What Brooklyn Really Looked Like In The 70s and 80s and Other Headlines

It will rain, everyone’s promising, so here are some Brooklyn related headlines (in addition to our reporting) to catch up on what’s going on:

• City’s Environmental Review Process Faulted for Ignoring Evidence of Development’s Harm (City Limits)

The YIMBY movement comes to New York City (Curbed)

What Brooklyn Really Looked Like in the 70s and 80s (Vice)

• To Save the MTA, Push ‘Fast Forward’ Ahead Quickly and Responsibly Assemblymember Robert Carroll & Nick Sifuents of Tri-State Transportation Campaign opine (Gotham Gazette)
• Regents support a new way of evaluating charter schools and soften penalties for schools with high opt-out rates (Chalkbeat)
• More ‘Gridlock Alert Days’: Don’t Even Think of Driving in Manhattan (NYTimes)
• NYC Earmarks $4.1 million for Immigrant Children (Voices of NY)
• Carranza says schools aren’t serving black and Latino students (NYPost)
• ‘The Franks’ Will Rework Their Brooklyn Restaurant Empire (NYTimes)
• There are two sets of rules when it comes to punishing police officers — ‘In the NYPD disciplinary system it’s not what you did – it’s who you know’ (NYDN)
• City school bus drivers with criminal pasts slip through gaping loopholes (NYDN)