Yesterday, the Post reported about a strange and disturbing road rage incident in Red Hook last week. A woman was ultimately repeatedly hit by the driver of a Land Rover. According to police sources, on Thursday afternoon, the woman got out of her car to speak with 63-year-old Jeffrey Klempner, who was in his SUV at Columbia Street and Atlantic Avenue, "to talk to him about an earlier collision." Klempner "denied any wrongdoing," but when......

Reader Christoper sent us a set of photographs from the aftermath of a car accident in Brooklyn, on Atlantic Avenue near the BQE, yesterday. The front of a building is destroyed - with a "Do Not Enter" sign near the front. And an SUV looks crumpled. According to the Post, it turns out that a Bronx man had exited the BQE at 4AM, hit the sign, which was dragged under his car, and then......

Public hearings tend to be impassioned and last night's Atlantic Yards gathering was no exception. With three community board hearings held simultaneously in different locales, we opted, sans body armor, for the homey confines of Community Board 6 (where we happen to live). And yet, sitting among a crowd of just 60 in the sterile Long Island College Hospital conference room with pale pink walls, a blank blackboard and a television with AV-style accouterments......

All our sniffling has been vindicated! Huzzah! According to the Times Sunday Styles (so take this with a grain of salt, obvs.) the crazy amounts of allergens floating around this spring mean that "this season may be ushering in a new era of allergy pride." Like so many people, apparently, we've spent the fast weeks with a constant nasal drip, a packet of kleenex in every pair of pants and the near constant feeling......

Spring showers bring May flowers and allergies. Now that April is almost finished, we are gearing up for allergy season. Even in the cement garden, there's enough pollen floating around to make your eyes look stoned and your nose drip. April brings mostly tree pollen to the area through mid-May followed by grasses until mid-July and then weed pollen is more prevalent later in the season, August through October. Pollen is tested locally at......