Last Week in Brooklyn Openings and Closings

BROOKLYN, NY — If it's Monday, it's time to review the openings, closings, and real estate-related stories that made headlines in Brooklyn last week:

Bed-Stuy

• A new charter, Teaching Firms of America Charter School, wants to move into Bed-Stuy (Patch)
• A man who took false ownership of a neighborhood brownstone has been sentenced to more than seven years behind bars (Patch)
• Those nice, good samaritan-making signs in front of Bed-Stuy brownstones are linked to a troubling element of the neighborhood's history (Patch)

Brooklyn Heights

• The battle to save two historic Montague Street buildings has taken a nasty turn (Patch)

Brownsville

• Are these the final days of the Green Valley Community Park? (Patch)

Crown Heights

• Café Cotton Bean is now serving coffee and Japanese treats on Bergen Street (Patch)
• Key Food on Washington Avenue won't close until April or May, but it also may not return (Patch)

Greenpoint

• An 11-story development is coming to a parcel of land near Transmitter Park (Patch)
• Paulie Gee's plans to open a new slice joint at the corner of Franklin and Noble, but some residents aren't happy about it (Patch)

Park Slope

• Gorilla Coffee will shutter its original 5th Avenue location on Jan. 2 (Patch)
• The owner of an Uzbek restaurant in Gravesend is opening a new 5th Avenue spot (Patch)
• And while we're at it, 5th is also getting a new Caribbean fusion spot early next year (Patch)

Red Hook

• Locals received their first public presentation on the Red Hoek Point development, and while they like the design, they want more of a say on the project's future (Patch)
• The founder of Hometown Bar-B-Q will open his latest neighborhood restaurant, Hometown Pan Fried Chicken, this spring (Patch)

Sunset Park

• Here are eight locations the city thinks could host new schools in the overcrowded District 15 (Patch)

Williamsburg

• The city's affordable housing lottery has opened for the new Domino Sugar Factory development on the Williamsburg waterfront (Patch)

And two accused slumlords pled guilty to running a huge tenant harassment scheme on their properties in Bushwick, Greenpoint and Williamsburg (Patch)

Pictured at top: the new Domino Sugar Factory mixed income development in Williamsburg. Rendering courtesy of CityRealty.