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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.
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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 [DNANY1N12]
  • Advocates Want City to Buy Senior Center to Stop it From Becoming Condos [DNANY1N12]
  • 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 [BDFW]
  • 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

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 [DNN12] despite Mayor calling for freeze [CapNY, BKMCrain’sNYO]
  • 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, SBCapNY]
  • 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 [NYPDN]
  • 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 [BPCrain’sNYP]
  • 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]




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