The South BK Beat: Illegal Home Conversions And Affordability Crisis Plague Dyker Heights, Bay Ridge

The South BK Beat is our new round-up of news you may have missed in South Brooklyn this week :

Dyker Heights poised to start organics recycling [Brooklyn Reporter]

Flower shop finds permanent home in Dyker Heights [NY Metro Parents]

Ridgites demand response to name’s growing homeless [Brooklyn Paper]

Illegal conversions and South Brooklyn’s housing crisis [Gotham Gazette]

Police release five arrested in Brooklyn in connection to Chelsea bombing [Brooklyn Paper]