🌱Flatbush Deli Shooting + Bed-Stuy Senior Housing • Daily Digest

Good morning, Brooklyn! It's Friday, Oct. 22. Police had a busy morning Thursday as shots rang out at a deli in Flatbush. See all the details below.

Today's weather: It's a mixed bag of sun and clouds. High: 70 Low: 54.

Here are the top stories today in Brooklyn:

1. Four people were shot in front of a Brooklyn deli in broad daylight Thursday morning. (AMNY)
2. A $36 million project is bringing dozens of affordable apartments to low-income Bed-Stuy seniors. (Patch.com)
3. Charles Barkley has words for Kyrie Irving: "You don't get vaccinated just for yourself." (Fox News)
4. A woman was sexually assaulted at gunpoint in a Brooklyn baseball field. (WPIX 11 New York)
5. No sleep 'til Brooklyn: See one photographer's images of NYC life. (The Guardian)
6. Kids are flocking to the free skateboarding clinics at Brooklyn's Skate Park. (CBS New York)

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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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