130 Lincoln Place GMAP

Published by Brownstoner on July 8, 2008.

Starting Monday, street cleaning rules in parts of Gowanus Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill will be temporarily suspended while 2100 street signs with new parking rules are put in place.

Published by WNBC on July 7, 2008.

"It's such a nice ride, I'd almost be happy to pay for it," said Steve Riley, 40, who lives in Park Slope, takes the Ikea bus and then transfers to the Ikea water taxi for his job in SoHo. "It was so very different from the miserable experience of the subway and I got to see all four of the waterfalls."

Published by New York Daily News on July 7, 2008.

Starting Monday, street cleaning rules in parts of Gowanus Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill will be temporarily suspended while 2100 street signs with new parking rules are put in place.

Published by WNBC on July 7, 2008.

Co-op of the Day: 467 Pacific Street

Published by Brownstoner on July 7, 2008.

Starting Monday, street cleaning rules in parts of Gowanus Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill will be temporarily suspended while 2100 street signs with new parking rules are put in place.

Published by WNBC on July 7, 2008.

Bloomberg, meanwhile, has been a shameless cheerleader for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, which has become an international synonym for a shameless corporate land grab.

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

The 88th Precinct, which covers Clinton Hill, has recorded a 26 percent increase in robberies so far this year, from 99 in 2007 to 125, for the period ending on June 29. Robberies are defined as the forcible taking of property from a person.

Published by New York Times on July 5, 2008.

On June 10, Nina Lalli was mugged as she walked from Fort Greene to her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, she said in an interview.

Published by New York Times on July 5, 2008.

After being told that the path of landing planes would be changed, reducing the air traffic above their neighborhood, Park Slope residents learned that it was not to be.

Published by New York Times on July 5, 2008.

Over in Brooklyn the Gowanus is backed up to Atlantic Avenue with a disabled vehicle in the northbound lanes at Tillary Street. All East River Crossings are doing OK.

Published by SI Live on July 3, 2008.

• Self-professed “Brownie Babe,” Mari Tuttle let us try some excellent treats (even though they’re actually baked in Queens). She’s still getting her Park Slope-based company fully up to speed, but you’ll be spotting her desserts in specialty stores soon. For info, visit www.marisny.com.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 3, 2008.

Out-of-Scale Addition at 524 State Street

Published by Brownstoner on July 3, 2008.

When asked what his “wedge” issue will be, the Carroll Gardens resident said his main goal is to unite people on transit issues and get Albany to fix the inadequacies (Politicrasher would have to be a horrible cynic — and he is! — to point out that Reilly said this just one day after the MTA scraped yet another set of promises to repair more than a dozen stations).

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 3, 2008.

Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal has long been known as a stinky body of liquid contaminants, but a landscape architecture design firm and community advocates are aiming to transform its shores into a "sponge" park between the Third Street and Carroll Street bridges.

Published by New York Sun on July 3, 2008.

Cops arrested two thugs — ages 18 and 25 — for beating up a 48-year-old man with a baseball bat on June 28 at the corner of Flatbush and Third avenues.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

Ten or 11 months ago, I was stopped at a light in Prospect Heights in Brooklyn near a bunch of hole-in-the-wall-looking auto garages when I did a double-take at the vehicle that passed me by: a candy-apple red pedicab.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

A thief — possibly an ex-employee — stole $1,700 from a popular Fifth Avenue restaurant after it closed on June 23.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

A fancy Ducati motorcycle, valued at $5,000, was taken from in front of a Dean Street house sometime between June 18 and June 23. The owner said he had chained the chopper to the fence at the house, which is between Fourth and Fifth avenues.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

A woman’s cellphone was stolen out of her purse while she was at a playground on Douglass Street between Third and Fourth avenues at around 5 pm on June 21. She initially thought she had merely misplaced the phone, but later, when she called her number, a man answered and said, “This is Black’s phone now.”

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

How about a write-up and pictures on the new La Taq at Berkeley and 7th Avenue. Totally renovated with a high end bar and 100 tequilas to choose from.

Published by Brownstoner on July 2, 2008.

• A man inside a candy store on Park Place near Flatbush Avenue felt himself “jostled” at around 2:30 am — and later discovered that his wallet was gone. It is unclear if the perp managed to use the cards before the victim canceled them.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

A thief broke into a building on Berkeley Place between Seventh and Eighth avenues sometime after 8 pm on June 23 and got away with a man’s fancy bike.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

We’ve mainly used butter in the past six months. Some [recipes] do use [trans fat], but the amount is below the standards. That’s always been our policy. Trista Brown , 28, Prospect Heights

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

We’re about healthfulness, so we’ve never used anything with trans fats. Also, trans fats help preserve — and since our muffins are gone by the end of the day, we don’t really need it. Erik Goetze , 40, Park Slope

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

Three gun-toting thugs mugged a man on Fourth Avenue on June 22, getting away with his laptop and fancy phone, cops said.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

A civilian captured a man who had just mugged a woman on Lafayette Avenue and held him until police arrived to make the arrest on June 24.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

An employee arrived at work just after 11 am the next morning and noticed the broken door, and told cops the security alarm at the office, located at Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street, didn’t work and surveillance footage didn’t show the perp.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

Meanwhile, DOT announced alternate side parking regulations will be temporarily suspended for six to eight weeks, beginning Monday, in parts of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Gowanus in Community Board 6. The department plans to post 2,100 signs.

