South Slope Weekly Rewind: Gunpoint Robberies, New Flea Market, Participatory Budgeting Winners


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Now for some of the stories you might have missed:

• Cops are after two men they say held up a couple local businesses at gunpoint.

• A new flea market is coming to the lot behind Mary’s Bar.

• PS 124, Prospect Park, and more win in District 39 participatory budgeting.

• What was happening in that shuttered storefront on 7th at 11th all those years?

• The lineup for Celebrate Brooklyn is out!

• Pushing for safer streets for pedestrians by adding sidewalk bulb-outs.

• Get excited for free Shakespeare.

• A 5th Avenue development site has sold — so, more condos?

“Verizon’s Yearly Killing of Trees.”