White was killed when gunfire erupted during the cookout, which left four others wounded in Bedford-Stuyvesant Sunday.

Published by New York Post on July 8, 2008.

A Bedford-Stuyvesant man who weighed more than 700 pounds and puffy "Sopranos" actor Joe Gannascoli will strut their stuff Tuesday as the latest beneficiaries of Borough President Marty Markowitz's Lighten Up, Brooklyn campaign.

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

A $12,000 dollar reward is being offered in connection with the shooting of five people at a Bedford-Stuyvesant over the weekend.

Published by WNBC on July 8, 2008.

Some residents of Bed-Stuy are ready to zip off in one of several cars available from the “wheels when you want them” company. [Bed-Stuy Blog]

Published by New York Times on July 7, 2008.

A courtyard cookout ended in chaos and bloodshed early Sunday morning, with a young woman killed and four people wounded in a Bedford Stuyvesant shootout, the police said.

Published by New York Times on July 7, 2008.

Timothy Wright, his wife, and grandson were headed home to Roosevelt, Long Island, from a church conference in Detroit.Wright, known as the godfather of gospel, is pastor of Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Bedford Stuyvesant.

Published by WNBC on July 7, 2008.

House of the Day: 125 Cambridge Place

Published by Brownstoner on July 7, 2008.

In Prospect Park over the weekend, in what was perhaps a snapshot of countless other celebrations throughout New York City, holiday cookouts had a distinctly ethnic flair.

Published by New York Times 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.

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.

Police said the five people were shot at about 1 a.m. Sunday in back of a home on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by WNBC on July 6, 2008.

Police say the five people were shot at about 1 a.m. Sunday in back of a home on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 6, 2008.

Police say the five people were shot at about 1 a.m. Sunday in back of a home on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 6, 2008.

Police say the five people were shot at about 1 a.m. Sunday in back of a home on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by amNY.com 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.

In recent months, an old crime has started to reappear near where Ms. Evans lives, on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant: a spate of muggings that has caught some in the neighborhood by surprise.

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.

In recent months, an old crime has started to reappear near where Ms. Evans lives, on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant: a spate of muggings that has caught some in the neighborhood by surprise.

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.

Little Severine McQueeney’s mom, Margo Gibson, was harassed by Parks workers after taking this cute picture of her daughter at Underwood Playground in Clinton Hill.

Published by Brooklyn Paper 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.

There were only three or four kids besides her daughter, Severine McQueeney, in Clinton Hill’s Underwood Park when the man in the green uniform asked her to holster that camera.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 3, 2008.

Kyle was beaten to death June 6 in Cheatham and Martin's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment. Both were arraigned on manslaughter charges this week in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Prosecutors say they didn't call for help until five hours after the boy's death.

Published by New York Daily News 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.

What is the humane society doing to stop dogfighting and breeding/training of dogs for dogfights in NY? I am in constant fear of walking my dog in my community here in Prospect Lefferts.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

The 31-year-old victim told police he was sitting outside of his dwelling between Gates and Putnam avenues at 5:15 am, when he was approached a hoodlum who boldly asked the inhabitant for his wallet and cellphone. The victim brokered a deal of sorts with the criminal, who had gestured that he had some type of weapon, in which he surrendered his cellphone and $20, but not everything in his wallet.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

The resident reported looking out his front window, between Greene and Gates avenues, at 4:30 pm and seeing that his perimeter protection was in place, but 15 minutes later, after hearing a “loud noise” his looked outside again to find that his iron gate, circa 1867, was gone.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

The foodie fiend entered a popular Washington Avenue supermarket at around 5 pm and headed straight for the packaged cold cuts, a manager later told cops.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

A classmate stole another teenager’s laptop on the last day of school on June 26 — and the victim’s best friend could’ve prevented the whole thing.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

A white man attacked a black teenager — verbally and then physically — on Greene Avenue on June 19.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

House of the Day: 64 Lefferts Place

Published by Brownstoner on July 2, 2008.

A church official told cops that he’d locked up the house of worship at around 5 pm only to return the next morning to discover that the lower panel of one door had been broken and two Mac desktops were gone from the building, which is between Vanderbilt and Underhill.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 2008.

• A vandal smashed a window and the side-view mirrors of a car that had been parked on Underhill Avenue near Dean Street at around 8 pm on June 25.

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.

Neighborhoods with the greatest number of cases included Borough Park, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint and East New York.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

...walk EXACTLY pass this place on my way to a friends 3 family home on Vanderbilt and St. Marks (10 minutes away and sold for 1.5mil 4 years ago). This neighborhood is beautiful...

Published by Brownstoner on July 2, 2008.

• The driver’s-side window of a red Chevy that had been parked on Underhill Avenue near Bergen Street was smashed on either June 27 or June 28.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 2, 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.

Cheatham and Martin, 23, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in  the June 6 beating death in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment.

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.

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.

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.

Tyson's name emerged during an investigation of the Cash Money Brothers, a crew of thugs led by brothers Damion "World" Hardy and Myron "Wise" Hardy. The gang, which lifted its name from the film "New Jack City," had turned a Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project into a violent drug market, prosecutors said.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 30, 2008.

...week, one in Prospect Heights and one in Brooklyn Heights. The Prospect Heights pad, at 55 Eastern Parkway, is on the fourth floor with an asking price of $285,000 and monthly maintenance...

Published by Brownstoner 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.

Amid the sweet smell of fresh flowers and local produce, the Farmers Market on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park is a great spot for PDAs.

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.

The mysterious increase in noise in Park Slope from airplanes en route to LaGuardia Airport has been solved — perhaps — and the din could die down as soon as next month, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 27, 2008.