Published by New York Daily News on July 1, 2008.

Meanwhile, DOT announced alternate side parking regulations will be temporarily suspended for six to eight weeks, beginning Monday, in parts of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Gowanus in Community Board 6. The department plans to post 2,100 signs.

Published by New York Daily News on July 1, 2008.

Meanwhile, DOT announced alternate side parking regulations will be temporarily suspended for six to eight weeks, beginning Monday, in parts of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Gowanus in Community Board 6. The department plans to post 2,100 signs.

Published by New York Daily News on July 1, 2008.

On a sweltering afternoon early last month, Adam Newman, a 25-year-old Park Slope comedian who works for CollegeHumor.com, made a life-changing decision: He took scissors to a pair of brown corduroy pants and fashioned them into shorts.

Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

On a sweltering afternoon early last month, Adam Newman, a 25-year-old Park Slope comedian who works for CollegeHumor.com, made a life-changing decision: He took scissors to a pair of brown corduroy pants and fashioned them into shorts.

Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

Department of Transportation said Monday a two-month break for motorists in Park Slope will end July 14 when it resumes alternate side parking.

Published by New York Daily News on July 1, 2008.

Small signs on the piers behind the store tell the story of the Red Hook industrial port, allowing visitors to walk along where huge cranes, which at one time lifted shipping containers from visiting ships, still stand as a testament to Brooklyn's history and culture. Unfortunately, a trip to Ikea might not extend to a trip to say, the Brooklyn Museum, or to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Published by The New York Observer on June 30, 2008.

209 Dean Street GMAP (left)

Published by Brownstoner on June 30, 2008.

Car owners in a wide swath of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Gowanus will join their Park Slope counterparts and not have to move their cars as alternate-side-of-the-street parking is suspended for six to eight weeks starting on July 7.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 30, 2008.

At the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 93 percent of the senior class — nearly all collegebound — collected their diplomas on Thursday, far higher than the city’s graduation rate of roughly 50 percent.

Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

A rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn has enabled plans for a major expansion of the Fulton Mall, a retail district that business owners say has untapped potential. [Daily News]

Published by New York Times on June 30, 2008.

Car owners in a wide swath of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Gowanus will join their Park Slope counterparts and not have to move their cars as alternate-side-of-the-street parking is suspended for six to eight weeks starting on July 7.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 30, 2008.

Car owners in a wide swath of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Gowanus will join their Park Slope counterparts and not have to move their cars as alternate-side-of-the-street parking is suspended for six to eight weeks starting on July 7.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 30, 2008.

Car owners in a wide swath of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Gowanus will join their Park Slope counterparts and not have to move their cars as alternate-side-of-the-street parking is suspended for six to eight weeks starting on July 7.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 30, 2008.

When they look to the nearby neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble hill, Boerum Hill and Fort Greene, they see growing affluence and a lucrative demographic.

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

The meter is in front of the Royal Video rental store at 317 Flatbush Ave., at Seventh Ave. Gault parked there the morning of April 8. He said he dutifully inserted his quarter, only to watch as the meter clicked off his half-hour in seconds and started to blink "FAIL."

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

The development became possible due to a 2004 rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn to allow for taller buildings. The idea was to create a kind of Jersey City, attracting back offices of financial services firms dispersing their operations after 9/11.

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

When they look to the nearby neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble hill, Boerum Hill and Fort Greene, they see growing affluence and a lucrative demographic.

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

StudioEIS, a sculpture workshop in Dumbo, is fabricating a statue of Abraham Lincoln to stand outside the former president’s historic summer cottage, the Soldiers’ Home in Washington.

Published by New York Times on June 28, 2008.

We’ve heard the importance of using local produce in your kitchen — resulting in fresher food delivered with less fuel — but this weekend, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will help us take it one step further, teaching us how to grow — and use — the ingredients.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 27, 2008.

The MTA will delay the long-scheduled and much-ballyhooed restoration of the Smith-Ninth Street F-train station in Caroll Gardens. The announcement comes less than a month after the MTA admitted that it was abandoning a plan to transform the dingy Fourth Avenue F-train station in Park Slope into a shiny, Euro-style transit portal.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 27, 2008.

When you mention Brooklyn real estate, people tend to think of the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, and Carroll Gardens.

Published by amNY.com on June 27, 2008.