Carroll Gardens ID Thieves, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Photos of 5 Boro Bike Tour here.

- Heads Up: Thieves foraging for personal info in Carroll Gardens. Bococaland

- Not exactly 'superficial homophobic lesbians.' Brownstoner

- Yes, Funny Girl is coming to Barclay's. Atlantic Yards Report

- New president for Cobble Hill Health Center. Carroll Gardens Patch

- Creative Week New York in DUMBO. DumboNYC

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Bococa and Gowanus Featured on Brooklyn Independent Television

Brooklyn Independent Television's upcoming "Neighborhood Beat" features Bococa and Gowanus on Thursday, January 27th, 12:30pm and 8:30pm.

Here's the plot: First viewers will learn how to make their own boots with resident Olivier Rabbath, and sip on classic egg creams at Brooklyn Farmacy. Next it's off to Film Biz Recycle for half-priced finds.

Finally BIT takes it old school at Paisanos Meat Market (photo left) on Smith Street.

Brooklyn Independent Television is a program of BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn.

Here's the online program guide.

Photo courtesy of Paisanos Meat Market.

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Visit BoCoCa & Gowanus on BCAT

Take a look at BoCoCa & Gowanus on BCAT' s (Brooklyn Community Access Television) Neighborhood Beat, Friday, May 16 at 12:30 and 8:30 p.m.

Visit with Mazzotti Music – a vintage guitar shop in Gowanus; chat with Dan Nadel, owner of Picturebox – an award-winning art, music, photography, and comics publisher on 3rd Street; and make two stops on Atlantic Avenue that include Trudy Miller: Layers boutique and Brawta Caribbean Café.

Photo: Sean Moran tries out a vintage guitar with son at Mazzotti Music on 3rd Avenue.

Photo courtesy of BCAT

Thursday is BoCoCa Day on BCAT

Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT) will be featuring the neighborhoods of BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens) in two different Neighborhood Beat broadcasts Thursday, September 27.

The 12:30 p.m. show visits four favorite BoCoCa restaurants: Porchetts, Alma, Marco Polo and Petite Crevette.

At 8:30 p.m., BCAT interviews the founder of the Big Sky Brooklyn blog, Adam Eisenstat; meets local photographer Danny Goldfield; and travels to Giardini's Pizza with owner Jimmy Finazzo.

More information here.

Swimming Under the Brooklyn Bridge -- Is This Safe?

- Get down to the waterfront in Dumbo for the second annual Brooklyn Bridge Swim Saturday at 1:45 p.m. The race starts on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, continues along the southern side of the bridge, then north along the seawall of Empire-Fulton State Park to the beach in Brooklyn Bridge Park. After the race, everybody's heading to the Water Street Restaurant at 66 Water Street in Dumbo. NYC Swim

- A 41-year-old Brooklyn woman has been confirmed as this season's first human case of West Nile virus. SILive

- Need a condo? Sales began this week at the "sprawling" East New York’s MeadowWood at Gateway. Nearly 1,000 units are for sale, making the property Brooklyn’s largest condo conversion. And the prices can't be beat: the apartments are going for between $100,000 and $340,000. Brownstoner

- Locally owned businesses in Brooklyn Heights, even those considered neighborhood institutions for decades, are threatened, said Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association. Steadily escalating rents and property taxes are big worries. Brooklyn Eagle

- Something about "light-skinned Asian skateboarders" menacing terriers in BoCoCa. We think. The Gowanus Lounge

- Why does the New York Sun keep offering Brooklynites free subscriptions? Gawker