Media Rundown: Brooklyn in the news for June 26

June 26, 2014 By Matthew Taub Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn Brief

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Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO

Brooklyn Bridge Park announces new board member Amelia Wilson [BE]
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pop-Up Pool to Open this Week [DNA]
Etsy Takes Brooklyn [NYO]
Dabney Lee Sample Sale in Dumbo [DNYC]
Before DUMBO Had a Dumb Name: Eamon Loingsigh’s New Novel References the Neighborhood’s Seamy Past [6SqFt]

Downtown BK

NYU-Poly says spill was a not-so-toxic chemical [BP]
Here’s What the Massive Building Replacing Big Parking Garage Downtown Will Look Like [B]
NYU will ‘transform’ old MTA HQ downtown [CNY], then scales down its plans [Crain’s]
Low-Income Tenants Fighting Eviction Get $5M for Legal Help [DNA]

Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace

Park Slopers griping over plan to turn massive parking garage into housing and retail complex [DN]
Meeting on Slope Parking Garage Tonight [PSS]
GreenSpace On 4th Avenue To Open At Long Last [PSS]
Eleven Consignment Boutique to Open New Location Across the Street [HPS]
House of ‘First Family’ Available Soon For $6,500 / mo. [FiPS, BKM]
Foer-Krauss Compound Chops Price by $1.5 Million, Relists With More Photos [B, CNY]
Tasty Tacos To Go At 5th Ave’s Jalapeño King [SSN]
Warner Brothers Cheaps Out on President Street Block Association [FiPS]
“Warpaint” and “Yellowbirds” at Prospect Park Bandshell Tonight [NYT]
Fireworks & The Philharmonic For Free At Prospect Park July 9 [DPC]

Williamsburg & Greenpoint

Police Searching for East River Swimmer Swept Away by Current [DNA]
W’burg board: One-way a no-go for Wallabout Street [BP]
Pol: Bill to save W’burg community center dead, but DeBlasio has joined the cause [BP]
Organic Cafe Headed to Union Avenue Luxury Block [DNA]
Scoreboard made of cars beams World Cup results from Greenpoint [DN]
Artworks hand-carried from Cuba for Brooklyn show [DN]
Starbucks is Coming to Williamsburg [DNA]
Watch the 1991 short film that predicted the future of Williamsburg [FW]
Self-Service Pet Wash Offers Space for People to Bathe Their Dogs [DNA]
Space and Shakespeare will collide at Word bookstore [BC]
Why Peter Pan Is the Best Doughnut Shop in the City [VV]
In Williamsburg, A Hidden Refuge For the Undocumented and Incurable [B+B]
15 Awesome Discoveries From the Greenpoint Grub Crawl [Gpters]
Greenpoint Weekend Arts Guide [Gpters]
Greenpoint’s Alex Karpovsky, of Girls, Notoriety, Profiled [NYM]

Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights & Fort Hamilton

Google asks Fontbonne Hall Academy to test new product [BE]
Dyker Heights Houses Have Hot-Weather Charm, Sell For Big Bucks [BE]
Dyker Heights mansion price-tagged at $7 million [BE]
Majestic menageries on Dyker Heights lawns [BE]
Sum, Sum, Summertime eye candy … in Dyker Heights [BE]
Congress Recommends Ethics Probe of Grimm [BE, VV]
OPINION: Bay Ridge—a Brooklyn success story [BE]

Bed-Stuy & Bushwick

Spike Lee Celebrates ‘Do the Right Thing’ With Bed-Stuy Block Party [DNA]
Bed-Stuy Director Tapped to Tour Italy as Part of Film Festival [DNA]
Bed Stuy Brownstone Goes for $1.65 Million at Kings County Public Auction [B]
New 42-unit project bound for 810 Flushing Avenue in Bushwick [BBH]
Bushwick commercial building trades for $20.8M [TRD]
How Is Life at Bushwick’s Most Controversial New Building, Colony 1209? [BD]
Pool Tables I Have Known (Requiem for Wreck Room Bar) [BD]
Autopsy Shows Bushwick Fashion Designer Jay Ott Drowned [WWD]
Bushwick’s New Venue, Palisades: ‘It’s Everyone’s Scene’ [B+B]

Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Manhattan Beach, & Sheepshead Bay

Man Crushed To Death By Tow Truck On Brigham Street [SB]
Drunk Driver Crashes Into Coney Island Avenue Storefront [SB]
DOT To Install Speed Bumps On Van Sicklen Street Near P.S. 95 [BB]
Colton says city’s trash plant plan is ‘not progressive’ [BE]
Sooo Delicious Food Court Opens On Bath Avenue, Replacing Casa Calamari [BB]

Borough Park & Sunset Park

Child Struck By Police Vehicle In Borough Park [BB]
Martense Lane Rock reappears in Sunset Park [N12]
Tattoos, Artisanal Food and the Nets: Industry City Is Brooklyn’s ‘It’ Spot [DNA]
Green-Wood’s Our Town and the “Voodoo of Location” [L]
Brooklyn Nets Training Facility Planned For sunset Park [CNY]

Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate

Cyclones Back on Top! [BP]
Video Montages From the Mermaid Parade [BE, VV]
Marina Abramović-Themed Burlesque Comes to Coney Island [Animal]
The Cyclone’s 87th Birthday is Today [BTS]
Concrete Boardwalk Better For Storms, Says Sandy Recovery Head [SB]

