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 the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites that are worth a read this weekend:

The city has caved to demands from residents of a posh oceanfront condominium developer, moving a partially constructed bathroom 350 feet in front of a private playground – at an additional cost to city taxpayers of $2.5 million. [Sheepshead Bites]

A bus driver was arrested for choking a teen during an argument over his dog. [Bensonhurst Bean]

Fort Greene residents react to the removal of an Edward Snowden bust from the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument. [Fort Greene Focus]

Residents call on Albany to end tax break for luxury developers. [Ditmas Park Corner]

Food truck rally returns to Grand Army Plaza this Sunday. [Park Slope Stoop]

City marshals seized George’s Restaurant. [KensingtonBK]

A fourth Brooklyn man was arrested in an attempt to aid ISIS terrorists abroad. [SB]

Park Slope is home to a new Malaysian restaurant, and it’s good. [PSS]

Community bands together to help family left homeless by fire. [DPC]

Here’s what the Paramount Theater restoration will look like! [FGF]

The Manhattan Beach Jewish Center will be the only Brooklyn site to be added to the state and federal register of historic places this year. [SB]

Facing issues with landlord, Brooklyn Belly may not reopen. [KBK]

A second Bensonhurst man was sentenced for stealing from the donation box at a Borough Park synagogue. [BB]

A band of coaster-heads who got stuck atop Coney Island’s Cyclone on opening day reunited for another ride. [NY Times]