September 8-14, 2014
“That’s a lot of cheesecake,” says Junior’s owner after turning down $45 million offer to move [NY Times]
Cuomo loses to Teachout in Brownstone Brooklyn; wins everywhere else [The BK Bridge]
Bushwick declared one of the 15 coolest neighborhoods in the world
[Vogue]
The 50 most influential people in BK Food [Brooklyn Magazine]
Meet the BK moms who coped with the stress of parenting by becoming world-class body builders [Brooklyn Independent Media]
Gentrification Cold War
“Black Brooklyn Stand Your Ground” [Q at Parkside]
Lawsuit: Landlord swapping poor minorities for “more affluent white tenants” [NY Post]
Supposedly angry about gentrification, two women threaten to execute white tenants if they didn’t leave their apartment [Daily News]
Local Bed-Stuy businesses angry, being forced out for trendy restaraunts [Daily News]
Didn’t See That Coming
BK’s median rent went down last month [Brokelyn]
Hasidic men arrested ‘trying to buy’ 50 pounds of weed [NY Post]
Miley Cyrus went topless at Bushwick bash (NSFW) [Bushwick Daily]
Bike lanes speed up traffic, study concludes [BK Reader]
Development in Borough Park exploding, while rents go down [BKLNR]
Pirate radio stations hijacking the airwaves in Brooklyn [NY Post]
Female students at Flatbush Yeshiva protest unequal enforcement of dress code [Failed Messiah]
Seven stunning BK perspectives on the 9/11 Tribute in Light, via Instagram. [The BK Bridge]
Election Results
Indicted pol Sampson, Simon, Hamilton win. Full results [The Brooklyn Eagle]
Turnout hovers around 10% [BK Bureau]
Broken Windows
In spat with Borough Park residents, Postal Service says their mail slots are too damn low. [Daily News]
Ditmas Parkers annoyed about getting tickets for the crime of walking through ParadeGrounds at night [Ditmas Park Corner]
Toxins
Do those Gowanus canooers know they are rowing in a Superfund site? [PardonMeForAsking]
BK has rabid raccoons [Daily News]
Activists discuss fracking pipeline in Floyd Bennett field (but undermine credibility by referencing the Jill Hodges Bridge) [BK Independent Media]
City sprayed pesticide on Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights to prevent West Nile [Bensonhurst Bean]
BK Hosptial Center affiliates with Mt. Sinai [Brooklyn Eagle]
Things to Do
Guide to Brooklyn book festival, featuring Rushdie, Auster and more [Brokelyn]
Wu Tanbg Clan and Lil Kim headline massive BK hip hop summit [Daily News]
BAM’s “next wave” festival [Bushwick Daily]
Eugeme Mirman Comedy Festival [Brooklyn Daily]
New flea market for those intimidated by Bushwick [DNA Info]
Sports
PLG’s Angela Hill soaring as “ultimate fighter” [Brooklyn Daily]
Best of the Cyclones [Brooklyn Daily]
Jason Kidd’s apartment can be yours for $22,000 per month [The Brooklyn Game]
Mason Plumlee stars in garbage time as USA routs Slovenia 119-76 [The Brooklyn Game]
History
Thousands of militia charge protesting BK trolley strikers [Brooklyn Historical Society]
On an earlier 9/11, subway car plunges, killed 11 [Brooklyn Eagle]
How BK’s black churches shaped the civil rights movement [Brownstoner]
BK Passings
Brian Lee, 16. Brooklyn Tech student killed by father, remembered as “sweet” and “very bright.” [DNA Info]
Esther Teitelbaum, 96. Wife of co-founder of Mossad Chinuch Oheli Torah. “Stood by her husbands side and was entirely devoted to Oholei Torah till her very last day.” [Crown Heights Info]
Unidentified Homeless Man. Age unknown. Run over by 80-year-old driver after earning $6.35 picking up bottles and cans. [NY Post]