Brooklyn House of D 'Better;' Hotel Panic Buttons; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- The Department of Correction promises that things will be better and different at the Brooklyn House of Detention this time around. Brooklyn Eagle

- Is Columbia Street about to become the new Smith Street? Brooklyn Paper

- Every hotel in the city will be getting a panic button for the next time Dominique Strauss-Kahn comes to town. NY Times

- Wall Street execs discover tiny, expensive part of Brooklyn. Atlantic Wire

- A New York City teacher's aide has been arrested and accused of making pornographic images of students in a Crown Heights school. Brooklyn Eagle and Brooklynian

- Is the Brooklyn D.A. hiding documents that might implicate him? Failed Messiah

- A Caribbean group plans to break ground on the major restoration of the deteriorating original Erasmus Academy in June. Brooklyn Eagle

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