Media Rundown: Brooklyn in the news for July 7
A fresh look at homes in Bedford-Stuyvesant
Traffic, Transit & Weather
- This morning: cloudy, 74 degrees. High of 92 and back to 74 this evening.
- Due to a train with mechanical problems at Avenue I, some northbound F train service is running express from Avenue X to 18 Av. Allow additional travel time.
- Ongoing lane closures on the Gowanus Expressway.
Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO
- “Books Beneath the Bridge” Series Starts Monday With Liberty’s Torch by Elizabeth Mitchell
- Brooklyn Heights Mega-Mansion Trend Has Some Shouting ‘Move to the Suburbs!
Downtown BK
Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace
- Body of Missing 2-year-old Found in Prospect Park Lake
- Graffiti legend dies in subway third-rail electrocution
- Police continue search for flag-stealing thief
- Legendary heavy metal bar Lucky 13 Saloon relocating from Park Slope to Gowanus
- De Blasio unloads more stuff
Williamsburg & Greenpoint
- Firefighter Dies After Blaze at Brooklyn High-Rise
- Deadly fire blamed on electrical cord
- Brooklyn Townhouse Roundup: Pink Townhouse in Williamsburg Asks $2.5 Million, and More
- Yet another new residential project is coming to Wythe Ave
- American Made & Brooklyn Swag: M&U Co. (now with a discount code!)
- Garbage gourmet: Do-gooder foodies dine in W’burg dumpster
- Dog Run on Williamsburg Waterfront to Open Next Spring
Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights & Fort Hamilton
Bed-Stuy & Bushwick
- 1 Killed, 1 Injured in Bed-Stuy Shooting Sunday
- 2 killed, 7 wounded during weekend gun violence
- HomeCanvasr.com Exclusive: Vacant West Bed-Stuy Fixer-Upper Under $1.5M
- Brooklyn Democracy Academy helps teens in difficult situations
Borough Park & Sunset Park
- Day After Drowning at Park, Brooklyn Girl, 2, Is Mourned
- Mom is inconsolable after her daughter drowned in park lake
Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate
- THE RIDE: Puffy pirate hurt! Seinfeld Night is bloodbath for Clones
- Cyclones Host ‘Salute to Seinfeld’ Night
- Joey Chestnut gets engaged ahead of wiener win
- Coney Island Cathedral Christian Church still struggling 2 years after Superstorm Sandy
- Abandoning Control on Coney Island
- “Frozen” screens on the beach at Coney Island at dusk
Brownsville, Canarsie, & East New York
- Friends of Brooklyn teen who was fatally stabbed start petition to solve her murder
- FDNY: Lightning Sparked Four-Alarm Brooklyn Fire
- Family Seeks Help to Find Man, 59, Missing Since Thursday
Clinton Hill & Fort Greene
Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, & Boerum Hill
Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens
- Man Stabbed to Death on Utica Ave.
- Cop injured by bike thrown from apartment
- Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Gets Its Turn
- Inside Crown Heights latest rental project
- From Prokhorov to Kidd Era, it’s been a strange ride for Nets
- Instead of (astounding) $1 billion, are Brooklyn Nets worth $2.7 billion?
- Lubavitchers moving to Mississippi to provide Jewish resources
- The new mural at Bergen and Classon
- Brooklyn youngsters show off West Indian American Day Carnival and Labor Day parade costumes
- In new Borough President’s self-promotional newsletter, Forest City buys the back page
- The BUILD lawsuit: looking back at the hope people invested in Atlantic Yards union jobs
Flatlands, Marine Park, & Mill Basin
- Suspect in wreck that killed Joie Sellers, 12, expresses sorrow
- Hit-and-run mom has not come to terms with loss of daughter
Borough-Wide
- Thousands celebrate Fourth of July Fireworks’ return to Brooklyn
- A Truth Widely Held to Be Self-Evident: It’s a Glorious Fourth, Rain or Shine
- Rip Current Risk High at City Beaches
- Side Street: With a ‘Charitable Veneer,’ Seeking Donations, and Then Profits
- Cool Map Thing: Maps Reveal Widespread Imbalances in Citi Bike Stations
- NYPD reassigns cops to Brooklyn and the Bronx to decrease gun violence
- Earlier city school start times due to teachers’ contract
- City Council fund doles out taxpayer money for strange ‘member items’
- Opinion: Boot subway dancers
- 3 Reasons The NYPD’s Crackdown on Subway Showtime Guys is a Good Thing
- Reading Fariña: Chancellor should not revive failed curriculum
- Opinion: NY mustn’t abandon our Common Core
- Most parents don’t know about free food programs
- Navigate Brooklyn’s past via old maps
Courts
- FDNY won’t hire woman with fake eye as paramedic: suit
- A Portrait of the Con Artist (Jailed in Brooklyn) as a Young Man
- Loretta Lynch, Based in Brooklyn, Has Become an Insider at the Highest Levels of Law-Enforcement
Miscellaneous
- MTA Chairman: LIRR Unions Strategy is Risky
- First Lady Chirlane McCray looks to write memoir
- Eats Beat: Jura Brooklyn Scotch is here
- The $120 bottle of truffle-infused beer coming to NYC
- NYers lodge over 7,000 ice cream truck complaints in 4 years
- School Bus Company Recalls 3,200 Buses
- City pols say school punishments are biased
- Silence From de Blasio on Expansion of Living Wage Law
- Opinion: Neighborhood Values
- Opinion: There’s No God-Given Right to Live in NYC
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