More Than One Way to Stuff a Rat; the Beer ATM; Pols Express Alarm about Haiti and Puerto Rico; and More Brooklyn Briefs

.@myfabolouslife receives the key to Brooklyn https://t.co/Ahk9QI8iej pic.twitter.com/vq72zPtHqo

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) June 12, 2017

- Former Brooklyn prosecutor in NYPD gun permit scandal gets bail modified to allow travel for competitive dog shows. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn pols express alarm about Puerto Rican referendum, Haitian protected status. [Brooklyn Eagle]

-  A man shot by police in Brooklyn Sunday night has been arrested and charged with stabbing his roommate in front of officers. [NY1]

- Brooklyn Pride parade draws massive, boisterous turnout. Photos. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Fabrication studio Smart Department is hosting a rat taxidermy class on Saturday where you can learn to make either one- or two-headed stuffed rats. [Patch]

- A bar in Williamsburg has created one of the greatest inventions known to mankind – a Beer ATM. [Konbini]

- Former NBA star Sebastian Telfair was arrested in Bed-Stuy Sunday morning in a pickup truck stocked with loaded guns, drugs and a bulletproof vest. [Patch]

- DUMBO’s Live at The Archway this Thursday: musician Rodes Rollins, artist Melanie Hope Greenberg. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Dirty dancing: Floating company twirls on the Gowanus Canal. [Brooklyn Paper]


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Brooklyn's U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Applauds Appointment of Special Prosecutor in Trump Case

Wednesday night, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a member of House Democratic leadership and the Judiciary Committee, released the following statement concerning the appointment of former FBI director Robert. S. Mueller to oversee the investigation into possible illegal collusion between the Trump team and Putin’s Russia:

“The appointment of the special prosecutor to oversee the criminal investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible illegal collusion with Russia is an important step in the right direction. America can now have a greater degree of confidence that the investigation will be fair, impartial and comprehensive. No man is above the law in this country. If Donald Trump broke it, he must be vigorously prosecuted without fear or favor.”

Mueller is considered by both Republicans and Democrats to be a serious, highly competent man.

(According to Politico,  some conservatives are hinting that Vice President Pence looks like a particularly good alternative to Trump  right now, especially as the Justice Department moves ahead with a special prosecutor for the FBI’s Russia probe.)


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Drag Queens at the Library, ePrix Coming to Brooklyn, Woman Who Hired a Hit Man and More Brooklyn Briefs

You can walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with Bill Murray next month: https://t.co/38NrPIAyjr pic.twitter.com/qJGoW8o2UR

— Time Out New York (@TimeOutNewYork) May 16, 2017

- Brooklyn Public Library brings drag queens, kids together for story hour. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn judge sanctions city lawyer for 600 objections in disastrous deposition of NYPD cop. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn Seltzer Boys delivers NY nostalgia in a bottle. [Crains]

- International ePrix Formula E Car Championship coming to Brooklyn expected to draw thousands. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Retired NYPD cops upset about overturned Brooklyn convictions – and millions in settlement money. [Pix11]

- 17-year-old stabbed in the neck outside East NY high school. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn woman accused of hiring hit man to kill husband to obtain insurance money faces life without parole. [Daily News]

- Residents suing the city over the planned opening of a controversial Crown Heights homeless shelter say they’re close to an agreement. [DNAinfo]

- NYCHA trains residents for well-paying jobs in construction at Brooklyn's City Tech. [Brooklyn Eagle]

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Brooklyn Dental Scam; Another Pervy Brooklyn Tech Teacher; Bogus No Parking Signs In Cobble Hill; Domino Park; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Endless flowers. By MK Metz

- Brooklyn Tech teacher busted asking student for ‘workout’ pics. [NY Post]

- Brooklyn dentist indicted for hiring unlicensed men to perform procedures on Medicaid patients. [Daily News]

- Some of the first votes in French presidential election were cast in an old church building near the Gowanus Canal on Saturday morning. [Slate]

- Bogus No Parking signs at LICH site piss off Cobble Hill residents. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- New York Rep. Yvette Clarke told a town hall meeting in Brooklyn that taxpayers “cannot continue to pay” for President Donald Trump’s family’s business and travel arrangements. [Roll Call]

