Fort Greene Stay-at-Home Dads and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Now it's a trend: dads in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill now have their very own Stay-at-Home Dads Group! Clinton Hill Blog

- A Brooklyn firehouse was told by the city to close for a half hour to bathe a circus elephant as a publicity stunt. NY Mag

- A man was pistol-whipped Thursday night in front of 61 Pierrepont St. in Brooklyn Heights. Brooklyn Heights Blog

- A man fatally shot himself on Hicks Street near Union Street Tuesday evening. Brooklyn Eagle

- A police officer in Brooklyn shot a man suspected of trying to rob a teenager on Thursday night in Bed-Stuy. NY Times

- P.S. 8 Principal Seth Phillips gives little credence to the F his school received on the school reports cards last year, or the A the school received this year. Brooklyn Eagle

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