Subway fare and bridge, tunnel toll increases take effect (NY 1)

Crossword enthusiasts at the Brooklyn Marriott (NY 1)

Soup is good food (Eat, Drink, Memory)

Subway asbestos removal leaves Carroll Gardens residents breathless (Gowanus Lounge)

The bride in the thrift shop window (McBrooklyn)

Gersh reads his hate mail (McBrooklyn)

Lovely photograph illustrating Metropolitan Diary (NY Times)

HBO puts "In Treatment" online at no charge (NY Times)

Review of John Zorn at St. Ann’s Warehouse (NY Times)

Olympic sprinter among five dead in city car crashes (NY Daily News)
 

The dirty window view from jury duty (Callalillie)

Bay Ridge’s Gregory Hotel claims 2nd stab victim (Bay Ridge Rover)

Body found in bathtub of Bay Ridge hotel (NY Times)

Anthony Weiner: Making NYC the middle class capital of the world (City Room)

Countdown to Spring (Right in Bay Ridge)

Happy Birthday Johnny Cash (Bay Ridge Blog)

Lacrosse for kids (Clinton Hill Blog)

The media training begins (WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein in Bhutan)

Stroller Wars (Mrs. Cleavage’s Diary)

Ecstatic birth from midwife Ina May Gaskin (MNBC)

Ralph Nader announces he’s running, again (NY Times)

Issue Project Room: A Week of Voice (Issue Project Room)

George Polk award for Talking Points blogger (NY Times)

Bowling at Maple Lanes (Brooklynometry)

The lobster neon sign dies on March 16th (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Greening Flatbush event: Loads of pictures (Flatbush Gardener)

Fave vintage photos (Reclaimed home)

Cocktail Club on February 27th (Brooklyn Based)

Cool Brooklyn neighborhoods poster from Ork (Brooklyn Based)

Teacher ads to attack standardized testing (NY Daily News)

Love in Hard Times: Music of Paul Simon (BAM)

One dead, two injured at Sunset Park Taqueria (NY 1)

Brooklyn under $500K (Reclaimed Home)

RIP: Alain Robbe Grillet (New York Times)

Save the lobster in Heights (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Feeding empty bellies in Greenpoint (The City)

The view from my window this morning (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

Is it legal for kids to sit at the bar? (The City)

Another liquor store done gone (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

A ruin seeks a second act: Admiral’s Row (The City)

Get a Book Nerd t-shirt (Written Nerd)

Missing soap at public restrooms (City Room)

Agate Court in Bed-Stuy (NY Times)

A anthology of photos of Friday’s snow in Brooklyn (Gowanus Lounge)

Brooklyn to host mortgage workshops (NY 1)

Eyesore: McDonald’s on 9th Street (Brownstoner)

Date of Mermaid Parade set (Gowanus Lounge)

Big downtown project hits the brakes (Brooklyn Paper)

Toxic pre-school to reopen (McBrooklyn)

Artist takes Borough President to task for Parachute Jump comments (Brooklyn Paper)

Slumber party at Harriet’s Alter Ego (Brooklyn Paper)

Car chase ends on Smith Street (Gowanus Lounge)

7 to compete for Miss Brooklyn title (NY Daily News)

Midlife suicide rate rises (NY Times)

New look for Vanderbilt Playground on the Windsor Terrace side of Prospect Park (Brownstoner)

The monolith of Fourth Avenue (Gowanus Lounge)

Kid’s Sundays at Children’s Corner in Prospect Park (Gowanus Lounge)

Green-Wood Cemetery teeming with raccoons (Gothamist)

Amtrak beefs up security (NY Daily News)

$4 slice of pizza at Di Fara’s (NY Post)

Homeless man saves father and two sons in Brooklyn fire (NY Post)

Reading The Power Broker (Callalillie)

Gothamist is Five (Gothamist)

Mental Patient charged in brutal slaying (NY Daily News)

Trader Joe’s gets nod from Landmarks (McBrooklyn and Brownstoner)

New York trumps San Francisco for Once (I’m Seeing Green)

London vs. Paris Cycling Wars (I’m Seeing Green)

What happens when we die? (Andy Bachman’s Blog)

The woman at the well (Old First Blog)

In the spooky Whole Foods lot (Blue Jake)

School chancellor asks Mark Twain Middle School to overturn desegregation laws (NY 1)

Quinn calls for task force to address housing crisis (Atlantic Yards Report)

Pintchik Family and the future of Flatbush Avenue (Atlantic Yards Report)

