Media Rundown: Brooklyn in the news for June 12

Cloudy days continue in Brooklyn. Photo by Matthew Taub

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Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO

Le chocolat, c’est magnifique: French chocolatier is the new Willy Wonka of Montague Street [BE]
High School Students Put Together Exhibit on Brooklyn’s Sugar Industry History [NY1]
VIDEO: Protecting the Brooklyn Bridge’s love padlocks [BE]
Is Vinegar Hill the Next DUMBO? A Storage Warehouse Owner is Banking on It [6SqFt]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby [BHB]

Downtown BK

Park Slope, South Slope, & Windsor Terrace

Napoleon Pizza Now Open On 5th Avenue [PSS]
Help Get Starcrossed Lovers To The Parking Lot: Kickstarter For Free Local Production Of Romeo & Juliet [SSN]
See Park Slope Collegiate Seniors’ Original Play, Life In General [PSS]
‘Terroir’ to Close For Good by the Fall [NYM]

Williamsburg & Greenpoint

A Williamsburg Homeowner Has Lost His Keys…Intentionally [NYT]
Cumbersome Renting Process Keeps NYCHA’s Storefronts Closed on Graham Avenue [News12]
New Williamsburg Community Center Wins Support of CB1 [DNA]
Oosten Williamsburg Shows Off Renderings, Pool and All [Curbed]
Williamsburg Pizza Party Offered Free Pies From “Every Pizzeria” In Manhattan & Brooklyn [Gothamist]
One of Williamsburg’s Mysteriously Missing Citi Bike Stations Returns Tonight [B+B]
Greenpointer’s Guide to Northside Music Fest [Greenpointers]
New Look: 263 N. 9th [NYY]
Concept: 19 Kent Avenue [NYY]

Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights & Fort Hamilton

Bed-Stuy & Bushwick

Cycling Bushwick DJ Killed in Car Crash [BP]
Bushwick Family Begs Missing 14-Year-Old to Return Home [News12]
Bed-Stuy Mansion’s Caretakers Bow Out After Bread Love Fire [DNA]
Bushwick Residents Rally For Better Parks [BB]
Weissman Equities Finishing up First Bed Stuy Building, Acquiring Others [Brownstoner]
Marcy Houses Tenants: Intercoms are the Key to Safety [NYDN]
Mandela School Prepares to Open as Co-Location Controversy Dies Down [DNA]
Reading Series Honors ‘Historically Significant’ Black Plays in Bed-Stuy [DNA]
‘The Carnivore’s Manifesto’ at Roberta’s Last Night [BD]
How to Handle Post-BOS Traumatic Stress Syndrome [BD]
The Circus That Doesn’t Leave Town: Carnival Spectacle at a Bushwick Bar [NYT]
‘Taste of Bushwick’ at the Bushwick Starr [BC]

Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Manhattan Beach, & Sheepshead Bay

Flubbed Traffic Sign On Nostrand Avenue Causes Wrongful Tickets – Here’s How To Fight Back [SB]

Brighton Beach, Coney Island, & Sea Gate

Green-Wood Cemetery Historian Seeks Support For Exhibit On Coney Island Amusement Pioneer [SB]
Thunderbolt Rollercoaster Opens in Coney Island This Weekend After Weather Delays [Metro]
Purge Breakout Experience Coming to Thor’s Coney Island For Weekend [AZ]

Brownsville, Carnarsie, & East New York

Man Shot After Daughter’s School Award Ceremony [NYP]
College Student Stabbed to Death in East New York Remembered at Service [NY1, DNA], to be laid to rest [News12]
Mayor Visits Housing Development Where Kids Were Stabbed [NY1]
Holy Family Pastor Retires [CC]

Clinton Hill & Fort Greene

Brooklyn Community Plans Protest After Teen’s Shooting Death [NY1]
Robert Wilson’s ‘The Old Woman’ Coming to BAM [NYT]
Fashion’s Identity Crisis Over a Season in Flux Started at the Navy Yard’s Dior Show Last Month [NYT]
Veterinary Clinic Serves Free Beer and Wine While Pets Get Checkups [DNA]
Wood-Fired Char is Colonia Verde’s Favorite Seasoning [VV]
Trilok School students build Lego trees for ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ project [News12]
Fort Greene Park and Wallabout Walking Tours [Brownstoner]
Volunteers Address Erosion in Fort Greene Park [MA]

Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Lefferts Gardens

3 Sought in Series of Laundry Robberies [NYT]
Q at Parkside Station to Open Southbound Next Week [QAP]
Final Barclays SEIS: More Traffic Predicted, More Traffic Studies Ordered [AYR]
Windows Remain Unguarded in Crown Heights Building Where Baby Fell, Died [NYDN, FM]
Dean Street Coworking Space Hopes to Build Community in Cubicles [DNA]
Permits Filed: 937 Bergen Street [NYY]
Eight-Story Mixed-Use Building to Replace Part of Crown Heights Brewery [Brownstoner]
Australian Prime Minister Tours Brooklyn P-Tech in Crown Heights [NYDN]
There Goes the Neighborhood: Starbucks is Coming to Crown Heights [BK Mag]
Without Landmark Status, in an R6 or Higher Zone, You Can Look Forward To These Replacing Rowhouses [QAP]

Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, & Midwood

Artist Matt Kenny On “1515 Church,” His Installation Based On The Church Avenue DNA Center Sign [DPC]

Gowanus & Red Hook

Borough-Wide

Local Subway Service Looks Pretty Good This Weekend [PSS]
This Weekend’s B & Q Subway Service Changes [DPC]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights & Vicinity [BHB]
Manhattan Rents Hit Five-Year High, Brooklyn Levels Off [Curbed]
City Council Introduces Bill to Pay For Legal Services to Renters [BR]
$10M Brooklyn apartment portfolio for sale; other listings [REW]
Living on 5 Cents at a Time: Life of aBrooklyn Can Collector [ET]
City-Wide Shootings Increase in 2014 [WSJ]
How to Find a Free Pre-K Spot If Your Child Is Waitlisted at Public Schools [DNA]
CA Teacher-Tenure Overhaul Likely To Spur Similar Effort in NY [NYP]
Council Hearing on Bill de Blasio Affordable Housing Plan Abruptly Cancelled [NYO]
Push for 25 M.P.H. Speed Limit Continues [Newsday]
The ‘Smallest Penis’ Contest Endures for a 2nd Year, and Other Weekend Events [Brokelyn]
Outdoor Food and Drink Locations Along Atlantic Avenue (Map) [AAB]

Courts

Prosecutor Fired by Hines Talking to AG [NYP, NYDN]
Brooklyn Gets the Attention, But the Bronx Is the City’s True Wrongful Conviction Capital [VV]
De Blasio Slams ‘Taxi of Tomorrow,’ Despite Ruling [Crain’s]
Brooklyn’s federal courthouse unveils “A Photographic History of the NYPD” [BE, NYLJ]

Miscellaneous

Small Brooklyn Opera Led the Campaign Against Digital Orchestras a Decade Ago [NYT]
Bill’s Up: Mayor earns 51% approval rating [CapNY], while 66% disapprove of Horse Ban [NYDN]
State Senate Passes Bill to Criminalize ‘Revenge Porn’ [Animal]
Men’s Magazines Are All Up on Brooklyn’s Jock [B+B]
Edible Brooklyn writer is an Urban Forager [Gothamist]
Brooklynite’s animated film to premiere this summer [BE]
Editorial: Undermining the Elite Schools [NYP]
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Exposed Brick Walls [BU]
A De Blasio Official on Transparency and the Media [CapNY]
De Blasio’s Fiscal Bubble [C&S]