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, as well as some other fascinating pieces that are worth a read this weekend:

Historic Kings Theatre set to reopen soon. [Ditmas Park Corner]

NY1 reporter on journalism and raising a family in Brooklyn. [Park Slope Stoop]

Preet Bharara is a real life superhero and you need to know who he is. [NY Times]

The 8 most popular street names in NYC. [Untapped Cities]

Burglar trapped overnight in restaurant’s air vent. [Sheepshead Bites]

Broken muni-meters on the rise. [AMNY]

BK’s largest Italian-American festival started this week, lasts 10 days. [Bensonhurst Bean]

9 of 10 buildings fail basic energy code requirements. [Crain’s]

Preservation laws keeping Ditmas family out of home after 2012 fire. [DPC]

Photos: Coney Island sand sculpting contest. [SB]

De Blasio first mayor to celebrate Pakistan’s independence at Brooklyn Mela. [KensingtonBK]

Catcalling (and worse) is why one woman stopped running in Bushwick. [Bushwick Daily]

Does your 6-year-old need pampering? There’s a new salon for that. [Fort Greene Focus]

Rabies warning issued after dead raccoon tests positive. [BB]

Politics and corruption in governor’s race. [The New Yorker]

Saturday is the 10th anniversary of Fort Greene Park Literary Festival. [FGF]

What the mayor’s rhetoric says about his values. [Crain’s]

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