Shirts in bloom (A Test of Will)

Party for those married or in love for fifty years or more (Gowanus Lounge)

How city democrats voted: a map (NY Times)

Bloggers, blog readers alike: Brooklyn Blogade Brunch Sunday at Faan Restaurant on Smith Street (Creative Times)

Park Slope Mugging Map (Gowanus Lounge)

Get Yourself a block grant (Streetsblog)

Awwwww: Cute pix from Sean Casey Animal Rescue (Gowanus Lounge)

Sanctimony about Peeing—or sometimes I miss the hippies (Brooklynometry)

Brooklyn Heights Parking Follies (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Most votes for Obama in all of NYC (Clinton Hill Blog)

Overstuffed State of the Borough address (Atlantic Yards Report)

It’s true: Ratner a big liar! (Brooklyn Paper)

Atlantic Yards Camera Club (Brit in Brooklyn)

YMCA may run Park Slope armory (Brooklyn Paper)

Park Slope pediatrician beaten in office (Brooklyn Paper)

Return of the Park Slope pissers (Gowanus Lounge)

Park Slope Tea Lounge suckage (Gowanus Lounge)

Markowitz: tourism growth a Brooklyn Story (NY Daily News)

Neighborhood Housing Services (Reclaimed Home)

Greenpoint artist paints construction sites (Brooklyn Based)

Moving makes me madder than mad (Mrs. Cleavage’s Diary)

Toxic Brooklyn pre-school update (McBrooklyn)

City sponsors contest to design emergency housing (WNYC)

Finding lunch in the food wasteland of midtown Manhattan (Midtown lunch)

Kids say the darnedest things (Brooklynometry)

Are cookies the new cupcakes? (Brooklyn Based)

Brooklyn students paid to perform (NY Daily News)

Park Slope/Prospect Heights Mugging Map (Brownstoner)

More buses for Red Hook (NY Daily News)

Ash Wednesday in Bay Ridge (Right in Bay Ridge)

What’s the stink in Bay Ridge? (NY Daily News)

High school of advertising (NY Daily News)

A time of atonement (Self-absorbed Boomer)

Schedule of community board meetings (Gowanus Lounge)

Super Super Tuesday coverage on WNYC starting at 7 p.m. (WNYC)

South Brooklyn police scandal (NY Times)

Preschoolers who witnessed 9/11 suffer stress (NY Daily News)

Prior trauma raised children’s 9/11 risk (NY Times)

Michelle Williams: Please respect our need to grieve privately (NY Daily News)

Did you know that… (Dope on the Slope)

Take action against school cuts (Brooklynometry)

Park Slope kid having tantrum bends fence (Brooklynometry)

Never fully ten nor alone: Kaddish at Beth Elohim (Andy Bachmnan’s Blog)

David Tyree’s catch (NY Daily News)

Nathan’s: weiner wonderland? (NY Daily News)

Teachers see bias in school rankings (NY Daily News)

His city lost and found (NY Times)

More on wounded dog found on 6th Avenue (Gowanus Lounge)

Monday: New Voices on the Gowanus: Focus on the Public Place (Gowanus Lounge)

Trader Joe’s update (McBrooklyn)

Sustainable Flatbush is in Brazil (Sustainable Flatbush)

Local analysis of the Clinton/Obama debate on the Brian Lehrer radio show today (WNYC)

Panel approves congestion pricing for entry 60th Street and below (Daily News)

Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo (Marketplace)

Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn Heights for sale (McBrooklyn)

Public school budgets slashed (New York Times)

Blogger Written Nerd wins library award (Brooklyn Optimist)

Brooklyn Paper editor’s cast is for sale (ebay)

New chef at The Montauk Club (Go Brooklyn)

Brooklyn Brewery owner raises $40,000 for Transportation Alternatives (NY Daily News)

There Will Be Blood playing at BAM (BAM)

Winter plant show at Botanic Gardens (NY 1)

Bay Ridge pharmacy owner linked to sterioids found dead (NY 1)

Lowen’s pharmacy in Bay Ridge (Bay Ridge Blog)

Tragedy averted (McBrooklyn)

New York Matters Film Festival curated by Isabel Hill (Spoke the Hub)

Carroll Gardens zoning rally (Gowanus Lounge)

Interview with Major Owens on Barack Obama (Brooklyn Optimist)

Bush’s last State of the Union (NY Times)

Bloomberg to Spitzer: Thanks for Nothing (NY Daily News)

Hot selling market on Third Street between the Gowanus and Hoyt Street (Gowanus Lounge)

