This Week in Brooklyn Openings and Closings

Pictured: Our Lady of Loreto Church in Brownsville. Image via Google Maps

BROOKLYN, NY — Here are some of the openings, closings, and real estate-related stories that made news in Brooklyn over the past week:

Bed-Stuy

• A new restaurant on Bedford Avenue is mixing Filipino and Mexican culinary traditions (DNAinfo)

Bushwick

• Fritz's Lunch Box will be closing at the end of the month (DNAinfo)
• The former location of the Rheingold brewery could become a huge new housing development (Brooklyn Paper)

Brownsville

• The New American Charter School will be moving into P.S. 233 in the fall (Patch)
• A new coffee shop and local business incubator has opened on Belmont Avenue (Patch)
• The fate of the century-old Our Lady of Loreto Church has again been called into question (Patch)

Crown Heights

• The Super Power bar has opened on Nostrand Avenue, and it's serving $1 oysters (DNAinfo)
• Brooklyn Winery has opened a new neighborhood restaurant on Franklin Avenue (DNAinfo)

Fort Greene and Clinton Hill

• A massive new hub for tech and manufacturing companies has opened at the Navy Yard (Patch)
• A combined pasta factory and restaurant is coming to Myrtle Avenue (DNAinfo)
• Wegmans won't be opening in the Navy Yard until 2018 (Brooklyn Paper)
• The proposed Clinton Avenue bike lane is facing stiff community opposition (Brooklyn Paper)

Park Slope

• Juice Press is now serving cold-pressed juices in the neighborhood (DNAinfo)
• Several planned murals of Biggie Smalls lyrics are now adorning formerly blank spaces in South Slope (Park Slope Stoop)

Williamsburg

• You have a few days left to apply for a handful of affordable units in this new neighborhood building (Patch)
• The Mirage nightclub was shut down yet again (Brooklyn Paper)

Windsor Terrace

• Check out the interior design at the Hinterlands Bar, now open on Church Avenue (Patch)