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.

Playing Too Nicely In The Sandbox: The New Yorker parodies Park Slope Parents. [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. [Sheepshead Bites]Checking in on Little Pakistan in Kensington’s year-old civilian patrol. [Ditmas Park Corner]Russ & Daughters is coming to Brooklyn! [Fort Greene Focus] Times Plaza redesign (Flatbush/Atlantic/4th Avenues) has residents concerned about safety. [FGF]A 28-year-old man has been arrested for participating in a grisly double homicide in Sheepshead Bay. [SB]Nobel Prize-Winning author Toni Morrison provides ‘The Nourishment We Need’ at Brooklyn By The Book Series. [PSS]Doctor house calls are vital and available option for Brooklyn seniors. [FGF]Eighteen gang members who terrorized Kensington and Flatbush indicted. [DPC]