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Currently the top story on the front page of The Brooklyn Eagle's website contains a graphic photo of a murdered man hanging out of a car. The headline reads: "Grisly Murder on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn", and we were sort of shocked to find an actual photo of the "grisly murder" right there below those words. The story simply reads:

The body of 22-year-old Jamal Oughterson (right) hangs out of the back seat a car on Grand Avenue near Atlantic Avenue early Saturday morning after being shot several blocks away. Police said Oughterson had agreed to meet a friend on Fulton Street near Franklin Avenue when a gunman fired at him. He was whisked away from the scene by a driver who evidently intended to take him to the hospital, but the car was intercepted by authorities. Oughterson died while en route. The officer at left was at the crime scene.

Probably wouldn't have been their top story unless they had that "exclusive photo". What do you think, did they do the wrong thing by running this (there's a screenshot after the jump since eventually it won't be on the front page anymore)? We're sure family and friends of the victim would think so.

On Friday, Brooklyn blog Brownstoner was alarmed about a Clinton Hill resident on Grand Avenue who was painting a brownstone's archway white. Though the second comment wondered "are you sure it's not primer?", the comments thread turned into a heated debate about the rights of owners of buildings in landmarked neighborhoods, calling the painting a "disgrace" and a "mortal sin," and whether publicly outing the owner was appropriate.

It's one thing to read that developers who have the Domino Sugar Factory property in Brooklyn want to build 2,200 apartments. It's another thing to actually see renderings of what that could look like. The city's Department of Planning put a draft Scope of Work for the project online, in anticipation of public scoping meeting on July 31, 2007 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM and from 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM.

Finally, we have two reasons to discuss Lost. First a warning: stop reading this if the show is still on your DVR, unwatched.

Buffed I Love You from Streetsy.

- From our friends over at Thrillist: the next time you have a hankering for wild boar, or antelope, or . . . um, llama patties (we didn't make this one up), visit exoticmeats.com

A couple blocks from the Grand Avenue L station, Lock Inn is recognizable for not being an auto body shop or construction company- that and the oversized wrought iron key on the door. Inside, the keys are all over the place, hanging on the exposed brick wall, most notably near the chastity belt above the menu. The bar is comfortable and the tables built into the walls have Scrabble and chess boards encouraging people to linger, and when we visited there was a small child and a dog at the tables in addition to construction workers and students. In the back there is a good jukebox and a pool table, opposite pretty memorable bathrooms lined with crossword puzzles and lit by refurbished Jack Daniels bottles. Under the AC a heavy door leads to a large garden with tables, grape vines and, weather permitting, barbeque, a welcome addition to the bar snacks of barbeque potato chips, orange cheese doodles and microwave popcorn. Weekdays from 4-8, the happy hour gives patrons $2 house "just beer" (read: Bud Lite), $1 off every other beer making the most expensive choice $4. The bar has the usual suspects and other choices like Blackthorne cider in line with owner Lisa Buono's Anglophile aesthetic (in the U.K. the bar's name is a term for an after-hours location). Converted from a scooter shop, it is surprisingly easy to get comfortable at the bar and settle in.

Yesterday afternoon, a 19 year-old woman was killed by an oncoming V train when she climbed down to pick up her cellphone on the subway tracks. After being struck at around 2PM, Lina Villegas was soon pronounced dead at the Grand Avenue station in Elmhurst, Queens. Another person waiting for the subway tried to help her up but was unsuccessful. Subway service was diverted for almost two hours, and a New York City Transit spokeswoman told the Times, "While the instinct may be very strong to climb down when you drop something on the track, obviously don't do it." Apparently, this was the first case of someone being injured while retrieving a cellphone. The Times article also notes various of subway dangers, from the third rail to subway surfing.