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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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 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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Brooklyn Prosecutor Wiretaps Boyfriend; Red Hoek Point, Revenge Porn and More Brooklyn Briefs

- A high-ranking prosecutor in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office was arrested on charges that she used an illegal wiretap to spy on a police detective and one of her colleagues in a love triangle. [NY Times]

- Representatives from Thor Equities, the company behind the planned 7.7-acre retail and commercial development "Red Hoek Point," will give a presentation on the project on Dec. 1. [Patch]

- Knicks superstar, Red Hook native Carmelo Anthony endorses BQX. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn rapper Moise Morancy was honored by the NYPD’s 112th precinct for protecting a young woman from an alleged sexual assault on a Queen’s bus in October. [NYPD News]

- Meet the Brooklyn attorney fighting revenge porn. [The New Yorker]

- Family searching for missing teen with Asperger syndrome in Brooklyn. [ABC7]

- Former presidential candidate De La Fuente urges Republicans to fund their own recounts. Oy. [Brooklyn Eagle]

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Presidential Debate Watch Parties in Brooklyn; Mysterious Google Statue; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- You’re gonna need a beer for this: 15 bars showing the presidential debates in Brooklyn. [Brokelyn]

- Mysterious Google statue appears in Brooklyn Bridge Park, foreshadowing Oct 4. event. [Android Authority]

- A new initiative will help Brooklyn military veterans launch and grow their own businesses, with incubator space in DUMBO. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The Wall Street Journal reviews the Pierhouse condos in Brooklyn Bridge Park. [WSJ]

- Formula E will race in Brooklyn in 2017. [The Verge]

- Robots, 3D printers, Hyperloop pod: New MakerSpace opens at NYU Tandon. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Enormous craft ber festival returns to Greenpoint on Saturday. [Gothamist]

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'The Norm' New Food Concept at Brooklyn Museum; Zika Breeding Grounds, and More Brooklyn Briefs

We’re STILL in AWE of @ShinsukeN’s entrance at #NXTTakeOver: Brooklyn II! @LeeEnglandJr https://t.co/MWi5xfl89Hhttps://t.co/YJdlNVoHVA

— WWE Music Group (@WWEMusic) August 28, 2016

- International food and quite the cocktail list: The Norm at Brooklyn Museum is a new restaurant concept led by Michelin-starred Chef Saul Bolton. Diners are surrounded by priceless art. [The Norm]

- There are still some Manhattanites who think Brooklyn is a foreign country. [Brooklyn Magazine]

- NYC steps up efforts to block Zika -- Several Brooklyn neighborhoods breeding grounds for mosquitoes. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival to include Bowie and Prince panel discussion. [Gothamist]

- NPR's Jasmine Garsd headed over to the Afropunk festival in Brooklyn. [NPR]

- Fire erupts atop LICH’s ‘jewel-like’ Polhemus building in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Buzz kill: Alcohol is linked to 7 forms of cancer, study finds. [Daily News]


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New Book on Brooklyn Bridge Park; Mom & Kids Disappear in Downtown Brooklyn; La Croix and More Brooklyn Briefs

The Jay Hoggard Quartet are sure to delight at Jazzmobile – TUE, 8/16 at 7 pm. https://t.co/hCe8mdpArg ©Frossard pic.twitter.com/GVGkvb3xbf

— Brooklyn Bridge Park (@BklynBrdgPark) August 12, 2016

- These maps show just how different Brooklyn was when it was called Breuckelen. [Brownstoner]

- New book details history, development of Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Mom, two young daughters disappear in Downtown Brooklyn. [Daily News]

- NYPD Housing cops recovered an AK-47 assault rifle last Tuesday after they observed men driving in a vehicle not wearing seat belts in East New York. [Breaking 911]

- 40 vintage photos of Brooklyn's streetscape in the 1970s. [Curbed]

- Boston Ska legends Bim Skala Bim playing rare Brooklyn show on East Coast tour. [Brooklyn Vegan]

- Why you should throw your cases of La Croix out the window and stop drinking it. [Brooklyn Magazine]

- American beach volleyball players explain why they'll continue to wear bikinis. [Slate]


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Possible Subway Expansion; Fight Over a Hat; Captain America and More Brooklyn Briefs

