Lightening Causes Death in Cobble Hill; $100 Rat Dinner; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Lightening hits Cobble Hill church steeple, resulting in the death of a man. NY Daily News

- Brooklyn artist serves $100 rat dinner. NY Eater

- Video of dramatic Verrazano Bridge suicide rescue surfaces. Bensonhurst Bean

- Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has been invited to perform at the presidential inaugural ceremonies next January. Brooklyn Eagle

- MTA proposes $1 "green fee" for new MetroCards. NY Magazine

- Here's the Nets' season schedule. NBA

- Attention, Brooklyn: Stop blingin' out your babies! Village Voice

- New trolley tours offer an insider's view of Brooklyn. Brooklyn Eagle

- Video: NYPD cop bodyslams Brooklyn teen in subway station. NY Daily News

- A Brooklyn Hasidic newspaper Der Yid says Orthodox Jews will fight the government's attempt to regulate mouth-to-baby-penis sucking done by mohels. Failed Messiah

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