Other Brooklyn Stories We Don’t Want You To Miss
We wish we could have written all of these, and with your support, 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 (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. 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 (NY1 video).
- Polish restaurant Kasia’s in Williamsburg to close after 31 years as ‘neighborhood feeling’ vanishes. (Daily News)
- How Made In Brownsville Is Tackling Youth Unemployment In Brooklyn (Forbes)
- Did out parking obsession get a senior killed? (HeyRidge) dives into daylighting of intersections in Bay Ridge.
- Sarsour Says A Report That She Ignored Sex Harassment Is “Character Assassination” (Buzzfeed)
- Brooklyn man free for the holidays after 30 years behind bars on wrongful rape, robbery conviction (Pix11)
- Artist Katie Merz brings Brooklyn to life with her latest work – Mural at 80 Flatbush (Downtown Brooklyn)
- Nadler wins top Democratic post on Judiciary Committee (Politico)
- Carmen Fariña announced yesterday she is stepping down as New York City schools chief (Chalkbeat)
- The curious case of Brooklyn’s ‘island of misfit toys’ – (Curbed) looks into what happened to Underhill Playground’s shared toys.
