridge, pulling owner Richie Valentine Jacobson and his younger brother on a Cinderella-style buggy en route to Nunzie Luberto's dream wedding.

Published by New York Daily News on September 2, 2008.

But Agriprocessors is also having labor troubles closer to home, with the company asking the United States Supreme Court to overturn a vote to unionize at its distribution center along the Brooklyn waterfront.

Published by New York Times on September 1, 2008.

BoCoCa, which refers to the junction of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, also identifies the site of a vibrant dining scene.

Published by New York Times on August 30, 2008.

“Honestly, bureaucrats strike me as the least likely people to bike. I’m a broke “bohemian liberal” who lives in Park Slope, and that is barely enough to summon the mental energy required.”

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Flying rodents in Carroll Gardens may also be causing an opossum circus.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

"Pier 41 may be their home but it is not a house. It is a 'set' in a commercial warehouse. This space hosted the Will Smith movie 'Hitch' in 2004." ["Details on The Real World Red Hook!"]

Published by The New York Observer on August 29, 2008.

Park Slope's the new suburbs!

Published by The New York Observer on August 29, 2008.

The mural in Sunset Park was sponsored by the Groundswell Community Mural Project.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Alexandra, the daughter of a prominent Bay Ridge-based pediatrician, was able to swim and had been on boats several times before, a family friend said. She was wearing a life vest.

Published by New York Post on August 29, 2008.

Recently, we water-taxied to Brooklyn to follow up on reports of The Real World in Red Hook.

Published by The New York Observer on August 28, 2008.

These neighborhoods, Lewis says, have long been in the shadow of historic darlings such as Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights.

Published by amNY.com on August 28, 2008.

Alexandra was the daughter of Dr. Michael Vitale, a Bay Ridge-based doctor affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital who specializes in pediatric trauma.

Published by New York Post on August 28, 2008.

Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association. Monthly meeting. Hannah Senesh Day School, 7:30 pm. (718) 858-4699.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 28, 2008.

Musician Jason Domnarski is starting a real-life “School of Rock” in the neighborhood, and if the hippy, classic rock-loving parents are any indication, Domnarski said he may have found a target audience.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 28, 2008.

BJ’s Wholesale Club, the members-only retail chain, is close to finalizing a deal to open a big box store on the Red Hook waterfront, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

Alexandra Vitale, from Bay Ridge, fell into the water along with an instructor and her cousins when their catamaran flipped onto its side off Conckenoe Island near Westport, Conn.

Published by New York Daily News on August 27, 2008.

The Red Hook waterfront that some residents complain is already starting to resemble a strip mall - with Ikea and Fairway now firmly rooted - is gonna get another big-box retail tenant.

Published by New York Post on August 27, 2008.

While the peeling and flaking 77th Street R train station is about to get a new paint job, The Brooklyn Paper has learned that Bay Ridge’s other grimy stations may not get one because they suffer from such serious infrastructure problems that a paint job would offer only an inconsequential uplift.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

BJ's Wholesale Club is poised to join Ikea as the newest big-box store in Red Hook, according to the Brooklyn Paper, confirming predictions that the quaint neighborhood is fast becoming popular with unbecoming mega-retailers.

Published by The New York Observer on August 27, 2008.

The cigar-chomping officers tore through a baseball field at Shore Road Park in Bay Ridge, spinning the car wildly in circles and almost hitting a pair of kids on tricycles, said January Hagan, 31.

Published by New York Daily News on August 26, 2008.

Paratroopers are drifting down to earth — well, down the side of a Brooklyn apartment building — and slowly being helped back on their feet. This scene has finally come into full view in Sunset Park, where a group of young women this summer painted a mural that was their response to military recruiters in their schools and neighborhoods.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

Though the suburban life is plentiful in many ways, space a major one, it is urban dwelling that I and many others have chosen. Notably, in Park Slope. Last week, I was invited for beers in the comfy backyard of a gorgeous brownstone in the Slope and we got to talking about what life is like in Brooklyn's utopian paradise.

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

So they traded their one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment in Sunset Park—the one they describe as “disgusting and so small and just awful,” and for which they paid $1,300 a month plus an extra hundred for a storage space because the landlady wouldn’t let them use their own basement—for a three-bedroom apartment on a tree-lined street with a living room, a dining room, a basement, a front and back porch, stained-glass windows, and a separate office for Herbeck.

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

Programs offered by Lutheran Family Health Centers’ Services for Older Adults. 4520 Fourth Ave., Sunset Park. (718) 492-9370.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

Among New York universities, Columbia comes in at no. 8 and New York University is no. 33. Yeshiva University is ranked no. 50.

Published by New York Sun on August 22, 2008.

