Bridging Brooklyn: Your Weekly Roundup of Big Stories

Park Slope

Open Letter, Closed Minds?

Hours before a Community Board 6 meeting regarding the still-controversial Prospect Park West bike lane a lawyer for opponents of the lane wrote an open letter criticizing “the blogger,” who is allegedly a co-conspirator of the Department of Transportation. The strongly worded letter has stimulated vigorous discussion on Park Slope Patch.

Carroll Gardens

A Shore Thing

After five years fighting idling cruise ships that spew massive amounts of pollution while docked by the Red Hook terminal, the “floating cities” will now plug into the local grid. The announcement is a big victory for locals living near the port, who had pushed for the ships to link up with the electrical grid.

Prospect Heights

Charter School Still Bound for P.S. 9?

The state shot down the plan for Brooklyn East Collegiate Charter School to move into the P.S. 9 school building, but that hasn’t stopped the city — or the outrage over the plan. Parents flooded a meeting last week regarding the proposed co-location, but left frustrated by what they saw as more obfuscation by the Department of Education.

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Grisly Basement Murder

Two men were found bound, gagged and shot in Pulaski Street basement last week. The pair were both shot at point-blank range multiple times. Police are trying to determine whether the men were the victim of a brutal, random robbery, or if they were intentionally targeted. The thieves ransacked the house.