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 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklyn museum.org.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 5, 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.

23 Empire Boulevard, South Hackensack, NJ, (201) 440-3991

Published by New York Post 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.

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.

...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 autobiographical Black Boy (‘45). In a personal...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 4, 2008.

...American restaurant with "touches of Eastern Europe and Korea," set to open mid-September at 7 Greene Avenue (near Cumberland Street) in Fort Greene; and Buttermilk Channel, an "American bistro" opening in October...

Published by Brownstoner 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.

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.

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.

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.

2) 125 Eastern Parkway, #6F $395,000 ACRIS GMAP

Published by Brownstoner on September 2, 2008.

Since we last looked at 339 Greene Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, the new residential development has risen from four stories to its final...

Published by Brownstoner 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.

...going to pay $1,200,000 for this run-down four-story brick house at 139 Clifton Place in Bed Stuy (not, as the listing says, Clinton Hill). The house looks in poor...

Published by Brownstoner on September 2, 2008.

...will be "affordable"?) The developer is also working on another development down the block at 315 Greene Avenue which has also had its share of delays...

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.

...architect Robert Scarano's problems with the DOB), the eight-unit trapezoidal residential building at 888 Fulton Street in Clinton Hill appears to be nearing completion. Anyone have any idea whether this will...

Published by Brownstoner on August 29, 2008.

The best-kept secret about Grand Army Plaza, the sprawling traffic circle at the top of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, might be that underneath all the road signs and exhaust, it’s actually pretty nice.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Don’t let your dog drink the water at Prospect Park’s Dog Beach. Turns out that it has been frequented by disease-ridden rats. [The Brooklyn Paper]

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

The coalition is a collection of community organizations such as the Park Slope Civic Council and the Prospect Park Alliance, local institutions such as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Brooklyn Museum, and advocacy groups such as Transportation Alternatives. Last year it applied for – and got – help from the Design Trust, which had previously worked on redesigns of the West Side’s High Line and of New York City taxis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prospect Park’s Dog Beach, where hundreds of dogs cool off each day, has become a haven for disease-ridden rats whose bacteria-laden feces and urine could kill the canines.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 28, 2008.

The troubled corner of Grand and Putnam avenues with a reputation for drug-dealing was the site of another shooting on Aug. 21.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 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.

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.

...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.

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.

As the conversation winded down, fireworks appeared in the sky above Prospect Park as if to offer a smug self congratulatory pat on the back to neighborhood residents.

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

How does this sound: a totally "car-free" Prospect Park in Brooklyn? It's a proposal a group of bicycle activists is pushing hard for next summer.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) 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.

The brand new, ground-up, seven-story, 98,000-square-foot development at 545 Washington Ave., has 63 units.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 26, 2008.

Advocates of a car-free Prospect Park say they have successfully whittled away at the number of hours that cars can use the park each day and are within striking distance of having them banned altogether.

Published by New York Sun 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.

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.

450 Flatbush Ave., Prospect Park. (718) 399-7339 or www.prospectparkzoo.com.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.