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# Brooklyn End-of-the-Week News Roundup
- URL: https://bklyner.com/brooklyn-news-roundup/
- Published: 2021-03-12T22:58:40.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-12T23:05:09.000Z
- Author: Billy Richling
- Tags: News, Nonsponsored, #wp

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It’s been a long, busy week in Brooklyn, but the sun is shining and the weather is warm. Here are some end-of-the-week links from around the web to keep you in the know.

- A growing number of the borough’s elected officials are [calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign](https://www.bkreader.com/2021/03/12/brooklyn-elected-officials-call-on-governor-cuomo-to-resign/?ref=bklyner.com) in the wake of dual sexual harassment and nursing home scandals. Also [making the call](https://twitter.com/jessemckinley/status/1370397281124560900?ref=bklyner.com): Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
- A [lawsuit filed Tuesday](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/nyregion/nyc-schools-segregation-lawsuit.html?smid=tw-share&ref=bklyner.com) could force fundamental changes to how the city’s public school students are admitted into selective schools.
- Activists, hospital staff and clergy [gathered outside Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center](/protestors-call-for-cancellation-of-kingsbrook-hospital-consolidation/) in East Flatbush on Thursday to demand the state abandon its plan to transform the struggling hospital.
- Four men armed with a knife, a baseball bat and a golf club [beat two Sanitation Department workers](https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-sanitation-workers-assaulted-brooklyn-20210312-yxnleyr7m5aerenii55v5sm6j4-story.html?ref=bklyner.com) in East New York on Wednesday morning, according to police.
- The Associated Supermarket at 975 Nostrand Avenue [has been given 30 days to vacate](/associated-supermarket-given-30-days-to-vacate-crown-heights-site/) its space, after negotiations about the supermarket’s presence in a future development fell apart.
- Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. is [locking in support](/cornegy-locks-in-support-from-establishment-democrats-in-borough-president-race/) from moderate and establishment Democrats in the Brooklyn Borough President race.
- A proposed mixed-use development in Prospect Heights [faces pushback](/proposed-tower-at-mcdonalds-site-faces-pushback-questions-over-ownership/) from residents and questions over its ownership.
- The recently-landmarked 227 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, which has historical ties to the slavery abolition movement, [has been sold to the city](https://www.brooklynpaper.com/227-duffield-abolitionist-sale-city/?ref=bklyner.com). A lawyer for the previous owner says the property’s historical designation caused the building’s value to “plummet.”
- East Flatbush Council Member Farah Louis [has spent $1.4 million in discretionary funding outside her district](https://haitiantimes.com/2021/03/09/council-member-farah-louis-funding-uneven-with-1-4m-going-outside-district-while-200k-stays-inside-d45/?ref=bklyner.com), but only $200,000 within it.
- A statue of late Supreme Court Justice and Brooklyn native Ruth Bader Ginsberg [was unveiled](https://www.amny.com/news/rbg-statue-to-be-unveiled-in-downtown-brooklyn/?ref=bklyner.com) in Downtown Brooklyn this week.
- In the roughly eight months since the Facebook group ‘White People. DOING Something’ was hastily created in the wake of George Floyd’s death, [the platform has grown](/white-people-doing-something/) into a community of over 40,000.
- What’s the latest in Brooklyn’s COVID-slammed music scene? One artist has spent the pandemic [experimenting with unconventional sounds](/brooklyn-based-artists-explores-a-new-sound/).