Daily Links: Coney Island to Get More Than 1,000 Units of Affordable Housing
Historic Gleason’s Gym honored with street co-naming in Dumbo, families desperate as afterschool programs lose state funding, and more Brooklyn news.

Photo of the Day: Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Photo by Susan De Vries
In the News
- Dumbo Bookshop Cancels Rabbi’s Event, Sparking Outrage [NYT]
- Bed Stuy Locals Rally to Keep Goldfish [NYP]
- Motorcyclist Killed in Bushwick Crash Was Teen Actor [NYDN]
- Afterschool Program Cuts Leave Brooklyn Families Desperate [NYDN]
- Historic Gym Honored With Street Co-Naming in Dumbo [BP]
- Giovanni’s Brooklyn Eats to Reopen 13 Months After Fire [BK Mag]
- AG Fines Shamco for Housing Discrimination [BK Reader]
- Vegan Restaurant Jungle Cafe Closing After Decade [Greenpointers]
- Hate Crime Charge for Parks Worker in Clinton Hill Slay [The City]
- Greenpoint Man Who Harassed Locals Stays on Rikers [Gothamist]
- Afropunk Returns to Brooklyn With Erykah Badu [Gothamist]
- Developer Aims to Double Coney Island Affordable Project [TRD]
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