A collection of headlines and events involving the borough today, Friday, May 16, 2014. Updated periodically.

Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO

• Competing LICH bidders asked to cut a deal. [Crain’s]
• ReBar Owner Jason Stevens was arraigned in Court today. [Brooklyn Heights Blog via Gothamist]
• Little recourse for ReBar employees [Brooklyn Eagle] while couples ponder lawsuits. [Brooklyn Eagle, FiPS and New York Times]

Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace

• Court halts New York Methodist Hospital plans [The Real Deal]
• C-Town and Union Market Tussle Over Trademarks [Here’s Park Slope]

Williamsburg & Greenpoint

• Not everyone approves of the Domino Sugar Factory building plans. [Free Williamsburg]
• Learn how the 1% lives in Williamsburg [Free Williamsburg via Wall Street Journal]
• 50 Photos Inside the Domino Sugar Factory During Demolition [Curbed]
• Steve Buscemi interviewed Chris Rock at Greenpoint’s Palace Cafe [Brokelyn]

Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights & Fort Hamilton:

• Bay Ridge Nights: Find your new romance in the Ridge. [Brooklyn Courier]
• Carlo Formisano: Brooklyn’s ‘poultry professor’ [Brooklyn Eagle]
• Students create ‘Generations’ mural for Norwegian Christian Home [Brooklyn Eagle]
• Dyker Heights Car Crash Leaves Cyclist in Critical Condition [Brooklyn Daily]

Bed-Stuy & Bushwick

• Bed-Stuy Library Celebrates Life of Woman Whose Cells Made Medical History [DNAInfo]
• Controversial “Jefftown” Creator Has Some Words For The Haters [Gothamist]

Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Manhattan Beach, & Sheepshead Bay

• Sheepshead Bay’s annual street festival, BAYFEST, this Sunday. [Brooklyn Courier]
• Balkan Party Music To Rock Sheepshead Library During Bike The Branches Saturday [Sheepshead Bites]
• Mickey Rooney shines again in new trailer for lost ‘last’ film [Daily News]

Borough Park & Sunset Park

• Raid At Dahill Road Apartment Yields Guns, Swords, Drugs & Ammo [Kensington BK via NY Post]
• Sunset Park Three-Building Package Sells for $12M [Commercial Observer]
• Sunset Park group fosters small town feel in big city [Brooklyn Eagle]

Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate

• Coney Island Residents Step Up For Street Patrols [Daily News]

Brownsville, Carnarsie, & East New York

• Fostering Youth Food Justice Leadership Through New FEEST Initiative [Brooklyn Reader]
• Surveillance video shows gunpoint robbery at Brownsville deli [News12]
• SUV Crashes In Front Of Canarsie Popeyes [Eyewitness News]

Clinton Hill & Fort Greene

• Urban foraging book gives new meaning to ‘street food’ [Brooklyn Daily]
• Free exhibit “Making it in NYC: the Era of New Manufacturing” opens at Brooklyn Navy Yard [The Nabe]
• A gang conducts an “umbrella assault,” while other crimes dot the neighborhood. [The Nabe]
• Fort Greene has affordable rents, comparatively. [Curbed]

Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Boerum Hill

• Fox pulls the plug on beloved Gowanus Yacht Club’s “Duff” beer [Brokelyn]
• The Sad Remuddling Of 195 Smith Street, Former Home Of Robin Des Bois [Pardon Me For Asking]
• Ronny The Seltzer Man Still Delivering In The Neighborhood [Pardon Me For Asking]

Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens

• Tenants Fight to Save Their Homes in Up-and-Coming Crown Heights [Epoch Times]
• Auto Thefts Surging as Drivers Leave Unattended Cars Running [DNAInfo]
• Prospect Park Church Elevated to Cathedral Status [Eyewitness News]

Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, & Midwood

• HBO “Gils” uses Ditmas Park to portray the mid-west. [NY Mag]
• Family Dollar store robbed at gunpoint in Flatbush [News12]
• NYPD Seeking Public Assistance In Identifying Burglar At Midwood Medical Center [JP Updates]

Flatlands, Marine Park, & Mill Basin

• Brooklyn Eighth-Grader Becomes A Published Author — Twice [CBS 2 NY]

Gowanus & Red Hook

• Giant new Four & Twenty Blackbirds Space Coming [Park Slope Stoop via GrubStreet]
• Two Brothers Built Their Own Internet Service Provider on the Roof of a Supermarket in Brooklyn [MotherBoard]

Borough-Wide

• City Moves to Slow Growth of Popular Green-Cab Fleet [New York Times]
• A Morning Workout Fit For a Nightclub: Early Electronic Raves [Wall Street Journal]
• Mayor Picks Urban Planner, Architect to Head Landmarks Commission [Brownstoner via Wall Street Journal]

Courts

• Wife of accused billion-dollar Ponzi schemer arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court [Daily News]
• Public school teacher, EMT busted for selling heroin [NY Post]
• Rabbi Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse, Gets Sweetheart Deal of One Year in City Jail [Failed Messiah]

Miscellaneous

• Try as it may, The Observer can’t get Brooklyn right. [Brookyln Eagle]

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