I was born and raised in Healdsburg, CA, where I was the editor of the Healdsburg High School Hound's Bark. I have since worked as a local journalist for publications in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City and the Middle East — and most recently, as a senior product manager for Patch
Also: All NYC teachers must now call trans kids by their pronouns of choice, and a Muslim leader in Brooklyn gets a chilling death threat.
All school staffers are also required to support trans students' sex transitions and allow them access to gender-divided areas of choice.
Also: A shock bystander shooting in Brooklyn; tips for dealing with your slumlord; and a slightly creepy live stream of a pregnant giraffe.
The inimitable Ann Pfoser Darby just keeps digging herself deeper into the hole. Here are her six worst quotes from over the past 24 hours.
Here's video of April the giraffe and her new calf bonding at the Animal Adventure Park in upstate NY.
The neighborhood's new shelters are all situated within a 1 mile radius of each other.
Ann Pfoser Darby, a community board member since 1987, may have finally gone too far.
A small but determined local response to the growing anti-Trump protest movement.
Everything a concerned neighbor needs to know about de Blasio's plan to build 90 new homeless shelters throughout the city.
No, the landmarked Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower isn't under attack. That's just the special-effects team for "Gotham" doing their thing.
Sixteen "traumatized" inmates at the Boerum Hill prison are demanding the city pay them $1 million each.
North Brooklynites beware.
Also: Three more local Jewish centers got bomb threats today, and a man was found dead over the weekend at an exclusive NYC nightclub.
The protectors of our "sanctuary city" may not be totally on board with the concept.
"Part of a recent wave of threats against Jewish Community Centers in New York and across the country."
We're in for another week of freaky winter weather in NYC, forecasters say.
The court is also mandating that Dorota Trec see a mental health professional.
Also: A tragic dog-walking accident near the Brooklyn waterfront, and an emotional vigil for Courage the cop-hunted bull in Jamaica, Queens.
A federal investigation into NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and his network of donors is ramping up.
"I felt like I was watching my own brother or someone I loved running for their life."