BROOKLYN WEATHER: Sunny and a little warmer than yesterday.   More Brooklyn weather here.

CITY NEWS:  This just in from The New York Times. A study published in "Public Health"  says suburbanites are more likely to report chronic health problems, like high blood
pressure, arthritis, headaches, migraines and breathing problems than
people who lived in the city (for more, see today’s Postcard from the Slope).

_Martha Stewart left prison Friday after a five month vacation stay.

_The New York Public Library has opened a digital gallery of images.
Check it out: the NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000
images digitized from   primary sources and printed rarities in the
collections of The New York Public   Library, including illuminated
  manuscripts, historical maps,
vintage posters,
rare prints and
photographs,
  illustrated books, 
printed ephemera, and more.

_A temporary art museum is to open at Pier 54 in Greenwich Village.
The Nomadic Museum is made up of 148 multi-colored shipping
containers.  Inside is a multi-media exhibit by photographer, Gregory
Colbert.   

_For those who don’t already know, a MTA fair hike went into effect last weekend.
The price of a $70 Metrocard rocketed up to $76. A weekly pass from
$21 to $24. The cost of a single ride remains: $2.00. Read all about it.

_A survey about the preferences of food deliverers featured in the
New York Time’s revealed that "New York’s delivery rules are pretty
basic:
Watch your dog. Have your money ready. Tip well, and do it in cash. And
wear your nicest boxers."

BROOKLYN BEAT: Forest City Ratner just cleared another major hurdle. The New York Times reports today that "the city and the state have signed an agreement with the developer Bruce
C. Ratner to build a new home for the Nets basketball team and at least
4,500 apartments as part of a $2.5 billion project at the Atlantic
Yards in Brooklyn." See Monday below.

_Jackie Robinson, former Brooklyn Dodger second
baseman and the first black player in Major League Baseball, was given a
posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor earlier in the week. Read all about it.

_Have you been wondering what that crazy/cool looking trapezoidal
structure on top of the  building right next to the Manhattan Bridge
is? Well, you ain’t the only one. Dubbed the Jetsons building, it is
the work of a 32-year-old architect named Dedy Blaustein; a
rooftop addition to the building that houses the architecture firm
Scarano and Associates. And there’s even cool LED lighting with
thousands of color combinations.  It’s Brooklyn’s answer to the Empire State
Building. 

SATURDAY: Early morning get-together for dogs and their owners in Longs Meadow, Prospect Park. 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Free.

Miriam Cohen, author of "No Good in Art" "Will I have a Friend?"
and "Down in the Subway" reads for kids and adults and answers
questions about writing at Freebird Books. 123 Columbia Street. 11 a.m.
Free

_First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. The museum is free and open
until 11 p.m.  There’s a one-act play about growing old in 1970’s
Brooklyn, short films, and "Weimar Cabaret" performed by members of the
Brooklyn Philarmonic. Dancing begins at 9 p.m. in the rotunda. Cha cha
cha. 200 Eastern Parkway.

_Dance Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. Fundraiser and dance party in Williamsburg at Galapagos Artspace. 70 North 6th Street. Between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

_"The End of the Moon." Laurie Anderson’s one woman with violin show at BAM. Tickets and Schedule here.

_The Wooster Group at St. Ann’s Warehouse performing "House/Lights." 8 p.m.

TASTINGS: "Sideways" face down. Pinot
Noir from Castle Rock in Monterey goes against Merlot from Waterstone
in Carneros. Make up your mind which you like best. Saturday 3/5. Big
Nose Full Body. 382 Seventh Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets. 4-6
p.m.

_And on Saturday 3/12: Pinot/Merlot face off Part Deux. From France, a
Pinot Noir from Burgundy and a Merlot from Bordeaux. Same time, same
place as above.

MONDAY:  Hear what the Ratner project could mean to Brooklyn in terms of:

• displacement of residents
• impact on schools, police and fire services
• effect on small businesses
• transportation issues

The presentation will also include a discussion of the project’s
claimed community benefits as well as its financial impact to city and
state taxpayers." Monday, March 7, 7:00 PM; P.S. 9, 80 Underhill Avenue (between St. Marks Ave. and Bergen St.); Invited officials: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; Councilmember Letitia James

WORTH TAKING A LOOK AT:  Second Grade Art Show at Starbucks. Seventh Avenue between 1st and
Garfield Place. The children’s Romare Bearden-esque cityscape collages
will be up all month.

_Design Sponge’s DIY
Contest, the best in do-it-yourself design. Design Sponge, who lives in
Williamsburg, knows ALL about great furniture, housewares, paper
products, graphic design, jewelry and MORE.

_Check out The Brooklyn Rail. Critical perpectives on arts, politics, and culture. Especially the piece by Patricial Spears Jones.

_Check out Daily Heights about life in Prospect Heights

THIS SOUNDS COOL: The Fourth Annual Planet XX: Women in Music
in honor of Women’s History month. BAMcaf