Brownsville, Canarsie, & East New York

Superb Play And Intense Squabbles Were The Story Of Caribbean Cup Play [CC]
Students Learn About Teamwork At Track And Field Day [CC]
Possible Stabbing Near 69th Precinct [CC]
Cadillac Crash on Church Avenue Injures Child [CC]

Clinton Hill & Fort Greene

Taxi drivers team up to take down alleged Fort Greene pee bandit [BP]
Navy Yard’s new chairman has eye on tech jobs [Crain’s]
Duplex Clinton Hill Condo at Bed-Stuy Bargain Price [BKTTF]
Teachout: Cuomo thinks small on infrastructure [CapNY]
Meet Brooklyn’s Newest Small-Batch Sriracha: Ft. Greene Farms [B+B]

Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Boerum Hill

SUNY board officially approves sale of Long Island College Hospital to Fortis [BE, N12, Crain’s]
Man Decapitated by Tractor Trailer While Fleeing Police, Witnesses Say [BE, N12, BP,DNA, DN, NYP, NY1]
Cobble Hill’s last gas station likely doomed [BP]
‘Hey Bartender’ on Showtime Portrays Julie Reiner of Clover Club in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn [NYT]

Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens

MTA Approves Forest City’s Changes to Atlantic Yards Plan [AYR]
Lots of Bike Corrals Planned for Prospect Heights [B]
Crown Heights’ CB9 Votes in New Chairman [DNA]
Brooklyn Museum Fountain to Get Musical Accompaniment Through Contest [DNA]
‘Aaron Swartz’ documentary paints late Crown Heights hacker as a hero [NYP]
Nets are caught in the Draft [BE, NYP]
Dixon Is Buyer Behind Record-Setting Sales in Crown Heights, Bed Stuy [B]
Flatbush Avenue Street Fair This Sunday [DPC]

Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, & Midwood

Cops Searching For Missing 12-Year-Old Naomi Williams [DPC]
Anti-Violence Art Installation Comes To East Flatbush [CC]
Compost For Brooklyn’s Iced Tea Party This Saturday [DPC]
Neighbors Spruce Up Q Gardens [DPC]
Tree Care Event This Sunday [DPC]
Lea Expands Menu To Offer Breakfast And Lunch [DPC]
Free Screening Of ‘TINY’ Documentary At All Souls Bethlehem Church This Friday [KBK]

Gowanus & Red Hook

$90,000 in cash and illegal cigarette contraband seized in Brooklyn bust [BE, DN]
Gowanus activists to Ladner at Planning Meeting: You’re not listening! [PMFA, BP]
Free Ferry From Red Hook to Manhattan Back Saturday [Brokelyn]
Spaceworks offers affordable public space for artists to create and showcase their work [N12]
Museum of Morbid Anatomy Opens Saturday with Exhibit on Mourning [DNA, BP]
Smith-Ninth mosaic signs still cardboard after a year [BP]
Storytelling Workshop for Toddlers Comes to Red Hook Library [DNA]
Morbid Anatomy’s Divya Anantharaman Shows Us DIY Taxidermy [B+B]

Borough-Wide

NYPD Investigating Complaints of Credit Card Fraud Following Muni Meter Use [NY1]
The 9 Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn [L]
HomeCanvasr Aims to Show Brooklyn Buyers ‘Secret’ Listings [CNY]
Where to Eat Near the F Train: From Coney Island to Forest Hills [Z]
Where to Shake it This Summer: Five (Nearly) Free Dance Parties [BB]
More Traffic Cameras Coming [WNYC]
16 Ways to Spend Your Weekend [Brokelyn]
Where to Watch the 4th of July Fireworks in Brooklyn [Brokelyn]

Courts

Toll Collector Pocketed $24K by Replacing Cash With Counterfeit Bills: DA [DNA, NYP, BE]
Daughter testifies against her father, who’s accused of plotting the murders of her lover’s family in Pakistan [DN, NYP]
Grimm’s ex repped by embattled pol’s pals in fraud case [NYP]
Pair of developers facing third lawsuit — but similar allegations — over defective loft construction [TRD]
Senior Brooklyn-Born U.S. Prosecutor Who Fought Wall St. Is Departing [NYT]
Brooklyn Family Court celebrates LGBTQ families during Pride Month [BE]

Miscellaneous

Nadler says closing loophole will end NSA’s ‘backdoor searches’ of U.S. citizens [BE]
GrubHub says Brooklyn has best food delivery tippers in NYC [N12]
Chamber of Commerce launches ‘Brooklyn Made’ seal for local goods [N12]
Mark-Viverito gives large chunks of funds to projects of allies from Brooklyn, elsewhere [NYP]
TerraCRG’s Ofer Cohen on Brooklyn Rezoning, Retail and a Revitalized Condo Market [Crain’s]
Should Children Be Allowed in Bars? [DPC]
Piling Up: What’s Your Take On Catalog Deliveries? [DPC]
Cops: Watch out for the green dot [BP]
Why It’s Become More Tempting Than Ever for Chefs to Leave New York [Gmist]
Undocumented New Yorkers Will Get City ID Cards [Gmist]
Soda Ban Has Burped Its Last: NYC Loses Final Appeal [Gmist], De Blasio Disappointed [CapNY]