August 3-9, 2014

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Body-painted models show off Brooklyn landmarks Brooklyn Eagle

More than half of New York State’s most dangerous schools are in Brooklyn NYS Department of Education

SUNY treated thousands of patients at LI College Hospital for free for almost two years, losing more than $100 million Brooklyn Eagle

Hasidic ‘Rocker Chicks’ branching out (but ban men from the audience)

Wall Street Journal

“God you’d better find me an amazing female drummer”

Bed-Stuy gallery calls on artists to honor the Notorious B.I.G.

Brooklyn News 12

Is Deron Williams slow?

The Brooklyn Game New York City libraries struggle to meet demand for English-language classes

New York Times

Skeleton wearing Nets hat found in Prospect Park. Team denies it’s new mascot.

NBC New York

Crime and Criminal Justice | Transportation | Housing and Development | Memorials | Sports | Culture | Things To Do | Things Not To Do | History | Community | Food

Transportation

Tragic accidents cause Flatbush Ave to become 25 MPH slow zone

Ft. Greene Focus

New city program aims to expose illegal van operators

NY Post

New app helps Brooklynites share cabs

Brooklyn Magazine

Bed bugs on the N train spawn blogger conniptions:

Broklelyn: “sleep tight”
SouthlopeNewsCom: “Ack”
Free Williamsburg: “And you thought your G and L train commutes sucked ” |
And Debugger.com (!) “The presence of bed bugs in employee-only areas of the subway trains suggests they were brought in by an employee or employees….”!

Housing and Development

Bed-Stuy prices soar in one year

Brownstoner

Low-rent apartments in Bk Heights, Dumbo, Downtown are sitting empty for lack of lower-income people left in the neighborhood to rent them

NY Post

Iconic Domino sugar signed to be removed

Daily News

Donald Trump tries to block Coney Island rent reduction, but judge says no

Brooklyn Eagle

Discount supermarket chain opens in East NY

Brooklyn Magazine

Designs for the Towers at Brooklyn Bridge Park include chickens, migrant farmers (?) and fishermen

Brooklyn Heights Blog

Politics & Government

Anthony Weiner to open Rockaway restaurant with “locally sourced food”

NY Post

Council member Jumaane Williams grades DeBlasio’s affordable housing plan, defends endangered subway dancers and does the Nets chant

City and State NY

Democratic pol touts “local craft food store” in Williamsburg – despite 83 health violations (rats, mice, roaches etc)

NY Daily News

Council member Brad Lander reassures that reusable grocery bags wont cause e coli

City and State NY

Cuomo proposing to hold off funding needed sewer infrastructure projects Capital NY

Sports

So, how well did the Nets do off season?

The Brooklyn Game

Nets rookies answer fan questions on Reddit The Brooklyn Game

Surging Cyclones ready for stretch run Brooklyn Eagle

Handball tourney returns to Coney Island Brokelyn

Memorials

Brooklynite WWII vet found, and stomped on, Hitler’s hat

Brooklyn Eagle

Former prisoner, Eddie Ellis Leaves Legacy of Innovative Prison Policy Reform, 72

Our Time Press

On Instagram, mknmvz posted this tribute to urban basketball legend James “Stix” Williams:

Crime and Criminal Justice

Marine Park Dad gets prison time for shooting assault rifle at teens

NY Post

DNA found on Lasagna Pans Used by the BK Bridge Flag-Switchers

New York Magazine

Extradited from Israel, a member of a Brooklyn Jewish watch group faces trial for an assault on black man in Crown heights.

Talking Points Memo

An East Flatbush black girl is raped and murdered. An upper east side white woman disappears same day. A suit claimed that one wasn’t taken seriously, the other was. A Brooklyn judge weighs in on whether it’s systematic racism. Daily News

Brave Canarsie teen describes mother’s stabbing death by father in court

NY Post

Brighton Beach con man pretended to be local lawyer for years

Sheepshead Bites

Eric Garner chokehold homicide fallout: Spike Lee’s Ft. Greene tribute (photo on left)

Brokelyn Retired Brooklyn cop describes what criminal charges cops should get Our Time Press

Culture

Beyonce choreographer helps kids make Brooklyn Nets dance team

DNA Info

9 Great Novels set in Brooklyn and where to read them

Brokelyn

“John Wojtowicz tried to rob a bank in Brooklyn. He needed money for his husband’s sex-reassignment surgery.” New documentary describes the real Dog Day Afternoon

NY Daily News

In conversation with a Polish crochet arstist

Greenpointers

Fiction: Navigating Fear “ Children gliding up and down their streets on scooters, testing out their own first attempts at freedom. The stretches of subway on the F train with no cell phone reception and people reading paper books….The city, breathing.”

Brooklyn Quarterly