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.

Playing Too Nicely In The Sandbox: The New Yorker parodies Park Slope Parents. [Park Slope Stoop]

Fire at New Utrecht Reformed Church sets back restoration project. [Bensonhurst Bean]

Checking in on Little Pakistan in Kensington’s year-old civilian patrol. [Ditmas Park Corner]

Russ & Daughters is coming to Brooklyn! [Fort Greene Focus]

Times Plaza redesign (Flatbush/Atlantic/4th Avenues) has residents concerned about safety. [FGF]

Eighteen gang members who terrorized Kensington and Flatbush indicted. [DPC]

Officer Liang’s trial begins, police union noticeably absent. [BB]

Nobel Prize-Winning author Toni Morrison provides ‘The Nourishment We Need’ at Brooklyn By The Book Series. [PSS]

Doctor house calls are vital and available option for Brooklyn seniors. [FGF]