Recycling at construction sites proposed by Brooklyn Assemblyman (NY 1)

Idiotarad: the idiocy and the ecstasy (Brooklyn Optimist)

Brooklyn calendar girls curbed (Brooklynometry)

Joanna Newsom and the Brooklyn Philarmonic (NY Times)

Paul Simon to be celebrated at BAM, including concert staging of The Capeman (NY Times)

Swimming in the Sea of Death by David Rieff (NY Times)

Hot water from tap should never be used for cooking or drinking (NY Times)

High mercury levels found in tuna sushi (NY Times)

Residents may be allowed to return 475 Kent Street (NY 1)

475 Kent has website and Flickr Pool (Gowanus Lounge)

Transparent Pulpit at Beth Elohim (Andy Bachman’s blog)

Call for high school filmmakers (Bed Stuy Blog)

Blogternity Leave (Brooklyn Junction)

Interview with Heath Ledger (NY Daily News)

Atlantic Yards Destruction Update (Brit in Brooklyn)

Interview with Windsor Terrrace Hero: John Linnell of They Might Be Giants (Gothamist)

The Gowanus in Women’s Wear Daily (Gowanus Lounge)

Stocks plunge worldwide on fear of US recession (NY Times)

MLK: The fierce urgency of now (Brooklyn Junction)

Flock of fake owls in Red Hook (Callalillie)

Bring Wegman to the Navy Yard (Clinton Hill)

Measuring teachers by test scores (NY Times)

Live opera in HD at BAM: Hansel and Gretel (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Calorie counts at fast food restaurants (NY Post)

Do me a grilled cheese (Eat, Drink, Memory)

A tale of two Brooklyns (NY Daily News)

Letter grades for NYC public schools (Newsday)

The Future of Molecular Medicine (Secret Science Club at Union Hall)

Italian hero’s at Carluccios in Bensonhurst (Clinton Hill Gastrome)

Dispatches from mass eviction of Williamsburg loft building (Gowanus Lounge)

Explosives and weapons found in Brooklyn Heights apartment (McBrooklyn)

Babbo’s Books (Brooklynometry)

Charlie on the MTA redux (Brooklyn Junction)

Faces behind the Brooklyn Blogade (Reclaimed Home) and Brooklyn Bloggers are the Best (Brooklyn Optimist)

Bobby Fisher and me (Brooklyn Optimist)

Bobby Fisher’s Window (Full Permission Living)

Gut Feelings (Full Permission Living)

Cobble Hill pet psychic (NY Times)

New study: Coffee may increase risk of miscarriage (NY Times)

Three perish in Brooklyn fire (NY Daily News)

Research the history of your home (Reclaimed Home)

The State of the City (Brooklyn Optimist)

The guide to Brooklyn life delivered to your inbox (Brooklyn Based)

Happy 3rd Anniversary (Luna Park Gazette)

Flatbush churches receive grants (Flatbush Gardener)

Brooklyn sunset (Brit in Brooklyn)

Sisters reunited (NY Daily News)

Police Blotter (Brooklyn Paper)

Quiz Don’t Destroy tonight at Rocky Sullivan’s (No Land Grab)

State of the City Address today (NY 1)

Public hearing on congestion pricing at Hunter College (NY 1)

Victorian Flatbush house sold for one dollar in the 1940’s, that is (Brooklyn Junction)

Red Tail Hawk likes Park Slope (Gowanus Lounge)

NYC Logophobia (Brooklynometry)

29 more days until Valentine’s Day (Zuzu’s Petals)

Fix OTB, not OTBKB, says Mayor (NY Daily News)

Antidepressant drug studies never published (NY Times)

Brooklyn clocks ticking (NY Times)

Food Coop Member in The Wired (The City)

How to talk brownstone architecture (Bed-Stuy Blog)

NYC hits tourism record (NY Times)

No Pants subway ride (McBrooklyn)

The Greenpoint Reingoose (NY Shitty)

Three Queens in Red Hook: Waiting for the pics (NY Metro)

The Essential Lenny Bruce on Third Street (Found in Brooklyn)

Three Queens from Bay Ridge (Right in Bay Ridge)

Did Cate Blanchett win best supporting actor or actress? (NY Times)

Zagat is for sale (NY Times)

Obama giving Clinton a race in her own backyard (NY Times)

A.O Scott says take the kids to see Juno and Persepolis and more (NY Times)

Pix of Brooklyn Was Mine reading at Barnes and Noble (Brit in Brooklyn)

