Brooklinks: Friday How the Week Flew Edition

Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images.

Required Readings of the Day:

• Paying Off Ratner: Public Cost May Soar if Project Shrinks [Brooklyn Papers]
• "Secret" Ratner Atlantic Yards Scaleback Options [AYR]
• Clinton Hill Blog Meets Neighborhood Pig [Clinton Hill Blog]

Excellent Reading:

• Pushing for a 9-11 Memorial on the Brooklyn Promenade [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
• Are You Ready Brooklyn? [Brooklyn Record]
• Race for 11th is All Tied Up [NYDN]
• Brooklyn Housing Prices Still Booming [NYPost]
• The Havoc Caused by Ernesto in Sheepshead Bay [Sail Brooklyn]
• The New Target at Flatbush and Nostrand [seriously excited!]
• Brookyn Artists' Gym Show [A Brooklyn Life]
• Brooklyn, Lost and Found [Polis]
• Multi-Media Project Opening at Kentler Gallery [B61 Productions]
• Open House New York is Oct. 7 & 8 [Daily Gotham]