Open house to discuss #Gowanus' future draws more than 100 people. https://t.co/wuHAdqSCnk pic.twitter.com/FRbpm767IT

— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) August 11, 2016

- Cops hone in on killer who shot Brooklyn man in fight over hat. [Daily News]

- For some, Brooklyn's skyline is just sooo boring.  [WSJ]

- Activists not mellow over ’Melo’s link to Armory project. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Captain America came home to Brooklyn on Wednesday and even his arch enemy was there to welcome him with open arms. [DNAinfo]

- Traditional Nigerian dishes like Moi Moi (steamed bean pudding)and other mouth-watering dishes will be featured in NY's 1st annual African Food Festival this weekend. [Fort Greene Focus]

- Photos: Flatbush nabe named Greenest Block in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A century-old idea to extend the subway from Crown Heights to Marine Park is picking up steam. [Brooklyn Daily]

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Go Michael Go! Michael Ring to Walk the Brooklyn Half Marathon on Saturday

We've long followed the writings of Brooklyn runner/blogger (What You Do Not Know Because You Are Not Me) Michael Ring, who was paralyzed when he was struck down by Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

Now, the Daily News reports,  he plans to walk the Brooklyn Half Marathon on Saturday.

"That Ring, 52, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, is moving at all is a credit to savvy doctors and his own indomitable spirit," the News reports.

"'His mentality is unbelievable,' said Dr. Jung Ahn, director of rehabilitation medicine at NYU’s Rusk Rehabilitation."

The man is amazing. Good luck and godspeed in your race, Michael!

More here.

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While Brooklyn Boulders Being Upgraded, Try DUMBO Boulders

Brooklyn Boulders in Gowanus continues to experience "capacity limitations" due to facility upgrades [i.e., building code violations], according to their website.

Seems like it might be a good time to visit DUMBO Boulders in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The facility specializes in bouldering (as opposed to roped climbing). It's the first outdoor climbing wall in the city.

The day pass ($9) includes shoes, the facility's front desk man told the Brooklyn Eagle. “It’s good for the whole day. You can come here and climb till your hands fall off."


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Thrills in NYC Harbor for the America's Cup

Photo copyright MK Metz.

The fastest sailboats in the world raced this past weekend in the America's Cup's New York City stop.

The boats were becalmed on Saturday, but the race went on as planned Sunday and the huge crowd in lower Manhattan was thrilled. The harbor was packed with boats filled with spectators.

Emirates Team New Zealand took first, while Oracle Team USA (shown above) came in second place and Groupama Team France third. The race continues elsewhere in June.


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America's Cup Racing Comes to Lower Manhattan This Weekend

Want to see some crazy fast sailing? America’s Cup racing will return to New York for the first time since 1920 with Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series racing on May 7-8.

Six America’s Cup teams, with the top sailors in the world, will vie for points that count towards the final competition for the 35th America’s Cup in 2017.

Practice racing is on Friday, May 6, with point-scoring races on the weekend of May 7-8.

The Event Village will be in the Brookfield Place Waterfront Plaza, while the racing will be on the lower Hudson River off the Battery Park City Esplanade (between the Pier 25 basin to the north and The Battery to the south).

Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series standings so far (after three events):

Emirates Team New Zealand – 122 points
ORACLE TEAM USA – 112 points
Land Rover BAR – 109 points
Artemis Racing – 105 points
SoftBank Team Japan – 100 points
Groupama Team France – 82 points

History:

From 1870 through 1920 racing took place off New York. Beginning in 1930, the competition was moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where it remained until the United States finally lost the Cup in 1983, ending the longest winning streak in sport.

Since that time, racing for the America’s Cup has taken place in Perth (Australia); San Diego (USA); Auckland (New Zealand); Valencia (Spain); and San Francisco (USA).

In May/June 2017, the next America’s Cup will be raced in Bermuda.


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New Marina Opens at Brooklyn Bridge Park; but Now There's a Sailing Area Fuss

Bay Ridge Flats, by NOAA

 ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina has just opened at Brooklyn Bridge Park. It's the first new marina in the NYC area in years, and will provide docking for yachts as well as community boating programs and lessons.

