Brooklyn's New Unicorn Horn Store; Can't Dance in Brooklyn; Jehovah's Witnesses News; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Morning wisdom. Photo by MK Metz

 - Brooklyn man posing as teen extorted child porn out of young girls, authorities allege. [Daily News]

- A new store for unicorn horns is coming to Brooklyn, of course. [Time Out]

- Map: Where is it legal to dance in Brooklyn? Almost nowhere. [Patch]

- The NY Post says ‘stealthing’ is the newest dangerous sex trend. [NY Post]

- Jehovah's Witnesses start closing their Brooklyn Heights tunnels. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Barbra Streisand at 75: A girl from Brooklyn makes it big. [DW]

- U.S. Jehovah’s Witnesses fear for safety of Russian followers after court bans religion. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- This weekend at House of Vans Brooklyn: Todd Francis’ "The Worst of the Worst” with special guest performance by Ho99o9 and The Blackouts. [House of Vans]

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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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Brooklyn's 'Coolest Hotels';15-yr-old Shot in Eye; New BQX Video and More Brooklyn Briefs

Barry Sternlicht gives us all the details on his new hotel, 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge https://t.co/06e436Xgyg pic.twitter.com/nABxoldo0j

— Bloomberg (@business) February 20, 2017

- East Flatbush gunman shoots 15-year-old in eye, 18-year-old in leg. [Daily News]

- City plugs contested Brooklyn-Queens streetcar proposal in new video. [Curbed]

- CNN's take on Brooklyn's coolest hotels and hottest hangouts. [CNN]

- No more early morning demolition at the former Long Island College Hospital (LICH) site. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Two young women have vanished from the same community near Sunset Park, and the NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in locating them. [Breaking 911]

- Carjacking gang hitting business owners in Brooklyn, makes off with $86G. [Daily News]

- Cops on Saturday morning busted 24 people and seized five handguns during a raid on an afterhours Gowanus motorcycle club. [NY Post]

- Kushner-owned former Jehovah's campus added to DUMBO BID. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The Bachelor is coming to Brooklyn. [Observer]

Song Sparrow, #Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6. #nyc #birding pic.twitter.com/ckHNhvS3AO

— Heather Wolf (@heatherwolf) February 20, 2017

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Yemeni Bodega Trump Protest Brings Thousands to Brooklyn Borough Hall

Photo by MK Metz for McBrooklyn

Thousands of Yemeni merchants -- owners of the corner bodegas and grocery stores we shop in every day -- closed shop yesterday at noon to trek to Brooklyn Borough Hall to protest Trump's travel ban.

The ban targets Muslims from seven countries:  Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Supporters of all ethnicities joined their fellow New Yorkers in a remarkable show of unity.

Additional great photos and video here.  


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Road Rager Runs Down Boy; Glowing Sex Stuff; El Chapo; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Happy birthday, Sam Cooke!

Photo: Poster from when Otis and Sam played together at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, NY in 1963 #SamCooke pic.twitter.com/m2cpLfr6mc

— Otis Redding (@OtisRedding) January 22, 2017

- Road-rage driver hits boy, 14, on Greenpoint sidewalk, then yells at other driver as boy writhes in pain. [Daily News]

- A feminist-sex-shop-gift-shop-book-shop-mini-gallery operates behind a glittery curtain in a laundromat in Bushwick. It specializes in "cosmic, glowing sex stuff."  [TCP]

- No tunnel out for Mexican drug lord El Chapo, facing justice in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 15-year-old shot in East Flatbush, 2 suspects flee: NYPD. [NBC NY]

- East Flatbush man arrested for hiding a dismembered corpse in the  Bronx. [NY1]

- A Brooklyn solution to Islam's law forbidding women from showing their hair to men outside of their own families, even while getting a haircut.  [Refinery29]

- Nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus, and 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers, a national survey indicates. [KRQE]

