This Week In Park Slope: A Rise In Robberies, New Parking App, Best Bagels And More

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Here’s a look back at some stories you might have missed this week:

• Help police track down this man accused of assaulting a subway rider.

• There will be a permanent memorial placed on Prospect Park West for Sammy Cohen-Eckstein.

• Learn about our avian neighbors, Swallows.

• The New York Times discovered the neighborhood, again.

• The Morbid Anatomy Museum is celebrating its one year anniversary.

• We want to know what place has the best bagels in the neighborhood.

• A new app called SpotPog launched that hopes to make parking easier.

• The Lunar New Year will now be considered an official school holiday.

• There’s been a rise in robberies in the area recently.

• Neighborhood artist Jonathan Blum is celebrating being 50 with a retrospective at ShapeShifter Lab.

• Finally, got an event coming up? Share it on our calendar!