But some boaters are "up in arms" because a maritime company wants to install a barge mooring close by, putting a prime sailing area at risk, reports the Brooklyn Eagle.

A moored barge would affect boaters’ ability to race in the harbor, a marina official said. More than 100 sailors from the ONE15 Marina already race weekly in the flats.

A representative from the maritime company told the Eagle, however, that the mooring would be Just one of many.  “I have no idea why they’re so upset," he said.

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Eileen C. Dugan Memorial 5K to be Held in Brooklyn Bridge Park on April 16

Courtesy of Brooklyn Bridge Park

  The 18th Eileen C. Dugan Memorial 5K will be held on April 16 at 9 a.m.

 Nearly 400 runners participated in 2015.

This 3.1-mile race remembers Eileen Dugan, a New York State Assemblymember who represented the local 52nd AD (Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Sunset Park, and Bay Ridge) from 1980 to 1996.

The race was announced by the The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, St. Francis College, and Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP).

"Her early leadership and advocacy to create a public park on the Brooklyn waterfront were instrumental in making Brooklyn Bridge Park a reality," says BBP.

 In 1996, at the age of 51, Assemblywoman Dugan passed away from breast cancer..

"The Eileen C. Dugan run has really taken off since Brooklyn Bridge Park began hosting the event," said her brother, St. Francis College President Brendan J. Dugan. "It's the perfect fit, an example of everything my sister worked for and dreamed could be possible on the Brooklyn waterfront."

For its first 13 years, the Eileen C. Dugan Run was a tradition on the streets of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill. This year's course will begin and end at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The run is limited to the first 500 entrants. All proceeds from the run will support the Conservancy's free cultural, recreational, and educational events.

18th Eileen C. Dugan Memorial 5K
When: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:00 am
Where: Pier 6
Register: Purchase tickets at brooklynbridgepark.org/events/eileen-c-dugan-memorial-5k
$40 registration from March 1 – April 15; $50 registration on Race Day (if available)
Space is limited; register in advance


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Gourmet Supermarket Coming to Greenpoint; Iron Maidens Female Weightlifters to Gowanus; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Parents say Brooklyn Tech feels like the "ugly stepchild" of specialized schools. [WNYC]

- ‘Iron Maidens’ all-female weightlifting competition coming to Gowanus. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Hit-and-run epidemic as three people killed, one hurt in three boroughs. [NY Daily News]

- A gourmet supermarket is coming to the north end of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, where thousands of rental apartments are planned. [WSJ]

- New Orleans 'most modern third-world country,' Brooklyn transplants tell website. [NOLA]

- Artists gathered last Sunday for a special nude drawing class with a guest model, rock legend Iggy Pop. The class was organized by the Brooklyn Museum. [e-Flux]

- The circus comes to Barclays, and creates a trailer park along Atlantic Avenue. [Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park]

- Centennial of Jackie Gleason's birth celebrated in Bay Ridge tribute. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A U.S. Air Force veteran heads to Brooklyn federal court this week as one of the first suspected Islamic State supporters in the country to go on trial. [WSJ]

- A man was shot on a subway platform in Crown Heights on Sunday. [NBC]  Another guy was shot in the leg during a robbery in Bed-Stuy on Saturday. [NY Post]

- Oscar winners here. [LA Times] Chris Rock's hi-larious opening monologue. [LA Times]


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Brooklyn Heights Woman Run Down by SUV in Ft. Greene; Another Pierhouse Lawsuit; and More Brooklyn Briefs

The new champ beat cancer and now he brought the belt to Brooklyn. Proud to put the belt on him. Never surrender pic.twitter.com/Bdiv8vOTDH

— Eric Adams (@BPEricAdams) December 6, 2015

Daniel Jacobs defeated Peter Quillin by first-round TKO to defend middleweight title in Brooklyn.


