This Week In The Slope: Green-Wood Online, Collapse But All’s Fine, Garden Divine, And More
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Here’s a look back at some stories you might have missed this week:
• Several Brooklyn cops, past and present, get caught in corruption scandal.
• Heaps of local business love marks smashing Taste Of Fifth at Grand Prospect Hall.
• Suspect in fatal carjacking previously arrested 30 times.
• Hidden In Full View: Artist Carlton Scott Sturgill’s ‘Garden Of Delights’ at Gowanus Loft.
• Slope has 4th fastest BK Commute; Highest BK work from home percentage, says study.
• Secondary School for journalism teen wins ‘Major Chef’ title in city’s healthy recipe contest.
• From Shanghai Jianbing to Rock N’ Roll Cookies: Smorgasburg pitches its Prospect Park tent.
• Council Members Lander and Williams combine efforts to pass plastic bag waste bill.
• Green-Wood Cemetery to embark on digitizing spectacular archives.
• Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate will be in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
• Police arrest suspect who allegedly carjacked and killed local business owner.
• Clinton and Sanders embroiled in a ‘Debate of the Debate.’
• Local owner killed by own vehicle while chasing carjacker.
• April 2016 Slope Eats & Drinks: What opened, what closed, and what’s coming soon.
• Powerful winds cause building floor collapse on 4th Avenue; No injuries reported.
• It’s migration season — these beautiful birds are in our area.
• Flashback Friday: When the Grand Prospect Hall burned down in 1900.
• Explore robotics with camps & classes in Brooklyn.
• Stay fit and have fun: Five Sports Camps in Brooklyn.
• Adoptable animal of the week: Piper the dog.