What does 'Motherless Brooklyn' and 'The Fortress of Solitude' and 'That Other More Recent Book, What Was The Name Of It' author Jonathan Lethem eat? The same things most people eat: bagels and sandwiches and macaroni and cheese from a box, and sometimes fancy meals out at restaurants or at friends' houses. "I love Jonathan Lethem. Can we hear about his grooming habits and/or laundry secrets next? Please keep these peeks into his life coming!" writes a commenter who is probably not being sarcastic. [NYM]

From the mailbag, overheard in the no longer star-studded streets of Boerum Hill: "Michelle's assistant snapping that it was Heath's assistant, not her, who'd set THAT one up."

As news broke that Dean Street's most famous inhabitants, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, had decided to end the almost three-year relationship that produced their adorable daughter Matilda, Emily Gould and video boy Alex Goldberg decided to walk around the 11201 zip code and learn about brownstone Brooklyn's emotional response. What they found was a neighborhood left deeply shaken, but not too shaken to eat a panini at an outdoor cafe while nursing.

According to an article in today's Times, Brooklyn's Smith St. is fast falling into the comfortable embrace of upmarket mass-commodification. Lucky Jeans recently opened a store there, Trader Joe's is coming soon and the long-time residents are in as much of a furor as their yoga practice will let them be. (Breathe, breathe, engage moola bandha.) Styles reporter Eric Wilson took to Smith street to find the longest-time resident he could—presumably the one with most historical perspective.

The fate of the Brooklyn Inn, the much beloved Boerum Hill watering hole, is in dispute. We reported earlier this week that the place would be closing next week, to be reborn as an upscale bistro. But it turns out the story is more nebulous and the only certain thing is uncertainty. Will the bar close or not close? Will it be a bistro or remain in its Inn incarnation?