Squirrels Attack in Tribeca; Greenest Block Award Goes to Crown Heights; NYC's First Tenement

There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• Bklyner ⇒ Il Fornetto Celebrates 20 Years in Sheepshead Bay
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Sheepshead Bay ‘Zombie Homes’ Plagued by Squatters, Mold, and Feral Cats
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ Cocktails for $7 at New Ridgewood Punk Bar, Planet X
• Curbed NY ⇒ Brooklyn Botanic Garden Crowns the Borough’s Greenest Block
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The St. Francis Mission - 448 West 56th Street
• Ephemeral New York ⇒ The First New York Tenement Is on Mott Street
• Forgotten NY ⇒ Hunters Point to Greenpoint
• Gothamist ⇒ One World Trade Center Observatory: Come for the View, Stay for the Smell
• Mott Haven Herald ⇒ BronxNet Opens New Studio in the Hub
• New York Times ⇒ Why Plan to Ban Most Cars on 14th Street Has Stalled (Again)
• New York YIMBY ⇒ ODA's Cubic Condominium Building at 98 Front Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn Nears Completion
• Tribeca Citizen ⇒ Squirrels on the Attack in Rockefeller Park