Week In Review: Key Food Is Closing, Pratt Station Reopens, And Murder At The Whitman Houses

Here’s your weekly recap of what went down this week:

• Key Food is closing at 325 Lafayette Avenue (between Grand and Classon Avenues) in Clinton Hill to make room for mixed-rate housing.
• A town hall about the closing grocery will be held on Monday.
• Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s median rental price for one-bedrooms hits the $2,450-$2,700 range.
• Check out these rentals.
• Pratt Station Post Office finally reopened in its new location.
• 20-year-old Kevin Colon was killed in the Walt Whitman Houses.
• What are those black drips on the subway?
• Some crime went down while others went up in the 88th Precinct.
• Local civic groups supported a Move NY panel about a congestion pricing plan.
• Celebrate Lunar New Year in Brooklyn!
• Apply for summer internships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
• Keep your pet safe and healthy this winter.
• Stay safe with your natural gas lines.
• Local middle schoolers and St. Francis College students teamed up for soccer.
• 88th Precinct cops found a lost pooch and made her an honorary cop.
• Rep. Hakeem Jeffries sponsored a bill to support families of slain police officers.

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