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:
Parents are fuming over lack of communication from officials after a wall collapsed at a Dyker Heights middle school. [Bensonhurst Bean]
A fire ripped through a Windsor Terrace townhouse, leaving several people injured. [KensingtonBK]
Six celebrity yearbook photos, including Marisa Tomei and Darren Aronofsky, from the Murrow High School archives. [Sheepshead Bites]
The Pavilion is going residential, but will still have a movie theater. [South Slope News]
A man swam in the Gowanus Canal, isn’t a mutant…yet. [Park Slope Stoop]
The NYPD and DOT may work together to tackle traffic issues on Park and Flatbush Avenues. [Fort Greene Focus]
All this city noise is actually killing us. [CityLab]
The long-awaited Windsor Terrace Key Food could open in May. [KBK]
Baby red-tailed hawks were born high above LIU Brooklyn’s athletic fields. [FGF]
Meet the artist behind a cool new installation in a Park Slope park. [PSS]
The most loud sex complaints are coming from this Bay Ridge building. [DNAinfo]
Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts likely to return this year. [SB]
Elected officials blast de Blasio’s office for neglect of Bensonhurst Park. [BB]
More and more (and more) people are riding the subway. [Streetsblog]