Media Rundown: Brooklyn in the news for June 24

June 24, 2014 By Matthew Taub Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn Brief

WILLIAMSBURG’S BEDFORD AVENUE CAN BE QUIET AND QUAINT–ON A SUNDAY.

Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO

Rescue Units Looking for Someone in the Water in DUMBO, Monday Night [McB]
Snack attack: New Shake Shack by Brooklyn Bridge Park is busy, busy, busy [BE]
Berl’s Poetry Shop in DUMBO Unveils 3-Foot Walt Whitman Bust Made of Legos [BP]
Will This Love Lane Mews Condo Also Sell for a Crazy Amount? [CNY]
Carley Roney, Founder of The Knot, Picnics in Brooklyn Bridge Park [NYT]
Former Heights Press writer publishes debut poetry collection [BE]
The lights go out at Big Ang’s bar Drunken Monkey in Brooklyn [DN]
Jack Antonoff, Guitarist of Band ‘fun.,’ lives with Girlfriend Lena Dunham in the Heights [NYM]

Downtown BK

Thousands of Bees Removed from Downtown Brooklyn Scaffold [DNA]
Tuesday’s Primary: In Brooklyn, Jeff Kurzon Is Challenging Nydia Velazquez [McB]

Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace

A 5-Bedroom Brooklyn Home with Swimming Pool for $949K? Only in the Movies [DNA]
Cheeburger Cheeburger Shutdown Shutdown [FiPS]
Danny’s Electronics To Close At The End Of June [PSS]
Robert De Niro Spotted on 7th Avenue [PSS]
Outdoor Dinner Party With Ben Folds Set in Secret Prospect Park Spot [DNA]
PHOTOS: Dum Dum Girls at Celebrate Brooklyn [VV]
VIDEO: Drummers and horn players take over library steps [BP]
Brooklyn Community Chorus at Congregation Beth Elohim [FiPS]
E-Waste Recycling Event On 5th Street This Saturday [PSS]
Long Unarmed, 2 Generals Will Be Reunited With Their Swords [NYT]

Williamsburg & Greenpoint

Worker Hurt in Accident at Future Williamsburg Whole Foods Site [DNA, NY1, N12]
Advocates Want City to Buy Senior Center to Stop it From Becoming Condos [DNA, NY1, N12]
Williamsburg’s New Rooftop Bar Has a View That Can’t Be Beat [B+B]
10th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day [BP]
Rib Specialist Carnal Just Might Become Your New Favorite Smorgasburg Stand [GS]
Wythe Hotel cashing in on Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks [NYP]
#artistrash – Chat With Brooklyn Street Artist Francisco de Pajaro [Gpters]
Korean Restaurant ‘Dotory’ Under the JMZ [L]
Bao Wow: ‘Lucky Luna’ in Greenpoint [L]
Gertrude Stein play brings the weird to Williamsburg [BP]
Zoe Kravitz Performs With Band at Café de la Esquina in Williamsburg [amNY]
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Brings Jobs and Job-Readiness to Greenpoint [GG]
Crayons, Bilingual Birdies send off the ‘Y’ Class of 2014 [GG]
Courtshop Picks Williamsburg For First-Ever Brooklyn Store [RNY]
Two Weeks Remaining To See Kara Walker’s Sugar Sphinx [BR]

Bed-Stuy & Bushwick

As Prices Soar in Bed Stuy, Borough President Calls for 50-30-20 Housing and Rezoning [B]
Bed-Stuy Listing Sells for Half-Off Its Neighbor’s Price [BTTF]
Emily Gould, author of Gawker and NYT Magazine fame [NYT], now lives in Bed-Stuy [NYT] and just lost her job [CapNY]
Bushwick’s Best Cheap Eats: How to Feed Yourself for Less Than $7 [BD]
Say Goodbye to the Diviest of Bushwick Dive Bars; Wreck Room Is Closing After 9 Years [BD, FW]
Bushwick Brews: Top 3 Beers to Taste at Finback Brewery [BD]
Bushwick’s Fitness Scene Steps Up Its Game With Aerial Yoga [RNY]

Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Manhattan Beach, & Sheepshead Bay

Caretakers moving Plumb Beach felines to undisclosed, out-of-state location [BC]
Bensonhurst boy plays golf with the pros [BE]
DEC Opens Fire On Upstate Swans, Defying Elected Officials Who Passed Mute Swan Murder Moratorium [SB]
200 ginkgoes are planted in Gravesend, and their fruit smells like vomit [NYT]

Borough Park & Sunset Park

Industry City lures commercial kitchens — and storefronts — as it heats up a big revamp [DN]
Artist Pre-vid Release Show At Industry City Distillery – You’re Invited [GYFO]
Orthodox Jewish woman launches social media campaign to convince her husband to grant her a religious divorce [DN]

Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate

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More Mermaid Parade Photos [BE, BP, BD, TONY, Brokelyn, NY1, Animal] and Thoughts [NYT]
Enjoy A Non-Air Conditioned Subway Ride To Coney Island For Just $50 [Gmist]

Brownsville, Canarsie, & East New York

Family, friends of Carlos Santos, who was stabbed to death in Cypress Hills, begs for information [N12]
Police Seek Man in Connection with Brownsville Shooting, Robbery [NY1]
Weekly Canarsie Community Calendar [CL]

