Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed

After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites that are worth a read this weekend:

Dead whale on Brighton Beach most likely struck by ship, experts say. [Sheepshead Bites]

After a major push from Ditmas Park residents, a councilman finally agreed to participatory budgeting. [Ditmas Park Corner]

Car break-ins are plaguing Kensington. [KensingtonBK]

Meet the first teenage members of Community Board 6. [Park Slope Stoop]

Green-Wood Cemetery is getting into the honey business. [South Slope News]

Rooftop Reds Is Bringing Brooklyn’s First Rooftop Vineyard To The Brooklyn Navy Yard. [Fort Greene Focus]

Downtown Brooklyn may get NYC’s first weed dispensary. [Brooklyn Magazine]

Author of legendary “Headless” New York Post headline dies. [The New York Times]

Next Door restaurant serves up stone oven pizza on Emmons Avenue. [SB]

Lafayette Avenue Car Crash Leaves Mangled Mess And Two Seriously Injured. [FGF]

Take a peek into Excelsior’s new 5th Avenue space. [SSN]

A ”Where The Wild Things Are”-themed mural is unveiled at The Maurice Sendak Community School. [PSS]

Check out a street fair with a Caribbean flair on Flatbush Avenue this Sunday. [DPC]

Brighton Beach man charged with murdering Natik Nisimov on Ocean Parkway. [SB]