Afternoon Links: Brooklynites Have Made 2,542 Rat-Related Complaints This Year

In the News
Ridership Surge Pushes Subway to Limit in Brooklyn and Beyond [NYT]
Tourists Keep Getting Arrested for Climbing the Brooklyn Bridge [Gothamist]
Brooklyn Has Highest Complaint of Rats in the City [News12]
“Happy Combo of Clean and Cluttered” in Crown Heights [AT]
People Flock to the Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza for a Day [Streetsblog]
Work on Brooklyn Bridge Will Continue Until 2022 [Downtown Express]
How Contaminated Gowanus Land Became a Luxury Development [DNA]

Comment of the Day

I used to live in Bushwick and was always fascinated with the brewing history there. A few years ago the New York Historical Society did a beer exhibit. After visiting the exhibit I came home to bushwick, went to my local bodega, and. . . woah, they had cases of Rheingold. I had to get one. Sadly, the beer was awful, and i mostly ended up giving the rest of the cans away to friends that stopped by. But I still find it incredible how popular Rheingold was in its day.

— figtree in “My Beer Is Rheingold, the Dry Beer” — the Beer, the Brewery and the Bruhaha

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