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Brooklyn Today: Wegmans spurs job growth at Navy Yard

November 12, 2019 Brooklyn Today
Here’s a lovely snippet of lawn behind Spitzer Enterprises’ new South Williamsburg towers. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan
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THE LEDE: Good morning! The high-profile opening of the 74,000-square-foot Wegmans supermarket at the Brooklyn Navy Yard assisted in a record-breaking year for job placements at the employment center run by the Navy Yard’s Development Corporation.

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THE RUNDOWN

~ 10 YEARS LATER, STILL NO PARK FOR SHEEPSHEAD NEIGHBORS. THEY’VE LOST HOPE.: The lot at the corner of Brigham Street and Emmons Avenue in Brooklyn has sat vacant for more than a decade while talk of a park persisted for just as long. But even after a year of construction, many locals say they’ll believe it when they see it.

~ WEGMANS OPENING SPURS RECORD-BREAKING JOB GROWTH AT NAVY YARD: The Albert C. Wiltshire Employment Center helped facilitate the filling of 589 new positions over the fiscal year, an all-time high for the 20-year-old corporation. The newly opened Wegmans accounted for 214 of the positions filled by the center.

~ OPINION: THE SHSAT ISN’T THE PROBLEM, READING IS: “I’m a woman of color, and I do well on tests. I’m not the only one. Knowing that I’m not unique in this skill and skin tone, I find it offensive — and borderline racist — to claim that last month’s Specialized High School Admissions Test was discriminatory against black and Latinx students,” our columnist writes.

~ PHOTOS: BROOKLYN STUDENTS MARCH FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN HELD AT BORDER: Dozens of schoolchildren and their parents marched through the streets of Brooklyn on Saturday morning to show solidarity for migrant children who are being held in detention facilities at the southern border.

~ MURDER-SUICIDE IN FLATLANDS LEAVES TWO DEAD AND ONE INJURED: A violent weekend that began with a public shootout in Crown Heights on Friday night ended in a tragedy in a Flatlands apartment on Sunday, when a man killed his ex-girlfriend, shot another man and then killed himself, police said Sunday.

~ COPS SEEK SUSPECT AFTER TEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED IN CANARSIE: Cops are looking for the man they say sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in Canarsie earlier this month.

~ BUILDINGS COMMISH BACKS OFF ORDER FOR Q-TRAIN NEIGHBORS TO INSPECT SUBWAY WALLS: The Department of Buildings commissioner on Friday said she will rescind hundreds of violation notices the agency had sent to owners of Brooklyn homes alongside a trench used by the Q and B subway lines, after the MTA stepped up to urge the bureaucrats to back off. (THE CITY)

MORE BROOKLYN NEWS

~ Some residents are comparing a new public sculpture in Downtown Brooklyn to an ISIS sign. (New York Post)

~ “The Fate of a Brooklyn ‘Palace’” (NYT)

~ Court Street Grocers recently opened its own restaurant in Boerum Hill(Grub Street)

STAFF PICKS

READ: “How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster” (LA Times)

EAT: Here are 12 pop-up restaurants worth visiting in New York City, including six in Brooklyn. (Thrillist)

CARTOON: Leaves discuss their future(The New Yorker)

~ WORK: The case for the four-day workweek(NYT)

WHAT’S HAPPENING 

6:30PM — Death Café at Green-Wood Cemetery. Details.

7:00PM — The Joy of Cooking: A New Edition at 92nd Street Y. Details.

8:00PM — The Dana Foundation Brain Lecture with Neuroscientist Nim Tottenham at the Bell House. Details.

THE WRAP

 ON THIS DAY
In 1951, the Brooklyn Eagle reported, “Fair skies and mild temperatures gave assurance today that the thrice-postponed dedication of Brooklyn’s War Memorial and the portion of S. Parkes Cadman Plaza in which in stands will be held as scheduled.”

📔 IMPRINT
Katie Holmes graces the latest cover of Stellar.

👑 ROYAL WATCH
Every Photo of the Royal Family at the Remembrance Sunday Memorial Service” (Harper’s Bazaar)

🏀 SPORTS
Kevin Durant is injured, but he’s still making a difference for the Nets off the court. (NBA.com)

BIRTHDAYS

Happy birthday to Anne Hathaway, Ryan Gosling, Russell Westbrook, Neil Young, Tonya Harding, Megan Mullally, Nadia Comaneci, David Schwimmer, Jack Reed and Norman Mineta!

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