Time to Visit Brooklyn Navy Yard; GAP Bike Lane Nixed; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- After 200 years, Brooklyn Navy Yard opens gates to the public. (Interesting description of the new museum.)  Brooklyn Eagle

- Brooklyn school  tries to get back to normal after 15-year-old boy dies while trying out for JV basketball. NY Daily News

- DOT axes Grand Army Plaza bike lane -- for now. Gothamist

- A presentation of the responses to the city’s requests for proposals to build a hotel and residential development on the edge of Pier 1 will take place November 22. Brooklyn Heights Press

- Think Brooklyn is tough? Brooklyn court officers tell their tales of the Iraq desert. Brooklyn Eagle

- Residents in East New York struggle with lengthy hot water shortage. NY1

- Remembering when the lights went out in 1965. CBS

- Reaction to Rick Perry's disastrous debate faux pas: "Goodnight Rick Perry. OMG!" Concord, NH Patch

- New report says only five years before climate change is irreversible. Gothamist


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