Week In Review: NYC Loves Charleston, Red Lantern Revamp, Greene Grape Scoops Opens, And Putnam Triangle Debate
Missed some of this week’s news? Here’s a recap:
- Add your events to our new Brooklyn-wide calendar!
- Here’s our Kids Calendar through June 30!
- 2015 Music In The Grove schedule in Fort Greene Park!
FOOD:
- Goodbye nut milks: Red Lantern’s cafe is changing hands as of July 1.
- First Bite: Greene Grape Scoops ice cream!
- First Taste: Colonia Verde’s grand reopening.
- Sandwich Spotlight: Farmer In The Deli got the NYTimes Magazine treatment.
CRIME
- Crime stats continued a downward trajectory in the 88th Precinct.
- This man allegedly punched a fellow straphanger at the Pacific Street N station.
- The suspect reportedly forcibly touched a woman on the R train.
- Public lewdness on the A train has cops searching for this perp.
NEWS
- Debate surrounds the development of Putnam Triangle Plaza.
- First Look: Renderings of planned affordable housing at 1041-1047 Fulton and 911-917 Atlantic.
- NYC <3 CHARLESTON, vowed Brooklynites at a rally/vigil outside Barclays Center.
- Meet Sammy Norrito, CB 2’s first youth member.
- Learn more about the PrattSIDE art installation coming to Putnam Triangle Plaza.
- Brooklyn For Pets has expanded to Fort Greene & Clinton Hill.
- Free classes in computer basics and social media basics.
- FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Wireless communication, circa 1900, at Pratt Institute.
- New parking app, SpotPog, offers cash and karma for spots.
- Prospect Park baseball camp!
- New York Islanders will have their first home game on October 9.
- Lunar New Year is a school holiday beginning next school year.
- Reserve your spot for the July Wallabout Historic Walking Tour!
- In case of emergency: help NYCOEM choose community safe spaces.