The Low-Down: Highway Corn, Spike Lee, A Skate Park Body, And More

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

Volunteers recently teamed up to clean the filthy Plumb Beach area. [Brooklyn Daily]

Brooklynites have a chance to be in Spike Lee’s next project. [DNAinfo]

Young woman found dead and covered in blood in Bay Ridge skate park. [Brooklyn Reporter]

Garbage trucks are crowding Brooklyn streets. [Gothamist]

De Blasio signs right of way and bike access bills [Streetsblog]

Brooklyn juvenile detention center aide faces prison for abusing and raping teen girl. [Daily News]

City Council members aren’t standing for the pledge of allegiance. [New York Post]

There is corn growing on the Gowanus Expressway. [Brooklyn Daily]