Dunkin Donuts beats Starbucks; BK New Years Eve events; reflections on police slayings

December 22-28, 2014

 

5 times as many Dunkin’ Donuts as Starbucks in BK [Brokelyn]

  • “Dunkin’ Donuts rules the chain store landscape with an iron fist full of fake Cronuts”
  • 52 new chain stores in Brooklyn in 2014. Full report. [NYC Future]

The 15 biggest stories about the Brooklyn tech world (including Etsy’s decision to plant deeper BK roots) [Technical.ly Brooklyn]

The ultimate guide to Brooklyn New Years Eve shows [Brooklyn Paper]

Video: a boogie-woogie video tour of the Dyker Heights lights [BK Bugle]

Nets 7th in NBA in fan cost but have 3rd most expensive beer [Atlantic Yards Report]

A Brooklyn congressman, Michael Grimm, pleads guilty to federal tax evasion [Brooklyn Eagle]

LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR: A Dyker Heights man sprayed a neighbor with a hose. She responded by throwing dog poop at him. So he choked her. Then her bulldog bit him. He sued. Finally, a judge ruled: the dog behaved appropriately. [NY Post]

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Commentary about the Police Killings, the Second Wave

Last week Guiliani blamed Obama for creating anti-cop environment. This week he called on De Blasio critics to “Stop this stuff with ‘the blood is on his hands.’” [Crown Heights Info]

Protester explains why he’s defying De Blasio’s request to pause protests [City Limits]

911 charity to pay off mortgages of slain police officers [Daily News]

De Blasio was engaging in profiling, too, when he told Dante to be suspicious of cops [Charlotte Observer]

Two blue lines on the parachute jump in Coney Island, in tribute to the two slain police officers [Amuzing the Zillion]

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Quotes of the Week

“I know that being a cop is dangerous but I must do it. If I don’t do it and you don’t do it, then who is going to do it?”
— The explanation given to a friend by Wenjian Liu, one of the slain police officers, on why he chose this profession

 “I tell the kids, there are 766 of you, and there’s two of us.”
–Midwood High School guidance counsellor on why she can’t spend much time with students (in contrast to BK’s private schools)

 

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Food

10 best new local beers of 2014 [BK Mag]

Wheated’s mushroom pizza makes Adam Kuban’s ‘8 Pizzas that haunt my dreams’ list [Serious Eats]

10 old-fashion Italian restaurants in BK [NY Eater]

Why Bay Ridge has the most under-rated food scene [Brooklyn Based]

Brooklyn delivery services [Technical.ly]

 

Change

Brooklyn gets first windmill since 19th century, in Sunset Park [Brooklyn Daily]

Sustainable Brooklyn: Ft. Greene butcher turns meat fat into scented candles [DNA Info]

A 70-story building on Flatbush, and other big BK development announcements of 2014 [The Real Deal]

Re-imagining BK libraries to include after-hours centers, emergency hubs, battery-charging venues and more [Ft. Greene Focus]

Why Greenpoint isn’t exactly the next Williamsburg [Bedford and Bowery]

Longtime Sheepshead Bay diner to become a condo [Crains]

 

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BK Culture

Ft. Greene resident stars as Coretta Scott King in ‘Selma‘ [Ft. Greene Focus]

Best BK art shows of 2014 [The L Magazine]

 

Obits

 

James Gelfand, 62. Park Slope artist. “Every object in his apartment is placed with the symbolic purpose of an Egyptian tomb, though dedicated to the present.” [Psychology Tomorrow Magazine]

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Karen Hagopian, 39. Prospect Heights artist, office manager, fun-loving “cookie-monster” [Make Me Stronger]

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Sports

The big question: should the Nets bench Brook Lopez? [The Brooklyn Game]

Nets win three straight! [The Brooklyn Game]

Video: Mason Plumlee’s BIG night [The Brooklyn Game]

2014 All-Brooklyn high school football team [Brooklyn Eagle]

 

History

Rare photos from 1966 subway [Gizmodo]

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Fred Armisen’s Park Slope accent, Eric Adams’ “silent majority” on policing, and more

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December 8-14, 2014

 

Does Borough President Eric Adams represent the “silent majority”?

Apparently, torture did NOT save the Brooklyn Bridge [TheBKBridge]

Brooklyn has the least-wired neighborhood in all of NYC

  • 47% lack high-speed connection in Borough Park, Kensington, Ocean Parkway vs. 14% in Park Slope [Kensington BK] 

Map of the racial makeup of every public school in Brooklyn [DNA Info]

Brooklyn Paper photographer attacked by welcome-host drone at TGIF restaurant [Brooklyn Daily]

Video: Fred Armisen does Park Slope and Bay Ridge accents at Bell House [Brokelyn]

 

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Pictures from the historic day when UK royalty met BK royalty and Cleveland Royalty (King LeBron James) at a Nets game.

