Afternoon Links: Dumbo Debates Moving Middle School

Is Starbucks a symbol of a neighborhood’s beginning or its end, Bed Stuy fire potentially a double murder, the importance of middle school, and more afternoon news.

In the News

Re-Zoning Update: Middle School Plan Front and Center at CEC Meeting [BHB]
Neighbors Say PLG Garden Could Be Washed Away in a Rising Tide of Deed Fraud [WNYC]
Arson Suspected in Bed Stuy Brownstone Fire That Killed Two [Gothamist]
“I’m Happy for the Gentrification”: On Starbucks and Sunset Park [BK Mag]
Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s Eagle [Atlas Obscura]

Comment of the Day

Perhaps if the student housing scare doesn’t work, Fortis might propose a jail.

— eileengray in “LICH Developer Fortis Publishes Renderings, Details of Controversial Plans (Updated)”

[Fort Greene Park | Photo: Mary Hautman]