Some people get hit in the face with a brick and just try to forget about it, but not Stephen Arthur. You'll recall that Arthur, a Park Slope computer programmer, was riding his bike along Navy Street in Brooklyn one day in August when he was struck in the face with a large brick allegedly thrown by youths from a footbridge that runs through the Walt Whitman and Ingersoll housing projects. His assailants were never apprehended, and while it's taken Arthur months to fully recover, he's not been convalescing quietly. more ›

Companies and famous people regularly get upset when they think that someone is using their name for profit (see: Chick-fil-A, Lady Gaga, the Naked Cowboy) but that doesn't make this story in today's Post any sillier. Rolex, the luxury watch company, is suing a Fort Greene deli, the Rolex Deli, for trademark infringement. Because when looking for a soda or smokes we constantly bother to even register the name of the delis we're shopping at! more ›

A quick PSA for pet-owners planning on dressing up your furry friends for the 13th Annual Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest in Fort Greene Park this weekend: due to tomorrow's impending nor'easter, the contest is being rescheduled to Sunday. But it will still be absolutely freaking adorable! more ›

Some potentially distressing news for Fort Greene freelancers and Pratt students: Tillie's, the laid-back 14-year-old coffeeshop on the corner of Vanderbilt and DeKalb Avenues, is for sale. more ›

Welcome to our column Staff Picks, in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Today we're checking in with the staff at Fort Greene bookstore Greenlight to find out what they've been dog-earing lately. more ›

Last week, the Brooklyn Paper revealed that the latest victim of an armed man robbing people in Fort Greene claimed a local novelist as his latest victim, prompting the inevitable question: Which Brooklyn novelist could it be? Now, the cops have found the suspect—and the novelist has expressed his gratitude. more ›

An armed robber is on the loose and not even the literary elites are safe! more ›

A Park Slope computer programmer says he was biking home from work earlier this month when a group of teenagers threw a brick at him in broad daylight from a pedestrian overpass at Navy Street in Fort Greene. The bike lane cuts right through the sprawling Whitman-Ingersoll housing projects, and it seems teenagers have for some time used the so-called "Fleet Walkway" as the perfect spot to throw things at cyclists. Stephen Arthur, 44, is their latest victim, and he's lucky to be alive. Here's video taken moments after the assault: more ›

It's just one depressing detail after the next in the tragic life of Jashaya Stanley, a single teenage mom who died yesterday at age 19 near the Whitman Houses in Fort Greene. As an infant her hand was badly burned on a radiator at a Chinese restaurant, which agreed to pay out $13,000 in a settlement. That money was supposed to go to Stanley when she turned 18, but when she came of age her mother cut her a check for just $8,500. Stanley, who by that point already had a two-year-old daughter, took her grievance on the Nancy Grace "Swift Justice" show. (Here's the sad transcript.) more ›

The rumors were true. After the beloved Fort Greene bar Moe's closed six weeks ago the Brooklyn Paper reported that the bar's new owners were hoping to keep the name. “It already has a formula that works,” new owner Calvin Clark said at the time. “I want it to stay friendly and unpretentious.” And while Clark won't be calling the new joint Moe's, a flyer The Local found on the bar's door says it will be called... Mo's. more ›

The popular weekend market Brooklyn Flea has not exactly endeared itself to all of Fort Greene's residents. Now, even though it only operates in the neighborhood on Saturdays (it's in Williamsburg on Sundays), some car owners are upset yet again with the bustling antique, clothes and food activity, because Flea has asked the city to reserve a loading zone for them...and that would take away precious free parking spaces! more ›

As you may have heard, beloved laid-back Fort Greene bar Moe's is closing. Over the weekend, we heard the bar had a farewell party and assumed that it already passed beyond the curtain of eternity. But a tipster named Ron Worthy, the self-proclaimed "mayor" of Fort Greene and maintainer of Moe's Facebook page, tells us Moe's last night is actually tonight! And he says it's going to be crazy. Moe's phone number has been disconnected, so we're unable to confirm details at this time, but here's an excerpt from one regular's heartfelt Moeulogy: more ›

Police have released a sketch and surveillance video of a man suspected of trying to rape three women in Brooklyn since January 9. The incidents were in Bensonhurst, Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn, all taking place between 1:15 a.m. and 2 a.m. more ›

Things not to do in court when being sentenced? Curse at the judge. Otherwise you might end up like 22-year-old Zaire Paige who was sentenced to 107 years yesterday after telling judge Vincent Del Giudice: "With all due respect and from the bottom of my heart, suck my dick." more ›

The Post reports that two Brooklyn shootings have left five injured: "The bullets began flying just after 10 p.m. at an outdoor basketball court near Bishop Loughlin High School on Clermont and Greene avenues in Fort Greene. Four teens were shot, including a 19-year-old, who was hit in the hip and calf and two 17-year-old boys and an 18 year-old girl who suffered foot and ankle injuries." The teens are expected to survive. The other shooting was in Greenpoint—a man was found on Monitor Street near Nassau; he's in critical condition. more ›

