New 'Restaurant Row;' Brooklyn Heights Noise Complaints; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- New high-end "restaurant row" coming to Adams and Willoughby Streets in Downtown Brooklyn.  Brooklyn Eagle

- Poor old Brooklyn: Almost 21 percent of the elderly in Brooklyn live below the poverty line, compared to about 11 percent in NY State and 9 percent nationwide. The Brooklyn Ink

- Late-night construction at 25 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights has neighbors burning mad. BHB

- A Brooklyn bus passenger was robbed of his iPhone — but police found it using an app and busted the deli worker who bought it off the thieves. NY Daily News

- The Gap -- coming to 400 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn -- is moving full speed ahead. Brownstoner

- The renovation of Ozzie's Coffee, on Fifth Avenue and Carroll Street, has been well worth the wait. Here's Park Slope

- The L train has been shut down on so many weekends this year it's killed Williamsburg businesses. Crain's NY

- Here's the full cop Facebook page with negative comments about the West Indian day Parade, courtesy of Gothamist. 

- Con Edison has decided not to pull the plug on a holiday art show featuring “pagan”-themed pieces by a Park Slope artist. Brooklyn Paper  

- Bank of America says it has opened customer assistance centers in Brooklyn and elsewhere so that borrowers can discuss options for alternatives to foreclosure. Marketwatch . . . But Occupy Wall Street has developed a quicker, more efficient solution to the foreclosure crisis in Brooklyn. Gothamist

- Now there's an app to make complaining about the taxi that wouldn't take you to Brooklyn even easier. Village Voice

- Brian Lehrer to host school choice discussion at Pratt on Thursday. Brooklyn Eagle

- Amazon launches appalling attack on local shops. Gawker

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