-  Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in an op-ed that insurance companies in New York will have to continue offering birth control for no co-pay even if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. [Gothamist]

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Toxic PCB Lighting Fixtures Removed from NYC Schools; Brooklyn Food and Beer Festival; and More Brooklyn Briefs

. @NYPDTransit needs your help identifying this guy- Wanted for robbery on Jan 3rd at Brooklyn Bridge station- Call 800577TIPS w/ any info. pic.twitter.com/ZIHEvdKbEE

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) January 5, 2017

- Good news for kids: Thousands of PCB-contaminated lighting fixtures finally yanked out of NYC schools. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn train was speeding before crash, say U.S. investigators. [Reuters]

-  Clear video shows two guys jumping a woman on 16th Ave. in Borough Park on Dec. 27. [Daily News]

- Muslim teen tracks down a guy who assaulted an Orthodox Jewish woman on a Q subway train. [CBS]

- Get ready for the first-ever Best of Brooklyn Food and Beer Festival. [Time Out]

- Meet Brooklyn's WBO Women's Junior Featherweight world champion Amanda Serrano and her sister WBO Women's Featherweight champion Cindy Serrano, the first sisters to concurrently hold world titles. VIDEO. [Fox5]

- Somebody at Yahoo Finance misspelled a tweet.  Big time. [Mercury News]

- Less shrinkage: This is your aging brain on the Mediterranean diet. [LA Times]


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Brooklyn ATM Heist; Lena Dunham's Apologies; Mysterious Trump Flyover and More Brooklyn Briefs

Chief Maddrey & @NYPDBklynNorth team bring Christmas spirit & 🎁 🎁to kids at hospitals across #Brooklyn. More on: @ny1 @ABC7NY @1010WINS pic.twitter.com/q0un4hqdyF

— Det. James Byrne (@NYPDByrne) December 21, 2016

- Police release surveillance photos of the man they say fired a shot into a Canarsie high school. [NY1]

- Jehovah’s Witnesses sell 85 Jay St. to Jared Kushner-led partnership. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Two men made off with an entire ATM from a laundromat in East New York, after waving a gun at a child standing behind the counter. [CBS]

- Actress Chloë Sevigny's Park Slope co-op has gone into contract for $2.75 million. [Mansion Global]

- Brooklyn scores more than $15 million in economic development awards from the state. Beneficiaries range from Brooklyn Bridge Park to St. Nicks Alliance. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The SKINS “Still Sleep” EP release party on Dec. 22. [Eventbrite]

- Everything Lena Dunham publicly apologized for in 2016. [Newsweek]

- Yeah well... Mysterious Manhattan military flyover that police didn't know about was Trump extraction exercise. [DNAinfo]

- Meanwhile, Trump is having a hard time finding A List performers for the inauguration.  [The Wrap]


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King George Returns; Orthodox School Pays Off Molested Kids; Halloween Events and More Brooklyn Briefs

A lone protester, whose sign reads "Stop running from the truth," stands outside Hillary Clinton HQ in Brooklyn Heights. MK Metz

 - A gunman shot a man sitting in his car in Bed-Stuy early Saturday. [Daily News]  And in Greenpoint, a cabbie was shot at stoplight by a couple of thugs. [Daily News]

- Parades! Haunted houses! Festivals! Halloween in Brooklyn 2016. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Long-toppled statue of hated King George III to ride again, from a Brooklyn studio. [NYT]

- Off-duty city correction officer arrested for boozed-up mayhem at a Sunset Park hookah bar. [Daily News]

- Prominent Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn to pay $2.1M to two students who charged teacher Rabbi Joel Kolko of sexually assaulting them. [NY Post]

- The white powder found in an envelope at Hillary HQ in Brooklyn Heights turned out to be harmless. [NBC]

- Inside of 11 of Brooklyn's top recording studios. [Brooklyn Magazine]

- Your iPhone's "secret" undo button. [Slate]

I repeat: I will represent pro bono anyone #Trump sues for exercising their free speech rights. Many other lawyers have offered to join me. https://t.co/LJf6TtmGZU

— Ted Boutrous (@BoutrousTed) October 22, 2016

Dozens of law firms have joined this offer.


