The state Senate this week voted to finally fix the spelling of “Verrazzano” on signs leading up to the bridge — two years after The Brooklyn Paper broke the news that a Dyker Heights resident demanded that change. Here’s Brooklyn Paper Radio’s take on the controversey, with Prof. Silvio Lacetti of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken.
Bay Ridge: The federal government must release an undocumented immigrant who Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained while he made a routine pizza delivery to Fort Hamilton Army Base on June 1, demanded protesters gathered just across the street at John Paul Jones Park in Bay Ridge on June 6. Comments (34)
Awesome: A floating farm on a barge docked at Sunset Park’s Brooklyn Army Terminal offers locals a slice of nature in the concrete jungle by allowing them to freely pick fresh herbs, fruits, and vegetables. Comments (1)
Park Slope: A Park Slope pol wants to pull cars belonging to thousands of law-breaking motorists from city streets and force the rogue riders to go back to drivers’ ed before their wheels are returned, according to legislation he announced on Tuesday. Comments (30)
Changing Brooklyn: The developer that last year abruptly abandoned its controversial request to rezone two Brooklyn Botanic Garden–adjacent sites to build taller towers on the land quietly resubmitted the application in April, according to a city spokesman. Comments (7)