BROOKLYN WEATHER: What’s it gonna do today?  Check here for Brooklyn weather. 

FYI: It’s Good Friday. There is no school today. No alternate-side-of-the-street-parking either.

CITY NEWS: Court orders FDNY to release 9/11 audio tapes. Read all about it at New York 1.

_The remains of three more World Trade Center victims were identified this week. They may be the last until new technology is developed. Read all about it at New York 1.

_The City’s Department of Education sent out test prep guides to NYC teachers filled with wrong answers, typos and grammatical mistakes. The first big typo was right on the cover: Mathematics Planning for the Forth Grade. "Tweed has no problem with excessively criticizing teachers for failing to meet its picayune mandates, but then it produces a test prep manual riddled with errors and misspellings," said Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers. " The hypocrisy is stunning."

BROOKLYN BEAT: A teenager was stabbed in the stomach by an older man on the Northbound R platform at the Ninth Street subway station in Park Slope. Apparently the two were having an agrument. The teenager was taken to Lutheran Hospital. Read all about it at New York 1.

_Two students have accused a teacher at Brooklyn Tech High School of sexual harassment. Read all about it at New York 1. Read all about it at New York 1.

_A tree fell on elevated subway tracks in the Bronx and cut off #4 subway service in Bronx on Wednesday evening. Read all about it at New York 1.

_City Council tries to block conversion of Plaza Hotel.

_FDNY to implement new procedures for safety ropes. This comes after a fatal fire in January in which two firefighters were killed and four others were seriously injured when they jumped out a fourth story window.

Grand Rebbe Naftuli Halberstam, a highly respected Brooklyn Hasidic leader was laid to rest in a cemetery in New Jersey. Thousands attended his Brooklyn funeral. Read all about it at New York 1.

_Brooklyn receives $1 million to spruce up Fulton Street. Congresswoman Nydia Valazquez was able to secure the money from the Transportation Appropriations Bill and a local developer.  Improvements include better lighting, signage, sidewalks, and landscaping. Read all about it at New York 1.

_Brooklyn woman suing the Daily News for its Scratch ‘n Win fiasco. The woman was led to believe that she won $100,000 in prizes. Sunday the news informed its readers of a misprint. "Our dreams were shattered. Our high was brought down to an extreme low," said Stewart.

_A sanitation worker was shot while working on a Brooklyn Street. He was wounded by a richocheting bullet during an argument with a gun between two men on the street. Another man was wounded as well.

_A student at Brooklyn’s New Utrecht High School was shot by a gun that went off in his book bag during an English class.

2500 runners ran the Brooklyn Half-Marathon from the world-famous Coney Island boarwalk to the Nevermeade in Prospect Park. Ivan Marionda, age 29, from New York City,  won the race in 1:10:37. THe top female runner was Michelle Bleakley, age 37, in 1:20:58. Thomas Deaver, age 29, a wheelchair runner, finished the race in 1:41:28.

_English ex-pats love Brooklyn says the City section in the New York Times. Mini Coopers, Fish and Chips joints and British accents are cited as proof that there’s a British invasion of brownstone Brooklyn. Interesting fact: the Park Slope zipcode has one of the largest numbers of Mini Cooper owners in the country. The owner of  Curry Source, an Indian "takeaway" in Boerum Hill, told the Times’ reporter: "Brooklyn is America without tears."

IT’S FRIDAY:  All sorts of eggsperiments for the kids at the Audubon Center in Prospect Park. Egg arts, egg crafts, and egg games. Noon until 4 p.m.

"The Misfits," the John Huston masterwork. Screenplay by Arthur Miller. Starring Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Clark Gable and Thelma Ritter. Playing at the Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Branch.6 p.m. and it’s free.

_A Good Friday candlelight procession led by the Bishop of Brooklyn and Queens. Bring a candle. Starts at Shallow Junior High School, 65th Street and 16th Avenue. 8 p.m.

"Play Without Words," a dance theater  piece by Matthew Bourne at BAM. Tonight through Saturday. 8 p.m.

THIS WEEKEND: Purim Festival at the Brookyn Lyceum. Sunday March 27th. Music by Golem and Jonathan Bayer. (see hand-picked below).

The Gallery Players present: "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)." 199 14th Street. 8 p.m. Great for older kids.

The Brooklyn Philarmonic presents "Kurt Weill Goes Brooklyn" Ute Lemper is vocal soloist. At BAM 30 Lafayette Avenue. Saturday. 8 p.m.

Catpathia Jenkins and Park Slope resident Louis Rosen perform their song-cycle based on the work of Maya Angelou at Joe’s Pub. Sunday 6 pm.

WORTH TAKING A LOOK:  The 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. 

THIS SOUNDS COOL: From the New York Times: "Sears Beverley Road, an Art Deco cathedral of commerce christened by the soon-to-be-first-lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932, has seen better days. The Macy’s-size display windows that faced Bedford Avenue and Beverley Road have long since been cemented over. The Munchbox is not exactly a beauty spot, either. The plants in gold hangers are plastic, the fluorescent lighting somehow both harsh and dim, the feeling of windowlessness palpable. But where else in this land can you dive into a generous plate of allspice-laced snapper beneath corporate-morale-building signs urging the meeting of sales quotas ("Can You Bring Home the Gold?") and framed letters from satisfied vacuum-cleaner customers?  And on the PA system: ‘Attention all customers, attention all Sears associates. Our Sears cafeteria is now open for lunch. We have boneless stewed snapper fish, stewed chicken, callaloo and saltfish, a delicious homemade cowfoot soup.’ The Sears cafeteria is open to the public.

HERE/SAY: "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."   – e.e. cummings, 1955