This Week in Brooklyn: The Disparities
This week in Brooklyn, we read that a man was fatally struck at 7:35 a.m. yesterday by a northbound "G" train in Park Slope. The Brooklyn Eagle (via the Associated Press) says thousands of commuters were delayed during the morning rush hour, as service was suspended on the "F" and "G" trains until about 9 a.m.
In other crime news, the Brooklyn Paper reports of a huge drug bust in Williamsburg this week, in which narcotics investigators seized more than $800,000 and 18 kilos of cocaine from the second-floor apartment above the defunct Laila Lounge on N. Seventh Street between Wythe and Berry streets. Three suspects were arrested after authorities had watched them for weeks.
An affordable housing project in Flatbush will receive $2.239 million, with the help of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Tax Credit Assistance Program, reports Brownstoner and the Brooklyn Eagle. The money will go toward building 53 units of affordable housing, including 32 units of supportive housing and 21 units at the 60 percent of the area median income, at 97 Crooke Avenue in Flatbush.
To her neighbors’ chagrin, The Cobble Hill Blog says singer Norah Jones has won a spat over her plans to add windows to the $5 million Cobble Hill home she bought in January. She had gotten city approval without a public hearing, then amended the changes to add the window installment. According to the NY Post, the Cobble Hill Association says the windows are "completely inconsistent with the building’s 19th-century, Greek revival architecture and should have required a hearing at the Landmarks Preservation Commission." Jones contends like the association, she wants to keep Cobble Hill "beautiful and peaceful."
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