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# Other Brooklyn Stories We Don’t Want You To Miss
- URL: https://bklyner.com/brooklyn-stories-dont-want-miss/
- Published: 2017-12-22T19:42:23.000Z
- Updated: 2017-12-22T19:49:05.000Z
- Author: Liena Zagare
- Tags: Central Brooklyn, Eastern Brooklyn, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, northern brooklyn, Southern Brooklyn, Western Brooklyn, #wp

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We wish we could have written all of these, [**and with your support**](/subscribe/), we may yet one day, in the meantime, here are some good reads by others – as always – there is a Brooklyn angle.

- [The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-criminalization-of-gentrifying-neighborhoods/548837/?ref=bklyner.com) (The Atlantic) discusses J’ouvert, 311 and 911 and quality of life policing in Brooklyn and elsewhere.
- [How to Be Charitable, from Brooklyn’s Guru of Giving.](https://thebridgebk.com/how-to-be-charitable-from-brooklyns-guru-of-giving/?ref=bklyner.com) Cecilia Clarke, CEO of the borough’s community foundation, explains why she intensified the group’s activism toward social and racial justice. (The Bridge BK)
- [Routine street work in Brooklyn uncovers well that may predate the Revolutionary War at Bond and Pacific](http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2017/12/22/routine-street-work-in-brooklyn-uncovers-well-that-may-date-back-before-the-revolutionary-war.html?ref=bklyner.com) (NY1 video).
- [Polish restaurant Kasia’s in Williamsburg to close after 31 years as ‘neighborhood feeling’ vanishes.](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/polish-eatery-gentrifying-williamsburg-close-31-years-article-1.3713656?ref=bklyner.com) (Daily News)
- [How Made In Brownsville Is Tackling Youth Unemployment In Brooklyn](https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2017/12/21/how-made-in-brownsville-is-tackling-youth-unemployment-in-brooklyn/?ref=bklyner.com#7c036ae91f5f) (Forbes)
- [Did out parking obsession get a senior killed?](https://www.heyridge.com/2017/12/did-our-parking-obsession-get-a-senior-killed/?ref=bklyner.com) (HeyRidge) dives into daylighting of intersections in Bay Ridge.
- [Sarsour Says A Report That She Ignored Sex Harassment Is “Character Assassination”](https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahallam/womens-march-organizer-linda-sarsour-denies-report-she?utm%5Fterm=.pn5Yy9N5E&ref=bklyner.com#.sujEB4yD2) (Buzzfeed)
- [Brooklyn man free for the holidays after 30 years behind bars on wrongful rape, robbery conviction](http://pix11.com/2017/12/20/brooklyn-man-free-for-the-holidays-after-30-years-behind-bars-on-wrongful-rape-robbery-conviction/?ref=bklyner.com) (Pix11)
- [Artist Katie Merz brings Brooklyn to life with her latest work – Mural at 80 Flatbush](http://downtownbrooklyn.com/news/2017/mural-at-80-flatbush?ref=bklyner.com) (Downtown Brooklyn)
- [Nadler wins top Democratic post on Judiciary Committee](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/jerry-nadler-judiciary-committee-306914?ref=bklyner.com) (Politico)
- [Carmen Fariña announced yesterday she is stepping down as New York City schools chief](https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/12/20/report-carmen-farina-stepping-down-as-new-york-city-schools-chief/?ref=bklyner.com) (Chalkbeat)
- [The curious case of Brooklyn’s ‘island of misfit toys’](https://ny.curbed.com/2017/12/20/16797708/brooklyn-playground-underhill-avenue-nyc-parks?ref=bklyner.com) – (Curbed) looks into what happened to Underhill Playground’s shared toys.