Afternoon Links: Park Slope Denizens Rally to Save Grocery Store From Development

In the News
Park Slope Rallies to Save Key Food Grocery Targeted for Development [DNA]
Closing Time: The Restaurants We Loved and Lost in 2015 [BK Mag]
Here’s Your Guide to Celebrating “Jewish Christmas” in Brooklyn [Brokelyn]
A Phat Albert Rethink (BKLYN Commons Moving Into Historic Bakery) [Q Parkside]
The Sale of Fort Greene (1798) [Brownstone Detectives]
Steiner Studios Files Plans for Six New Soundstages [TRD]
Revealed: Greenpoint Church Conversion and Expansion at 120 Java Street [NYY]

Where in Brooklyn can you find gangs but almost no shootings — or housing projects? Click through to see….

Comment of the Day

The “large, apparently rectangular turf” of Sunset Park does not in any way correlate with last week’s map of gun violence. Sunset Park had almost NO episodes of gun violence (just one episode, on 39th Street near 9th Ave). Today’s map includes Sunset Park as a purported gang location, and maybe that’s true, but still there was no gun violence there. Sunset Park had the same amount of gun violence as Bay Ridge and Park Slope: exactly one. In addition to no gun violence last year, Sunset Park also has zero public housing developments.

— elizabethJane in Map of Brooklyn Gang Turf Correlates With Map of Gun Violence

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