The News From Brooklyn This Week

The News From Brooklyn This Week
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Prospect Park at night via HorsePunchKid, flickr

After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites.

Transgender man pummeled by group of attackers on 9th Street. [Park Slope Stoop]

Meet Ben Wellington, the Pratt Professor who just exposed a major NYPD parking glitch. [Fort Greene Focus]

Try these cheesy snacks at the new Uzbek grocery on Bay Parkway. [Bensonhurst Bean]

A developer plans to build a “lightning bolt” shaped building Sheepshead Bay. [Sheepshead Bites]

New clean-up crew in Prospect Park consists of eight four-legged friends. [PSS]

Drug dealers nabbed for slinging heroin, other drugs near Clinton Hill schools. [FGF]

The NYPD held a massive counterterrorism operation in Manhattan Beach. [SB]

F train perv “rubbed genitals” on sleeping straphanger. [BB]