Brooklyn: Politics, Real Estate and a Floating Body in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Bamboo Bites, Smorgasburg, BBP. Photo: MK Metx

- Brooklyn 8th-graders get record deal. [ABC]

- It's about time: Seeing as Boyland is serving hard time, Walker launches campaign for his Central Brooklyn Assembly seat. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Medgar Evers College to develop Crown Heights street into verdant campus quad. [Brownstoner]

- Robert Durst, an estranged member of the Durst family, appears to be racking up a sizable profit off his real estate investments in Brooklyn. [TRD]

- More photos from Brooklyn's Bastille Day -- and the World Cup -- on Smith Street Sunday. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Bus bunching is rampant and nothing is being done about it. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Police still don't know whose body that was in the water off Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Sturgeon were so abundant in NY Harbor that the fish were considered hazardous to boat passage. [Brooklyn Based]

And yesterday...

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Bridge ramp to Cadman Plaza An NYPD officer transported by EMS after falling off a scooter. pic.twitter.com/tEXYUeRNuu
— NY Scanner (@NYScanner) July 14, 2014

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