November 24-30, 2014
In the police killing of an innocent BK man, the key may be public housing decay as much as broken policing [New York Times]
Three separate hit-and-run traffic deaths devastate the same BK middle school [DNA Info]
“How wrong the right was on stop and frisk” [City Limits]
Manhattan getting 65% of new high-speed wi-fi plan; BK getting 12.8% [Daily News]
Video: thief took dog who was briefly tied up outside Park Slope market [FIPS]
Adorable kids, hunky dudes, lovely gals, and debonair dogs, all Repping the Nets [The Brooklyn Game]
By Dawnmarie via Instagram
Home and Hearth
Why are BK neighborhoods getting so hard to tell apart? [NY Observer]
BK rents have plateaued! [Curbed]
There’s an idea: divert some Wall Street fines toward affordable housing [Crains NY]
2000 Lubavich rabbis take a selfie on Eastern Parkway AND they send up drone for an aerial video view! [CO Live]
Quotes of the Week
“Hugs should not cost money!”
–BK first-grade Kamila Filshtinskiy, leading a campaign to stop Elmo and other characters from charging kids for pictures [NY Post]
“The fact that they leave their hands and feet behind is, for me, the creepy fascination.”
–Greenpointer Karen Bachman, who has become an expert on spontaneous human combustion [Brooklyn Daily]
“I have it in me.”
–Women explaining that she stored an $8,000 Rolex in her vagina after DeKalb Ave hook-up [Daily News]
“Brooklyn came roaring back, just like American will” [DNA Info]
–Sen. Charles Schumer of Park Slope after hearing Brooklyn is a finalist for the Democratic Convention
There Oughta Be A Law?
“Why I’m against a texting-while-cycling-law” [Brooklyn Spoke]
BK councilman urges ban on surges in Uber pricing [Daily News]
BK councilman wants traffic tickets to record the race of the recipient [NY Post]
Wither the “Circus-Based Arts Collective”?
Crossing Brooklyn, the BK’s major exhibit of BK artists is:
- Effervescent [New Yorker]
- Disappointing [New York Times]
Red Hook is the next Venice [Metropolismag]
Artists begin squeezed out, says rep of “circus-based arts collective.” [Brooklyn Independent Media]
BK Innovation Isn’t Just About Artisanal Mayo
Aquaponic farms [Brooklyn Magazine]
Space robots [DNA Info]
Combo chocolate-bars / dog-rescue-propaganda [Brooklyn Makers]
Textbook-free classrooms [DNA Info]
Anti-bullying phone apps [Daily News]
Profane Crime
Vandals graffiti over Warsaw Uprising mural – and then return to take selfies [Nowy Dziennik, translated from Polish by Voices of NY]
Burglar hits 11 churches in southwest BK [Bensonhurst Bean]
Dull But Important
School custodians getting a raise in new contract [NY Post]
Feds claim Coney Island hospital spent Sandy aid on salaries instead of emergency repairs [Capital NY]
NY gears up to handle impact of Obama’s immigration order [NY Times]
Tenants protest that loophole allows landlord to hike rents in stabilized apartments [BK Brief]
Sports
Explaining the Nets’ lack of offense [The Brooklyn Game]
Nets Bullied By Chicago In Blowout [The Brooklyn Game]
BK welterweight vies for title at Barclays [NY 1]
“Every time I go over the bridge I see the water and I just envision myself being a world champion”
Passings
By Our Times Press
Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq, 83. Bed-Stuy resident was Malcolm X’s last chief of staff. [BK Reader]. Plus: His interview with Our Times Press