The Department of Transportation has finished the latest phase of the $55-million rehab of the Hamilton Avenue Bridge, a rarely opened drawbridge that links Carroll Gardens to Park Slope and points south along busy Hamilton Avenue.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

Leave “The Ripper” alone! That’s what the sister of the so-called “Park Slope Ripper” — the man who tears down people’s stoop sale, lost pet and “man with van” signs from neighborhood lampposts — is begging the people of Park Slope, some of whom are increasingly angry about the man’s neatnik vigilantism.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

Programs offered by Lutheran Family Health Centers’ Services for Older Adults. 4520 Fourth Ave., Sunset Park. (718) 492-9370.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 21, 2008.

Cops say he killed Afzal Muhammad late on July 29 near Lookout Hill in the Windsor Terrace portion of the fabled greensward. According to court documents, Perez encountered Muhammad in the park, attempted to rob him, and later hit him in the back of the head twice with a tree limb.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

The Department of Transportation has finished the latest phase of the $55-million rehab of the Hamilton Avenue Bridge, a rarely opened drawbridge that links Carroll Gardens to Park Slope and points south along busy Hamilton Avenue.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

A key bridge over Brooklyn’s most-troubled waters — the fetid Gowanus Canal — is finally back to nearly full capacity this week, two weeks ahead of schedule.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

The bandit got his start with a half dozen robberies in Queens banks -- in Forest Hills and Astoria -- then moved on to Brooklyn, committing his last 15 heists in that borough. He's hit banks in Sheepshead Bay, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, New Utrecht and Borough Park, and he's not picky about which banks he robs.

Published by SI Live on August 20, 2008.

Programs offered by Lutheran Family Health Centers’ Services for Older Adults. 4520 Fourth Ave., Sunset Park. (718) 492-9370.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

Corner of Fourth Avenue and 36th Street, open Wed. to Mon., 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Published by Village Voice on August 19, 2008.

The media hubbub surrounding Toys in Babeland's opening in Park Slope earlier this summer ranged from a Post screamer ("Sex-Toy Shop Has Bad Vibes in Park Slope") to a Daily Intel piece about how Internet buzz on the new store was largely favorable. In between, the Daily News informed that the shop would have a baby changing table to cater to the famously family-friendly 'hood, a tidbit that netted Babeland’s owners an irate phone call from Focus on the Family.

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

Corner of Fourth Avenue and 60th Street, open from Tues. to Sun., 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Published by Village Voice on August 19, 2008.

“Three years ago, the words ‘Sunset Park’ weren’t even on anyone’s radar,” says Jospeh Anastasi, who opened the Tabla Rasa Gallery on 48th Street in 2005 with his wife Audrey. “It was like ‘Field of Dreams’—if you build it they will come.”

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

A cruel thief swiped Brooklyn's two-headed turtle between 11 a.m. and noon Sunday from a window tank at a Windsor Terrace pet store while the owner was with a customer.

Published by New York Daily News 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.

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.

The 100-by-100-foot lot at 614 7th Avenue in Greenwood Heights first grabbed headlines back in 2005 when a design for a 70...

Published by Brownstoner on August 14, 2008.

When will we get a farmers’ market in Bay Ridge? Our neighborhood has changed a great deal since the market existed in a less than ideal location (Leif Ericson Park) some years ago.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

Farmers’ markets are such a treasure. I travel from Bay Ridge to the Greenmarket in Union Square and Grand Army Plaza.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

Who was that bearded, straw-hatted painter doing impressionistic renderings of water scenes? No, it wasn’t Van Gogh painting landscapes in Arles; it was Francis Sills painting Red Hook’s faded waterfront. “When I see buildings like this, I feel like I’ve got to paint it before it’s gone,” Mr. Sills said while painting a hulking, vacant building next to the new Ikea store, where Columbia Street ends near the harbor.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

"It's very useful for doing the job," said Yassky. "Our district stretches from Williamsburg to Park Slope. We are out in the field a lot."

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

“I love the colors and the light, as well as the forms and the architecture,” said Mr. Sills, who lives nearby in Gowanus and has been painting old structures on a Red Hook waterfront that is rapidly changing as more higher-income residents move in, and large stores to serve them.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

It took some price cuts to get there, but as far as we can tell the Park Place Condominium development overlooking Flatbush Avenue at 7th Avenue in Park Slope has been pretty much sold out since the end of last year.

Published by Brownstoner on August 13, 2008.

And back in Brooklyn, the Tasting Room at Williamsburg's Bridge Urban Winery sells wines made from its own vineyard in Long Island, with a borough-based, small-scale winery in the works. Another urban winery, as yet unnamed, is now being fitted out in Red Hook — a project of Mark Snyder, a Park Slope-based wine distributor, and a pair of cult Napa Valley winemakers, Abe Schoener and Robert Foley.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

As all of our farmers come from within 250 miles, our region’s climate means that over half of our markets close when local fields are covered in snow. Yes the Bronx Borough Hall Greenmarket ceases to operate after Thanksgiving, but so do markets in the Upper East Side, Carroll Gardens and Murray Hill.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.