A 17-year-old Fort Greene resident, visiting Long Island for the first time, was killed outside a home in Central Islip early Sunday morning. According to the Daily News, Eugene Smith "was shot in the back outside the party"—he later died at Southside Hospital—when the party descended into chaos. The party's host said, "We started locking all the doors," when dozens of people showed up, with the overflow spilling onto the street—apparently 100 people may have been there. more ›

Earlier today, Brooklyn Based tweeted a single, despondent line: "Moe's Bar in Fort Greene is closing in February." The folks at Brooklyn Based heard the news via a Facebook message sent to fans of the bar's page, which has produced several comments of customers' despair on Moe's wall. When we called, a man who identified himself as Sec told us he wasn't "at liberty to disclose Moe's plans as of now." But minutes later Ruby Lawrence, one of the bar's owners, posted this conclusive answer: "Our lease is up and we can't afford the outrageous rent increase." more ›

The Daily News has a crazy detailed video documenting every event unfolding around a cat that was stuck in a tree in Fort Greene earlier this week. It's very Bart's People! Basically, "area woman" is slowly being driven mad by "area stray cat" that is stuck in a very tall tree located next to her apartment. One "area man" is all, "Cat in a tree—it's so cliché." more ›

Sherin Brown, 23, had a brilliant, money making idea when she saw a tractor-trailer knock over a light pole in Fort Greene on Friday. Immediately after the accident, she snuck under the pole, and told responders she had been pinned underneath when it fell. She was transported to Brooklyn Hospital Center to be treated for back and neck injuries. However, investigators checked out surveillance footage of the crash, which showed the perfectly healthy Brown sliding underneath the pole. She was arrested and is charged with a misdemeanor for falsely reporting an emergency. more ›

There's chatter of a portion of Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene becoming a new historic district—meaning the strip of street would be immune to any more luxury high rise condos. more ›

Specifically, the residents of South Elliott between Lafayette and Dekalb Avenues discuss life on their block with the Times, from the Bad Old Days to the recent influx of "white girls." Between rummy games, pig roasts and block parties, longtime Fort Greene residents have seen a lot of change recently. About 40% of the neighborhood is white now, up from 24% in 1980, and the median income now surpasses the national average. Resident Mike Harsh said: more ›

Responding to outrage from Council Member Letitia James and the friends and family of Aileen McKay-Dalton, the Brooklyn District Attorney's office has announced an investigation into the crash that killed the Vespa-driving mother of three in Fort Greene last Thursday. At least three witnesses say the driver of the SUV that killed McKay-Dalton had sped through a red light, but the NYPD decided that no criminality was involved. The NYPD's decision was particularly suspicious because the unidentified driver was reportedly a member of a federal law enforcement agency. more ›

Despite three witnesses who say that the driver of an SUV blew through a red light and killed a Vespa-driving Fort Greene mother of three, the NYPD decided that there was no criminality involved in the accident. And one of the witnesses says the cop on the scene could not have cared less about what she observed at the intersection of Clinton and DeKalb Avenue, where Aileen McKay-Dalton, 40, lost her life. more ›

Last night an unidentified 40-year-old woman died from head trauma sustained during a collision with an SUV Ford Explorer in Fort Greene around 5:30 p.m. Witnesses say she was heading west on DeKalb Avenue and making a right turn on Clinton Avenue when the SUV ran the red light heading north on Clinton. Initial accounts suggested that the driver was an undercover detective with the NYPD, and that the vehicle was equipped with police lights. more ›

In one Post report chock-full-o' delicious tabloid puns, two Brooklyn women got into a "cat fight over a dog" yesterday. The "pee-brained" Penda White and Thermitus Russell allegedly exchanged fisticuffs after Russell's dog—you guessed it—peed outside White's home in Fort Greene. Russell claims White threw the first punch, but White said Russell came after her once her dog started peeing. Both women were arrested on charges of assault and menacing after ruffing each other up. (They can't all be winners.) more ›

The Myrtle Avenue Bird Town, a public arts installation designed to give local birds some sanctuary, began hanging their colorful homes from trees in Fort Greene Park and Person Square Triangle this weekend. The group celebrated with a free bird feeder building/decorating workshop in the park yesterday, and the whole project will be on display in the two parks until December 2010. MABT focused on "reconsidering the shapes traditionally associated with the birdhouse," and wanted to turn the parks into places where "creativity, nature, and community to intersect and thrive together." We have just one question: where are the birds going to live when December rolls around? more ›

Councilwoman Letitia "Tish" James (D-Fort Greene) is suing a day laborer for causing "serious, severe and permanent [injuries] to her limbs and body" after she walked into a four-inch trailer hitch protruding from the back of his parked car. According to court documents cited in the Brooklyn Paper, James says she suffered "great physical and mental pain" when she brushed against the hitch and cut her leg in Fort Greene last July. more ›