Today’s Links: Subway Ceiling Tumbles Down at Borough Hall Stop, Concerned Citizens Suspect Fowl Play Over Seven Missing Swans & More

Earlier this week, Crown Height’s tenants rallied to protest the sale of their building from the current slumlord owner to a major investment company amid fear of gentrification.

Yesterday, Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuels called an emergency town hall meeting to address NYCHA violations in Brownsville. This is just days after a report on the neighborhood’s parks and open space found them in desperate need.

Another park in desperate need: the long-closed BAM Park at Fulton and Lafayette, which is dangerous to walk in due to crumbling foundations over the subway stop, was accidentally opened to the public during the filming of Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” earlier this month.

But the big story in crumbling subway stations is Borough Hall, where the ceiling fell yesterday, tumbling down in a shower of bricks and masonry, causing major delays and an emergency repair effort. True New Yorkers, some found, were unperturbed:

Some folks are actually making an effort with the upkeep of old stonework: a group of masonry apprentices in Green-Wood cemetery are learning to take care of sometimes centuries-old gravestones.

In Prospect Park, birders are worried something nefarious happened to the seven mute swans that seem to be missing from their pond. The Parks Department wonders if the bird might’ve, you know, flown away? Their Southern Brooklyn brethren have narrowly escaped death before, so who knows—it may be fowl play.

Thinking about keeping cool this summer? Check out a great history and amazing pictures of New York’s public pool craze in the ’30s! Of course, a new pool in Squibb Park may close the once-springy Squibb Bridge to Brooklyn Bridge Park—and now locals want a new span.

Another bridge is getting ready for construction work: the 86th Street overpass will gain some much-needed repairs, but may require temporary closure of the onramps.

Marine and Third in Bay Ridge may also see some traffic calming, pedestrian safety improvements: curb extensions and shorter crosswalks, namely.

And while some were heartened by Borough President Adam’s recommendations for 80 Flatbush—which includes lopping off nearly 300 feet of height—other have found that his plan may be encouraging a shorter but stouter development nearly the same size.

Better get to the Rockwell Place Community Garden Summer Solstice this year, just in case…