The News | 8.3.10
A Greenwood Heights woman is so fed up with raccoons coming into her yard and garden that she installed an electric fence along the border to keep the critters out, but the clever animals are still finding ways in. With a baby and a dog, the family told the Brooklyn Paper that they worry about the parasites and diseases that raccoons can carry.
The city is redefining dumpster diving. During this year's upcoming Summer in the Streets, dumpsters will be converted into swimming pools and placed along Park Avenue. Brooklyn-based real estate developer David Belt designed the pools last year, but they were only for his friends and family. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, the 30-yard mobile dumpsters, which have never held any garbage, were donated by manufacturer Cooper Tank in Bushwick.
Nearly 16 months after its debut, the plan to run the L train on autopilot is still plagued by glitches that cause delays for riders and multimillion-dollar repairs for the MTA, according to the New York Post. But despite the problems, the MTA is moving forward with a $453 million plan to create another automatic train on the 7 line in 2015.
Coffee shops across the city are starting to ban computers — and they're including e-readers. A blogger for the New York Times said that even after he clarified that he was using an e-book reader, a coffee shop employee told him "that the device in my hand had a screen and required batteries, so it was obviously 'some variation of a computer.'"
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, elected officials will gather at Borough Hall on Monday afternoon. At the event, DeScribe (Born Shneur HaSofer), a Crown Heights’ Hassidic hip hop and R&B artist, will premiere his “Harmony” music video, which celebrates diversity, understanding and harmony amongst the black and Jewish communities in the neighborhood.
Photo credit: The Brooklyn Paper
