Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed

Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed
Photo by Vladimir Korostyshevskiy
Photo by Vladimir Korostyshevskiy

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.

Despite petition calling for Trader Joe’s, shuttered Waldbaums supermarket auctioned off to Asian grocer. [Bensonhurst Bean]

Meet the crossing guard who has been keeping one Kensington corner safe for more than a decade. [Ditmas Park Corner]

Multiple Vision Zero projects are planned in 2016 for Fort Greene-Clinton Hill. [Fort Greene Focus]

Tell Every Amazing Lady (and family member, and everyone else) that T.E.A.L. is here. [Park Slope Stoop]Russian mobster arrested for speeding down 86th Street during city-wide travel ban. [BB]February marks the return of Black ArtStory Month on Myrtle Avenue. [FGF}

Girl nearly kidnapped in Flatbush near school. [DPC]

Winter Blues, Begone! Mil’s Trills Album Release Party and Winter Bash coming to ShapeShifter Lab this Sunday, January 31. [PSS]