Plus-Shaped Pool; Red Hook Rejects Brooklyn Hospital LICH Plan; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Rendering for the +Pool

- A prototype for that floating, plus-shaped East River pool will be tested at Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer. [BKMag]

 - Meeting: Red Hook residents reject Brooklyn Hospital proposal for LICH; demand full service hospital. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A city underpass heading into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is still without any working lights more than 16 months since Hurricane Sandy --- and it's pretty freaky. [NY1]

- Fast tracked: The City Council's Brooklyn delegation elected freshman Councilman Carlos Menchaca as its co-chair Wednesday. [Crain's]

- Thug robbing people in broad daylight in Brooklyn Heights. [BHB]

- This is why you should never, ever rent to the city. [NYDN]

- Beware the Ides of March -- Coney Island Spring Gala this Saturday. [Coney Island USA]

- A.G. Holder makes new move to substantially shorten drug sentences. [Politico]

- New data suggests missing Malaysian plane was airborne hours after disappearing from radar screens. [WSJ]

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