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Media Rundown: Brooklyn in the news for June 17

June 17, 2014 By Matthew Taub Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn Brief

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Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO

Pierhouse at Brooklyn Bridge Park scales up [BBH]
Lowenstein Sandler Opens Brooklyn Entrepreneurship Center in DUMBO [HO]
Soccer fans watch World Cup under the Manhattan Bridge [N12]
DUMBO Shake Shack Opens Today [ENY]
Brooklyn Heights Income Property Purchased For $3.18 Million [6SqFt]

Downtown BK

FDNY Swarms Brooklyn Jehovah Building, then Disappears, then Comes Back [McB]
Body Doubles in Downtown BK [McB]
BP Adams to Hold Vigil Tonight at Borough Hall For Abducted Israeli Teens [BR]

Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace

Fight Not Over For Park Slope Senior Residents [BE]
City to rule on NY Methodist expansion Tuesday [BE]
Brooklyn Pride strikes Slope [BP]
Seventh Heaven-ue! Festival lines Slope street with 23 blocks of fun [BP]
Cops Called to Franny’s Friday Night [FiPS]
The ‘Drips’ Return to Seventh Avenue [HPS]
Bitcoin Coming to Park Slope Hotel? [DN]
Robert De Niro Film ‘The Intern’ Takes Over 7th Avenue [PSS]
Win Tickets to See The National in Prospect Park [BV]

Williamsburg & Greenpoint

SUV Drives Off After Hitting Two Men on a Motorcycle, NYPD Says [DNA]
Morris Adjmi to design another Williamsburg project at 89 Grand Street [BBH]
Greenpoint Landing, Williamsburg Get City Funding to Build Affordable Units [DNA]
At 56, Greenpoint Artist Steve Keene Finally Gets His First New York Show [WSJ]
Greenpoint band Dead Stars is a family affair [BP]
The Great Greenpoint Ice Cream Sandwich Showdown [Gptrs]

Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights & Fort Hamilton

Three Years After Voting Down Bike Lane, CB 10 Weighs Bay Ridge Bike Plan [SB]

Bed-Stuy & Bushwick

First-ever Taste of Bushwick celebrates the neighborhood [N12]
‘Broadway Triangle’ Site For Sale For $2.1 Million [‘Stoner]
Blocking the School-to-Prison Pipeline [WNYC]
Dixon to Restore Spectacular Bed-Stuy Wreck [‘Stoner]
Bushwick’s Jefftown Slings Late-Night Grub Galore [BB]
Bushwick Pizza Gem ‘Robertas’ Opens a Location in the Rockaways [BD]

Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Manhattan Beach, & Sheepshead Bay

Councilman Gentile Considering Challenge To State Senator Marty Golden [SB]
Urban Archaeologist Discusses Brooklyn’s Dutch Farmhouse Past During Talk At New Utrecht Reformed Church [BB]

Borough Park & Sunset Park

Truck hits person, crashes into Sunset Park house on 39th Street [N12]
Industry is rising in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park [Crain’s]
A Tale of Two Cities: Sunset Park Mom Becomes First in Family to Graduate from College [NY1]
All Female EMT Corps Hits the Orthodox Streets of Borough Park [Fox]

Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate

Another Video Riding Shotgun on the Thunderbolt [SB]
Mermaid Parade Ball Registration Open [CIUSA]
Sea Creature Stomp: A Post-Mermaid Parade Parade (RSVP Only) [BB]
Photo Album: Coney’s First Taste of Summer [ATZ]
Errors Lead to Cyclones Defeat [BR]

Brownsville, Carnarsie, & East New York

Police shoot, injure gun-wielding man on Hendrix Street [N12, DN]
East New York Man, 56, hospitalized after early morning hit-and-run [DN]
East New York man shot twice in arm by mugger despite handing over wallet [DN]
Rezoning East New York Will Increase Safety, Add Affordable Housing [Brownstoner]

Clinton Hill & Fort Greene

Fort Greene Townhouse Sells For $1.9 Million to Matthew Barney and Bjork [NYO]
Old doc about subway graffiti finds new life at BAM [BP]
Five Things You Might Not Know About the Brooklyn Navy Yard [BB]
Fort Greene Park Jazz Festival Tomorrow Night [Nabe]
Intersection: Fashion in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn [ET]

Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Boerum Hill

Third Developer Offers $240M for Struggling LICH [NY1]
LICH was ‘the Mayor’s Mouse’ [NYP] and ‘Bill’s Bitter Pill’ [NYP]
Familiar Face Emerges in LICH Saga [WSJ]
De Blasio, local elected officials split over LICH deal [CapNY]
Local Elected Officials’ Statement on LICH [BHB]
Cornice Of Clinton Street Building Comes Tumbling Down; None Hurt [PMFA]
Smith Street Fun Day This Sunday [PMFA]

Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens

Man dead in shooting on Prospect Place in Crown Heights [N12, DN]
Three Families Displaced After Fire Breaks Out in Second Story Apartment [NY1]
Barclays Security Guard: I Was Fired For Not Taming Afro [NYP]
Modular Delivery for Atlantic Yards Site After Hours, Blocking Bike Lane [AYR]
Once-Contested PLG Housing For Homeless Almost Complete [Curbed]
Crown Heights boutique building 655 Franklin starts sales [BBH]
Toddlers Learn to Roller Skate at Prospect Park Rink [DNA]
Emma Straub at the Inkwell Cafe Next Tuesday: PLG Reading Series [BB]

Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, & Midwood

Low-Income Senior Housing With 13 Stories, 58 Units Planned for FlatbushLow-Income Senior Housing With 13 Stories, 58 Units Planned for Flatbush [‘Stoner]
Buzz-a-Rama Closed Until September [KensingtonBK]
Midwood School Takes a Break For Outdoor Fun [BC]

Flatlands, Marine Park, & Mill Basin

Gerritsen beach native earns split-decision win in first women’s boxing bout at Barclays [BC]

Gowanus & Red Hook

Contest For New Brooklyn Neighborhood Flags [GYFO] Easily Lends Itself to Mockery [DH]
Where Should the Kentile Sign Go? [FiPS]
3rd Annual Inner Beauty Pageant at Littlefield [Brokelyn]
It’s the final year of Brooklyn Beta [T.ly]

Borough-Wide

B / Q / F Line Subway Service Advisories: 6/16 – 6/20/2014 [SB]
MTA “Fastrack” Repairs Affect N, R Lines This Week [NY1]
Crackdown on Rat Population About to Begin [EWN]
Speed Limit Bill Introduced Literally at the 11th Hour [VV]
Sanitation Dept. fights illegal dumping in city street bins by quietly removing litter baskets [DN]
NYPD kicks off Vision Zero traffic safety initiative [N12]
Brooklyn’s Historic Churches Disappear to Make Way for Condos [DNA]
Affordable housing gets $500M shot in arm [Crain’s]
Assembly Passes Series of Tenants’ Rights for Out Of Control Rents [Gpters]
State Senate Bans Powdered Alcohol [NYM]
Bodegas to Sell More Fresh Produce [Animal]
Big deals in Brooklyn boosts multifamily sales in NYC [TRD]
No Room For New Signs Like Iconic ‘Kentile’ Due to Prohibitive Zoning [NYY]
What You Can Expect to Pay Renting Off the L Train [BU]
Spinola, Real Estate Board President Since ’86, Stepping Down [TRD]
Best Music Shows This Week [OMR]
‘Make Music New York’ Festival This Saturday Across Brooklyn [BB]
The Most Promising Young Filmmakers in Brooklyn [BKM]

Courts

Feds Join Charles Hynes Probe [NYP]
Jabbar Collins’ Lawyer Wants to Re-Depose Hynes [BRJ]
DA’s Conviction Review Unit Confronts Staggering Caseload [NYLJ]; Here’s a List of Vacated Convictions So Far [LJ]
ReBar Owner Does Not Have Money to Pay Back Jilted Couples: Source [DNA]
Judge ignores killer’s pleas, sentences him to 22 years [NYP]
Brooklyn Surrogate Issues Ruling Expanding Rights of Gay Parents [NYT]
Gay man beaten by 5 Hasidic men in Brooklyn files lawsuit against them and Shomrim security patrol[DN]
Mother of mentally ill Taser victim accepts $700,000 settlement from city [DN]
Brooklyn Bar Association installs new officers and trustees [BE]

Miscellaneous

Bratton Still Sees Challenges in a New York He Made Safer [NYT]
Food Trucks are Safer Than Restaurants: Study [ENY]
Brooklyn Woman Profiled Among Those Traveling to Albany, Petitioning For Higher Wages [NYT]
Citi Bike Doesn’t Seem Too Concerned About Recovering Stolen Bikes [Gmist]
Head Injuries Actually Decrease With Bike Share [Atlantic]
New Lana Del Ray Album, Including Hit “Brooklyn Baby,” Leaves Little to Remember [NYP]
Kidnapped Israeli Teen Has Relatives in Brooklyn [BE, NYP]
Bill de Blasio’s Plan to Take Brooklyn Progressivism National [NYM]
With Time Running Out, NY Must Decide on Medical Marijuana [VV]
A Brooklyn Experimental Musician Gets in Touch With His Inner Michael Jackson [NYT]
New argument for congestion pricing might help [Crain’s]
Councilwoman Pushes Law to Pull Drivers’ Licenses After Fatal Crashes [DNA]
Online petition supporting Airbnb in NYC is semi-anonymous [T.ly]
The Life and Legacy of Brooklyn-Born Robert C. Maynard [KUT]
Watch Your Mayor Humiliate Himself on Jimmy Kimmel Live [BKM]