A: My office’s Legal Lives program brings the criminal justice system into approximately 250 Brooklyn fifth-grade classrooms. I founded Legal Lives in 1990 in response to a drastic increase...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 4, 2008.

Above is a photo of the Brooklyn Children's Museum's sparkling new lobby -- part of the Rafael Vinoly-designed addition that doubled the size of the hands-on museum for little ones to more than 100,000 square feet.

Published by The New York Observer on September 3, 2008.

The “Obama Cookie” will officially launch at the kitchen, at 766 Washington Ave., on Sept. 5 at 7 p.m.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 3, 2008.

Folks from Natural Heights, the home and garden store at 688 Washington Avenue, are shutting its doors. Good news is that they're planning to expand their online...

Published by Brownstoner on September 3, 2008.

...pits Stuart Venner, who owns a number of buildings in Brooklyn, including 174 Clinton Avenue, 657 Carlton Avenue and 114 Henry Street, against development goliath Forest City Ratner. The conflict began when Venner...

Published by Brownstoner on September 2, 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.

Park Slope's the new suburbs!

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

When he moved into a four-bedroom brownstone at 1230 Dean Street in Crown Heights, Mr. Beecham reveled in having a garage and a driveway.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Ms. Mosley said she would have about 30 people at her home in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn tonight. Over appetizers and nonalcoholic beverages — “mostly cranberry juice, but definitely no alcohol,” she said — the guests will discuss not only Mr. Obama’s speech, but also the addresses earlier in the week of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

Published by New York Times on August 28, 2008.

This beauty at 1094 Park Place in Crown Heights caught our eye as an Open House Pick last fall when it...

Published by Brownstoner on August 28, 2008.

Police sources said two men walked into the Lott Ave., Brownsville, store about noon, confronted Shabazz with a weapon and demanded the cash he kept in a box.

Published by New York Daily News 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.

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.

...its 12 for sale from $425,000 to $600,000, and one in contract, at 957 Pacific Street. Three more buildings, the Montana, Dakota and Austin—not very New York-centric names, are...

Published by Brownstoner on August 27, 2008.

...place coming up for foreclosure auction this week is this two-family limestone house at 1090 Prospect Place in Crown Heights. The house sold most recently back in 2004 for $400,000 and...

Published by Brownstoner on August 27, 2008.

...are occupied, others still in mid-construction. According to Streeteasy, four units at the Hudson, 935 Dean Street, are still on the market between $749,000 and $829,000. Three at the Madison...

Published by Brownstoner on August 27, 2008.

...are still on the market between $749,000 and $829,000. Three at the Madison, 925 Pacific Street, are for sale for $749,000 to $1,100,000. And the Sydney, with its...

Published by Brownstoner on August 27, 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.

If this detail-rich house at 1252 Dean Street looks familiar, it's because it was featured as a House of the Day in...

Published by Brownstoner on August 26, 2008.

This floor-through co-op at 193 Sterling Place in Prospect Heights looks pretty nice to us but could benefit greatly from a little...

Published by Brownstoner 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.

In today’s BrooklynPaper.com update, we bring you amazing interviews between our editorial board and two men who want to represent Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill in Congress: longtime Rep. Ed Towns and newcomer Kevin Powell.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 25, 2008.

The Brooklyn Children's Museum -- the hands-on instititution popular with tykes from Tremont to Poughkeepsie -- is slated to reopen as the first LEED-certified museum in New York City on Sept. 20, according to a spokeswoman for the project and Interior Design.

Published by The New York Observer on August 22, 2008.

First came the overhaul of the old Jewish Hospital into quasi-luxury rentals. Then came Saje. Chavella's. Bristen's. Two clothing boutiques. The beer garden. Abigail. The gentrification of Crown Heights -- in all of its prickly glory -- continues apace with the impending arrival of Lily & Fig Fine Cakes and Confections on Franklin Avenue and Park Place.

Published by The New York Observer 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.

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.

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.

“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.

The U.S. Army’s “Planning for Life” program will visit teens at St. John’s Recreation Center, 1251 Prospect Place, to help them plan for a successful life after high school.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

A man brutalized a Park Sloper’s car while he was stopped at the intersection of Underhill Avenue and Prospect Place on Aug. 17.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 20, 2008.

Middle School for Academic and Social Excellence, 1224 Park Place

Published by NY1 on August 20, 2008.

This house at 152 Underhill Avenue isn't officially on the market yet, according to the listing, but it's still...

Published by Brownstoner on August 20, 2008.

...in Prospect Heights for almost $750 a foot? Not bloody likely. Granted Apartment 5E at 338 Prospect Place in Prospect Heights has a 600-square-foot private roof deck in addition to its...

Published by Brownstoner on August 19, 2008.

LOCATION: 919 Sterling Place (between New York & Nostrand Aves)

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

LOCATION: Brower Park at Brooklyn Ave & Prospect Place

Published by NY1 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.

LOCATION: 520 Prospect Place

Published by NY1 on August 19, 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.

...Americans in the U.S. and about urban archaeology. The landmarked houses are located at 1698-1708 Bergen Street, between Rochester and Buffalo roads. An excellent booklet on Weeksville is available in the museum...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 18, 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.

Medical help for Ginelis came only after her mother, Kimberly Cantos, 23, got home from work hours later at midnight and called an ambulance to the family's Ocean Hill brownstone.

Published by New York Daily News on August 16, 2008.

Outside an AutoZone store near Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, several street mechanics work under cars parked on the side of the road, installing parts purchased by the store’s customers.

Published by New York Times on August 15, 2008.

He told cops he didn't call 911 because he "did not have access to a phone" and was afraid he would be in trouble. Cantos called for an ambulance after returning to their Ocean Hill brownstone at midnight.

Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 2008.

Beneath the peeling roof of a Hess station at Ralph Avenue in Stuyvesant Heights, framed on the north by the Brevoort housing project and on the south by Kingsborough Houses, are eight self-service pumps — and often just as many hustlers who come and go as their economic needs dictate.

Published by New York Times on August 15, 2008.

The museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, is also slated to be the city’s first LEED Silver museum.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 15, 2008.

One recent evening, opposite a BP station at Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights, a taxi with smoke pouring from under its hood pulled over to the sidewalk, and a burly man ran over and lifted the hot, browning hood to expose flames rising from the engine’s alternator.

Published by New York Times on August 15, 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.

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.

"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.

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.