Neighborhoods

Dyker Heights — Generally Speaking: Saluting America’s 239th birthday in Dyker Heights

Coney Island — Mermaid Parade makes a splash in Coney Island

Bay Ridge — 6,000 lanterns in the night: Relay for Life raises record $218,000, honors cancer victims

— Nurses and veterans team up over in-patient closures

— Native Ridgeite inducted as 100th president of the Brooklyn Bar

Bensonhurst — Cops of the month honored for catching teen hooligans

Bensonhurst — Local pols want schools closed for Lunar New Year

Bay Ridge — St. Nicholas Home celebrates community in its garden

Bedford-Stuyvesant — Taste of Bushwick

Bay Ridge — VA Hospital holds town hall meeting to discuss in-patient ward closure

Bay Ridge — Knights triumph in joust with Huskies

Bedford-Stuyvesant — Parks Department presents plans for two Bushwick parks