Here's what went down in your neighborhood and across Brooklyn this week:
We learned that Billy Joel will play a New Year's Eve concert at the Barclays Center, his first full set in New York City since 2008.
Students at a Crown Heights school were sent to the hospital after a can of Axe Body Spray went rogue and doused a classroom.
An appeals court halted the changes to stop-and-frisk that were set in motion by a judge's decision this summer.
The New York City Council voted to raise the age to buy cigarettes in the five boroughs to 21. Sorry depressed teens! You'll have to express your anti-establishment rage by buying something else now.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg updated the city on its progress rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy on the one year anniversary of the storm.
The Brooklyn Nets opened their season on the road at Cleveland and at home against Miami.
Brooklyn-born rock legend Lou Reed passed away at 71.
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