Romance In Gowanus, Rocking Council Member & More of Today’s Links

After posing for pictures on the Union Street Bridge, Senator Chuck Schumer’s daughter Alison wed Elizabeth Weiland at The Green Building in Gowanus on Sunday.

Dancing at House of Yes in Bushwick and making pizzas in his backyard in Cypress Hills are a couple of ways City Council Member (District 37) and Public Advocate candidate Rafael Espinal spends his Sundays.

Fellow City Council Member Justin Brannan (District 43), a former intern on “The Howard Stern Show,” Wall Street suit, and guitarist for two punk bands—Indecision and Most Precious Blood—is credited with turning southern Brooklyn blue.

Yehuda Webster, a black Jewish man, was racially harassed in Crown Heights last week by a group of Hasidic Jews who questioned why he was holding a Torah scroll he’d rented to officiate a bar mitzvah ceremony.

After losing her job and battling a series of medical issues, Elba Roman struggles to keep her Bed-Stuy home.

In an effort to expand industrial business growth and create new jobs, the Department of City Planning released a rezoning study that will allow taller and denser commercial buildings across the North Brooklyn Industrial Business Zone (from Greenpoint to Bushwick).

The NYS Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed by The Alliance To End Chickens as Kaporos which sought to ban the ultra-Orthodox Jewish atonement ritual of slaughtering chickens before Yom Kippur. Last week, the New York Appellate Court ruled against another case filed by the Animal Legal Defense Fund looking to end the practice.