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December 1-7, 2014
Brooklyn leads the city in chokeholds [The BK Bridge]
37% of complaints are in Brooklyn (vs. 13% for Queens)
BK now the most unaffordable place to buy a home in U.S. [Gothamist]
Those earning median incomes would spend 98% of their salaries on median-priced homes of $615,000
Crime in NYC drops again [NY Times]
Rookie cop who shot East NY man Akai Gurley texted his union rep before calling for medical help [Daily News]
Inside BK’s underground boxing parties [Bedford and Bowery]
Jesus pops up in selfies, via Brooklyn Diocese marketing campaign [Brokelyn]
Quotes of the Week
“I feel like I’m laying in the morgue with him right now.”
–Sylvia Palmer, mother of Akai Gurley. [Daily News]
“The sludge never stops.”
–Gordon Arnold, captain of a new boat to haul NYC human excrement and other waste to the Newtown Creek treatment plant [Brooklyn Paper]
“Williamsburg has become like a giant Hollywood set of what the rest of the world thinks Brooklyn is like.”
— Nick Schiarizzi, an artist who helped throw a “funeral for Williamsburg” [Brooklyn Daily]
“Racism is exactly the same as species-ism.
–Natalia Tasic, a Bensonhurst resident who helps run the Empty Cages Collective which saves rats, squirrels, pigeons and more [Brooklyn Paper]
“Yes, I am an imbecile, but she seems to love me anyway, so I’m going to try to lock her in now while I can.”
–Hector Irakliotis, who married Tatyana Sandler on the N train [Bensonhurst Bean]
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Tale of Two Cities (#1)
Park Slope house sells for $10.8M, sets neighborhood record [Curbed]
Bushwick church sells off its properties for $2.9 million [Brownstoner]
Tale of Two Cities (#2)
HIV still a huge problem in two BK neigbhorhoods [BK Mag]
Seventy-eight computers left un-opened for years at Boys and Girls HS [NY Post]
BK X Mas
13 places to see awesome Christmas tree lights in BK [DNA Info]
Cool picks for BK-made gifts [Brooklyn Based]
Fiftheen things to do with kids this season [South Slope News]
Holiday events round up [Brokelyn]
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And Now for Some Happy Police Stories
Complaints against the NYPD down [NY Post]
East NY takes the lead with body cameras for cops [Brooklyn Eagle]
Cops comfort barefoot boy [Bensonhurst Bean]
BK Innovation Isn’t Just Artisanal Pickles
New store caters to “gender queer” fashion for selective self-identified butch lesbians [Brooklyn Independent Media]
DUMBO firm proposes poor neighborhood sell off air rights to finance development [Technical.ly Broooklyn]
BK Flags
Designers create flags representing nine BK neighborhoods [Brooklyn Based]
Good News About Ebola and Mentally-Ill Criminals
With more than 100 people tested, hipster Ebola doctor infected no one [NY Times]
DeBlasio proposes diverting mentally ill from jails ‘revolving door’ [NY Times]
The Mystery of Barclays
Barclays boosting neighborhood…. [Capital NY]
Yet tickets sales are slumping… [Atlantic Yards Report]
…And a media mogul wants to buy it for half its asking price [Atlantic Yards Report]
When the Nets Resort to Biting…
This is the worst period in NYC sports in the modern sports era [The Brooklyn Game]
Nets are now the best pro basketball team in all of NYC [The Brooklyn Game]
Kevin Garnett tries biting Joakim Noah [The Brooklyn Game]
Nets have the most expensive Big 3 in the NBA [The Brooklyn Game]
Passings
Blima Friedman, 10. Died when she and her pregnant mom were hit by a car in Borough Park. The baby was delivered by C-section. The mother is in an induced coma. [The Yeshiva World]