Afternoon Links: 87,754 People Applied for 200 Affordable Units at City Point

In the News
Insa Brings Korean Cooking to Gowanus [NYT]
Nearly 90,000 Applications for Affordable Apartments at City Point in Downtown Brooklyn [Eagle]
City Still Not Budgeting Enough for Homeless, Watchdog Says [Crain’s]
In Cobble Hill, an Eclectic Group of Enthusiasts Revive a Forgotten Instrument [Village Voice]
Despite Losses, Sanders Camp Vows to Make It Brooklyn vs. Brooklyn [WNYC]
Narrating Brooklyn Through Oral Histories [City Lab]
Toxic Soil at BAM Park Needs More Testing, Concerned Locals Say [DNA]

What’s going to happen to the tunnels that connect some of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Brooklyn Heights properties after they’re sold off? Rather than being closed forever, one reader has a few creative ideas for how they could be used.

Comment of the Day

Artisanal wine storage. Mushroom farms (lights out only). Stop on Underground Railway for Liberals fleeing Trump’s America for promise of Canada. Condos for upwardly mobile rats. The possibilities are endless, only limited by how much money NYC wants to keep these open, or the dreams of rabid real estate agents.

— Andrew Porter in What Will Happen to the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Brooklyn Heights Tunnels?

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