Afternoon Links: Study Shows Huge Increase in Number of Women-Owned Brooklyn Businesses

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Making the Journey From Menace to Neighbor, All on One Park Slope Block [NYT]
Greenpoint’s Culinary Ghosts [NYT]
Brooklynites React to Plan to Put a Cop on Every Subway Line [Eagle]
The Invisible Black Man on a Prospect Park Statue [NY Mag]
Why There’s No Such Thing as a Brooklyn Accent [Atlas Obscura]
A Little-Known Newtown Creek Access Point Takes Shape [Greenpointers]
Women-Owned Businesses in Brooklyn Soar 39 Percent in Five Years, Study Shows [DNA]

Today we explained the role of a New York borough president; read on for one reader’s thoughts about Brooklyn’s Borough President Eric Adams.

Comment of the Day

I’ve been at 2 meetings where he spoke & I was very favorably impressed. (He wore that same [Brooklyn Borough President] shirt at one & it’s really quite effective.) He has much more gravitas than Marty & seems to me to be focused on improving the borough.

— Arkady in What Does a Borough President Do, Anyway?

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