Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
Now, onto this morning’s news:
- The Brooklyn Nets may be able to call our fair borough home, but the individual players won’t do the same — at least not for their first season in New York City, according to The New York Times. Not only will the Nets continue to practice in New Jersey, but Nets players will keep their personal addresses in Manhattan and Jersey. Atlantic Yards Report commented on the piece, in a post entitled, “OMG, where will the Nets players live? Times devotes two articles, six reporters, to investigation, promotion.”
- “County of Kings,” the one-man autobiographical show by Brooklyn native Lemon Andersen that details his experiences in the borough through the 1980s, is coming to the Irondale Center on Sept. 12, the Brooklyn Paper reported. The stage show focuses on the effects that the crack, heroin and AIDS epidemics had on Brooklyn and on Mr. Andersen’s life growing up in a housing complex on 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue. “It was a building that looked very nice during the day with gardens and big trees, and Christmas ornaments all over the place, but at night — ooh,” Mr. Andersen told the Brooklyn Paper.
- Good news for late-night bus riders: the New York City Department of Transportation is installing a new bus shelter for the southbound B69, near the intersection of Vanderbilt and Myrtle Avenues, according to Myrtle Minutes. The new construct will provide light and protection from the elements while commuters wait for their ride.
Kyle Thomas McGovern, a graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, is the staff reporter at The Local.