August 9-15, 2014
BK leads the way in odors from treatment plant and pets
Complex.com
WATCH: Hysterical rap video mocks/celebrates BK foodies
Brooklyn Based
Brooklynites protest Michael Brown shooting and policy brutality
Daily News
Should citizens videotape cops?
Brooklyn Independent Media
Compelling social media photos of the “hands up” BK protests
The BK Bridge
DeBlasio gun violence initiative targets Seagate, Coney Island, East Flatbush, Brownsville and E.NY
NYC
Watch: Inside the world of Orthodox Jewish wigs
Crown Heights.Info
Ft Greene residents claim gentrification has led to more renegade dog poops
Daily News
The “Hipster Twister” hits Mccarren Park
Greenpointers
Transit of the Masses
NYPost’s lists stops in Williamsburg and Ft. Greene as sexiest subway stops in Brooklyn
NY Post
NYPD 2-week crackdown on bikers irks, well, bikers
Brokelyn
BK Passings
Lauren Bacall (formerly Betty Joan Perske). Bacall’s husky voice was “to correct her nasal Brooklyn accent”
Tablet
Irving Schacter, 75. The long-time, much-beloved Brooklyn Tech High School physics teacher was run over by a cyclist while jogging in Central Park. More
William Henry Johnson, 71. December 13, 1943 – August 6, 2014. Funeral at Piro Funeral home
In Brooklyn’s Nature
City’s waters full of whales and sharks
NYPost
BK beaches off limits, and then on
Brooklyn Eagle
Kids park may have been sprayed with cancer causing pesticide
Bensonhurst Bean
BK Beekepers give half million Russian honey bees to Harlem housing facility
Brooklyn Grange Farm (with video)
Why the lights didn’t go out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during Hurricane Sandy
Gotham Gazette
What plants grow best in apartments?
DNA Info
Bad Brooklynites
BK Realtors busted for not renting to people on aid
Daily News
The SunsetPark school that scammed immigrants must now pay them back
Daily News
Park Slope senior center employees arrested following long investigation
Daily News
Man charged with rubbing women’s feet and then stealing their shoes
Ditmas Park Corner
Man accused of disrupting Ramadan at Bay Ridge mosque
NY Post
Man busted for scamming Jazz great out of $500K
NY Post
Good Brooklynites
UPS driver delivers packages and a love match in Crown Heights
“I made a delivery at the house of Zevy Goldin and I said to his mom, ‘Would Zevy like to get married? I have a nice girl for him.'”
News 12
Brownsville young men grapped with incarcerations through new mural
DNA Info
Two years later, with a lot of help, Sandy victim moves back home
Gowanus Lounge
BP Adams honors life-saving heroes
McBrooklyn
Politics & Government
BK is now driving AWAY tech businesses!
Technical.ly
Gillibrand bill attempts to aid BK tech
Brooklyn Paper
Dems launch TV ad on Grimm for being, well, indicted
NY State of Politics
Someone Who Hates Obama is Defacing Brooklyn Heights Area Mailboxes
Brooklyn Heights Blog
3 BK Reps ask Justice Department to probe Eric Garner’s death
NY1
BK Captured
The caption for this Instagram, posted on August 14, “if you love something, you’ll find a way!”
More truly amazing and evocative images from one day in Brooklyn here on TheBKBridge.com.
Sports
The Nets schedule revealed
The Brooklyn Game
Pundits skeptical about Nets chances
The Brooklyn Game
Jason Collins, trailblazing player, likely to retire
The Brooklyn Game
Is Joe Johnson Hall of Fame bound?
The Brooklyn Game
Six Cyclones make All Star team
Brooklyn Eagle
The low-down on BK boxing from expert Doc Stanley
Brooklyn Independent Media
Things to Do
Parrot safari September 6
Brooklyn Parrots
BK comedy festival
Brooklyn Magazine
The jog-and-party “Electric Run” hits Floyd Bennet in September
Free Williamsburg
BK breweries and distilleries you can tour
Brooklyn Magazine
The Best new Brooklyn boutiques
The L Magazine
Greenpoint’s expo center to host antiques and books fair
Brooklyn Magazine
Spike Lee celebrates Michael Jackson’s birthday in Bed-Stuy
Brooklyn Magazine
Events calendars:
Explore BK
Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn Based
Food
Biodynamic wines come to Bushwick
DNA Info
Brooklyn’s Newest Coffee Roaster Starts with the Farm
Edible Brooklyn
Moe’s Doughs brings the croissant donut to Greenpoint
Greenpointers
History
The “slave-based capitalists faced off against a hotbed of anti-slavery sentiment” in Williamsburg and Greeenpoint
Journey Through NYC Religion
New doc revisits Carnarsie’s heyday
Brooklyn Daily
Electrifying the LIRR in Altantic yards, 1905
Brooklyn Historical Society