Brooklyn Today: Is Amazon coming to Brooklyn?

July 25, 2019 Brooklyn Eagle

Bushwick Avenue. Eagle photo by Paul Stremple.

Bushwick Avenue. Photo: Paul Stremple/Brooklyn Eagle

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THE LEDE: Good morning! Amazon is reportedly in search of a Brooklyn location and is considering Sunset Park’s Industry City, after the online retailer pulled out from its bid for a Queens headquarters amid intense political criticism earlier this year. Industry City was initially pitched to Amazon during its nationwide search for a 4 million-square-foot “HQ2.”

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THE RUNDOWN

~ BOMB THREAT AT DE BLASIO’S YMCA DEEMED UNFOUNDED: An emotionally disturbed woman hates Mayor Bill de Blasio so much that she called his YMCA on Wednesday with racist threats to blow up the gym — and a bunch of other YMCAs around the city, according to police and news reports.

~ AMAZON EYEING SUNSET PARK’S INDUSTRY CITY:
The online retailer is evaluating potential Brooklyn locations for a logistics facility (not the same thing as the “HQ2” that had been planned for Long Island City), from which it could rapidly deliver orders to customers, according to Crain’s.

~ LADY MOODY’S GRAVEYARD: PRESERVING THE CITY’S OLDEST BURIAL GROUND: The Old Gravesend Cemetery, established by LadyDeborah Moody in 1643, is home to more than 350 gravestones. The landmarked site is in the process of being restored by the Parks Department and volunteers from Green-Wood Cemetery.

~ VENDORS AT DUMBO’S TIME OUT MARKET REOPEN AFTER HEALTH VIOLATIONS: The DUMBO food market, where more than half the eateries were shuttered earlier this month following a flunked health inspection, was officially allowed to reopen following a positive health inspection.

~ A LOOK AROUND THE AREA NORTH CROWN HEIGHTS WANTS TO REZONE: For those who are visual learners, getting a good look at the buildings and vacant lots in the M-Crown zone is a helpful way to understand the unfolding rezoning story.

~ BROOKLYN’S BACKYARD CHICKENS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?: It’s impossible to say how many of Brooklyn’s backyard chickens have flown the coop, but the Brooklyn Eagle did check in with some of the urban ranchers spotlighted in news stories at the height of a craze to see who’s still tending their flock.

~ AWARD-WINNING BUSES: BROOKLYN BUSES ARE LEAST RELIABLE IN THE CITY: Brooklyn buses can now boast award-winning bus service: The B15 line was awarded the Schleppie Award on Tuesday for the most unreliable bus in New York City.

~ CHANGING OF THE GUARD FOR EMBATTLED CROWN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY BOARD: An embattled Crown Heights community board was finally able to vote Tuesday night on new executive officers to lead the board starting this fall, following the resignation of its chairperson last month.

~ TWO MORE CITY CYCLISTS KILLED IN CRASHES — ONE IN GREENPOINT: The 58-year-old Brooklyn rider was riding south on McGuinness Boulevard near Norman Avenue in Greenpoint around 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday when he “made contact” with a box truck that was also headed southbound.

MORE BROOKLYN NEWS

~ A deadly fungus that killed a man in Brooklyn was started by global warming. (Time)

~ A Brooklyn man who doused police officers with buckets of water surrendered to the NYPD. (Daily News)

~ Hundreds of people auditioned for “American Idol” at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint. (News 12)

~ “Feeling the weight of a changing Brooklyn tradition” (NYT)

STAFF PICKS

~ READ: “The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge: A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?” (The Cut)

~ EAT: Here are the 17 best sandwich shops in New York City, including five spots in Brooklyn. (Thrillist)

~ LAUGH: President Trump watches the Mueller testimony. (The Week)

~ INTERVIEW: Former New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. opens up about his new life in Cleveland. (GQ)

WHAT’S HAPPENING

6:00PM – 10:00PM — Movies with a View: “It Happened One Night” at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Details.

6:30PM — Oysters 101: The Secrets NYC’s Bivalves Harbor at Brooklyn Historical Society. Details.

8:00PM — Drunk Science Presents: Forensics at Littlefield. Details.

THE WRAP

⌛ ON THIS DAY
In 1932, the Eagle reported, “Roaring out of the north at a 200-mile-an-hour clip on his dawn-to-dusk flight in celebration of the 157th anniversary of the founding of the United States Postal System, Major James H. Doolittle passed over Brooklyn at 6:43 a.m. today.”

📔 IMPRINT
Bill and Hillary Clinton embrace on the latest cover of Newsweek.

👑 ROYAL WATCH
“As Prince Harry calls buying vegetables in plastic a ‘dirty habit’, how eco-conscious is the royal family?” (Yahoo)

🏊 SPORTS
The SFC Brooklyn men’s water polo team revealed its 2019 schedule, one it hopes will lead the Terriers back to the NCAA Championships later this year.

BIRTHDAYS

Happy birthday to Midge Decter, Evgeni Nabakov, Illeana Douglas, Matt LeBlanc, Iman Abdulmajid, James Lafferty, Meg Donnelly and Ana Lily Amirpour!

Brooklyn Today’s editor is Scott Enman. Contact him at [email protected].