Pests in a Park Slope Pasta Spot, Rooftop Revolutionaries in Greenpoint & More of Today’s Links

Pests in a Park Slope Pasta Spot, Rooftop Revolutionaries in Greenpoint & More of Today’s Links
A tag on the backside of the NuHart plastics industrial site in Greenpoint (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)

What’s old is new again: the Small Business Jobs Survival Act is gathering steam once again. Check out what you need to know about the thirty-year-old bill.

Man the barricades! It looks like an artist in Greenpoint is gearing up for a revolution—check out why they’ve installed a guillotine on a rooftop in the North Brooklyn nabe.

A Borough Park rabbi is working hard to raise awareness about drug abuse—and especially opioids—in the insular Orthodox Jewish community.

After two decades of serving up Italian fare in Park Slope, the Sotto Voce restaurant is taking a break after health inspectors served up a list of violations that included roaches, mice and flies.

While you might want to steer clear of the red sauce for a while, check out other openings (and closings) in the Park Slope restaurant scene.

A former Flatbush furniture store is turning into a 65-unit development at Caton Avenue—hopefully, it won’t cast too much of a shadow!

Speaking of buildings, check out some great photos of further developments in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is seeing many changes, along with a new STEAM-focused high school.

NYU-Langone Brooklyn (aka the Lutheran Medical Center) will be selling off the massive Shore Road senior housing it owns in Bay Ridge.

And it looks like the long-awaited Willoughby Square park project Downtown is finally going to get started—in January.