Upcycling Old Electronics for Art, The Rise and Fall of Big Sugar & More of Today’s Links

While everyone is opposed to Amazon in LIC, don’t forget that Brooklyn was once eager to host as well… Want to know why it didn’t work out? Here’s an in-depth analysis from The Bridge.

In America, everyone expects to be innocent until proven guilty, but many bicyclists feel that they are unfairly accused of being at fault in traffic accidents. Listen to one tale of a Vanderbilt Ave cyclist’s run-in with the NYPD after being hit by a car.

While the White House has its share of troubles these days with monetary transactions, the family real estate firm of senior advisor Jared Kushner recently had to cough up some cash in Brooklyn—$100,000 in rent overcharges to Brooklyn Heights tenants.

Industry built Brooklyn into what it is today, but many of the jobs have left, leaving behind warehouses and processing facilities that will eventually be demolished or repurposed in the search for more rental units. Before it’s gone, read about the legacy of Revere Sugar in Red Hook.

Out in East New York, the pastor of a mega-church is looking to fight gentrification by building 2,100 apartments in an “urban village” of affordable housing.

A new facility in Bushwick is offering five-a-side soccer indoors this winter, so you can get your football fix even while it’s snowing. Down in Sunset Park, you can do the same—only on the roof!

As if everyone and their mother wasn’t running already, Curtis Sliwa of the Guardian Angels has some musings on entering the Public Advocate’s race…

Firefighters held a wake in Sunset Park for Faizal Coto, the firefighter and aspiring rapper who was killed in a road rage altercation on the Belt Parkway in Bath beach earlier this week.

Got an old TV? A new exhibit at BRIC encourages residents to “upcycle” their old electronics!