The Down-Low: The City That Never Shuts Up & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Smith Street Festival and Pétanque Tournament (Photo by Paul Stremple)

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

-New York Becomes the City That Never Shuts Up [NY Times]

-Vanished Prospect Park Caterer Could Be In Atlantic City ‘Gambling Now,’ Lawyer Says [Gothamist]

-Mapping the many gas stations lost to NYC’s development boom [Curbed]

-Two more candidates join crowded field in Bay Ridge race [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

-Eating along the B line: Here’s where to get a shark burger to celebrate ‘Shark Week’ [NY Daily News]

-Couple Who Kept Korean Teens as ‘Slaves’ at Flushing Home Plead Guilty [DNAinfo]