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

Published by New York Times on August 29, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Francis Sills, who lives in Gowanus, has depicted the quickly changing Brooklyn waterfront.

Published by New York Times 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.

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.

"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.

A moment in Brooklyn: Francis Sills of Gowanus likes to paint the old buildings along the water, but some new colors have been popping up.

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.

It’s hard to be a wild 17-year-old in a small Park Slope apartment. Almost as hard as it is to live with a wild 17-year-old in a small Park Slope apartment.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman said he thinks the process is going along more smoothly than it did earlier this summer.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

In early July, many Park Slope car owners — who were in the first stretch of suspended parking — were surprised to return from vacation and find new rules in effect and their cars either ticketed or towed.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

We'll wrap this up in Brooklyn, where there's problems on the Gowanus in the usual spots. According to 1010 WINS there's heavy traffic from the Gowanus Canal Bridge to Hamilton Avenue as you make your way to the Battery Tunnel. The rest of the ride doesn't look all that bad, and there are no issues whatsoever at the East River crossings.

Published by SI Live on August 12, 2008.

The “alternate side” holiday follows similar hiatuses in Park Slope and Boerum Hill and Gowanus earlier this summer — hiatuses that led to dirtier streets, but an almost complete end to parking tickets for weeks.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

The “alternate side” holiday follows similar hiatuses in Park Slope and Boerum Hill and Gowanus earlier this summer — hiatuses that led to dirtier streets, but an almost complete end to parking tickets for weeks.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

The second round of the Brooklyn parking overhaul began on July 7 in parts of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Gowanus.

Published by New York Times on August 11, 2008.

It was the strongest tornado on record, an "EF-2", to hit New York City. One year ago today, the 135 mile-per-hour twister tore across a nine-mile stretch from Staten Island to Brooklyn, with the worst of it hitting the Sunset Park and Bay Ridge neighborhoods.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 8, 2008.

He is trying to replace David Yassky in District 33, which includes parts of Williamsburg, where Mr. Abraham lives, along with Greenpoint, Park Slope, Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights. If elected, Mr. Abraham would be the first Hasidic member of the City Council.

Published by New York Times on August 8, 2008.

This summer, Sunset Park–based band The Mumbles are playing everywhere from Coney Island to Williamsburg in support of their new EP, “Once EPonymous.”

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.

John A. (Junior) Gotti has traded his sprawling Long Island estate for solitary confinement in prison.

Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.

Ed Kelly, 43, Sunset Park, computer techncian

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 7, 2008.

A mural that is slowly going up on the industrial edge of Sunset Park is shaping up to be one huge Do Not Disturb sign directed at military recruiters. Its creators? A group of young women — barely out of high school — who are still smarting from what they saw as repeated and unwanted come-ons from recruiters who would stop them on the street, in school or call them at home.

Published by New York Times on August 7, 2008.

We finally won, Park Slope! Markowitz called, strolling down the street, plush with vegetation. In the 13 years that the Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest has been held, this is the first time a block in Park Slope has won first place.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 7, 2008.

How bad is it? Well, in Park Slope on Seventh Avenue from Union Street to 12th Street there are 194 legal parking spaces. But according to the 2000 census, 12,087 people live in that area.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 7, 2008.

A block in Park Slope — Eighth Street, between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West — was named the “greenest block” in Brooklyn on Wednesday. The block won an annual competition, now in its 14th year and sponsored by GreenBridge, a horticulture program run by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Published by New York Times on August 6, 2008.

On a recent Friday afternoon, the pool was mobbed with several hundred students from nearby public schools: Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn International and Lillian Rashkis. The girls were dressed in bikinis, the boys in shin-length trunks.

Published by New York Times on August 2, 2008.

The pool in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for instance, operates under a single rule of paramount importance, one that is painted repeatedly on the ground around the pool: “No Diving.” More than a dozen lifeguards are charged with enforcing this directive.

Published by New York Times on August 2, 2008.

Mr. Hart started his business last year in Park Slope. Inspired by iconic films like Forbidden Planet and Metropolis, he combined science fiction robots and tools with the classic gentleman’s accessory.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 1, 2008.

She never thought she'd get married. In her own Park Slope living room. On a Friday night. Or that her mother, many miles away, would lecture her about her choice of groom: one of "them," an American; she never thought she'd have to keep so many secrets -- from her family, from potential employers, from the U.S. government.

Published by The New York Observer on July 31, 2008.

...deputy mayor of economic development, and will be held at Board 7’s office at 4201 Fourth Ave.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on July 31, 2008.

A thief broke into a 15th Street apartment on July 22 and stole camera equipment, cops said. The tenant, 33, told cops that she was not in the unit, which is between Second and Third avenues, from 9:15 am until 10 pm, when she came home to discover that her video camera and still camera were gone.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 30, 2008.

Cops say they have arrested the man who has been stealing weekend editions of the New York Times from front stoops in Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Park Slope since the fall.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 30, 2008.

Mr. Tanner related that in May 2006, on the occasion of a documentary film on the civic boosterism of Mr. Rudin, who died in 2001, Mr. Tanner reached out to Mr. Rudin’s son, William, recalling how the elder Rudin had championed Mr. Nixon’s efforts to become a New Yorker once again. (Before winning the White House in 1968, Mr. Nixon had lived in a 12-room apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue, where Nelson A. Rockefeller was a neighbor. Mr. Nixon sold the apartment for a reported $326,000.)

Published by New York Times on July 30, 2008.

"What is so special about Brooklyn?? That's all we ever read about in this rag. Are you telling me the snotty (white) infants in Park Slope will be getting a better slice of life than the (brown/white/asian) kids in Astoria and Jackson Heights??" ["Brooklyn, The Borough: Growing Up New York"]

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

This evening at 6:30 p.m., Community Board 7, serving Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace, will hold a public hearing at the board’s office, 4201 Fourth Ave.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on July 28, 2008.

Narcotics cops say they caught Ali on video sodomizing the 16- year-old between two parked cars in Sunset Park just before 7a.m. Saturday.

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

Sunset Park High School Task Force. Community Board 7 offices (4201 Fourth Ave., between 42nd and 43rd streets) 6:30 pm. Call (718) 854-0003 for info.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 24, 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.

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.