Variations — photo by Diego Cupolo, from the BushwickBK.com flick pool.

Brooklyn Beer Is Back: Will Brooklyn take back the beer brewing mantle from the Midwest? Unlikely, since here they’re brewing small batch craft beers and in St. Louis they’re brewing massive quantities of cheap watered-down urine. Cool old sketch of the Trommer’s Evergreen Brewery, which stood at what is now the most depressing section of Bushwick Avenue full of car lots and repair shops and gas stations.

Go to Tina’s: Nice write-up of trucker-hours diner Tina’s by Ben Chapman of Columbia’s Brooklyn Ink.

New York’s Ring of Steel: Knickerbocker Avenue’s NYPD cameras, the first in the city outside of the projects, feature prominently in this article about the City expanding its camera network.

Borderland Battles: The Ridgewood Grove was a boxing arena that faded out of use with the advent of boxing on TV. It had a short revival in the 80s but died again, and then was gutted by fire in 1997.