01.04 | Monday
Starting Monday, Curb Your Christmas Tree... For Composting (Pardon Me For Asking)
NYT Public Editor Focuses on Freelancers, Continues to Ignore the Times's Lapses Covering Atlantic Yards (Atlantic Yards Report)
MTA Debuts Bus Partitions to Protect Drivers (Gothamist)
As Brooklyn NBA Arena Project Moves Ahead, Hopes Dim for Neighborhood Holdouts (No Land Grab)
Murder in Williamsburg Pool Hall (Gothamist)
Whole Foods to Begin Brownfield Cleanup at Third and Third (The Carroll Gardens Diary)
01.05 | Tuesday
Freddy's Faithful Vow to Fight Brooklyn Bar's Ouster for Atlantic Yards Land Grab with Chains, Cuffs (NY Daily News)
LPC Approves Berkeley Carroll Expansion Plans (Brownstoner)
The Domino Does Not Fall as City Begins Review of $1.2B Project (Brooklyn Paper)
Lawsuit Looms at Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn (Brooklyn Eagle)
The Look Ahead for 2010: The Final Endgame and, Likely, a Very Changed Landscape (Atlantic Yards Report)
01.06 | Wednesday
Brooklyn's Top 10 Stories of the Decade (NY Post)
Atlantic Yards Revisionism and the Belated LIRR Pavilion at Atlantic Terminal (Atlantic Yards Report)
Myths & Barricades: Grand Opening of the Atlantic Terminal Entrance (No Land Grab)
New LIRR Terminal is a Monument to Fear and Paranoia (Brooklyn Paper)
Hopes Fading for Brooklyn's Very Own Whole Foods on the Banks of the Gowanus Canal (NY Daily News)
01.07 | Thursday
At Hearing, ESDC Representatives Defend Use of Consultant AKRF (Atlantic Yards Report)
The State of Brooklyn Rentals (Brownstoner)
The Journalism of Verification: FCR's Statement that it's not a Target in Yonkers Goes Mostly Unquestioned (The Atlantic Yards Report)
When it Comes to Details of the Barclays Naming-Rights Deal, the Times Plays "He Said, She Said" (No Land Grab)
School Bus was in Reverse When it Killed Cyclist in LES (Gothamist)
01.08 | Friday
Domenic Recchia Named City Council Finance Chair (NY Post)
Superstunned! City Backs Fed Clean-Up of Newtown Creek (Brooklyn Paper)
Deal Made to Monitor Brooklyn Hospital (NYT)
At Senate Hearing on Eminent Domain Reform, Forceful Criticism of the Status Quo and the ESDC's Answers, But Reform Won't Happen Overnight (Atlantic Yards Report)
Norah Jones Cuts Back on Her Windows (Brownstoner)
At Another Meeting on AY Street Closings, FCR's Marshall Faces Some Tough Questions from the Crowd (Atlantic Yards Report)
Brooklyn Jobless Rate Continues to Grow (YourNabe.com)
Still Not Good Enough, BP Tells MTA on Cutbacks (Brooklyn Eagle)
Is No G Train Better Than Slow G Train? (Gothamist)
Upstart Grad Student to Take on Sen. Marty (Brooklyn Paper)
Motion to Dismiss Condemnation Raises Procedural Issues and Larger Argument That no Findings Were Made for Significantly Changed (and Delayed) Project) (Atlantic Yards)
Stat! Merger Takes Long Island College Hospital Off Intensive Care (Brooklyn Paper)
40 Hotels in Pipeline for Brooklyn (Brooklyn Eagle)
Taking a Walk Through J.D. Salinger's New York (NYT)
Brooklyn-Born Radical Historian Howard Zinn Dies at 87 (Brooklyn Eagle)
Racial Conflict Erupts at Discussion of School Plans (Brooklyn Eagle)
01.18 | Monday
At Freddy's, James and Montgomery Lead Protest Against Closing Homeless Shelter (Atlantic Yards Report)
Honor 'The Dream' Today (Brooklyn Paper)
Candidates Already Vying for Simcha Felder's Borough Park Councilman Seat (NY Daily News)
Report: Gennaro Montello's Conveyor Belt Death at Brooklyn Sewage Plant was 'Willful Violation' (NY Daily News)
01.19 | Tuesday
Keepin' it 'Ruff' at New Greenpoint Dance Party (Brooklyn Paper)
In Budget, Paterson Looks to Smokes, Soda and Big Cuts (New York Observer)
A Novel Idea for Slowing the CSOs into the Gowanus Canal (Carroll Gardens Diary)
Huge Explosion in the Heights (Brownstoner)
Brooklyn Flea Market Rejuvenates Old Williamsburg Bank Building (NY Post)
01.20 | Wednesday
The Baton Passes: CUNY Takes Over The Local (NYT)
Belmont Metals in East New York Defies Jobless Rate (NYT)
More Bed-Stuy Volunteers Haiti-Bound as Group Seeks Donations (NY Daily News)
In Court Argument Over ESDC Project Approval, Questions About the MTA's Vanderbilt Yard Deal and the Mysterious Development Agreement (Atlantic Yards Report)
Lawyers: Yards Neighbors Will Enjoy Decades of Blight (Brooklyn Paper)
01.21 | Thursday
Obama picks Loretta E. Lynch for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney (NYT)
No Weekend Service from Church Ave to Greenpoint (NY Post)
Great Bike Debate on Monday in Williamsburg (Brooklyn Paper)
ESDC Will Make Master Closing Documents Available Beginning Monday, But Only if You Visit Their Offices (Atlantic Yards Report)
Reports of a Chosen Operator for Coney Island Amusement Area Premature, Officials Say (Brooklyn Eagle)
01.22 | Friday
Rising to 10.6%, City's Jobless Rate Tops the Nation's (NYT)
City to Get Federal Aid to Fix or Close Weak Schools (NYT)
Corcoran: 'Brooklyn Pricing May Be Reaching Bottom' (Brownstoner)
Taxi Bursts Into Flames in Brooklyn Heights (Brooklyn Eagle)
Free Text and Tweet-Based Notification Service Tells Bus Riders When B67 Nears (NY Daily News)
Collegetown, Red Hook! Sitt Eyes Land for Dorms (Brooklyn Paper)
Another Confirmation of Bait-and-Switch on the Size of Atlantic Yards, and Why it Matters (Atlantic Yards report)
Charter School Hits Roadblock in Move to Gowanus B'ldg (Brooklyn Eagle)
Corrupt Brooklyn Cop Sentenced for Trading Drug Dealer Info for Sneakers (Brooklyn Eagle)
Checking in on the Elan (Brownstoner)