The Down Low: Ex-Mobster Shelters Animals In Bensonhurst & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

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4th Annual Freddy’s Bar and Backroom Doggy Fashion Show (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)

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

-Gambino enforcer abandons life of crime to save animals with Brooklyn shelter [NY Daily News]

-Di Fara’s Legendary Pizza Will Join New Williamsburg Food Hall [EaterNY]

-40 Years Since Blackout, Bushwick’s Broadway Still Struggles to Swing Back [DNAinfo]

-In the West Village, a remnant of NYC’s onetime smallest plot of land remains [Curbed]

-Rodent stole woman’s mail for two months [Brooklyn Paper]

-Another New York Diner Turns Off the Grill, a Victim of Rising Rents [NY Times]