Clinton Hill & Fort Greene

Car & Ambulance Crash Blocks Traffic On Lafayette Avenue [FGF]
Henry Gutman appointed as chair of Brooklyn Navy Yard [BE]
‘The Old Woman,’ With Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov, at BAM [NYT]
Make Music NY solstice festival plays in “hot” in Fort Greene Park [BE]
Brooklyn Public House in Open [FGF]
History in the naming: The great ‘Wallabout’ debate [BP]
Puppy Prom to Crown Canine King and Queen [DNA]

Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Boerum Hill

Black, Puerto Rican Caucus protests SUNY’s treatment of LICH bidders [BE]
Registered Democract? Vote in the Primary Tuesday [BHB, CHB]
Yet More Old-New Townhouses Planned for Brownstone Brooklyn [B]
Nightingale 9 Moving to Seersucker Space, Making Way for Wilma Jean [ENY]

Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens

Video: Car Bursts into Flames on East New York Ave. [CHI]
Utica Avenue Construction Impacting B46 Bus Through Crown Heights [BR]
Local nonprofit Project Renewal serves 2 millionth free meal to needy Crown Heights residents [N12]
Brooklyn Museum wants you to write a soundtrack for their fountain [Brokelyn]
Listings Are up for Crown Heights Building on Sterling Place [B]
Bard in the Park Through Saturday [QAP]
Gosling adopted by a pair of Prospect Park ducks [BP]

Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, & Midwood

Flatbush Synagogue Of Rabbi Behind Many Bans About To Close [FM]
Everyone’s A Winner At The Strawberry Shortcake Eating Competition [DPC]
Kensington Milling and Paving Schedule [KBK]
Brooklyn College liberals spurn $10M gift from Koch brothers [NYP]

Flatlands, Marine Park, & Mill Basin

Marine Park Improvements Coming [BC]
Remote-control plane club holding miniature stunt show [BP]
Jamaica Bay Riding Academy in Bergen Beach [NYT]

Gowanus & Red Hook

Final “Bridging Gowanus” Meeting This Wednesday [PMFA]

Borough-Wide

This Week’s B & Q Subway Service Changes [DPC]
D / N / R / F Line Subway Service Advisories [BB]
Commissioner Bill Bratton advocates for security cameras to be added to all city subway cars [DN]
All Hell Breaking Lose Monday Night in Brooklyn: Stabbings, Shots Fired, Robery, Child Abuse, EDP and More [McB]
Rent board approves 1% hikes [DN, N12] despite Mayor calling for freeze [CapNY, BKM, Crain’s, NYO]
City Council OKs $3.5 million for extra neighborhood cleaning [NYP]
Everyone is Unhappy With the Rent Guidelines Board’s Decision [NY1]
Report Assails Parks Dept. Over Slowness in Finishing Projects [NYT]
Mayor Bill de Blasio signs new bills expanding Vision Zero traffic safety laws [N12, SB, CapNY]
New York City to issue municipal IDs, even to illegal immigrants [N12]
Brooklyn’s Architectural Moment [AR]
South Korea-based Caffèbene Inc. aims to triple NYC expansion, take on Starbucks [WSJ]
Pop-Up Pizza That’s Raising the Bar [BB]
This Week’s Five Best Food and Drink Events [VV]
Mapping 9,470 New Brooklyn Apartments Hitting the Market [CNY]
Enjoy the opera at Brooklyn Bridge Park, and 16 other free things to do this week [Brokelyn]

Courts

Crown Heights Rabbi Pleads Guilty In Get Kidnapping And Extortion Case [FM]
Cabby ‘plotted double-killing’ after daughter ditched arranged marriage [NYP, DN]
Pro Bono Barrister: Kings Inn celebrates June gala; new president Chidekel installed [BE]
Charges dropped against bishop spared night in jail by de Blasio call [NYP], or did he plead guilty to a violation? [WSJ]
Taxpayers Just Paid $32,500 For Sack Of White Castle Burgers Thanks To Dumb Cop [SB]
Challenge Planned on Teacher Tenure Law [WSJ]
New Lead in 1909 Killing of a Star Officer [NYT]

Sports

Kirilenko opts in with Nets: sources [NYP]
Cyclones edge Renegades in extras [BE] then lose despite excellent pitching [BP]
Russ Smith ‘preparing for worst’ as draft night nears [NYP]
Grand Street duo helps Maryland baseball to best season yet [BC]

Miscellaneous

Brooklyn Paper is sold to new owner [BP, Crain’s, NYP]
Readers ditch the Daily News for The Post — According to the Post [NYP]
City sends reps to Washington to pitch Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as host of 2016 Democratic convention [DN]
Why Immigrants Are Crucial to the Housing Market [WSJ]
Lena Dunham puts heat on NBC over abortion trailer [NYP]
MTA ‘Reinvention Commission’ Comes Together Quietly [CapNY]
Opposition builds to high-school admissions reform [Crain’s]; Mayor favors shake-up [Bloomberg]
Literary Legend Gordon Lish Calls upstart Brooklyn lit mag n+1 a “crock of shit” [Newsweek]
Larry Feldman: From House of Representatives’ Deputy Counsel to “sandwich maker” [BE]
Deconstructing the Perfect Burger in Park Slope and Greenpoint [NYT]
New York Becomes 23rd State to Legalize Medical Marijuana–Just Not the Kind You Can Smoke [VV]
Women taking leadership roles in taxi industry [NYP]
Polls Open For Primary Day Elections [N12]
The New Media Boom Times [Awl]
The End of the Hipster [Guardian]
Milennials Surging as Homeowners, Even in Brooklyn? [Bloomberg]
Naumburg Orchestral Concerts in Central Park begin tonight with the Knights, a Brooklyn-based orchestra [NYT]