Media Rundown: Brooklyn in the news for June 25
Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO
- Assemblywoman Millman’s Final Senior Fair at St. Francis College Friday [BHB]
- Wheaton Terrier Abandoned at Hillside Seeks Fosters or Forever Home [BHB]
- Dean/Wolf Architects’ Amazing Brooklyn Townhouse Has an Operable Tetris-Like Facade [6SqFt]
- DUMBO Start-up Etsy Just Completed Its Biggest Acquisition Yet [BI]
- Met Opera’s Summer Recital Series Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park Tonight [NYT]
Downtown BK
- Velazquez clobbers Kurzon in Democratic primary for 7th CD [BE, N12]
- 388 Bridge Street ‘Quietly’ Launches Sales [CNY] and Quickly Sells Like Hotcakes [Crain’s]
- Spike Lee honored for ‘Do The Right Thing’ anniversary [BE, N12, CPX, amNY]
- Nydia Velazquez beats Jeffrey Kurzon in 7th District Democratic primary [N12]
- Grove Alley Makers Nite taking place Friday, June 27th [YSF, BE, BE]
- Lunchtime Juggling Group Pops Up Downtown [DB]
Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace
- De Blasio to Rent Family’s Home While Living in Gracie Mansion [NYP]
- Six South Slope Pads With Private Outdoor Space Ask $725K+ [CNY]
- First De Niro, Now Hathaway — A-Listers Filming in Park Slope [FiPS]
- ‘As You Like It’ is a walk in the park — Prospect Park, that is [BE]
- Amerigroup Leases on 5th Avenue in the Slope [NYT]
Williamsburg & Greenpoint
- First Williamsburg Starbucks Opening Mid-Summer [DNA]
- New development in, Chinese takeout out at 83 Humboldt in Williamsburg [BBH]
- The Total Greenpoint Immersion, July 19 [BB]
- Dining Without Borders at ‘Baoburg’ in Williamsburg [NYT]
- The Brooklyn Star’s Bill Reed Opens Humboldt & Jackson (Williamsburg ‘Tasting Room”) [B+B]
- Williamsburg teacher goes beyond call of duty to help deaf student after tragic loss [DN]
- Juice Generation Expands Beyond Manhattan; Williamsburg is First Stop [GG]
- Hausfrau, a New Comedy Rag, Available in Select Areas of Williamsburg [B+B]
- Some More Coverage of Northside [Gpters]
- Make Music New York Serenades Greenpoint with Dozens of Performances [GG]
- Student Artists Light Up Moore Street Market with El Greco Style Paintings [GG]
- A Business Lets You Order Your Picnic Supplies to Go [NYT]
- Photo Essay: Williamsburg Shomrim Bike Registration [YWN]
- Video: The Onion reports on “hipster molting season” in Williamsburg [FW]
Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights & Fort Hamilton
- Missing Brooklyn writer found dead in waters off New Jersey [DN]
- DOT Installing Safety Features on 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge [BE]
- Bay Ridge Lawyers Association celebrate new officers at 60th annual dinner dance [BE]
Bed-Stuy & Bushwick
- Two Women Robbed on L Train in Two Days, Police Say [DNA]
- 80/20 Mixed-Use Rendering Revealed for Bed-Stuy [NYY]
- Discarded Test Papers Behind Bed-Stuy School Reveal Student Information [DNA]
- Edwina Huntley, resident in Bed-Stuy NYCHA building, frustrated over leak from bathroom [N12]
- Why Community Board 4 Can’t Really Ban Bushwick Bars [BU]
- 1178 Gates Ave – From urban renewal to investment property in 20 years [WH]
- “Transformation: Rythm’s Roots” Explores Black History in Herbert Von King Park [NYT]
- Spike Lee Block Party in Bed-Stuy: Get Ready For the Hottest Day of the Year [BR]
Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Manhattan Beach, & Sheepshead Bay
- Gunman wanted in shooting at the Marlboro Houses [N12]
- Editorial: Gravesend Bay Garbage Station Plan Is Not Progressive [BB]
