Tuesday Links
Ex-Councilman Barron Upstages Mayor at East New York Housing Groundbreaking [NY Times] Arts Education Lacking in Central Brooklyn, Report Says [NY Times] Sheepshead Bay Native Receives Birthday Letter Sent by Mom in 1969 [NY Post] Civic Group Asks City for $300 Million to Repair and Stop Sale of Brooklyn Libraries [NY Daily News] Mayor de…
Ex-Councilman Barron Upstages Mayor at East New York Housing Groundbreaking [NY Times]
Arts Education Lacking in Central Brooklyn, Report Says [NY Times]
Sheepshead Bay Native Receives Birthday Letter Sent by Mom in 1969 [NY Post]
Civic Group Asks City for $300 Million to Repair and Stop Sale of Brooklyn Libraries [NY Daily News]
Mayor de Blasio’s Cabinet, High-Level Staffers Mostly Reside in Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
Locals Only at Urban Outfitters in Williamsburg [Brooklyn Eagle]
Pols, Activists March Against Bushwick Slumlords [Brooklyn Paper]
Developer Makes a Killing in Bushwick [Crain’s]
Resurrected Bushwick Rental Will Finally Start Leasing Soon [Curbed]
Neo-Traditional Slope House Looks Just Like Rendering [Curbed]
Brooklyn’s Hipster Economy Challenges Manhattan Supremacy [Bloomberg]
Brooklyn Teachers Push Back Against High-Stakes Testing [Nation]
Pre-K Seats More Than Doubling in Fort Greene Schools This Fall [DNAinfo]
Fort Greene May Be Getting Its First Karl Fischer Building [DNAinfo]
“Mr. Barron accused him of exploiting his wife, Chirlane McCray, who is black, in appealing to black voters”
Translation: Only I should be able to use skin color to get votes.