The ugly episode began after Benoit and some family members went to the Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment she shared with Haynes before their breakup to collect her things, ASPCA Assistant Director Joseph Pentangelo said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

200 Willoughby Ave., Clinton Hill. (718) 636-3517 or www.pratt.edu/ exhibitions.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 5, 2008.

Tamboril Restaurant, Bar & Lounge: 527 Myrtle Ave., Clinton Hill. (718) 622-5130 or www.tamborilnyc.com Jazz Sunday with the Nathi G. Trio. Sept. 7, from 6–8 p.m.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 5, 2008.

A source said the rent for the Bedford-Stuyvesant home, which hadn't been reported prior to 2007, was from his ex-wife Angela Jeter. The couple divorced in 1984. Thompson, a leading candidate for mayor in 2009, also showed credit card debt: $5,000 on his American Express Optima and $5,000 on an account with North Fork Bank.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

"If they don't want to pay, I just leave them alone," one driver on the B44 route in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, said Wednesday, declining to give his name.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

We told you about Fort Greene boutique Thistle & Clover's open call for designers early last month. They saw about a dozen independent designers present their wares at their stylish little shop on DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn but could only choose a few to add to their fall collection. Well, the gals have made their decisions.

Published by The New York Observer on September 4, 2008.

...major work Native Son (‘40) was begun while he was a resident of Brooklyn at 175 Carlton Ave. He was living at 89 Lefferts Place in Bed-Stuy when he completed his classic...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 4, 2008.

Although the Khalil Gibran International Academy's move from Park Slope to a building in DUMBO led some parents to pull their kids out, others said it was the roller-coaster school year that sealed the deal.

Published by New York Post on September 3, 2008.

Downtown Brooklyn (zip code 11245) commanded the highest job growth rate--253 percent--for the zip codes tracked.

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

Above-ground fare-beating is most prevalent on 10 routes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to NYC Transit. The worst is the B46 in Brooklyn where drivers have reported "theft of service" at a rate of about 4,000 a week. The route runs the length of the borough, between Williamsburg and Marine Park, through Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Flatbush and Flatlands.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

Above-ground fare-beating is most prevalent on 10 routes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to NYC Transit. The worst is the B46 in Brooklyn where drivers have reported "theft of service" at a rate of about 4,000 a week. The route runs the length of the borough, between Williamsburg and Marine Park, through Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Flatbush and Flatlands.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

Cops, who have spoken to at least one of the men Pravia called and found he had an alibi, now want to speak to the cabdriver who took him from Brooklyn to his West 15th Street apartment. Police also are asking anyone who might have been at the party in Downtown Brooklyn, and helped Pravia into the cab, to come forward.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

The Daily News said the DVDs contain about 45 minutes of home movies that show the 7-year-old dancing and singing with her family just months before she was slain in her Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, apartment, sources said.

Published by WNBC on September 2, 2008.

One was taken just months before the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment became a house of horrors.

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

The tree-killing “New York City Waterfalls” project, which has enraged plant-loving Brooklynites by damaging local fauna near the River Cafe in DUMBO and along the fabled Brooklyn Heights Promenade, will be turned off half of the time starting next week.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 1, 2008.

A billboard hyping the sexy teen drama “90210” has some members of Williamsburg’s Hasidic Jews all worked up.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on September 1, 2008.

A few others are taking more drastic action. Unable to sell their units, they are converting their projects to rentals—typically taking a major financial hit in the process. The owners of 99 Gold St. in Dumbo and 192 Spencer St. in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn have converted their projects, as has the owner of the Bridges NYC North on Third Avenue in Harlem.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 31, 2008.

"When she runs, she is very focused," owner Sue Yee said during a morning training session at Fort Greene Park.

Published by New York Daily News on August 31, 2008.

If your car was broken into in DUMBO, you may have "Squarehead" to blame for it.

Published by New York Post on August 31, 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.

The Quaker Meeting Hall in downtown Brooklyn overflows with mourners.

Published by New York Daily News on August 30, 2008.

Cops have arrested a career criminal on charges stemming from a car break-in in DUMBO in April, and are investigating whether the man is also responsible for a series of break-ins in recent months.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 29, 2008.

Did you ever really have that much fun at McCarren Park Pool, whose reign as one of New York’s most popular summer show spots will end tomorrow when Sonic Youth brings the curtain down on two years’ worth of weekend concerts at the waterless Williamsburg swimming hole?

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

Tomorrow, the Brazells will lead a memorial march in the 19-year-old victim's honor from his old Bushwick apartment to the Bedford-Stuyvesant subway station where his body parts were first found.

Published by New York Daily News on August 29, 2008.

The winner of $15,000 grant to open a bookstore in Fort Greene says she is confident she can break the spine on her shop next year — and is hoping a “Bookstore Kickoff Party” can help her find more investors and get some juicy real estate tips.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 29, 2008.

These courts at the intersection of busy Utica Ave. and Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant are adjacent to Boys and Girls High School, but are apparently not in the domain of the city Department of Education.

Published by New York Daily News on August 28, 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.

In nearby Bedford-Stuyvesant, Colin and Kristen de Paor – newlyweds married less than three months — are expecting about 15 guests tonight to eat enchiladas and shrimp and drink wine and beer to watch the speech in their apartment.

Published by New York Times on August 28, 2008.

A Williamsburg artist who sought to export his American right of free expression to China and was abused by the tyrants of Tiananmen Square for his trouble, is back in Brooklyn.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 28, 2008.

Two Brooklyn teens have been charged with attempted murder in an incident that could have left a uniformed police officer dead or wounded.The incident was caught on surveillance video Sunday in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by WNBC on August 27, 2008.

Cops arrested a 61-year-old man on Aug. 23 after he threatened a Boerum Hill man with a knife.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 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.

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.

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.

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.

"He was all I had," added his grandmother, Corrine Brandt, 87, at the Williamsburg apartment she shared with him. "It just won't be the same."

Published by New York Daily News 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.

I love the concerts, but I often think about how much more there is to Williamsburg than that scene. The recent revival of the park has made it home to a rich convergence of different cultures that reflects the neighborhood’s varied and complex face.

Published by New York Times on August 23, 2008.

200 Willoughby Ave., Clinton Hill. (718) 636-3517 or www.pratt.edu/ exhibitions.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

527 Myrtle Ave., Clinton Hill. (718) 622-5130 or www.tamborilnyc.com

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

Marcy Library, 617 DeKalb Ave., (718) 935-0032

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

The new figures were released in the wake of the death of Jacob Neuman, who fell 10 stories down an elevator shaft at the Taylor-Wythe Houses in South Williamsburg.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

Cornelius Abson, 36, a resident of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday for choking Lillian France in a Crown Heights elevator last Thursday and robbing her of $900. Police say he implicated himself in that crime, as well as the July 11 robbery of a 67-year-old man in Flatbush.

Published by New York Sun 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.

Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at a building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that broke out around noon. The fire was put out within an hour.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

Firefighters battled flames on three floors of a building leased to one of New York City’s largest movie studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard midday on Friday.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a 300-acre industrial park with more than 40 buildings located along the East River between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 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.

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.