There’s a new artsy book out featuring picturing Nevada’s brothels. The book release party was at Bubby’s, in Dumbo. The New York Press says the

The city banned smoking in public parks, and the ban goes into effect on May 23. That’ll effect the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Apparently, the city

Woman pens piece for NY Metro. Her husband is pot-smoking doc.

Bel Kaufman, who’s granddad was the inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof, teaching a course in Jewish humor at Hunter College. Kaufman is 100, looks

Check out your neighbors’ real estate news at Blockshopper: http://brooklyn.blockshopper.com/news/story/200124904-Physician_sells_Carroll_Gardens_condo,

http://brooklyn.blockshopper.com/news/story/200124906-Kickstarter_engineer_takes_Carroll_Gardens_4BD

Gothamist has an interview with Simon van Kempen of Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens, who’s become a celebrity himself after four years on the Real Housewives of

City Limits Magazine explores how the economic changes and branding of Brooklyn juxtapose with the borough’s history.

The New York Times raves about the Hoyt Street community garden, which produces chard, tomatoes and other veggies.  

Apparently the ad industry is migrating just like the rest of the creative world from Manhattan to points off the L and F trains–namely, Dumbo

South Brooklyn Post has two positions open for advertising sales representatives. We are looking for someone who is well organized and passionate about South Brooklyn

It’s all over the news–there are three companies vying for the contract to make NYC’s so-called “Taxi of Tomorrow,” the next generation of city cab.

The large condo building, 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park, where the contestants in Top Chef stay and the site of many TV shoots, is now getting

Oh, this is cute, baby hawks hatching down off the window of an NYU professor, and the Times has a live cam there to catch

Check out this fun and refreshing (and super popular) blog by Dumbo designer Tina Roth Eisenberg.

Brooklyn Based is a great website. This week they spotlight a seminar with some of Brooklyn’s hottest Artisinal food makers discussing the business/economics of the

The N.Y. Times has an interesting story about a mob trial underway in Brooklyn federal court, downtown.  

Local blogger Stacie Capone is trying to get enough votes on Facebook to get sent to Europe to blog about food. Check out her video

Carroll Gardens blogger Katia Kelly has info on a renovation project on 2nd Place, underway for three years, that had gotten a permit to excavate

We all have our hobbies, and some are more intense than others. Monday, The N.Y Daily News profiles Jonathan Lopes, who is building a replica