Week In Review: Rezoning Proposals, A Community In Mourning, Ghost-Hunting, And Meet Our New Children’s Librarian

Missed some of this week’s news? Here’s a recap:

• Add your events to our Brooklyn-wide calendar!
• Here’s our Kids Calendar through September 29.
• Moving to Fort Greene? Get your Open Me First box! (SPONSORED)

TOP STORIES

• The week started with a triple homicide at the Ingersoll Houses.
• Mourning continued with memorials to the three victims & cries for gun control and more jobs and resources for youth.
• St. Joseph’s College alums are outraged at the firing of veteran athletic director Frank Carbone.
• PBNYC 2015: locals want NYCHA stairwell lighting, school equipment upgrades, and more.
• Learn more about potential rezoning at a meeting on Monday, September 28.

FOOD:

• Four local restaurants won Michelin Bib Gourmand designations.

CRIME/POLICE

• Seven months later: a Brownsville man was arrested for the shooting death of a man in the Walt Whitman Houses.
• Crime statistics for the 88th Precinct: September 7-13.
• Have you seen 83-year-old Lourdamma Udumala?

OTHER NEWS

• The Brooklyn Paranormal Society went ghost-hunting in Fort Greene Park.
• Meet Adam Schmidt, new children’s librarian at Walt Whitman Library.
• Straphangers rated the A, C, G, and other subway lines.
• Movie star alert: Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, and Michael Caine are filming “Going In Style.”
• Construction will soon begin at Putnam Triangle Plaza.
• PHOTOS: Local dads walked their kids to school in solidarity.
• Carey Gabay was laid to rest this weekend.
• Buy your own Fort Greene Tennis Association T-shirt.
• Clean out your prescription medicine cabinet at one of these drop-off locations.
• Construction began at 15 Lafayette Avenue.
• The city Department of Health sprayed pesticides to combat West Nile Virus.
• Meet your favorite authors! They include Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kristin Hersh.
• Donate school supplies for the September 29 back-to-school event at Lafayette Gardens.
• Find out if you are you owed money through unclaimed funds.