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# Friday Brooklyn News Roundup
- URL: https://bklyner.com/friday-brooklyn-news-roundup/
- Published: 2021-05-14T21:12:36.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-14T21:12:36.000Z
- Author: Billy Richling
- Tags: News, Nonsponsored, #wp

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021\. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

It’s been a long and eventful week in Brooklyn. As you enjoy the [warm and sunny](https://weather.com/es-US/tiempo/hoy/l/9997af9d31e8bd8419a6acaccbb4e26a4010f26b7425354247dccdd32f5c147f?ref=bklyner.com) weather, catch up on the week’s stories below:

- This is Streets Week, so City Hall has been [rolling out news](/bike-boulevards-are-coming/), including plans for new bus lanes, busways, and bikeways around Brooklyn.
- The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [approved a hotly-contested proposal](/city-landmarks-commission-approves-controversial-development-at-hebron-school-in-crown-heights/) to build a residential development next to the Hebron Seventh Day Adventist School in Crown Heights on Tuesday, prompting opponents to start fundraising for a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the project.
- A [massive blaze broke out](https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/massive-blaze-breaks-out-at-brooklyn-power-plant-fdny/?ref=bklyner.com) Thursday morning on the roof of a plant that supplies power the Warbasse Houses complex in southern Brooklyn.
- Shaun Donovan and Raymond J. McGuire, two candidates for mayor, [were \*very\* off](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/nyregion/median-home-brooklyn-mayor.html?ref=bklyner.com) when asked to estimate the median home price in Brooklyn.
- East Flatbush elected officials joined family members on Friday to mourn a [12-year-old boy who died after being assaulted at his school](https://nypost.com/2021/05/07/cops-say-death-of-12-year-old-nyc-boy-is-suspicious/?ref=bklyner.com) and demand answers from the city’s Department of Education, which they said has shown a “lack of transparency, accountability and communication” since the tragedy occured.
- Meet [all the candidates](/brooklyn-judges-on-the-ballots-2021/) running for judicial seats in Brooklyn this year.
- Tenants of one of the city’s “worst landlords” are [demanding a meeting](https://www.brooklynpaper.com/tenants-of-citys-worst-landlord-demand-meeting/?ref=bklyner.com) with the property owner after years of unsafe conditions in their Crown Heights building.
- Dozens of riders were [forced to evacuate](https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-ferry-crashes-docked-barge-shattering-windows?ref=bklyner.com) a city ferry Thursday, after the boat crashed into a docked barge at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
- Senator Kevin Parker has been [flooding some constituents’ mailboxes](/senator-kevin-parker-floods-some-constituents-with-mailers-before-election-deadline/) with mailers, thanks to a discrepancy between city and state election law.
- A Homecrest mosque [was vandalized](/homecrest-mosque-tagged-with-anti-palestine-graffiti-on-eid/) with the words “Death 2 Palestine” early Thursday morning, during the Eid-al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.
- A Brooklyn landlord who tried to save on heating bills by giving his tenants electric hot plates and space heaters [was charged with manslaughter](https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-brooklyn-landlord-fatal-fire-manslaughter-20210513-maita2cjgjgyrifemh35pc4ooq-story.html?ref=bklyner.com) after one of the heaters caused a deadly fire.
- This week in [restaurant openings and closings](/openings-and-closings-tikka-masala-tiered-cakes-and-tofu/): a new birria truck, several new pizzerias, and a new Brooklyn home for a Manhattan favorite—along a farewell to two Park Slope spots.