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.