The Down Low: Prospect Park Food Vendors, De Blasio’s Shelter Test, Weather Truthers & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

The Down Low: Prospect Park Food Vendors, De Blasio’s Shelter Test, Weather Truthers & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss
Ditmas Park in storm Stella. (Photo by Keka Marzagao)

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

–Prospect Park Seeks 16 ‘Inventive and Interesting’ Food Vendors. [DNAinfo]

–Op-Ed: De Blasio’s big shelter test: Why Crown Heights has good reason to be wary of his new homelessness plans. [New York Daily News]

–National Weather Service: Sorry, You’re Too Stupid To Trust With The REAL Forecast. [Gothamist]

–Cuomo’s $1.4 Billion Plan for Brooklyn Stirs Fears of Gentrification. [New York Times]

–French Filmmaker Becomes New York Cab Driver for a Year. [Voices of NY]

–Being Indian in Trump’s America. [The New Yorker]

–Subways Run in Manhattan, but Other Boroughs Are Left in the Cold. [New York Times]