The nine houses, with faces of cedar and aluminum, look as though they belong in the Pacific Northwest rather than eastern Brooklyn.

Take the J line, which snakes across a rapidly developing stretch of Williamsburg and eastern Brooklyn: nearly every station along its length gained riders last year.

It continued to run express in western Brooklyn and skip-stop in morning rush hours only in eastern Brooklyn.

A robber shot and killed the manager of an auto paint and parts store in eastern Brooklyn yesterday, the police said.

Districts 19 and 32 are adjacent to each other in a poor stretch of eastern Brooklyn and have been the subject of earlier action by school officials.

Students come mostly from working-class families in eastern Brooklyn, the children of nurses' aides and bus drivers, teachers and police officers.

In one area of the city, District 19 in eastern Brooklyn, about 3,700 students completed a tutoring program last year, even though more than 13,000 students qualified.

People in the South Bronx and eastern Brooklyn have been big buyers.

The 31-year-old housing development in eastern Brooklyn is the largest federally subsidized rental housing complex in the country.

Sam worked once again as a blacksmith, but now in eastern Brooklyn.