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Pumpkin Ride From Hell; Cheap Things To Do This Weekend; Pier 3; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Brooklyn: 1 Y/O toddler missing for more than two weeks. Last seen with mother on Oct. 4. Call #800577TIPS with info https://t.co/WfZM0ESFR1 pic.twitter.com/nzNIcXcliS

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) October 21, 2016

- The 20 best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this weekend, dogs in wigs edition. [Brokelyn]

- Brooklyn's New Lab is an inventor's paradise. [WSJ]

- Officials: Pier 3 groundbreaking a milestone for Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Woman charged in Chinese blessing scam in Brooklyn. [Washington Times]

- Brooklyn's homeless students crisis could result in the shake-up of DOE staffers working to help them. [DNAinfo]

- Brooklyn's favorite Halloween display invites you on a pumpkin ride from Hell. [Gothamist]

- Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim decided to do something a little different for Sukkot. [Tablet]

- Oops: Guy who stole guy's cell phone at Brooklyn Bridge Park just uploaded his selfie to iCloud. [Patch]

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Coney Island Stabbings; Exploding Smartphone Injures Child; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Cirque du Soliel, at Barclays Center. Photo by MK Metz

- Three people were stabbed early Sunday morning in Coney Island. [CBS]

- Prosecutors believe slain Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark was victim of a hit. [Daily News]

- Galaxy Note7 smartphone explodes in hands of 6-year-old in Brooklyn. [Gothamist]

- Poll reveals enormous support for Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Muslim leaders in New York are calling on the city to take action after two Muslim women pushing baby strollers in Brooklyn were attacked last week. [MetroNY]

- In Gowanus, gripes from all sides about the parole office. [Brooklyn Ink]

- Hillary Clinton’s health just became a real issue in the presidential campaign. [Washington Post]


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Murder at J'Ouvert; Antisemitic Truther Speaking at Brooklyn Commons; and More Brooklyn Briefs

See photos from the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn https://t.co/azLJtOXIoY pic.twitter.com/C7kOoEfrjI

— Newsday (@Newsday) September 6, 2016

- Despite 200 light towers and double the number of cops, violence erupted at the start of the J'ouvert celebration in Crown Heights Monday morning, leaving two people dead and four others injured. [abc7]

- ‘Law and Order’ actor will run for NYC mayor in 2017. [NY Post]

- Outcry over Brooklyn Commons hosting "antisemitic truther" Christopher Bollyn. [JewSchool]

- Police need help finding a 60-year-old Brooklyn man who went missing nearly a month ago. [Pix11]

- Everything you ever wanted to know about a Brooklyn building called “Turn Verein." [Brownstoner]

- Thai restaurant Samui opens soon in Brooklyn Navy Yard. [News12]

- Is Rudy Giuliani losing his mind?  [Politico]

Apartment Broker Recommends Brooklyn Residents Spend No More Than 150% Of Income On Rent https://t.co/fJdBE2nB6L pic.twitter.com/L15k7xNQLM

— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 5, 2016

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Interview with Brooklyn Bridge Climber, Sewer Spelunker; Rally for Bushwick Inlet Park; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Photo of mural ad by MK Metz

-  Four things that were actually quite good in 'Suicide Squad.' [Hollywood Reporter]

- A Talk With Steve Duncan: Brooklyn’s urban explorer, daredevil and sewer man. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Rally at City Hall to save Bushwick Inlet Park on Mon., 8/8. [Greenpointer]

- Moped-riding 80-year-old man fatally struck by car in Brooklyn. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn prosecutor busted for drunken driving after running red light. [Daily News]

- Goodbye Jehovah's Witnesses in Brooklyn Heights. [Brooklyn Eagle|

- Game-changing asthma drug comes out. [Tech Times]


