- Lawsuit could hurt Domino development plans. Brooklyn Eagle - A driver who was fleeing from another accident plowed into a cyclist in Bensonhurst, critically injuring him. NY Daily News - Developers plan two very tall skyscrapers at City Point in Dow... »
This weekend the Times ran a story focusing on the tensions that are evident at several public schools between the newer—and often wealthier parents—and the old-guard parents who sent their kids to the schools before the neighborhoods they’re in became... »
- Intoxicated man driving in Brooklyn without license runs down 69-year-old-woman, flees, is tailed by a witness and arrested by police. CBS - City's new livery cabs (the kind you will be able to hail legally) will probably all be green. Gothamist - CB... »
To protest school budget cutbacks, college tuition increases and the corporate takeover of public schools, thousands of New York City students gathered in Manhattan Thursday and marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Fort Greene Park. Marchers included st... »
- Whole Foods gets green light for Gowanus mega-market. Brooklyn Eagle. . . The final vote took 9 seconds. PMFA - A new Gap Outlet opened to long lines on Friday at the corner of Gallatin Place on the Fulton Mall. Carroll Gardens Patch - Anyone got a d... »
- Brooklyn politician pleads with Orthodox Jewish mothers not to park their babies in unattended strollers outside stores while they go shopping inside. Failed Messiah - An up-and-coming rapper from the Gowanus housing projects could face life in priso... »
UPDATE: Here is a copy of the official petition to block the Cobble Hill Success Academy. Though it’s fairly long, it reinforces the idea that the school should not legally be allowed to exist outside school districts 13 or 14. A group of angry parents... »
Elected officials and community members, along with NYLPI, Planned Parenthood New York and NARAL Pro-Choice New York, gathered at the steps of City Hall yesterday morning to call for the immediate disposal of lighting fixtures leaking PCB in New York S... »
