Two design schools are at odds over the unfolding design for Brooklyn Bridge Park. A major critic says that Pier 6 playground, for instance, is

In a new “Walk Score,” published by Slate magazine, New York City wins for most walkable city in the U.S., while Brooklyn Heights and Cobble

The critics are really hating on Spike Lee’s new self-financed film, Red Hook Summer, after it screened recently at Sundance Film Festival. But residents of

DNA Info, a Manhattan online news site, has a great guide to the city’s gifted and talented program. Check it out. South Brooklyn Post did a

This could have been much worse, thank goodness nobody was on the street or in the restaurant. http://www.dnainfo.com/20120411/cobble-hill-carroll-gardens/car-crashes-into-fatoosh-deli-brooklyn-heights

The globe sculpture sitting near Bowling Green on the southern tip of Manhattan may get moved to storage at JFK to make way for a

Check out this op-ed piece by a dad of three, following the local round-table on school test scores, in The New York Times. Apparently, the

The MTA is concerned after the number of people hit by subways increased significantly this year, with one in three people dying from their injuries.

Brooklyn Heights Blog has got all kinds of interesting things to read about our neighboring hood. Check it out.  

DNA Info has a story on the High Line Park revealing plans for its third and final section. The park is on the west side

An interesting pilot program seems to be boosting kids’ scores and reading ability, by using non-fiction texts instead of fiction, in kindergarten through second grade.

Some new studios and one-bedrooms are available to rent for people within certain income levels on Columbia Street. Check it out.  

Business Insider writer Eric Goldschein takes a wide angle view at the gentrification of Carroll Gardens an the surrounding area, under way since the 1970s…

It’s a record house sale in Brooklyn. The house where Truman Capote lived, on Willow Street, and where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany’s, has sold

The United States Senate confirmed Cobble Hill resident Margo Kitsy Brodie to the federal bench by a vote of 86-2 on Monday. The 45-year-old federal

Asian students still dominate the numbers when it comes to acceptance to NYC’s competitive academic high schools, but this year, according to The New York

No more crossing six lanes of traffic to get to the entrance. More work will be done in coming years. Read on: http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/fourth-avenue-ninth-street-eastside-entrance-opens-after-40-years#photo-9178284

The Barclays Arena is slated to open this fall, and already, new restaurants have opened and rents have skyrocketed, as landlords look to cash in

The blog Brooklyn Before Now has a cool account of a current Cobble Hill resident who found evidence of her great, great, great-grandmother who lived

The Real Deal has a piece about new development projects slated in Cobble Hill that are bringing more Manhattan-level pricing here. Read on: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/02/23/new-townhouses-are-rising-in-cobble-hill-with-manhattan-pricing/