Or it will be if it sells for the $18 million asking price. The late author lived at 70 Willow St. in Brooklyn Heights for years, writing his most famous works in the very rooms you could now own.

On Gossip Girl last night everyone ventured out of Manhattan for a way-too-upscale loft party in Bushwick. Take a peek for "artists", wacky hair, wall projections, and dubiously diverse ethnic makeup galore.

[A lovely view of the Brooklyn Bridge at sunset yesterday. It's like hearing Liza's and Sinatra's versions of "New York, New York" at the same time. Image via SpecialKRB's Flickr]

Sellout news! Daniel Goldstein, the last Brooklyn guy who'd refused to sell his homes to make way for the massive and inevitable Atlantic Yards project, is selling his condo to the developer for $3 million—more than five times what he paid for it just seven years ago. Also as part of the agreement, Goldstein will reportedly "step down as spokesman for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn and not initiate rallies against the project." Goldstein fought the good fight and we're not knocking him one bit; we would have sold out long before bidding hit the $3 million mark. If nothing else, idealism can be used for economic gain! [NYT. Pic via]

The Park Slope Food Coop's manager thinks Barneys is breaking the law with the name of its lower-priced extension, which is coming to Brooklyn this September.

Police have shut down six businesses for allegedly selling weed through their back doors and even over the counter. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said of the Chris Restaurant in Crown Heights: "At lunch it turned into a veritable pot-luck event."

Michelle Obama took the kids to Grimaldi's in Brooklyn today. Outrageous! Everyone knows the crust at Di Fara is better—why won't you listen to the people? (Also the people demand you tell us how Tottono's is since they reopened.)

Negative role model Joe Biden's four-letter influence has taken hold, at the corner of Flatbush and St. Marks, where mischievous Brooklyn protested developer Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards gentrification party today. Ratner is not amused. But everyone else is!

[Mayor Bloomberg gives his best "shut the hell up" face as David Patterson prattles on about some crazy thing at the opening of Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn today. Image via Getty]

They came on foot, by bicycle and skateboard. They filled the Soho streets like a dirty flood. Traffic was blocked and the Fire Department was called. It was an art opening for pictures of naked people and everyone was there.

The Gowanus Canal's officially a Superfund site. Hmm. Gowanus is still the supercoolest neighborhood, right?

[A beautiful photo like this can't be bad for business, but this Brooklyn diner can't seem to attract more than a sole customer. Image via fErTaS' Flickr]

Feathered hair, ripped jean cut-offs, muscle tees and tube socks: these were abundant in 1980s Brooklyn. After watching this video, one thing is clear: there's a void on TV that needs to be filled— and not by current Williamsburg residents.

George Will wrote about the Atlantic Yards mess! Which we learned about in an email blast from beloved Prospect Heights dive Freddy's! All of this is weird, to us. Especially the "agreeing with George Will" part!

[Aside from the cars and a lack of irony, Brooklyn looks just the same now as it did in 1976 when this picture was taken in Boro Park. Image via WiskeyGoneBad's Flickr]

So how did that topless protest in Brooklyn turn out on Saturday? It was ruined by the snow and freezing temperatures, not surprisingly. [The Brooklyn Paper, previously]

A local Brooklynite had the smart idea to set up a video camera facing the imminent snow and hit record. He ended up with a beautiful glimpse at the storm that kept us indoors this weekend.

Some bicycle-loving Brooklyn residents are furious about the city's recent decision to eliminate a bike lane in Williamsburg. (It was done to appease members of the neighborhood's ultra-Orthodox community, who objected to the spandex-clad cyclists in their midst, apparently.) The biking enthusiasts aren't standing down, though.

• Glenn Beck has put his house in New Canaan, Connecticut on the market. And he's preparing to take a loss on the sale. The right-wing Fox News host (and gold pitchman) has listed the 8,720-square-foot, six-bedroom home for $3.999 million, which is a quarter of a million dollars less than what he paid for the 2.87-acre estate back in 2005. [Real Estalker, LLR]
• The former Dakota residence of the late model/actress Ruth Ford is now on the market. The three-bedroom co-op, which Ford used to host the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and Terrence McNally over the years, is up for sale for $7.5 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• An unidentified "Manhattanite couple" has reportedly gone into contract to buy two duplex penthouses at 166 Perry Street. The apartments had been listed together for a combined $24 million. [Curbed, Corcoran]
• Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz and his wife, Jamie, have paid $1.45 million for a two-story home in Windsor Terrace. [NYDN]

Thirty-three-year-old Solange Raulston, a.k.a. DJ Reverend Soul, was killed yesterday when she was sideswiped by a truck while she was riding her bike in Greenpoint, the New York Post reports. The decade's end has been tragic for North Brooklyn musicians.