- Ex-real estate exec cops to stealing $3M from Properites in Gravesend, Elsewhere [NYP]
- Assembly Candidate Akselrod Calls For Mandatory Defensive Driving Training For High School Students [SB]
- Dept. Of Finance To Discuss Post-Sandy Property Taxes At Next MBCG Meeting [SB]
Borough Park & Sunset Park
- Artist Pre-vid Release Show At Industry City Distillery – You’re Invited [GYFO]
Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate
- Locals Say Toxic Sludge Is Spilling Into Coney Island Creek As City Clears Clogged Sewers [BB]
- Some more coverage of the Mermaid Parade [Gpters, BC, BCC]
- Brighton Beach Museum to celebrate Russian immigrants [BC]
- Drone Flies Over Coney Island’s Luna Park [GYFO]
- More 0s for Cyclones’ Oswalt [BE]
Brownsville, Canarsie, & East New York
- Tour ‘The Hole,’ NYC’s Rundown Brooklyn-Queens Border Town [CNY]
Clinton Hill & Fort Greene
- Vet Hospital Opens in Fort Greene [B]
- Fort Greene Tour Highlights Michael Jordan, Walt Whitman and Tootsie Rolls [DNA]
- Dafoe and Baryshnikov are absurd at BAM, in a good way [BP, FT], or maybe not [WSJ]
- Poehler, Rudd visit BAM to premiere ‘They Came Together’ [BE, N12, NYM]
- Do the Right Thing Turns 25, and BAM Hosts the Block Party [VV]
- City Approves $3 Million Streetscaping Plan for Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District [6SqFt]
- Red Bull’s Mini Drome Returns 6/27 [BBNYC]
- Pratt’s Jefferson Musanda & Nzinga Knight To Be Featured On Project Runway Season 13 [FGF]
Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Boerum Hill
- Email LICH Update: SUNY board calls special meeting re Fortis sale, and more [BE]
- Boerum Hill woman, 68, arrested for snatching purses, cops say [amNY, Metro, FGF, DNA]
- Permits Filed for Mixed-Use Development at 613 Baltic Street [NYY]
- Bergen Street luxury building may fetch $50M [NYP]
- Residential conversion for former Daytop building at 401 State Street in Boerum Hill [BBH]
- Check Out Neighbor Reed Slater’s Tea Scarves Next Month At Baguettaboudit [FGF]
- Watty & Meg Receives Community Support for Sidewalk Cafe on Court Street [DNA]
- Editorial: LICH Leftovers [HuffPo]
Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens
- Multiple Stabbings in Crown Heights Leaves One Dead [BR, Metro], Two Injured [CHI]; Deceased Victim 18-Years-Old [DNA, N12]
- ESD Shuts Down Atlantic Yards ‘Alternatives’ [AYR] while MTA Announces There Will Be lots of Drilling [AYR]
- New Crown Heights Rental Now Rising on St. Marks Avenue [CNY, B]
- Crown Heights Community Board to Get New Head After 34 Years [DNA, YWN]
- CB9 Votes In (Almost) Entirely New Leadership [QAP]
- Nets Owner to Trim Spending to Get $1 Billion Valuation [NYP]
- Neighborhood Paradise: Crown Heights is on Fiyah at Glady’s [VV]
- Andy Ricker Will Move Pok Pok Phat Thai to Brooklyn [ENY]
- The Story Behind Prospect Heights Kids Clothing Line Zaikamoya [HuffPo]
- Kendrick Lamar Interviewed In His ‘Cramped Quarters’ at the Barclays Center [NYT]
Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, & Midwood
- Ocean Parkway Safety Plans Discussed At Assemblyman Brennan Meeting [KBK]
- Some Are Upset After Brooklyn College Rejects $10 Million Kock Donation [JWF]
- What’s in a Name? Food Co-Op Organizing in Central Brooklyn [BR]
- Rabbi Affixes Mezuzah To New Shul in Flatbush [YWN]
- Shooting in East Flatbush [SC]
Flatlands, Marine Park, & Mill Basin
- Foam Fest! [BC]
Gowanus & Red Hook
- It’s NYC vs. EPA at monthly CAG meeting [RHSR]
- A New Museum for the Morbid Opens in Gowanus [BB]