-The Brooklyn Broadway Islamic Center was destroyed in a fire on Saturday. Now a LaunchGood campaign is crowd-sourcing funds to rebuild. [LaunchGood]

- The Brooklyn district attorney’s office has told prosecutors to avoid, when possible, the deportation or detention of immigrants charged with certain misdemeanors or nonviolent crimes. [NY Times]

- Developer releases big plans for Domino Park in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn Bridge Park announced the full lineup for its 18th annual outdoor screening series, "Movies with a View." Schedule here. [TimeOut]

- NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating Trump’s possible ties to organized crime, which could involve RICO charges. [Bipartisan Report]

#Great Job #NYPD Harbor's Brooklyn Bridge launch #317 when they rescued a jet skier who fell into the East River in the vicinity of Wall St. pic.twitter.com/SX3FQs7bFG

— NYPD Special Ops (@NYPDSpecialops) April 24, 2017

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Panic in Coney Island; Schneiderman Leads Trump Opposition; Machete Attack on Fulton Street and More Brooklyn Briefs

Paul Manafort's Brooklyn neighbor... pic.twitter.com/HnATDTvVe1

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) April 16, 2017

- False reports of gunshots being fired at Coney Island's amusement park set off a stampede on Sunday, with screaming crowds racing in all directions. [Daily News]

- Fight Back Bay Ridge: With Donovan absent, Brooklyn constituents plan town hall. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Dem AGs, with Eric Schneiderman in the lead, join front lines of Trump opposition. [The Hill]

- Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man wanted in connection to a machete assault on Fulton Street. [News 12]

- Two thieves break into Midwood synagogue, beat caretaker with broomstick. [Daily News]

- ICYMI: City memo suggests BQX may not be financially feasible after all. [Politico]

- ICYMI: Brooklyn Heights Association's Pier 6 lawsuit to stay in Manhattan. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with the murder of a Brooklyn man whose body was found buried in a snowbank last month. [Daily Mail]

- Rep. Dan Donovan has asked the MTA to study the impact of reestablishing a two-way toll on the Verrazano Bridge. [Brooklyn Paper]

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Bad Date Arrested; the Turtle Lady of Williamsburg; and More Brooklyn Briefs

This is how the Brooklyn bridge was painted in 1915. pic.twitter.com/bJkqpDok7g

— Darwin Award 🔞 (@AwardsDarwin) March 21, 2017

- Bad date: A woman who murdered another woman in Russia was discovered living a glamorous life in Brooklyn, drugging and robbing men she met on dating websites. [CBS]

- A Brooklyn couple who fleeced New Yorkers out of funeral money for a 5-year-old boy who's actually alive were arrested again while using a child in another scam. [DNAinfo]

- PHOTOS: The Turtle Lady thrives in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Missing Brooklyn man with autism found in Mexico. [Pix11]

-  VIDEO: A 60-something-year-old woman walked into a jewelry store in Williamsburg and took four diamond pins while a 60-year-old man stood by as a lookout. [NBC]

- Judge in El Chapo case limits release of info, orders appointment of ‘firewall’ attorney. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Young Brooklyn woman wonders if she was in suspected serial killer’s grasp. [Pix11]

- VIDEO: Assemblywoman Diana Richardson took to Facebook Live on Thursday morning to blast Mayor Bill de Blasio, city hall and others. [Patch]

S.A.D. Party 2017 will raise money for Planned Parenthoo.

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Today: Last Day to Sign Up for ObamaCare; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- History: The wine cellars hidden under the Brooklyn Bridge. [NPR]

- Warning about phone scammers asking, "Can you hear me?" Don't answer! [abc7ny]

- ICYMI:Brooklyn judge defies a president. [Brooklyn Eagle] 

- ICYMI: Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, after she refused to defend the president’s executive order on immigration. [NYT]  He replaced her with Dana Boente. [Washington Post]

- Melania and Barron run errands in Manhattan despite city protests over Trump immigration ban. [Daily Mail]

- It took Donald Trump's refugee ban to give Lyft a win over Uber. [Slate]

- Today is the last day to sign up for Obamacare! [Affordable Care]

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Brooklyn Student, Doctor Marooned Abroad by Trump's Immigration Ban

CUNY students outside Federal Court in Brooklyn. Photo: MK Metz

 A Brooklyn doctor -- Dr. Kamal Fadlalla, who works at Interfaith Hospital -- and CUNY grad student Saira Rafiee are not allowed to return to the U.S. after vacationing abroad, as a result of Trump's controversial immigration executive order.