 

 

Technically Brooklyn

Apple store to open in Williamsburg [Brokelyn]
The idea has “haunted gentrified Williamsburg like a spectre” 

586 new BK wi-fi locations at old pay phone booths [Bensonhurst Bean]

Broadband connectivity is crucial in tackling NYC’s racial inequality [City Limits]

 

 

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More of the best BK Instagrams

 

BK Rennaissance

Once critical to NYC, the humble oyster attempts a comeback [BKLYNR]

NYC ranked the most livable city for people under 35 [Vocativ]

Bed-Stuy is booming [Brownstoner]

Rents up 10% in Brooklyn since January [Brownstoner]

Diana Ross concert marks unveiling of spectacularly renovated King Theatre [Ditmas Park Corner]

 

BK Passions

Curling!  [NY Times]

Santas race through Bay Ridge [Brooklyn Daily]

BK African-American stylists crusade for natural hair [BK Independent Media]

Williamsburg man turns trash into sculpture garden [NY Times]
The best BK Instagrams of the week

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BK Celebrities in the News

“No right way to survive rape”: Lena Dunham responds to critics of her rape story [Brooklyn Magazine]

Joan Rivers leaves money for Brooklyn charity [Brooklyn Eagle]

 

Sports

2 BK high schools battle in snowy NYC football championship [Brooklyn Independent Media]

Video: Mirza Teletovic’s dipsy doo reverse layup [The Brooklyn Game]

Amidst rumors that the Nets Big Three are on the block, fans weigh in with weird and funny trade ideas [The Brooklyn Game]

 

 

Crime & Policing

Eric Garner’s widow denies race was chokehold motive [NY Post]

Bratton: Kelly’s stop-and-frisk caused minorities to fear cops [NY Post]

Brooklyn District Attorney sends NYPD shooting case to Grand Jury [Brooklyn Eagle]

 

BK and Obama’s Immigration Move

15 year old boy flees gangs in Honduras and lands in Brooklyn [NY Times]

Immigration reform gets mixed reviews in Sunset Park [Brooklyn Ink]

 

 

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The first snow

 

Passings

 

Anthony La Rossa, 18.  Killed in the Korean War, his remains were recently identified.

Joan Hale, 71.  Run over by car, steps from her apartment in East Flatbush [Daily News]

Evelyn Dahab, 33. Founder of Gowanus bar, Lucy’s lounge, dies in fire [Brooklyn Paper]

Katrina Wang, 9. Run over by car on Ave U while walking with grandmother. [Daily News]

Fatoumatta Camara, 41. A Guinea immigrant, at first thought to have died from Ebola in a Brooklyn hair salon. Struggled to make in Brownsville after family tragedy struck. [Brooklyn Ink]

 

BK leads NYC in chokeholds, leads US in unaffordability

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December 1-7, 2014

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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]

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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]

c/o Bensonhurst Bean and YouTube

c/o Bensonhurst Bean and YouTube

 

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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]

 

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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]

 

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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]

 

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Lubavich selfies, a brazen dog thief, and the homogenization of BK

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]

 

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Home and Hearth

Thanksgiving Facebook data reveals: South Carolinians give most thanks for “salvation,” Ohioans for “children’s laughter,” and New Yorkers for… “Apartment.” [Vox]

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]

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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:

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

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

Fewer drunk Santas, amazing Verrazano photos and other civic good news

November 17-23, 2014

Happy 50th Birthday, Verrazano Bridge

Photo by  Dave Frieder, Bensonhurst Bean

Photo by Dave Frieder, Bensonhurst Bean

Amazing photos from atop the bridge [Bensonhurst Bean]

Gay Talese describes how it was built [WNYC]

Borough presidents boycott anniversary to protest tolls [NY Post]

 

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By Teresabergenbasinrealty via Instagram

And in Other Bridge Related News….

