This Week In Brooklyn: Woody Out the Door, Another Zoning Fight Up North

Delving deeper into the news this week, we find that a few stories have gone overlooked, Dock Street passes the council, while rezoning plans are gearing up to be huge issues in the next council election cycle.  Here’s what we got today:

Woody Allen appeared at the River Cafe and was briefly surrounded by sychophants before dashing out the door.

A new zoning fight is brewing over the Broadway Triangle, where Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Williamsburg intersect.  Twenty acres are up for rezoning, and protestors of the city’s plan are calling for more affordable housing, "pneumatic tubes to whisk away garbage, a community-owned power utility, and a neighborhood land trust." It may be possible.

Ben Brantley calls BAM’s Arabic language production of Shakespeare’s Richard III "a big-picture, energetic satire that, like its chief villain, never stops moving." The show runs through tomorrow as part of the Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas Festival.

Unlike every other candidate for Public Advocate this cycle, Brooklynite Norman Siegel doesn’t want to run for mayor in 2013.  "As a civil-liberties advocate, he is of the old school: abrasive, loud and reflexively inclined to resist whichever side has the power."  Public Advocate is the job he wants, after all it’s his third time running for it.