According to the cops, a 27-year-old man was shot in the leg outside 574 Warren Street(in the Wyckoff houses)and taken to Lutheran Medical Center.

Posted by: andynewman at November 19, 2009 6:23 AM in response to Shooting In Boerum Hill

brickoven, BHO et al: Our just-posted update here lays it out:

http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/a-gleaming-landscape-of-debt/

Posted by: andynewman at August 28, 2009 6:12 PM in response to ID'ing Troubled Condos

Damage control? It is considered customary and responsible practice in the journalism business, when one publishes an error, e.g., stating flat-out that Jeffries says all those building are troubled/distressed, to correct said error. You will find Crain's doing the same shortly, if they haven't already.

Posted by: andynewman at August 28, 2009 3:00 PM in response to ID'ing Troubled Condos

Hi, Andy from the Local again. Hold everything. Disregard our list. Disregard Crain's article. Crain's article (and therefore ours and therefore Brownstoner's) is totally wrong. Jeffries' camp now says it's simply a list of buildings in his district. Some of them undoubtedly are distressed. But we don't know which. And Jeffries says he never said they all were. Sorry for the agita this has caused.

Posted by: andynewman at August 28, 2009 2:29 PM in response to ID'ing Troubled Condos

Never mind re GMAP. An intrepid Local reader has just volunteered! Will notify yall when it's up.

Posted by: andynewman at August 28, 2009 10:30 AM in response to ID'ing Troubled Condos

@DIBS and everyone else --

Andy Newman from The Local here. The GMAP suggestion is a good one. One of our commenters had the same thought. If there's an intrepid citizen journalist out there who has the time today (I don't, unfortunately) and the inclination to build such a map, that would be awesome. It could post here (if Mr. B wants it) and on The Local both. I'm happy to forward the whole spreadsheet, which includes data like the status of the building (complete, under construction, etc.), whether it’s condo or rental, etc. If interested, drop me a line at bklocal@nytimes.com. Thanks much.

Posted by: andynewman at August 28, 2009 10:14 AM in response to ID'ing Troubled Condos

About two weeks ago a raccoon was run over on 4th at the corner of Baltic. Its adorable carcass sat in the gutter for a couple of days.

I once saw a skunk walking down a sidewalk in Hoboken at 3 in the morning. Brooklyn needs more skunks. And raccoons.

Posted by: andynewman at August 27, 2009 2:44 PM in response to Raccoons Evidently Digging 4th Avenue

btw the blog Gingervision had the scoop on this on Friday and Gawker picked it up (as we were informed when we wrote about it this morning on The Local).

Posted by: andynewman at June 29, 2009 5:53 PM in response to Closing Bell: Obama Pitching Myrtle Deli

The cops told us Saturday night that the only injury was a "graze wound to the head." Small consolation I know. No further info now, but The Local will have something in a bit. Stay tuned.

Andy Newman
The Local
www.nytimes.com/clintonhill

Posted by: andynewman at June 1, 2009 10:47 AM in response to Teen-on-Teen Shooting on Downing Street

Brownstoners:

Please read this:

http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/about-whole-foods/

Thanks,

Andy Newman
The Local

Posted by: andynewman at May 28, 2009 7:58 PM in response to Whole Foods Rumor Bites the Dust

Hey kids Andy from The Local here. At least one piece of the Candy Store puzzle is now solved. See: http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/two-small-mysteries-solved-two-zillion-to-go/

Also, @ the commenters on Tish James's speculation about the store, I should mention in fairness that she did say to me that it might be merely a social club, too, and that I inadvisedly left that quote out of the piece. In fact, the social-club explanation now seems like the most plausible one to me.

Posted by: andynewman at March 13, 2009 3:08 PM in response to When a Candy Store Isn't a Candy Store

Yes but we charged too much. Wasn't it something like $14.95 a month for TimesSelect? I'm guessing it will be less this time. And maybe you won't be able to get 75% of the content for free anymore like you could then, which took away most of the incentive to subscribe. Also, millions of people have become hopelessly addicted to the site since then. I will stop now before the suits shut me up.

Posted by: andynewman at February 28, 2009 11:24 PM in response to The Times To Launch Local Blogging Initiative

Mopar, my wife is relieved to learn that I didn't go on any dates in 2006/7. Thank you. Re donations: I expect that sometime in the nearish future the Times will begin either charging for online content or begging for donations a la NPR, since, what the heck, we're practically a nonprofit at this point. (Note: this is not a scoop. It's been out there.) Start saving up your pennies now. We'll need them. - Andy

Posted by: andynewman at February 28, 2009 8:13 AM in response to The Times To Launch Local Blogging Initiative

Mopar: Perhaps you went on a date with the like-named Andrew Adam Newman, a Times freelancer who, unlike me, is unmarried? See if he looks familiar:

http://www.andrewadamnewman.com/bio.html

Posted by: andynewman at February 27, 2009 6:49 PM in response to The Times To Launch Local Blogging Initiative

thanks. no gauntlet though. i come in peace. the more the merrier. no HOTD unless our realestate suits make me do it, promise.

Posted by: andynewman at February 27, 2009 12:47 PM in response to The Times To Launch Local Blogging Initiative

dear brownstoners –

thank you all for all the love. andy newman here, veteran ny times brooklyn reporter and, now, fledgling fortgreene/clintonhill blogger. this despite the fact that, as our pals at clintonhillblog reported and as i confirmed there, i reside, perhaps unforgivably, in park slope, the soho of montclair.

as i said on chb, i’m thrilled to be here, happy to not be writing about park slope, and hoping you’ll come check out The Local (that’s what it’s called) starting monday at nytimes.com/fortgreene and nytimes.com/clintonhill, where we will be blogging like crazy, linking religiously to our betters at brownstoner and elsewhere, looking for ways to serve you and get your voices heard and showering the neighborhood with the journalistic attention such an amazing place deserves.

to answer a couple of the questions posed above:

dibs, the small footprint is because this kind of blog, where we’re going to attempt to tease out every thread in the complex fabric of a neighborhood’s life, only makes sense to do at a scale this small, and barely that – there are more than 50,000 people in fg and ch, which is kind of a lot. if this blog and its new jersey counterpart take off, the times will replicate them elsewhere.

brenda, we also (of course) have interns from columbia. and queens college. as well as cuny. it takes a village of unpaid labor to get something like this going.

yours in infinite engagement,

- andy

Posted by: andynewman at February 27, 2009 12:21 PM in response to The Times To Launch Local Blogging Initiative