Another tourist scales the Brooklyn Bridge [DNA Info]

Pols: enough with the bridge climbing! [Brooklyn Eagle]

Amazing photos from atop the Williamsburg Bridge [Animal NY]

  • “You would think that when you’re sitting on top of the Williamsburg Bridge, looking down at the lights of New York City, the view of the skyline is overwhelming. And it is, but when I was up there, I was far more taken by the enormity of the century-old bulk I had just climbed.”
By Aymann Ismail in Animal New York

By Aymann Ismail in Animal New York

DeBlasio’s Shifting Support

New marijuana policy popular but he’s losing white voters [DNA Info]

  • “Black voters think the mayor is terrific. White voters don’t approve. And the racial gap gets wider every time we ask”

Bratton gets only 47% approval rating in poll. Sharpton’s fault? [NY Post]

 

Violence

In separate incidents, stray bullets injure 71 year old woman on way to doctor and 54 year old man driving on Eastern Parkway

Video: Cop clubs turnstyle jumper [Pix11]

78-year-old woman charged in hit-and-run killing of 14  year old boy in Windsor terrace [NY 1]

Nervous police rookie accidentally kills unarmed man [Daily News]

The dilemma of East NY: fearing crime AND police [BKLYNR]

  • ‘We want more police, but we want them to be more respectful’

15-Year-Old arrested for hate crime attack against Jewish man [DNA Info]

 

Dull But Important

Brooklyn Community Foundation does sweeping assessment of borough’s concerns [BK Community Foundation]

  • Main problems:  “Consequences of gentrification; opportunities for young people; the criminal justice system; immigrant communities; and racial justice”

Most jarring BK facts:

  • 3rd most economically unequal county in NY State
  • 30% of Brownsville youth not in school or employed
  • 5 of 10 poorest NYC census tracts are in BK
  • Black and Latinos = 57% of BK youth but 95% of those in juvenile detention
  • 50% of households speak a language other than English at home

Report has mostly negative view of gentrification: “Escalating housing costs and displacing tens of thousands of long-term residents from their homes…People feel they have lost agency and voice in their own neighborhoods, and are exacerbating inequities in housing, transportation, education, health, public safety and other areas of community life.”

 

“Bursting at the Seams”

BK wants more bikes [BK Ink]

Illegal home conversions have Dyker, Bay Ridge schools bursting at seams [Brooklyn Daily]

“C train is garbage” [Brooklyn Magazine]

 

History

Bushwick burning [Brooklyn Magazine]

  • In the 1970s, “fires lit every night by crooked landlords, bored teenagers, and desperate residents alike…”

Guide to Coney Island’s honorary walks and places  [Amuzing the Zillions]

 

Sports

Nets fall to Jason Kidd’s Bucks in triple over time thriller [The Brooklyn Game]

Snap losing streak in nail-biter against the Thunder [The Brooklyn Game]

What if the Ray Rice Standard were applied to Jason Kidd’s gruesome history of domestic violence? [The Brooklyn Game]

 

 

The BK Bridge Newsletter, November 9, 2014

Zagats declares that almost all NYC’s best pizzerias are in BK [Brooklyn Magazine]

Obama nominates BK prosecutor to be Attorney General; prosecuted Abner Louima’s torturer and Michael Grimm [NY Observer]

Brooklyn produces 400,000 pounds of maraschino cherries each week [NY Daily News]

Gowanusites sue to block parole center, which would draw 526 parolees per day, across from Whole Foods [Brooklyn Eagle]

11% of Bay Ridge’s population suddenly died from Yellow Fever. That’s when the artists moved in. (A history of BK’s first gentrifiers) [BKLYNR]

Is a real estate boom about to hit Southwest BK? [Brooklyn Magazine]

Nets thrash Manhattan Knicks [The Brooklyn Game]

Quotes of the Week

“In New York City, if you don’t speak Spanish, you’re going to clean your own house.”
–Principal of a BK “gifted and talented” school on the importance of learning a second language [FIPS]

“You get to choose what house you’re in. The books taught us that.”
–Nets Center Brook Lopez, on why he would choose Hufflepuff [The Brooklyn Game]

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BK Primary Results –Cuomo Loses Brownstone Brooklyn

Overall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo defeated Zephyr Teachout in Brooklyn by 65% to 27%, slightly higher than his statewide total.

But Brownstone Brooklyn actually voted more for his dark horse opponent. Teachout won the Assembly District 44, which includes Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Ocean Parkway and parts of Ditmas. She also won AD 52, which includes Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill.

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Source: New York City Board of Elections

Other Brooklyn election results, via The Brooklyn Eagle.

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Pols, wigs, smells and schools — Brooklyn’s Week

September 1-7, 2014

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The “Bushwig” drag festival. More images from BK Captured.