A protest organized by CUNY and attended by BP Eric Adams was held Monday outside of federal court in Brooklyn. More than 100 CUNY students are affected by the ban, school representatives said.

BP Adams read a letter from Saira that said in part, " I have no clue whether I would ever be able to go back to the school I like so much, or to see my dear friends there."

Federal Court was the center of a rally attended by more than 500 protesters Saturday night, when  Judge Ann M. Donnelly issued a temporary stay of Trump's order.

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Women Are Getting It Done in Fighting Trump's Craziness

Women have been noticeably stepping up to the plate in saying no to Trump ....

From the attorneys volunteering at airports, to  the female judges issuing stays on Trump's immigration executive order, to the (now former) attorney general of the U.S. sacked by Trump for putting the Constitution ahead of his demands (weird plot twist here), to the Women's Marchers on Washington, NYC and countless towns and cities around the country, women are certainly doing their share.

Leaving Dulles now to file from home. Gender disparity was striking: probably 70 percent of lawyers volunteering there are young women.

— Matt Ford (@fordm) January 30, 2017

If you're going to go out, go out like Sally Yates.#RESISTANCE

— TheNewDeal (@TheNewDeal) January 31, 2017

Four female judges were the heroes of the fight against Trump’s executive order: https://t.co/cC9ySlNNX5 pic.twitter.com/jOBoQuPb0S

— Slate (@Slate) January 31, 2017

All we can say is ... Yay, women, gettin' it done!

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Polar Bear Fashion; Cops Shoot Canarsie Man Wielding Knife; and More Brooklyn Briefs

#Brooklyn hospitals welcome first babies of 2017 https://t.co/VEB7jFx8rl @NYULutheran @nym_hospital pic.twitter.com/FCzFk9d1vi

— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) January 3, 2017

- An NYPD cop fatally shot a knife-wielding man in Canarsie Tuesday night. [NY Post]

- Blaze tears through two Kensington apartments, injures three. [Daily News]

- Polar Bears are sure dressing funny lately for their New Year's plunge. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Cops are asking the public’s help finding a 23-year-old driver accused of mowing down a pedestrian in Brooklyn and ditching his two passengers in his mangled Lexus. [Daily News]

- In Williamsburg, a range of luxury, beautifully designed hotels are opening, jostling for the attentions of fashionable travelers. [Daily Beast]

- Here are a few of the really gross things living on a dollar bill. [NY Magazine]

- The St. Ives Apricot Scrub controversy is headed to court. [Slate]


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Brooklyn Bridge Climber Arrested; Bouncy Squibb Bridge Court Battle Continues; John McEnroe Headed to Barclays; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Squibb Park Bridge. Photo by MK Metz

- Judge orders ‘bouncy’ Squibb Bridge design firm to allow Brooklyn Bridge Park access to key software. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A man was arrested after police caught him walking on the beams above the Brooklyn Bridge in broad daylight on Monday. [NY Post]

- Cyclists are fed up with officers from Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct parking their cars across the bike lane on DeKalb Avenue, but cops say there's nothing they can do about it. [Brooklyn Paper]

- Big tennis event in Brooklyn: Barclays Center to host John McEnroe-headlined PowerShares QQQ Cup in January. [CBS]

- Ortiz: Don’t dump homeless in Sunset Park hotels. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- From hot dogs to jean jackets, Brooklyn artist sculpts every day objects from stone. [Fox5]

- Get your clothes ironed for free in Brooklyn bars next month. [Gothamist]

- Spike Lee holidays in Maasai Mara, plants trees in memory of Biggie Smalls, Michael Jackson, Prince, Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, Raheem Nunn, Maurice White, Phife Dawg and George Michael. [SDE]

Carrie Fisher didn't just act in STAR WARS. She shaped it and many other stories and scripts. pic.twitter.com/gpCPbTwFy1

