November 10-17, 2014
The fine art of toxic Gowanus sludge [NY Mag]
4 BK neighborhoods lead the city producing homeless people [City Limits]
Interactive map: NYC traffic fatalities, block by block [NYC]
Brooklyn herring explosion fueled by non-Jews hungry for Omega-3s [Daily News]
Interactive crime map, block by block [McBrooklyn]
Wheelchair bound. Homeless. Honor Student. [Daily News]
BK Real Estate Cooling?
Pool of foreign buyers drying up? [DNA Info]
Real estate market slowed in October: PLG and BK Heights down, Bed-Stuy and Dumbo up [Dumbo NYC]
BK’s priciest mansion (photo below) cuts price from $30 million to $17 milllion [BK Magazine]
Quotes of the Week
“I’m terrified.”
–Bisi Ideraabdullah of Park Slope about her husband’s heroic return to Liberia to help treat Ebola victims [DNA Info]
“I’m off this sh*t!”
–Joe Johnson, the normally quiet Nets star, complaining that his teammates’ play has been “selfish.” [The Brooklyn Game]
Brooklyn’s Resurgence, cont’d
Asheville, NC, has switched from being the Paris of the South to being the Brooklyn of South! [Daily News]
Arts and culture bring $310 million to BK Downtown and Cultural District [Brooklyn Eagle]
Brooklyn now has a porn festival [Bushwick Daily]
Unsexy But Important
US State Department protests Atlantic Yards efforts to woo Chinese dollars [Atlantic Yards Report]
Of 1,693 NYC schools, the two worst were in Brooklyn [Daily News]
NYC’s black middle class is shrinking [Daily News]
Map: Where are the new Pre-K slots going? [DNA Info]
Highest concentration of city workers lives in Canarsie, Brownsville, East New York [Gothamist]
Poo-nami [Brooklyn Independent Media]
Most Enticing Headlines
“Williamsburg Pizza is testing out pizza delivery drones” [Brokelyn]
“Bushwick calendar captures the chest hair and unbridled masculinity of neighborhood locals” [BK Magazine]
“Crown Heights cheese caves” [Gothamist]
“Adorable pooch stolen in car snatch” [NYPost] OR Kitten rescued from car engine” [Sheepshead Bites]
Hasids Behaving Badly
Crown Heights Jewish youth center found with assault weapons, LSD, mushrooms [DNA Info]
15 Hasids busted for welfare fraud [NY Post]
History
A history of Bedford Avenue
“In 1818, a steam ferry replaced the rowboats and the development of Williamsburg began to take off” [Curbed]
