82-Yr-Old Raped; Bed-Stuy Building Collapse; Squibb Bridge Disappointment; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- The top three floors of a four-story building in Bedford-Stuyvesant collapsed Tuesday afternoon, injuring three people, including a passerby riding a bicycle. [NBC]

- Outrage: An 18-year-old sexual predator raped and sodomized an 82-year-old woman in Brighton Beach. [NY Daily News]

- Patience fades as Squibb Park Bridge in Brooklyn Heights remains shut. [NY Times]

- NY State Senator Martin Golden told a funny joke, and some people are upset about it. [NY Minute]

- Complaint was filed against unlicensed SoHo day care center months before Brooklyn Heights baby died there, but it wasn’t followed-up. [Daily News]

- Did a Brooklyn costume shop create Spider-Man 8 years before Marvel? [NY Post]

- Donald Trump frets about a tweet from someone calling himself El Chapo, which says, "I'm gonna make you swallow your [expletive] words..." [7online] 

- But maybe Trump should worry more about Israel, after his recent tweet featuring Nazis. [The Hill]

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