'Prince of Darkness,' Michelangelo, Filene's Basement and More Brooklyn Briefs

- The kids knocked the old painting off the wall with a tennis ball, so the parents wrapped it up and shoved it behind the couch. Until they found out it was painted by Michelangelo. Daily Mail

- The satanic “Prince of Darkness” claims he killed newsman George Weber in self-defense. Brooklyn Eagle

- Norman Oder plans to keep up the Atlantic Yards fight.  Observer 

- Filene's Basement/ Syms will open its first Brooklyn store at 490 Fulton Street.  NY Post

- A Bushwick senior center that gets taxpayer dollars is renting out its first floor to Assemblyman Vito Lopez’s political clubhouse.  Brooklyn Paper 

- A meeting will be held Thursday at Borough Hall to update community members about merger negotiations between Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and SUNY Downstate. Brooklyn Eagle

- The October 11 hail storm shredded palm leaves at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Flickr

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