Four City Pools to Close, BP Markowitz Throws Himself a Party, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Gov. Patterson is said to have personally directed two state employees to contact the woman who had accused his aide of assaulting her. NY Times 

- Those who own businesses or homes in the footprint of Atlantic Yards do not own them anymore. Brooklyn Eagle 

- City parks' budgets about to get cut and four city pools to close. Gothamist 

- Brooklyn BP Marty Markowitz drummed up $122,000 to turn his State of the Borough Address into "a carnival featuring song and dance acts, beer, food and a 'multimedia production.'" Gothamist 

- There is unrest in the forests of Brooklyn.  Brownstoner 

- Three buildings on Sackett Street were evacuated by the Office of Emergency Management yesterday.  PMFA

- A Brooklyn judge ordered the state to begin emptying adult homes of mentally disabled residents who want to live in their own apartments. NY Daily News

-  Brooklyn woman traffics raw milk, feeds it to her baby.  Brooklyn Paper via Gothamist

- Domino affordable housing to be permanent.  TRD 

- On Feb. 28, 1925, Brooklyn was rocked by an earthquake. It was the worst quake on the East Coast in two centuries.  Brooklyn Eagle

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