- An unlicensed driver of an SUV swerved onto a sidewalk, killing a Brooklyn Heights woman and seriously injuring her boyfriend and 3 others on Sunday in Fort Greene. [NY Daily News]

- A 23-year-old man is in critical condition after he fell off a train while attempted to subway surf this weekend near the Brooklyn Museum. [Gothamist]

- A Brooklyn gangbanger who was busted twice in 10 days on charges of carrying illegal, loaded guns was set loose on a measly $1,000 bail Sunday. [NY Post]

- A 46-year old woman was found stabbed to death in the basement of an East Flatbush house on Saturday afternoon. [NY Daily News]

- Another lawsuit over Pierhouse height filed against Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC, Toll Brothers. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- As of November 28, 65 out of 106 units — mostly two- and five-bedrooms apartments — have been sold at Pierhouse. [The Brooklyn Ink]

- Signature Magazine says these are the six best restaurants in Brooklyn. Agree? 

- Bore yourself to sleep by listening to this podcast. [NY Magazine]


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Family Shooting in East Flatbush; Live Poultry Markets; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Father brings kids to East Flatbush Thursday night, where those kids watched their father shoot their mother and her current boyfriend, then himself. [abc7]

- The freshest turkey In Brooklyn: Inside Bensonhurst’s live poultry markets. [Bensonhurst Bean]

- Rampant development and lack of city planning key topics at Squadron’s open house. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Protesters picketed the Brooklyn headquarters of Hillary Clinton, hoping to bring to light the ongoing series of hunger strikes at federal immigration detention centers. [Observer]

- After Rangers / Islanders game at Barclays, cursing crowds, fights, drumming and chanting ... [Atlantic Yards Report]

- Brooklyn-born Dascha Polanco, 33, who plays pregnant inmate Dayanara Diaz on Orange is The New Black, was accused by a 17-year-old girl of assault. [Ameripublications]

- There have been 38,000 hit and runs in NYC this year. In 4,000 of them, a person was injured or killed.  [NY Magazine]

- Senate approves bill repealing much of ObamaCare. [The Hill]

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Bloomberg's Jab at De Blasio at the Al Smith Dinner; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Union-sponsored jab at fire-prone AvalonBay. In D'twn Brooklyn. Photo by MK Metz

- Some of the weirdest beards you've ever seen, at the National Beard Championship in Brooklyn. (Photos) [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Fatal crash in a Brooklyn creek, seen only on camera. [NY Times]

- Bloomberg at the Al Smith Dinner: "The only thing Mayor de Blasio ever showed up early to was the Brooklyn real-estate market.” [NY Post]

- Growing New York Comedy Festival takes over Brooklyn. [Variety]

- The spectacular hubris of the Brooklyn Nets. [Rolling Stone]

- Here’s why fast-food workers are striking in 500 U.S. cities, including Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- More on that 3-eyed catfish in the Gowanus Canal. [WFJA]

- Lucy Liu popped into Coney Island’s 60th Precinct Monday to film a scene for the CBS show 'Elementary.' [Bensonburst Bean]

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7-Year-Old Girl Brain Dead After Choking at School; 'Dwight Schrute' Coming to DUMBO; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Watching the World Series Game 1 at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo: MK Metz

 - A 7-year-old Brooklyn girl has been declared brain-dead after choking on her public-school lunch. The EMT who tried to save her was suspended from his job. [NY Post]

- Velázquez introduces gun bill that would tax sales, and fund anti-violence and mental health programs. The NRA is going to hate it. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Police are looking for a Canarsie man wanted for allegedly shooting his wife in the face. [NY1]

- A man was charged Tuesday night in a shooting in Bushwick that left one man dead and two others hurt. [CBS]

- Rainn Wilson -- beet farmer Dwight Schrute on “The Office” -- is coming to DUMBO to talk up new book. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- After a surge in ridership, Coney Island’s elected officials are calling on the MTA to restore F train express service. [Sheepshead Bites]

- A "mixed-race" wedding in 1907 in Bed-Stuy attracts unwanted attention. [Brownstoner]

- A list of all the weird things that happened during the first game of the World Series last night. [Slate]

- Florida man is in a coma after e-cigarette explodes in his face. [Daily News]

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Party: Watch the World Series at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Tuesday

I'm proud to announce that #Brooklyn Borough Hall will be open for watching Game 1 of the #WorldSeries on Tuesday! pic.twitter.com/0XK7fJRNYA

— Eric Adams (@BPEricAdams) October 25, 2015

Want to cheer on the Mets with hundreds of other fans?

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is opening up Borough Hall for Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday! The fun starts at 7:30 p.m.

Adams says: When we watch together, we win together!

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