The Down-Low: Uber Tips, Bay Ridge True Crime, BQX Doubts & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

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Stratford Road near Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)

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 Moves to Require Uber to Provide Tipping Option in Its App [New York Times]

-True Crime Bay Ridge: The Murder of Patsy Hylan [Hey Ridge]

-City memo suggests BQX may not be financially feasible after all [Politico]

-Arresting and suspending students costs city millions each year, report says [NY Daily News]

-On the Trail of New York’s Greatest Trees [CityLab]

-NYC DOT survey of privately owned streets could end in takeover [amNewYork]