Week In Review: Wegmans, Greene Grape Scoops, And Stolen Houses

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

• Add your events to our new Brooklyn-wide calendar!

FOOD:

• Wegmans is coming in 2017 to the Brooklyn Navy Yard!
• And they will be hiring locally!
• Exclusive: Greene Grape Scoops is coming in June to 680 Fulton Street!
• Bar Bolinas’ Northern California-inspired menu made EaterNY’s list of hottest Brooklyn restaurants.

NEWS

• Lindsay Lohan is serving community service at Fort Greene’s Duffield Children’s Center.
• Have you seen Dexter the cat?
• Fill out this survey about the pros and cons of your favorite local parks.
• Fort Greene Park construction update: the Willoughby entrance is 50% complete!
• An extra $2 million is going to the $140M renovation of Building 77 in the Navy Yard.
• Through June 4: check out the senior art exhibit from Elders Share Through Arts.
• There are THREE baby hawk chicks above the LIU Brooklyn athletic field.
• Tree Census 2015: Help count and measure trees in your neighborhood!
• Fort Greene’s JHS 265 will perform in Downtown Brooklyn on June 10th for a lunchtime concert!
• In case of emergency: help NYCOEM choose community safe spaces.
• Pratt President Tom Schutte talks art‘s past, present, and future.
• You never know what or who you will find at the Brooklyn Flea!

CRIME

• Two Long Island men are charged with illegally selling and renting four Fort Greene houses.
• It’s life in prison for two former Lafayette Gardens gang members.
• Crime rates rose in most categories last week in the 88th Precinct.