Week In Review: Walt’s Ice Cream Stand, NYCHA Scrutiny And Development, And Free Yoga At BRIC

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 July 14.
• 2015 Music In The Grove schedule in Fort Greene Park!

FOOD:

• First Bite: Walt’s Ice Cream Stand is now open!
• Colonia Verde’s new brunch menu is here!

CRIME

• Someone torched a cop car with a live firework and now their image is released to the public.
• Grand and petit larcenies went down but felony assaults went up in the last week of June.

NEWS

• Private developers can bid on a lot at Ingersoll Houses and other NYCHA developments.
• NYCHA vacancy rates get scrutinized by a Comptroller audit.
• Will the Atlantic Yards school be K-8 or a middle school? Parents want 6-8 grades only.
• Seniors cheer the July 27 arrival of USPS and MetroCard mobile vans to Myrtle Avenue.
• Arts groups, apply for a Destination>Brooklyn grant!
• Pratt’s online store is live. It’s old store is now the Film-Video Department.
• Nelson Mandela artwork is on display at Madiba.
• Brooklyn Yoga Club is opening at 208 Vanderbilt Avenue.
• More yoga! Every Friday, FREE at BRIC.
• Check out electric-assisted bikes at Propel Bikes on Flushing Avenue.
• Name a bench in Fort Greene Park after a loved one.
• School District 13 parents now have a new resource center at 131 Livingston Street.
• Free classes in computer basics and social media basics.
• Reserve your spot for the July Wallabout Historic Walking Tour!
• Brooklyn For Pets has expanded to Fort Greene & Clinton Hill.
• Take a staycation in Brooklyn in Park Slope.