Students Fight Lockout With Walkout
Students joined professors in a protest outside LIU's Brooklyn campus, where the administration locked out faculty amid a contract dispute.
Place: Brooklyn
Fielding Lead Concerns
Authorities temporarily shut seven ball fields in Red Hook amid findings of elevated lead levels in the soil. Meanwhile, an adjacent track remains open.
via Brooklyn Based
Artistic Insight in Greenpoint
More than 300 neighborhood artists – including Ky Anderson – invited the public into their studios.
via Reel 13
Tiger Hoods at the BQE
Alfred G. Evans uses found items to create mini golf courses in the shadow of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
via Gothamist
Mosque Calls for Understanding
Some neighbors of a Brooklyn mosque complain the call to prayer, sounded up to five times daily, is too noisy. But worshippers say the call is an important part of their religion.
via Bensonhurst Bean
Grappling With N Train Pain
Commuters are losing patience – and sleep – over platforms closed for renovation in a stretch of Brooklyn.
via New York Daily News
The Subway Stinks in Brooklyn
A sewage leak is sickening riders at the Myrtle/Wyckoff L train station in Bushwick.
via Brooklyn Based
Bushwick Feels the Bern
Bernie Sanders fans in the Brooklyn neighborhood are banding to campaign for the presidential hopeful – and to dispel the idea that millennials are apathetic.