Afternoon Links: Pandas for Prospect Park, Mammograms for Bay Ridge

In the News
Contractor in Fatal Red Hook Tree-Cutting Suspended by Parks Department [Gothamist]
Camping Out in The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Vineyard [New Yorker]
VIDEO: Baby Red Pandas Join the Prospect Park Zoo [DNA]
Brooklyn Building Approvals Skyrocket as 421-a Nears Expiration [TRD]
See a Century of Change in Brooklyn Heights, NYC’s First Historic District [Curbed]
StreetEasy Tells NotOnStreetEasy to Back Off [TRD]
Free Mammograms in Bay Ridge This December [Eagle]

Will de Blasio build more affordable housing than Bloomberg? Click through to see one reader’s prediction…

Comment of the Day

De Blasio’s rhetoric was way stronger than our old mayor (Bloomberg). But it seems that Bloomberg knew how to get things done and built more affordable housing than Deblasio ever will.

— Mordy on ​Community Boards Mostly Reject Mayor’s Zoning for Affordable Housing Plans

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