http://www.yourstreet.com/news/new-york-ny-brooklyn The latest Brooklyn, New York news updated hourly from thousands of sources. To see this news on a map, visit YourStreet.com. en-us Good question. And it's an interesting thread on Brooklynian. Here's one response: The answer is Neergard. But it's interesting to talk about the other old places. O'Connors bar... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798862/brooklynian-what-s-the-oldest-biz-in-park-slope You won't want to miss this event if you live in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy or Prospect Heights and you're looking for a pre-school for your kid: The Preschool Round-Up... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798865/preschool-roundup-for-fort-greene-clinton-hill-bed-stuy-and-prospect Brit in Brooklyn checked out the opening of "Brooklyn At Eye Level," which started it limited run last night at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Click here for a note from director Michael... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798899/brooklyn-at-eye-level-opening-night http://www.yourstreet.com/4798647/bovo-s-computer-art-gowanus-brooklyn Brooklyn got the "Real World," but does the "Real World" get Brooklyn? Yes and no. Some of the MTV reality stars who spent four months in a converted Red Hook warehouse gushed... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798336/b-klyn-gets-real-mtv-world-cast-not-all-hooked-by-nabe Last night the Lyceum was full to capacity for the first public performance of the Atlantic Yards inspired production . http://www.yourstreet.com/4798130/brooklyn-at-eye-level-opening-night A couple of weeks ago Tracy Collins and I lead a class as part of Photography Week at Starting Artists . The shots taken by the students on our street photography walk can be... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797444/smith-street-safari NoLandGrab has posted an animated slideshow of the demolition of the houses at 487 and 489 Dean Street, which fulfills the prediction of blight I and others made. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797325/on-dean-street-a-slide-show-shows-blight Prosecutors piled more damning evidence Thursday on three ex-cons charged with killing a Brooklyn cop as experts testified about DNA left on a murder weapon and other items at... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797486/dna-tied-to-thugs-in-cop-slay Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso was one of the creators of the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo in the '60s. A decade later came Samba Soul, mixing samba with... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796586/tropicalia-today-soundcheck-friday-05-december-2008 Just last week, I reported that Clarett was pausing construction at their "Collection On Court" at 340 Court Street for a few months. As I mentioned before, Carroll Gardeners... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796033/clarett-restores-sidewalk-in-front-of-collection-on-court Rain may have kept crowds away from Buy in Brooklyn's Snowflake Celebration on Thursday night but those who came out to the buy local, buy late event on Seventh and Fifth... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796249/rain-dampens-snowflake-festival-but-fun-was-had These Brooklyn residents won't mind if tall towers rise in their backyard. http://www.yourstreet.com/4798920/residents-call-for-more-low-income-housing-towers The Legionnaires Pee Wee football team blazed through the regular season and won the Brooklyn Hurricanes Pee-Wee Division Championship (ages 10-12) over the Giants, 32-6, on... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795073/touchdown-happy-legionnaires-win-pee-wee-title The Rockaway Ravens Mighty Mite division has officially been crowned kings of the 9-years old Big Apple Youth Football Division. Displaying their dominance on November 22, 2008... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795072/title-winning-rockaway-ravens-stops-jamaica Local boys Luke & Matty Erhard, Chris Moore, George Clark, John Scaccia, Tommy Laible, and Brian Ostrander who play for The Greater New York Stars out of Abe Stark Rink in... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795069/belle-harbor-boys-win-hockey-tournament Advanced undergraduate students from Pratt Institute's architecture program took up a challenge from the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance this fall to design environmentally... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795056/pratt-institute-students-present-ideas-for-arverne-east Phil Ferrandino, a seventh grade student at St. Francis de Sales School, has been named runnerup in the Radio City Music Hall Contest which is co-sponsored by the Diocese of... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795054/ferrandino-wins-essay-contest Photographer Tracy Collins just uploaded these two photos of 487 and 489 Dean Street which were just demolished and swept clean by developer Bruce Ratner. Usually urban vacant... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794968/487-489-dean-street-demolished Cry for Paterson Administration to Pull the Plug on Ratner's Failing Plan Brooklyn, NY -- Developer Forest City Ratner (CEO Bruce Ratner pictured ) has halted all work on the... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795166/developer-forest-city-ratner-delays-his-atlantic-yards-project-due-to SILENT AUCTION You're invited to a Holiday Silent Auction! Auction items include original paintings & photographs as well as unique experiences such as your very own DNA... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795798/holiday-silent-auction-at-starting-artists-on-smith A great gift idea from the Brooklyn Paper that shows the history of life according to Darwin: Most people don’t want to take the Christ out of Christmas. But one former... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794514/an-evolutionary-christmas-from-charlie-s-playhouse Crystal Stilts hit the road Crystal Stilts hit the road FRESH STUFF: Crystal Stilts have been around since 2003, but only recently began performing live. Crystal Stilts, ... http://www.yourstreet.com/4795303/doing-it-live DOB lifts a stop work order and the Hotel Chelsea gets to work renovating (i.e. demolishing) Bob Dylan’s former apartment. [Curbed] A primo Park Slope brownstone goes condo. ... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794662/the-afternoon-wrap-thursday The jury is still out on Art Basel Miami, which runs until Sunday. Art professional-types are continuing to deliberate  whether '09 is going to look like 1990, the last time a... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794664/what-ever-happened-to-the-nude-model Park Slope's 392 3rd Street, between 5th and 6th avenues, is going from rental to condo. Six 1,500-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath units are listed for $1.299 million each.... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794321/park-slope-building-going-condo A teenager has been stabbed inside a school in Brooklyn, authorities confirmed. The 16-year-old was hospitalized in stable condition and is "not likely to die," according to... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794137/teenager-is-stabbed-at-brooklyn-school A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest Thursday in a Brooklyn high school hallway, police sources said. http://www.yourstreet.com/4794331/brooklyn-teen-stabbed-in-high-school-hallway Three dissident Democrats agreed today to back Malcolm Smith for majority leader, cementing the shift in control of the state Senate from Republican to Democrat next month for... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794228/dems-unite-behind-smith-to-take-control-of-senate Seriously, it hurts to look at this. Is that a shipwreck?? Bloggers from Gothamist were let into the absurd Real World: Brooklyn apartment/studio and they took some pictures... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794023/real-world-brooklyn-house-headache-y [Photo courtesy Billy Parker/Gothamist] Well, the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. MTV let Gothamist into the Real World Brooklyn House in Red Hook to shoot many photos, chat... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793970/deep-inside-real-world-brooklyn If you checked the blogosphere, the Daily News's Atlantic Yards scoop (at least among the dailies) today about the work stoppage at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794156/ay-scoop-relegated-to-brooklyn-section-of-daily-news True, there's no actual hall involved in this particular venture, but a new Web site is paying tribute to "a small number of unique native sons and daughters who either hail... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794036/closing-bell-brooklyn-s-hall-of-fame Anthony Weiner, the 44-year-old congressman and declared mayoral candidate, responded to the Ravitch Commission's recommendation to toll the East River bridges as a “tired,... http://www.yourstreet.com/4794267/weiner-toll-idea-is-tired-old Just a random thought, but not sure why this Dumbo website is on the Zara website (go to Spy City > New York > Cosas Que Hacer En New York > Brooklyn > DUMBO) but along with... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793845/zara-and-dumbo These guys are a fun little duo who, based on their MySpace names at least, are brothers. They're from Milwaukee and now live in Brooklyn but forget all that, it doesn't matter.... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793803/french-horn-rebellion-brings-me-joy [Image courtesy New York Public Library] This is a view of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenue, circa 1916, from Hanson Place. The building on the left would be the old railroad station. http://www.yourstreet.com/4793502/brooklyn-back-in-the-day-flatbush-atlantic-avenue-1916 The Brooklyn Paper by Sarah Portlock On Sunday, Dec. 14, [Brooklyn Borough President Marty] Markowitz’s Best of Brooklyn organization will provide shuttle vans to spirit... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793240/art-felt-support The NYPD deployed Sky Watch yesterday, a “mobile platform for surveillance, assessment, and response” on the corner of York Street and Bridge Street at the Farragut Homes in... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793307/nypd-sky-watch-deployed-at-farragut-homes A Manhattan appeals court says federal judges can give extra-stiff penalties to people who help bring illegal guns to big cities. The case before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793268/ny-court-big-city-guns-can-equal-stiff-sentence Let's hope Brooklyn continues to grow as a tourist destination. The transformation from street of auto shops (see old building on right) to street of accommodations continues.... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793566/development-watch-best-western-hits-4th-avenue The Brooklyn Paper reports that an anti-Semitic notewas taped to the door of a home on Pineapple Street yesterday morning: Brooklyn Paper: More anti-Semitic…: The note was... http://www.yourstreet.com/4792970/hate-on-pineapple-street And, now, a few musical selections to take you through the weekend. Thursday 12/4/08 Union Hall: Benjy Ferree w/ Special Guest (Indie Folk) $10, 7:00pm The Bell House: Blip... http://www.yourstreet.com/4792947/upcoming-gl-concert-calendar Interesting morning on the Brian Lehrer show. I was listening but must have lowered the volume during all the following excitement. Luckily my pal, David Bukszpan, publicist at... http://www.yourstreet.com/4793194/rosie-perez-calls-into-brian-lehrer-show-to-complain-about-proposed-east I wrote a piece last year titled, "Reform the Empire Zones...Or Kill Them" . In that post, I quoted Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who was proposing a moratorium on new Empire... http://www.yourstreet.com/4792536/surprise-the-empire-zone-is-a-scam-we-can-no-longer-afford This three-story limestone house at 177 Maple Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens was an Open House Pick back in September when it was an FSBO listed at $950,000; now Brooklyn... http://www.yourstreet.com/4792259/house-of-the-day-177-maple-street CORNING—Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has a sense of humor described as dry, at best , but he apparently got the crowd roaring yesterday when his Democratic conference... http://www.yourstreet.com/4792813/silver-brings-jokes-and-tina-fey-to-assembly-conference-really Unfortunately, the Atlantic Yards work stoppage came too late for 487 and 489 Dean Street, two perfectly serviceable buildings that were leveled in the last week by developer... http://www.yourstreet.com/4792596/demolition-complete-for-487-and-489-dean-street [Photo courtesy of Stevey P./Yelp] The Boerum Hill Food Company on Smith Street closed yesterday. Per an email in the Boerum Hill Group: I was dismayed to learn that the Boerum... http://www.yourstreet.com/4792217/brooklyn-nibbles-boerum-hill-food-company-is-dead Gotham Gazette [The Wonkster], Time Out at Atlantic Yards Work has halted on the major part of the huge — and hugely controversial — Atlantic Yards development in... http://www.yourstreet.com/4791917/it-came-from-the-blogosphere