— Alan Sizzler Kistler (@SizzlerKistler) December 27, 2016

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City Council Affirms NYC's Status as Sanctuary City, Trump Be Damned

Today the @NYCCouncil of this immigrant city proudly affirms our status as a sanctuary city. The "ayes" have it! https://t.co/2yId8reGBf pic.twitter.com/GGnAlnfyoz

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) December 6, 2016

Here are the sponsors of the City Council's resolution "affirming that despite president-elect Donald Trump's senseless threats, New York City will remain a Sanctuary City for immigrant residents." Brooklyn is well represented:

Melissa Mark-Viverito, Brad S. Lander, Carlos Menchaca, Ben Kallos, Laurie A. Cumbo, Antonio Reynoso, Stephen T. Levin, Jumaane D. Williams, Rafael L. Espinal, Jr., Helen K. Rosenthal, Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Margaret S. Chin, Rory I. Lancman, Deborah L. Rose, I. Daneek Miller, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Mark Levine, Mark Treyger, Daniel R. Garodnick, Rosie Mendez, Costa G. Constantinides, Peter A. Koo.

Trump has threatened to cut federal funding to Sanctuary Cities.  Cutting off all federal funds would have a “devastating impact” on the city’s budget, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer warned.


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Celebrity Brooklyn Rapist Nabbed in Paris; Jeffries Turns on Hillary; and More Brooklyn Briefs

The @Brooklynettes are HERE for @Barbados Culture Night in Brooklyn! #Nets pic.twitter.com/QHF7uOdH7Z

— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) November 30, 2016

- A Moroccan pop star who fled rape charges in Brooklyn was arrested in Paris on similar charges. [DNAinfo]

- Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries turned blame for the Democrats’ rash of recent defeats on Hillary Clinton—the woman he supported for president—and her lack of a “clear and decisive economic message.” [Observer]

- From iPads to laptops to Lego Robotics and Little Bits kits, every library in Brooklyn will soon be receiving an shipment of technology equipment. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Ex-Brooklyn assistant principal gets six months in jail for having sex with 17-year-old student in his office. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn mother claims special needs daughter was left at bus stop multiple times. [Pix11]

- Here's how you and your kids can donate gifts to Brooklyn children in need. [Patch]

- Judge halts eviction of mentally disabled man as Brooklyn landlord seeks to boot tenants with disabilities. [Daily News]

- Oh, oh ...  Study shows disrupting sleep routine triggers cancer in mice. [Brooklyn Eagle]


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Tonight: NYS Sen. Jesse Hamilton's Civil & Human Rights Speakout in Brooklyn

The serious work to safeguard human rights in the Age of Trump begins.

Speakers at tonight's speak out include Murad Awawdeh, New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC;, Charlie Uruchima, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE); Dennis Flores, El Grito; Bertha Lewis, The Black Institute; Allegra Fishel, Gender Equality Law Center; Tracy Hobson, Center for Anti Violence Education; Derek Slaughter, NYC Commission on Human Rights; Rabbi Andy Bachman & Vanessa Tucker, Freedom House.

Norman Siegel, Civil Rights Lawyer, will moderate and also speak. Senator Jesse Hamilton will provide opening remarks.

More here.

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Replacing Ken Thompson; Brooklyn Bridge Climb; and More Brooklyn Briefs

We inaugurated @prospect_park's gorgeous new Dog Beach this a.m. Some pretty happy dogs. And Olmsted & Vaux would love how good it looks. pic.twitter.com/WzxX5EeBin

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) October 15, 2016

- Brooklyn community fears DA Ken Thompson’s replacement won’t continue his mission to overturn wrongful convictions. [Daily News]

- Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Christian Cultural Center in East New York on Saturday to remember the legacy of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson. [Gothamist]

- Brooklyn bars give the finger to pharma schmuck Martin Shkreli. [BHB]

- Why roughly 40 people climbed to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday. [Gothamist]

- The Japanese ramen chain Ichiran, famous for serving only one kind of soup (pork-bone-broth tonkotsu) is opening in Williamsburg. [Grub Street]

- The Northeast is having a mass earthquake drill on Oct. 20. [Shakeout]

