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# Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed
- URL: https://bklyner.com/31685-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2016-02-06T16:03:33.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-06T16:03:33.000Z
- Author: Chris Butera
- Tags: Bensonhurst, News, Nonsponsored, Western Brooklyn, Brooklyn News Roundup, #wp

![Photo by Bensonhurst Bean](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG_20150201_161422456_HDR.jpg)

Photo by Bensonhurst Bean

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.

[Playing Too Nicely In The Sandbox: The New Yorker parodies Park Slope Parents.](http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/neighbors/playing-too-nicely-in-the-sandbox-the-new-yorker-parodies-park-slope-parents/?ref=bklyner.com) \[Park Slope Stoop\][Muslim congregation has been praying in an abandoned Burger King for more than a year and half waiting for their mosque to be completed.](http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/02/marooned-on-the-margins-muslim-group-trapped-in-knapp-street-burger-king-awaiting-new-mosque/?ref=bklyner.com) \[Sheepshead Bites\][Checking in on Little Pakistan in Kensington’s year-old civilian patrol.](http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/crime/little-pakistans-year-old-civilian-patrol-reports-progress-crime-fighting/?ref=bklyner.com) \[Ditmas Park Corner\][Russ & Daughters is coming to Brooklyn! ](http://fortgreenefocus.com/blog/2016/02/01/coming-soon-russ-daughters-to-anchor-building-77s-brooklyn-navy-yard-food-court/?ref=bklyner.com)\[Fort Greene Focus\] [Times Plaza redesign (Flatbush/Atlantic/4th Avenues) has residents concerned about safety. ](http://fortgreenefocus.com/blog/2016/02/01/times-plaza-redesign-plan-leaves-many-residents-with-unanswered-questions-about-safety/?ref=bklyner.com)\[FGF\][A 28-year-old man has been arrested for participating in a grisly double homicide in Sheepshead Bay.](http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/02/cops-arrest-another-suspect-involved-grisly-murders-sheepshead-bay-houses/?ref=bklyner.com) \[SB\][Nobel Prize-Winning author Toni Morrison provides ‘The Nourishment We Need’ at Brooklyn By The Book Series.](http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/art-music/nobel-prize-winning-author-toni-morrison-provides-nourishment-need-brooklyn-book-series/?ref=bklyner.com) \[PSS\][Doctor house calls are vital and available option for Brooklyn seniors. ](http://fortgreenefocus.com/blog/2016/02/03/geriatrics-house-calls-program-at-brooklyn-hospital-is-building-bridges-in-health-care/?ref=bklyner.com)\[FGF\][Eighteen gang members who terrorized Kensington and Flatbush indicted.](http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/crime/no-love-city/?ref=bklyner.com) \[DPC\]