Week In Review: Greenest Block In Brooklyn Wins, Farewell Magnus Mukoro, And Affordable Housing Applications Open
Missed some of this week’s news? Here’s a recap:
to our new Brooklyn-wide calendar!
Here’s our Kids Calendarthrough August 11.
- Get a free spray cap for your fire hydrant.
FOOD:
- Happy anniversary, Greene Grape Annex!
- El Paso Mexican Grill has opened on Flatbush Avenue.
CRIME
- One man died in a shooting outside the Walt Whitman Houses.
- Meet Captain Charles Minch, new commanding officer of PSA 3.
- No big ups or downs in crime stats for the fourth week of July in the 88th Precinct.
- A Bed-Stuy man was arrested for the shooting death of a man in Clinton Hill.
- PHOTOS: National Night Out Against Crime in Fort Greene.
NEWS
- Apply now for affordable housing in City Point Tower One.
- Farewell Magnus Mukoro, founder of Young Rock Soccer Academy.
- Fort Greene businesses and Ingersoll Garden seniors are thrilled by their first place wins in the 2015 Greenest Block in Brooklyn awards.
- The BQE and Atlantic Avenue ranked in the Top 3 Brooklyn streets for pothole complaints.
- Share your Clinton Hill story with the Brooklyn Public Library.
- Are you looking for a job? A local nursery school and several businesses are hiring.
- An update: construction on Fort Greene Park’s Willoughby Avenue entrance.
- Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, and Lauryn Hill are coming to Fort Greene‘s AfroPunk Festival!
- No Downtown Brooklyn medical marijuana dispensary, after all.
- Find out if you are you owed money through unclaimed funds.
- Tips to keep your pet safe this summer.
- Shortlist released in inaugural Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize.
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