This Week In The Slope: A Hit-And-Run, An Elderly Mugging, An Applewood Exit, And More

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

• BP Eric Adams offers award to nab armed suspect preying on elderly women in Park Slope.

• Victim’s identity and new video released in violent choking of 91-year-old woman.

• Slope Eats & Drinks: What opened, what closed, and what’s coming soon.

• The rise of office buildings in Gowanus? Quirky zoning rules could be changing.

• 91-Year-Old Woman choked, robbed, and threatened with a gun on 9th Street, police say.

• Dining Review: Insa offers elegant Korean Barbecue with a generous helping of karaoke.

• Applewood closes after 12 years in the neighborhood, champions of Slow Food Movement.

• Pedestrian identified in fatal hit-and-run on 5th Avenue.

• Local politicians to push City Hall on Express F Service.

• Freelancers of the Slope Unite!

• Soul In The Sol: 2016 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Schedule features Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Neko Case ‘Folk Supergroup’, Tame Impala, and more.

• 4th Avenue condo with pet spa up next for controversial developer.

• BP to honor Sean Casey Animal Shelter and East Flatbush doctor.

• Seven more arrests in heating oil scam that cheated MS 51.

• Police seek missing senior with dementia last seen on 10th Street.

• Video released of suspect’s vehicle in pedestrian fatality on 5th Avenue.

• Parents of teens who were mugged charge lack of communication from 78th Precinct.

• Pedestrian killed on 5th Avenue Sunday, February 28 in apparent hit-and-run, cops say.

• Flashback Friday: Here comes the ’22 flood.

• Adoptable animal of the week: Ox the dog.