Brooklyn Real Estate Round-Up for Tuesday, April 12

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — It was a typically busy week for real estate in Brooklyn. Here are a few of the stories you may have missed.

• The Alamo Drafthouse is opening a dine-in movie theater to Fort Greene this summer (Patch)

• Prospect Heights will get a fancy new pie purveyor this summer (DNAinfo)

• Brooklyn Heights denizens: You're finally getting the cat cafe you've always wanted (Patch)

• Fort Greene's Madiba restaurant is staying open, thanks to customer donations (Fort Greene Focus)

• Bernie and Hillary are debating Thursday at the Navy Yard, but tickets are scarce (Brokelyn)

• A huge outdoor climbing gym is opening on the DUMBO waterfront on April 16 (Patch)

• Developer Yoel Goldman paid $72 million for the former Rheingold Brewery site in Bushwick, where he hopes to build a residential property (The Real Deal)

• The median sales price for Brooklyn homes in the first quarter of 2016 was about $662,000, up 8 percent from last year (Brownstoner)

• Rent on Bedford Avenue between Grand Street and North 12th Street in Williamsburg was up 3.9 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the same time period last year — and it wasn't the only North Brooklyn neighborhood where rents got more pricey (The Real Deal)

• Jahbrew Jamaican Coffee and Tea opened Saturday in Flatbush (Ditmas Park Corner)

• Bernie Sanders already opened a Gowanus office, and now he has one in Flatbush, too (Ditmas Park Corner)

• The Midwood building where Di Fara Pizza makes its home can be yours for $4 million (Eater)

• And here's the summer movie-screening schedule for Brooklyn Bridge Park (Brokelyn)