BK Recovery Bests Manhattan + Barclays Shots Fired • Daily Digest

Good morning, Brooklyn! It's Saturday, Oct. 9. Find out how Brooklyn has bested Manhattan in a recent survey of the boroughs recovery from the pandemic. We have all the details below.

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Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:

1. Learn why outer-borough retail in Brooklyn is outpacing Manhattan in the pandemic recovery. (Patch.com)
2. For the second time in a week, Barclays Center was a shooting scene. Read what led the cops to open fire. (Patch.com)
3. This season, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is in a New York state of mind. (The New York Times)
4. Are you ready for a brief history of the Dodgers and Giants rivalry? (The New York Times)
5. The Brooklyn Nets have said Kyrie Irving was "ineligible to play" in Friday's preseason game. (ESPN)
6. Here are six things you can do in Brooklyn this weekend! (Brooklyn Paper)

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About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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