We know what you’re reading, Brooklyn. You might like to think it is the serious stuff about zoning laws and policy changes, but we see your web traffic. These were the 10 most read stories on Brook
1. Subways will run empty overnight during snowstorm
You heard it here first — transit workers had to run empty trains for a night last winter after Gov. Cuomo unexpectedly shut the subway system ahead of a blizzard — leaving straphangers stranded.
2. Red Hook dock owner wants to house historic S.S. United States
Brooklyn Paper commenters have never been so enthusiastic about development! Dozens left their enthusiastic endorsement of a businessman’s pitch to bring the once-great passenger ship to his waterfront headquarters and refurbish it as a floating business park.
3. Charges dropped against Sunset Park teen after videos show cops lied
Readers rallied behind 17-year-old Enrique Del Rosario after a video showed he hadn’t assaulted a police officer as charged — in fact, he was the one receiving the beating.
4. Alleged slumlords face 15 years behind bars
Police collared landlords Joel and Amrom Israel for allegedly breaking into tenants’ rent-stabilized homes and destroying them in order to force the low-income residents out — the first of several big landlord busts authorities made in 2015.
5. Cement truck topples over in W’burg, bystander scoops cement into pothole
The perfect story.
6. Barbecue joint coming to Third Avenue
Ridgeites were apparently really excited about MCU Park pork purveyor Pig Guy NYC opening a brick-and-mortar store in their neighborhood.
7. Toxic avenger! Activist to swim Gowanus
The entire borough held its breath — and nose — as clean-water activist Christopher Swain first attempted to swim Brooklyn’s nautical purgatory.
8. ‘Sasquatch’ sighted in Prospect Park
Sadly, it was all a hoax.
9. Stoop shrimp gross out Dyker residents
Some ingenius Brooklynite baked shrimp in the sun on a 72nd Street stoop — and cooked up a viral sensation.
10. Retro video game store opens in Ridge
Confused readers kept calling our office trying to sell us old Nintendo cartridges after this story ran.
