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]
Is a real estate boom about to hit Southwest BK? [Brooklyn Magazine]
Nets thrash Manhattan Knicks [The Brooklyn Game]
- How it happened
- Video: Mashup of a 3-point frenzy
- Video: Deron Williams is suddenly good again
- Power rankings of Nets vs. Knicks
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]
BK Angles on a Strange Election
- Perhaps the defeat stemmed less from Recchia being inept than from being a Brooklynite while most voters were in State Island.
With 20 indictment counts, Grimm got 54% of the vote. Canarsie State Senator John Sampson had only 17 counts, so he got 78% [Bensonhurst Bean]
- Proof that Brooklynites do care about good government
Cuomo wins with fewest votes since FDR [Buffalo News]
Republicans take full control of the State Senate [NY State of Politics]
Cuomo promises education reform will top his agenda [NY State of Politics]
Hating Hipsters, cont’d
Daily News’ Denis Hamill blames “hipsters” for plight of low income workers [Daily News]
- “These are the working-class struggles you seldom hear about in the hipsterized New Brooklyn, where trust fund babies who live five to a flat on their parents’ allowances help skyrocket inner-city rents for struggling working families”
“Bushwick hipster whines that friends are moving to Sheepshead Bay for cheaper rents” [Sheepshead Bites]
- For a special treat, read the comments
Villains of the Week
Teen tries to light bodega worker on fire with Axe body spray, police say [DNA Info]
Most Enticing Headlines
“Skinned Goat Heads Found Hanging Over 5th Ave. Lamp Post” [FIPS]
“Trump tower toxins” [Brooklyn Daily]
“Inside Park Slope’s all-Nutella restaurant” [BK Magazine]
“City landlords say DeBlasio is ignoring their plight” [NY Times]
“BK has a second hand grave market and it is going strong”[BK Magazine]
“Hasidic life through Japanese eyes” [Voices of NY]
Crime and Justice
Brighton woman shot picking up child from school [Daily News]
Big percentage of subway crimes are against sleeping people [NY Post]
Sharpton hails end to pot buy-and-bust operations [NY Post]
Cops charged with pistol whipping BK teen [Daily News]
Video: Gunman opens fire in Bushwick building [DNA Info]
Study documents massive rise in misdemeanor arrests [NY Times]
Passings
Gus Vlahavas, 75. Owner of beloved Tom’s Diner in Prospect Heights [Grub Street]
Glenn Markman, 52. Real Estate broker and civic activist was partner in Heights Cafe and Dellarocco [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
A remarkable photographic tribute to the memorial murals of Bed-Stuy [Urban Omnibus]
Unsexy But Important
Sheapshead Bay NYCHA tenants say they’re begging for heat [Sheepshead Bites]
De Blasio’s pre-K push violates rules, puts kids in danger [NY Post]
School crossing guards plan pay-disparity lawsuit [NY Post]
Who has recovered from Hurricane Sandy and who hasn’t [Brooklyn Community Media]
Vivid photos how little of Seagate has recovered from Hurricane Sandy [Curbed]
Investors buy rent stabilized buildings betting on influx of white collar tenants [Brokelyn]
Winners of the Chamber of Commerce’s “Brooklyn Made” awards [Brooklyn Eagle]