- Red Hook Pilates Raising Funds for $12K in Fitness Equipment [DNA]
- Popsicle shop pops up in Red Hook, Sandy be damned [BP]
- Community Meeting on the Fate of Gowanus Tonight [GYFO]
- In a Gowanus Gallery, Yale Meets Instagram [HA]
Borough-Wide
- 85% of Renters ‘Burdened’ [CNY]
- Rent Guidelines Board Approves ‘Shockingly Low’ 1% Increase [Animal]
- Landlords “Disappointed” They Didn’t Get More Rent Increases [Gmist]
- De Blasio: Rent Increase Not a Surprise [CapNY], but he is Dissapointed Too [NYO]
- What landlords, tenants’ advocates are saying about historic rent hike [TRD]
- What Does a 1% Rent Increase Do? (Other Than Irritate Virtually Everyone) [NYO]
- Want Your Security Deposit Back? Make Sure You Know Your Landlord [TB]
- Snapshot of Brooklyn Renovation Projects [B]
- Mayor de Blasio announces streamlining of special education reimbursements [N12, YWN, NYT]
- Report: MTA, Police Consider Subway Car Cameras [YWN]
- NYPD Will Allow More Precinct Commander to Tweet [TS]
- NYPL to lend high speed internet devices to patrons [amNY]
- Caribbean Restaurant Week Offering Prix Fixe Deals Across City [DNA]
- Nearly half of the city’s food manufacturing workers have been injured on the job [DN]
- With LIRR Strike Looming, MTA Prepares Contingency Plans [NY1]
- Off the Menu: Pacifico’s (Crown Heights); Pasar Malam (Wburg); Pok Pok (Waterfront) [NYT]
- Spoons for the Picky: Shopping for Housewares in Brooklyn [NYT]
Courts
- DA probing Hynes for alleged improper use of forfeiture money [NYP]
- Congressman Jeffries Introduces Bill to Provide Legal Representation For Undocumented Minors [BR]
- Plastic surgeon sentenced for fatal liposuction [NYP, DN]
- Man wrongly accused of stabbing bus driver files $14M suit [NYP, DN]
- Trial Date Set in Jabbar Collins $150 Million Wrongful Conviction Case [LJ], Judge Urges/Predicts Settlement [DN]
- Enforcer in Orthodox Jewish Divorce Extortion Operation Pleads Guilty [VV, CHI]
- Brooklyn man sentenced to 20 years in prison for Brownsville shooting [BE]
- Brooklyn DAs Ignore “Rule of Two” in Death of Pedestrian Maude Savage [SB]
- NYPD Lt., facing administrative rap, defends himself by failing to recall key elements to the case [TS]
Miscellaneous
- Checker Cabs Come to Brooklyn [WSJ]
- Deputy Mayor Returning to Brooklyn [Crain’s]
- Mayor de Blasio & Speaker Silver Announce New Steps To Help Families Of Students With Disabilities [YWN]
- Tracking Brooklyn’s Rapid-Fire Gentrification With Google Street View [G]
- Gentile drafts bill to crack down on developers gutting buildings [BE]
- New Documentary “Growing Cities” Plants a Platform for Urban Architecture [UC]
- Why Does Anyone Still Live in Brooklyn? [B]
- McCall reappointed as chairman of SUNY [BE]
- Deputy mayor goin’ back to Brooklyn [Crain’s]
- Why a New Film About a Brooklynite Surviving Her Twenties is Really Just Stating the Obvious [BB]
- ‘Ramen Fries’ Are a Thing, and Coming to the Hip Brooklyn Scene Soon [FB]
- Richest Neighborhoods Aren’t Best Delivery Tippers, GrubHub Data Show [DNA]
- The 14 Worst Tourist Traps In New York City — And Where To Go Instead [BI]
- Brooklyn cyclists prepare for cross-country ‘Bike 4 Friendship’ trip [N12]
- Just How LGBT-Friendly Is Bill de Blasio? [VV]
- Chirlane McCray Wonders Why Her 1979 “I Am A Lesbian” Essay Didn’t Get More Attention [VV]
- Promises made: ‘Urban Reviewer’ map tracks NYC’s past urban renewal plans [T.ly]
- This Is New York City, According to the ‘This Is New York City’ Ad for Brooklyn to Host the 2016 DNC [NYM, NYT]
- Odd Couple, Chic Borough: ‘Taxi Brooklyn’ [NYT]
Obituaries