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More on Brooklyn Pokemon Guy; Heights Library Closes; and More Brooklyn Briefs

#wherebkat
Brooklyn Native To Travel Around Globe To Capture All Pokemon Go. https://t.co/qY2279CMHW

— WhereBK@ (@wherebkat) July 28, 2016

- Brooklyn Heights Library closes, interim library opens on Remsen Street. (Photos) [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Man beaten with selfie stick in Downtown Brooklyn. [DNAinfo]

- In a feud between different sects of Jews, surveillance video captured footage that apparently depicts a vandal pulling down a controversial Brooklyn eruv. [Forward]

- Discussion about Mayor de Blasio's affordable housing achievements. [Atlantic Yards/ Pacific Park]

- Ikea food truck bringing free meatballs to Brooklyn all week. Check here to follow the truck. [Brokelyn]

- City pumps $64 million into cultural institutions; $12.7 million of this is coming to Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce seeks new hub, plans to open incubator and retail store. [Crain's]

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Candlelight Vigil in Brooklyn Tonight (Monday) to Mourn Police Killings

Tonight (Monday) at 7:00 PM, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will hold a candlelight vigil at Grand Army Plaza with police officers, interfaith leaders, and community members.

A statement from the BP's office says the vigil is being held "in the wake of recent acts of violence nationwide, including two men fatally shot by police in Louisiana and Minnesota as well as five Dallas law enforcement officers killed during a protest of police-involved shootings."

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Brooklyn Heights Hedge Fund Suicide; Latino Votes Purged; and More Brooklyn Briefs

A community garden in Brooklyn is padlocked after an unexpected find — marijuana plants. https://t.co/IhQUBwuguI pic.twitter.com/lQuKLIEYi6

— NYT Metro Desk (@NYTMetro) June 22, 2016

- Father-of-two hedge fund manager charged with $25M insider trading fraud is found dead in suspected suicide at his Brooklyn Heights home. [Daily Mail]

- The Diocese of Brooklyn quietly filed plans on June 14 to go ahead with a "full demolition" of the historic, century-old Old Lady of Loreto Church in Brownsville. [Patch]

- School promised at 664 Pacific St. may be delayed as long as 6 years. [Atlantic Yard/ Pacific Park]

- Legislation that would have allowed taller NYC buildings is shot down, for now. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Man, 29, dies after trying to stop crazed woman from shooting at crowd outside Brooklyn housing project. [Daily News]

- Latino voters hit hardest by Brooklyn's voter purge. [NPR]

- Brooklyn woman charged with stabbing estranged husband to death on Father’s Day held on $500G bail. [Daily News]

- New York City is near approval of a measure to require free tampons at schools, shelters and jails. [News & Observer]

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article85177147.html#storylink=cpy

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Brooklyn Native Dies Protecting Son in Orlando; Judge Mulls Brooklyn Heights Library Case; More Brooklyn Briefs

- Brooklyn native died protecting her son in Orlando nightclub attack. [Daily News]
- Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is likely going to call Brooklyn home soon. [Daily Caller]

- Judge mulls suit to block sale of Brooklyn Heights Library. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- An East Flatbush park turned bloody Monday afternoon when bullets started flying, striking five teenage boys. [NY Post]

- Brooklyn math professor sired 22 women by giving his sperm to women in little cups at Target. [Forward]

- Diocese of Brooklyn to publish names of pedophile priests on website. [Daily News]

- Seven people were injured in a vehicle crash near Brooklyn College Monday evening. [DNAinfo]

- All the outrageous things Donald Trump said in his anti-terror speech. [Slate]

- The best iPhone aps in the world, according to Apple. [Business Insider]



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Arrest in Brooklyn Bridge Park Killing; Brooklyn Heights Library Hearing; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- The former boyfriend of a woman who died in a shooting outside Brooklyn Bridge Park on Monday night has been arrested for assaulting her the day before she was killed. [DNAinfo]

