Media Rundown: Brooklyn in the news for May 27

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Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO

Turbines Popping Up on Roofs Like 388 Bridge, With Questions of Efficiency [New York Times]
Sticky Pathways in Brooklyn Bridge Park Gumming Up Wheelchairs [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Brooklyn Heights Moms Coin “Bump Water,” Vitamin Rich Prenatal Beverage [Daily News]
DUMBO’s Synth-Pop trio ‘Young Heel’ Profiled [Brooklyn Courier]

Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace

Williamsburg & Greenpoint

State comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, to release report on the borough’s economy at Brooklyn Brewery today [New York Times]
Photos: NYC Zombie Crawl in Williamsburg [Village Voice]

Bed-Stuy & Bushwick

Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Manhattan Beach, & Sheepshead Bay

Anti-Semitic terms found drawn on 2 cars on Kings Highway in Gravesend [News12]

Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate

Owner of ousted Coney Island bar Beer Island back with Margarita Island [Daily News]

Brownsville, Carnarsie, & East New York

In Cypress Hills, A Quest to Recognize Forgotten Achievements Still Relevant in Everyday Life [New York Times]
Two teen bystanders shot after gunman sends ‘bullets flying’ [NY Post]

Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Boerum Hill

Everyone Who Wants to #SaveLICH Should Watch This Video [Brooklyn Heights Blog]

Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens

Back Forty Chef to Open Farm-to-Table Restaurant on Franklin Ave. [DNAInfo]
Fantasia, albino Burmese python who inspired awe at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, dies [New York Times]
Kids Cool Off on Memorial Day at Prospect Park’s New Water Play Area [DNAInfo]

Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, & Midwood

Kareem Potomont, accused of shooting 13-year-old Gama Droiville, speaks out [Am New York]
Motorcyclist dies in collision with Nissan SUV in Brooklyn: NYPD [Daily News and NY Post]

Flatlands, Marine Park, & Mill Basin

Borough’s Distinguished Women Honored in Mill Basin [Brooklyn Paper]
Traffic Calming For Flatlands’s Foster Avenue [Brooklyn Courier]
Family of 20-Year-Old Killed in Car Accident Celebrate His Life [NY1]
CB18 to get meeting room back from Sandy recovery program workers [Brooklyn Courier]

Borough-Wide

In Expanded Program, Officers Across New York City Will Carry Antidote for Heroin Overdoses [New York Times]
Half of the TV shows filmed in New York City are now shot in Brooklyn [New York Times]; here’s a list [New York Times]
Citi Bike Asked to Pay Lost Parking Revenue [Wall Street Journal]
Best Ice Cream Shops in the Borough [Brooklyn Courier]

Courts

Advocates Seek to Make Courthouses Off Limits for Immigration Officials [New York Times]
De Blasio’s ‘Right-sizing’ housing of the elderly is tricky business [Crain’s]

Miscellaneous

Brooklyn Author Laura Silver’s New Book honors Kings County Knish-tory [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn indie-rocker Sharon Van Etten gets a fairly positive review from the always-acerbic Post [New York Post]
8 Outdoor Concerts to Catch in NYC [NY Post]