January 4-11, 2015
The hottest new thing in Brooklyn is very old
Shut for almost four decades, the Kings Theatre opens soon with a bang — Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Crosby Stills (and some younger bands) [KensingtonBK]
Brooklyn’s real estate prices rose in 2014… [Brownstoner]
BUT get this: the median price only rose 3.6% in 2014 — because inventory rose 41% Perhaps the drive to produce more housing is taming the BK housing bubble.
Comedy Central’s acclaimed and hilariously raunchy comedy Broad City is rooted in Brooklyn [EW]
Virulent bacterial infection rampages through orthodox communities in Williamsburg and Borough Park [CBS]
Bankrupt BK hospital paid out $16 million in legal and other professional fees [Daily News]
“The myth of gentrification” [Slate]
“No evidence that poor people moved out of gentrifying neighborhoods at a higher than normal rate.”
WHY have the Nets tanked??? [The Brooklyn Game]
Revisiting Peter Lugers and other BK classics [Brooklyn Based]
Video: Aerial view of Coney Island by drone [Technica.ly]
This Week in Civic Outrage
Coney Island residents furious over plan to pave over the boardwalk [A Walk InThePark NYC]
State caves to angry locals on plan for massive parole center in Gowanus [Brooklyn Paper]
Feds intervene to let Coney Island Vet keep dog [Daily News]
Williamsburg residents rebel against nightlife [Gothamist]
Mill Basin hobbyists object to anti-drone legislation [Brooklyn Daily]
De Blasio’s affordable housing plan could destroy 15 community gardens [DNA Info]
BK residents clamor for new city ID [DNA Info]
Cultcha
Winter in the Rockaways, from hot yoga to winter surfing [Brokelyn]
BRIC house new lineup: poetry slams, gentrification pow-wow, and improv [BK Reader]
A streaming video service just for BK-made movies [Technical.ly]
Large exhibit on injustice [NY1]
Politics
GOP candidate who didn’t prosecute Eric Garner’s killer warns Dems not to mention that [NY Post]
BK Assemblyman Charles Barron criticized for wearing Nehru jacket to legislature [NY Post] catches flak in Assembly over his jacket
Tidal wave of political money tries to influence huge battle over rent regulations [City Limits]
Poll: public disapproves of cops turning their backs on the mayor [Quinnipiac]
Nets
Nets try to trade former-lynchpin Brook Lopez [The Brooklyn Game]
On Twitter, the Nets are the 4th most popular team…in Brooklyn [The Brooklyn Game]
Prokhorov puts Nets up for sale [The Brooklyn Game]
Is Barclays inflating its attendance numbers? [Atlantic Yards]
De Blasio Impact on BK Schools
BK Celebrities
Hilary Duff on her awesome Brooklyn life [Gawker]
Clinton Hill chef wins Food Network competition [Ft. Greene Focus]
D
an Heglund, Howard Bischoff, Robert Leaver. 
