Week In Review: Radio Shack Is Closing, New CEO At Brooklyn Hospital, And Sexual Assault Charges
Here’s your recap of what went down this week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill:
- Don’t forget to turn your clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time!
- Brooklyn Hospital’s new interim CEO will also focus on expanding the ER.
- Radio Shack is closing two Fulton Street locations by the end of March.
- A status update on two buildings south of Fulton Street.
- CEC 13’s board spoke out against Governor Cuomo’s education plan.
- Muslim holidays are now being recognized on the school calendar.
- Drink up: Tipsy’s blood orange margarita.
- Food news: openings, closings, and expansions.
- One-, two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom units available to rent.
- CM Laurie Cumbo talked past, present and future in her #StateOfTheDistrict address.
- LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and St. Francis Terriers face off in the NEC Semifinals.
- Shop online at the Fort Greene General Store.
- Check out Dime Savings Bank’s historic landmarked interior.
- Watch these PS 11 fifth graders dance and sing to “Glory” from the movie “Selma.”
- Support the Greene Hill School!
- Celebrate Read Across America everyday!
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CRIME
- Reported crimes dropped in the 88th Precinct last week.
- No prison time, but a revoked license for the man who ran over 9-year-old Lucian Merryweather in 2013.
- Another teen is suing the DOE for not stopping an ex-Brooklyn Tech teacher’s sexually inappropriate behavior.
- Four Clinton Hill residents face decades in prison for raping, kidnapping and attempting to prostitute two 13-year-old girls.
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