Brooklyn News Roundup

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 our favorite recent stories from our sister sites and other outlets that are worth a read this weekend:

Police are looking for a man they say attempted to kidnap a 10-year-old. [Fort Greene Focus]

A cabbie is turning heads as a fictional Russian ambassador on House of Cards. [Sheepshead Bites]

Cops nab man accused of groping two young girls in separate incidents near a middle school. [Bensonhurst Bean]

Man arrested after fatal shooting in the Borough Hall subway station. [Kensington BK]

A teen was charged in a vicious beating at a Flatbush Avenue McDonald’s. [Ditmas Park Corner]

Local pre-schooler inspires a dancetastic fundraiser. [South Slope News]

Two men who set off a terrorism scare when they took photos of an Ocean Parkway synagogue turned out to be “devout Christians” on vacation from Connecticut. [SB]

Four men arrested after two NYPD officers were beat up in a Gravesend housing project. [BB]

A new mural celebrating the life of Biggie Smalls is up in Clinton Hill. [FGF]

A new community center celebrates Brooklyn’s growing Pakistani community. [DPC]

Swans set to vanish from local parks and waterways, unless neighbors pony up cash. [SB]

Wikipedia edits on police brutality posts traced back to One Police Plaza [Capital NY]