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Today’s Links: Park Slope Postal Placards Pulled, Nude Theater Company Prepares to Bare It All & More

Today’s Links: Park Slope Postal Placards Pulled, Nude Theater Company Prepares to Bare It All & More
Bright lights in Luna Park after dark (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)

Look out below! A sign tumbled from a dentist’s Bay Ridge storefront and struck two elderly women yesterday afternoon, but luckily, the injuries weren’t serious.

The weekend also had a long, strange list of accidents: an arm lost to an L train at Broadway Junction, a man impaled by a branch while driving the Bay Ridge waterfront, and a grenade discovered in the Luna Park houses in Coney Island.

On the roads, a recent study shows that a two-way toll on the Verrazano Bridge could reduce traffic in Southern Brooklyn. Also, the Post Office will pull parking placards from its Park Slope location after employees abused the placards to park illegally.

On the ground, Chuck Schumer: the Democratic Senator missed his first Brooklyn town hall of the year due to airplane troubles. He called in to his Park Slope synagogue, but residents weren’t too thrilled with his no-show…

Also in politics, it looks like Governor Cuomo doesn’t buy Mayor de Blasio’s excuses on lead poisoning in NYCHA buildings that led to public and political outcry.

Prospect Park will host a theater company’s nude revival of “The Rover,” set to open in August. Rehearsals and tanning sessions are underway for the cast this week.

An a Red Hook developer is betting big on the ponies—catch up on the latest “seven or eight” story development plans for the Kensington Stables.

Take a trip down memory lane on these dead-end streets off Flatbush Avenue that hearken back to a quaint, historic Brooklyn.

And closing on the lighter side—meet the cat that basically runs things in this Carroll Gardens real estate office.