- A Brooklyn advocacy group is headed to court on Friday in a last-ditch effort to block the sale of the Brooklyn Heights Library to a developer. [Brooklyn Eagle]

-  The new minister of Plymouth Church tells what it's like for a southern Baptist to move to Brooklyn. [Baptist News]

- A Brooklyn judge rejected a motion to overturn the murder conviction of the “Grid Kid Slayer” and denied him a new trial. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn College has largely exonerated two students who spent the last four months being accused of anti-Semitism by their college president. The college could find no witnesses to tie the students to the incident. [Forward]

- These 20-somethings have built a wildly successful business based on nostalgia for the early 2000s. [Business Insider]


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Pier 6 Developer Tries to Pressure State; DUMBO Apocalypse; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Here's your chance to stroll around DUMBO armed to the teeth, in the middle of an apocalypse. [DumboNYC]

- How de Blasio sold out to an affordable housing trade group, why their business is booming and why many of the units of the "low income" housing the City Council just voted for will be too expensive for current residents of rezoned neighborhoods. [Gothamist]

- Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6 developer says financing could fall through if state doesn’t OK plan soon. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A Brooklyn traffic agent is accused of posing as a police officer to force prostitutes into providing free sexual services. [Patch]

- Bring your own containers: Prospect Heights resident Sarah Metz has set out to start an eco-friendly supermarket, to be known as The Fillery. [Brownstoner]

-  The insurance agent who admitted to ripping off seniors at his Dyker Heights office jumped off the 69th Street Pier. [Bensonhurst Bean]

- Brooklyn Heights author Helen Simonson discusses her long-awaited second novel, “The Summer Before the War.”  [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 'Saucy' DUMBO moving company ads rile religious Jews in Brooklyn. [Jewish Voice]

- Comedian Joe Pera talks you to sleep in this thoroughly weird bedtime comedy video. [Brokelyn]

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After Assault, Rabbi Calls for More Cops in Brooklyn Heights

Rabbi Aaron Raskin. Photo: MK Metz

Rabbi Aaron Raskin, who was attacked on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights on Jan. 31, called for more cops on the street at a rally and march on Friday.

Rabbi Raskin, spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Avraham, said he was assaulted by five individuals.

The Brooklyn Eagle reported that Raskin told the crowd, "One of them punched me on the head, knocking my cellphone to the ground. Thank G-d I was not harmed. After calling 911, the police canvassed the area, caught the thugs and placed the individual who did this to me under arrest.”

Neighbors have complained of incidents, including robberies, by ruffians walking along Joralemon Street to and from Brooklyn Bridge Park.

More at the Brooklyn Eagle.


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Brooklyn Bridge Park Might Have a Way Around Pier 6 (But Won't Consider It) and More Brooklyn Briefs

Pope Francis pins for sale in Downtown Brooklyn. Photo: MK Metz

  - Comptroller says Brooklyn Bridge Park might be able to issue bonds instead of building at Pier 6, but the park seems quite un-enthused about the idea. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- ‘Stoopdreamer’ is the next best thing to sitting down and having a few beers at Farrell’s. [Brokelyn]

- Brooklyn’s historic Hotel Bossert is getting a new operator this winter. [Commercial Observer]

- A new private school is opening up in Brooklyn Heights area, called Sage Heights. [DUMBO NYC]

- Brooklyn Hasidim say slaughtered chickens are donated to charity, new videos tell a different story. [Gothamist]

- Number of townhouses for sale in Brownstone Brooklyn has surged, catching many by surprise. [Observer]

- No heathens allowed at Brooklyn Church site. [Curbed]

- That's it -- Congressman Grimm is in the slammer. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Video fuss of the day: Enraged white guy who "settled" Downtown Brooklyn accuses man with stroller of "white privilege." [Gothamist] (Top comment: "Everybody involved in this needs to die in a fire.")


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