September 22-30, 2014
“How do you improve a neighborhood without forcing the current residents out as it gets nicer? I’m not sure anyone has ever figured out how.”
Where will the Brooklyn boom go next? [BK Bureau]
Absentee owners storm community garden, start ripping up flower beds [Maple Street Garden]
Sheepshead Bay development would be 4 times bigger than anything built [Sheepshead Bites]
Two years after the Barclays Center opened, which local businesses have won and lost? [Commercial Observer]
Fight over a proposed high rise in PLG has fractured the community:
- “Q at Parkside” describes the mayhem (“INSANE!”)
- And then there’s this activist cheat sheet on how to disrupt community meetings…
“G-d Loves Brooklyn”
A double-rainbow over Brooklyn led to an Insta-frenzy of great pictures from all over the borough [The BK Bridge]
Passings
Dan Heglund, Howard Bischoff, Robert Leaver. Three local firefighters all became ill while responding to 9/11 and all died — on the same day — this week. [Daily News]
“I felt at least Robert and Howie went off to heaven together”
The Good Parts
Secret Neil Diamond Concert – first ever in Brooklyn – this Monday [Brooklyn Based]
Best new restaurant name, or too cute?: Bon Chovie (anchovy restaurant!) [Brooklyn Independent Media]
BAM film festival rides NYC subways through history [The L Magazine]
The best jukeboxes in Williamsburg [BK Mag]
Citizen protector of very rough housing project [NY Times]
Images from BK
Bad Brooklynites
Newman! Flatbush postal worker arrested for hoarding 40,000 pieces of mail [Ditmas Park Corner]
Why the teen kicked the cat: “It was bothering me” [NY Post]
Second arrest in double sexual assaults on same woman [NY 1]
Protests erupt over this video of police manhandling pregnant Sunset Park woman
[Huffington Post]
Islamaphobia in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Independent Media]
“It’s the Muslims’ turn.”
The Nets Season Approaches
ICYMI: The Nets off season was bizarre [The Brooklyn Game]
Joe Johnson cracks up describing Jason Kidd’s lazy practices [The Brooklyn Game]
Kevin Garnett back looser than ever [The Brooklyn Game]
Life in the Big City
Are you a sociopath if you let your dog pee on garbarge bags? [Brooklyn Magazine]
Violent sex offenders residing in unmarked PLG building [Brooklyn Eagle]
A gang of flirts robs Williamsburg man [Free Williamsburg]