Hyperlocal News & Smells

Smelliest neighborhoods in Brooklyn: Greenwood Heights, Navy Hill, Vinegar Hill. Least smelly: Starrett City, Brownsville, Sunset Park. Full rankings>> [Brickunderground]

McCarren pool visits up, Jesse Owens pool down [NY Daily News]

Forensic hydrology at the Gowanus Superfund site [NY Times]

‘Deadbeat’ Brooklyn pol gets her landlord arrested [NY Post]

Judgmental map  of Williamsburg: “Hipsters with really rich parents,” “Poop pool,” “Ended up at a party here once” [Judgmentalmaps]

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Bumper Crop of Competitive Primaries Tuesday

20th State Senate (Eastern Parkway, Gowanus, PLG)

Seat vacated by Eric Adams. Candidates: Jesse Hamilton, Rubain Dorancy

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The matzoh ball soup challenge, politics & the pre-K surge

August 24-31, 2014

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The Kiddies Carnival before the Labor Day Parade. Here’s Brooklyn Magazines guide to the J’ouvert and the big festival 

Political Season Heats Up

Major battle erupts for BK’s state senate seat vacated by Eric Adams [Daily News]

Progressive challenges long-time incumbent Martin Dilan in Williamsburg senate race [DNA Info]

Police union tries to scuttle BK’s convention bid by saying the city is now too dangerous [Brokelyn]

Raucus debate for assembly seat covering Brownstone Brooklyn [NY1]

 

Community

Flatbush family that lost five people struggles to pay for funerals  [NY1]
Donate to help here 

Watch: Chabad comedy: instead of ice, try a bucket of scalding matzah ball soup [Crown Heights Info]

Watch: adorable Brooklyn leaguers explain how they won national championship [Brooklyn Community Media]

Prospect Park’s therapeutical horse program gets large donation from Borough Pres [KensingtonBK]

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Red coats retreat (again) in Battle of Brooklyn re-enactment [Brooklyn Eagle]

 

BK Readies for Pre-K Surge

95% of pre-k slots filled but Comptroller questions school safety [Chalk Beat]

Coverage of the scramble for the coveted seats in Park SlopeKensington,  Ditmas and Bishop Ford HS

In other education news:

DeBlasio defends plan to reduce emphasis on admission test to BK Tech and other specialized schools [Daily News]

Principal fined (but not fired) for making subordinates buy booze, pick up dry cleaning  [Daily News]

 

The Brooklyn Exodus?

Watch: Sari Botton tearfully breaks up with sexy Brooklyn: “You cost more than I think you’re worth.” [Brooklyn Independent Media]

Gentrification dilemma: Do I take the buyout? [Brooklyn Ink]

BK Mag: Good riddance to those abandoning BK [Brooklyn Magazine]

 

Food

Cronut shop takes on long time donut shop in Greenpoint pastry war [NY Times]

Using up your summer veggies with these no-cook recipies [DNA Info]

Sunset Park distillery invents pure alcohol with neutral flavor [Technica.ly Brooklyn]

 

Sports

Open letter to Nets player / gay pioneer Jason Collins: we admire you greatly…now please retire [The Brooklyn Game]

Nets Russian owner inducted in Jewish hall of fame [The Brooklyn Game]

Nets coach Hollins blasts lack of loyalty in today’s NBA [The Brooklyn Game]

Cyclones dramatic drive to the playoffs [Brooklyn Eagle]

 

Things to Do

Brooklyn Comedy festival [Brooklyn Based]

All the stores coming to Brooklyn this fall [Brooklyn Magazine]

Shrek the musical coming to Bay Ridge [Brooklyn Eagle]

 

BK Captured. Amazing images from this week in Brooklyn. Here

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Brooklyn’s Week (Flag Flaps, Protests, BK Odors….)

August 9-15, 2014

German artists stole the BK Bridge flag, and freaked out Brooklyn, in order to convey “the beauty of public space” 
NY Times

BK leads the way in odors from treatment plant and pets
Complex.com

WATCH: Hysterical rap video mocks/celebrates BK foodies
Brooklyn Based

Brooklynites protest Michael  Brown shooting and policy brutality
Daily News

Should citizens videotape cops?
Brooklyn Independent Media

Compelling social media photos of the “hands up” BK protests
The BK Bridge

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DeBlasio gun violence initiative targets Seagate, Coney Island, East Flatbush, Brownsville and E.NY
NYC

Watch: Inside the world of Orthodox Jewish wigs
Crown Heights.Info

Ft Greene residents claim gentrification has led to more renegade dog poops
Daily News

The “Hipster Twister” hits Mccarren Park
Greenpointers

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