Richard Grayson is a good teacher (Brooklynometry)

Issac Asimov, Brooklyn Writer (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

Ditmas Graffitti War (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Victoria will be in Red Hook Port on Sunday (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Deep woods in Prospect Park (A Year in the Park)

Fresh air through open windows like a crate of air-shipped grapefruits (Crazy Stable)

Nice interview with Audrarox, power pop for punks, I mean, kids (Zooglobble)

The Urban Memory Project at the Brooklyn Historical Society (Gowanus Lounge)

The overhauled Royal Supermarket on 8th Avenue (Brooklynometry)

Hope for Loew’s Kings Theater redevelopment (Brooklyn Junction)

Russia’s official “State Academic Ensemble of Popular Dance” at Brooklyn College this weekend (Brooklyn Junction)

Mother Nature fooled on Montague Street (McBrooklyn)

Multiple bus crash in Crown Heights injures 19 (NY Metro)

Parks Department seeking gourmet food vendors for McCarren Park and elsewhere (NY Metro)

Seeking visions for JJ Byrne Park (NY Metro)

When true things sound like tall tales (Callalillie)

Discussion on calming traffic on PPW and 8th Avenue (Gowanus Lounge)

Two shooting incidents in Prospect Heights (Gowanus Lounge)

Musical based on poem about the roaring 1920’s (The Gallery Players)

Register to vote in presidential February 5th Primary: Deadline this week (Gowanus Lounge)

Hello there: New Blog on the Block (Brooklyn Optimist)

Scaffolding at Congregation Beth Elohim: Structural improvements in the works (Andy Bachman)

The Grammar Gestapo: Freedom for Spellers (Brooklynometry)

It’s a mad world: New Year’s resolutions (Luna Park Gazette)

American Institute of Architects says: Get rid of Gowanus Expressway (NY Daily News)

Author of “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals” sues Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, author of “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food.” (NY Post)

Public hearing on future of Coney Island (NY 1)

Eat, Drink, and Be Literary: Fran Lebowitz is already sold out (BAMCafe)

Devlin had a complicated view of Christmas (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

Jeff Scher ballet in black and white animation: Op Ed Visual Series (NY Times)

She doesn’t make New Year’s Resolutions (Mrs. Cleavage’s Diary)

He went to Hawaii and lived to tell the tale (Luna Park Gazette)

Fortune’s Sisters: Adopted in China, best friends in Brooklyn. (City Section)

The Guardian Loves Chris Rock: No Apologies Tour in Britain. (Guardian)

You know those Russo Notary Buildings on Smith Street? They’re about to be demolished. (Gowanus Lounge)

Family of Brooklyn fallen firefighter forgives 6-year-old who started fire. (NY Post)

Student at Brooklyn Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice gets into Hamilton College early decision. (NY Post)

Brookyn sculptor’s work showcased on Gossip Girl (Gridskipper)

Oneupsmanship is getting her down (Saucy Tart)

Steve Buscemi’s Top 10 from the Criterion Collection. (Criterion web page)

You gotta love Brooklyn. Here are some reasons (NY Daily News)

Fallen Brooklyn firefighter put to rest (NY1)

Mixed emotions and photographs of mulching (GL)

More than trees growing here: Chattanooga writer likes Brooklyn (The Chattanoogan)

Deep thoughts from a Post-it (Brooklyn Junction)

Circus tent of insanity on the wrong side of the trackes(Brooklynometry)

Brooklyn’s Iowa sister city, inside a caucus and more (Brooklyn Paper)

Rash of Park Slope muggings (Gowanus Lounge)

Enough lists already. But this one is really fun: 80 in 08 (Brooklyn Paper)

Doberman that mauled baby is euthanized (New York 1)

Fallen Brooklyn Firefighter: “A mentor to the younger firefighters and a voice of reason and calm at many fires and emergencies” (New York Times)

Baby dies after being mauled by family dog on Ocean Parkway in Kensington (NY Daily News)

This goes out to my Aunt Rhoda:  White Plains, Urban Success Story? (New York Times)

Tools for success: Boys, ADD, and Disorganization (New York Times)

Total Silliness: Park Slope Hypocrisy (sic) Night (Icky in Brooklyn)

It’s a lot like the Atlantic Mall: New mall coming to Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues (Brooklyn Junction)

RIP: FDNY lieutenant killed in a high rise blaze (WNBC)

British Invasion: Park Slope’s Chip Shop opening shop near Harry G English Place in Bay Ridge (Right in Bay Ridge)