'Ugly' Atlantic Terminal Barriers Coming Down; Unemployment; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- MTA begins removing 'ugly' barricade around LIRR Atlantic Terminal. NY Daily News

- If you used the ATM at Ridgewood Savings Bank at 7124 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, a skimmer may have ripped off your card information and stolen your money. Bensonhurst Bean

- Brooklyn Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz has hired disgraced ex-Brooklyn State Sen. Carl Kruger’s chief-of-staff as a campaign consultant. City and State

- Officers talk to would-be-jumper for more than four hours before getting him off bridge. Brooklyn Daily Eagle

- Did you lose a chicken near Franklin Avenue? I Love Franklin Avenue

- There's a competition that asks participants to envision the future of the contaminated Gowanus Canal. Park Slope Patch

- The Bronx and Brooklyn continued to post the highest rates of unemployment in the city in June. WSJ

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