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New School Opens in DUMBO; Naked Man Takes a Stroll; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Locked out @LIUBrooklyn faculty picket campus on first day of fall classes. https://t.co/TiM3y84U6X #Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/Qq2y672lLN

— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) September 7, 2016

- Ex-Bloods gangbanger says J’Ouvert is Brooklyn’s ‘Purge.' [NY Post]

- A new middle school opens in DUMBO, and people are pretty excited about it. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The MTA is looking for artists to design some new murals for a few Brooklyn stations. [Brokelyn]

- Brooklyn prosecutor eyed in possible coverup leading to man’s conviction for 1983 murder. [Daily News]

- NYPD refutes "deeply flawed" Inspector General’s Quality-of-Life report. [NYPD News]

- Surveillance video captured a naked man’s leisurely stroll through the streets of Brooklyn. [NBC]


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Brooklyn Judge's Political Payback; Eating in Bay Ridge; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Brooklyn: @NYPDSpecialops Harbor units operating near the Williamsburg bridge for an EDP in the water. pic.twitter.com/Dg9fBlsKvY

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) August 31, 2016

- A longtime state judge in Brooklyn is being essentially forced off the bench, and she says in a lawsuit it’s political payback for refusing to do the bidding of the Brooklyn Democratic party. [NY1]

- Terrible news: They have built so many new apartments in Brooklyn that rents might not go up as fast as they usually do. Damn. Crap. [Deadspin]

- Brooklyn gun runner who used Chinatown buses to bring 112 firearms to New York sentenced to 17 years. [NY Daily News]

- Here are ten things you need to eat in Bay Ridge. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Water main break under Brooklyn Bridge on Manhattan side laves hundreds without water. [DNAinfo]

- New development proposed for Brooklyn's Broadway Triangle. [Gothamist]

- A naked man attempted to rape a woman on a Brooklyn street late Monday night. [Pix11]

- When your laptop breaks: How to pull off a full workday on the BK Public Library’s free computers. [Brokelyn]


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HuffPost Mini-Documentary Shines Light on Wrongful Conviction Cases in Brooklyn

There are currently more than 100 wrongful conviction cases under review in Brooklyn. In HuffPost Originals mini-documentary, "Stolen Time," Alyona Minkovski talked to three men whose lives were upended by wrongful convictions.

Sundhe Moses, Kevin Smith and Derrick Hamilton all spent years in prison after being convicted of heinous crimes. However, despite all the facts pointing to a wrongful conviction, formal exoneration for these victims is a long and arduous process.

Retired Detective Louis Scarcella is connected to 72 of the cases that are being reviewed by the Brooklyn DA, including those of Sundhe, Kevin and Derrick.

Witness coercion, false confessions and violence are just some of the allegations brought up when discussing the detective and according to Hamilton it's time for Scarcella to pay the price. "He deserves to go to jail. He deserves to see what he did to so many other people. What it feels like to be isolated from your family."

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$27B MTA Transformation; Smorgasburg; Outdoor Movies and More Brooklyn Briefs

- $27B transformation of MTA to begin with 3 Brooklyn stations. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Trial begins for Brooklyn man charged with shaking baby to death; lawyer portrays him as a great dad. [Daily News]

- Is LA’s Smorgasburg better than Brooklyn's? [Munchies]

- All the free outdoor movies you can see in Brooklyn in 2016. [Brokelyn]

- Somewhere deep in the Manhattan anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge is an old fallout shelter. [Slate]

- An ice cream bonanza is coming to Brooklyn this weekend. [Observer]


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Lawsuit Attempting to Halt Sale of Brooklyn Heights Library is Dismissed by Judge

Rendering of library development courtesy of Marvel Architects

 Love Brooklyn Libraries, Inc., a group that had sought to stop the development of the Brooklyn Heights Library, lost its case in court, the Brooklyn Eagle reports.

The group, headed by Brooklyn activist Marsha Rimler, had called the project’s environmental review inadequate. The court dismissed the claims, saying the city had dotted all the environmental  i's and crossed all the t's.

The court also ruled that the lawsuit was not served within the required deadline, and that any extension of the deadline for service would be unwarranted. See Eagle for more.

Judge rules against group trying to halt sale of Brooklyn Heights Library [Brooklyn Eagle]


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