Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed

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.

An attack on a 44-year-old white man by a black man at a Ditmas Park subway station last weekend has been classified as a hate crime by police, and has sparked a neighborhood-wide conversation about race, gentrification and neighborhood identity. [Ditmas Park Corner]

Apply for the affordable housing lottery at 250 Ashland Place. [Fort Greene Focus]

Bensonhurst community board condemns racist backlash over Asian supermarket. [Bensonhurst Bean]

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was spotted touring his childhood home in Midwood on Wednesday. [Sheepshead Bites]

In 2014, Flatbush and East Flatbush had the highest proportion (12 percent) of adults with bed bugs complaints of any New York City neighborhood, according to data from the city’s Department of Health. Is the problem subsiding? [DPC]

Ex-Cuomo lawyer to be remembered with a street co-naming. [FGF]

Conviction for “Son of Sal” killer who lurked and danced in Bensonhurst. [BB]

Coastal neighborhoods in Brooklyn experienced some of the worst flooding since Superstorm Sandy during an unusually strong high tide. [SB]