Week In Review: Oil Scam Hits Local Schools, Suggest Ideas For Participatory Budgeting, And Luigi Pizzeria Gets Praise
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TOP NEWS
- Oil companies defrauded PS 20, Brooklyn Tech, and the Brooklyn War Memorial, among others.
- A smoking ban may be coming to NYCHA public housing.
- Submit your ideas for participatory budgeting in Fort Greene-Clinton Hill!
- Brooklyn’s tallest building — 1,000 feet tall — is coming to Downtown Brooklyn.
- A man was arrested for pointing lasers at helicopters over Brooklyn.
- Pratt head engineer Conrad Milsner will be allowed to stay in campus housing.
- Luigi Pizzeria is featured in the NY Pizza Project.
CRIME
- Three youth were arrested for allegedly robbing and pointing a BB gun at three officers in Bed-Stuy.
- A local man disputes the police report about being hit with a car.
- FREE FIRE ALARMS and fire safety workshops this month.
- New officers are being assigned to patrol Ingersoll and Whitman Houses.
OTHER NEWS
- Residents are forming a Friends of Walt Whitman Library group.
- Almost 1 in 4 Fort Greene-Clinton Hill residents are uninsured, says new data.
- What you need to know about middle school applications.
- More office space is coming, at 47 Hall Street.
- PACC has a new name and office: IMPACCT Brooklyn.
- LIST: Where to go swimming indoors in Brooklyn.
- More money for the Brooklyn Navy Yard.