Brooklinks: Sunday First Day of October Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related articles, blog items and images.

Maniac on Smith Street:

• Man Killed by Police After Holding Two Hostage [NYT]
• Hostage Rescue Cop Kills Maniac [NYPost]
• Cops Kill Man in Brooklyn Hostage Showdown [Newsday]
  

The Domino Sugar Site Fight:

• Where Sugar Once Ruled, A Fight Over the Future [NYT]
• Bittersweet Controversy: Affordable Housing v. Preservation [NYDN]
• Brookvid: The Old Domino Plant [GL]
  

Everything Else:

• Stubborn Activist in the Face of Grentrification [No Land Grab]
• Two Views of Brooklyn Speaks [AYR]
• Mary J. Blige Concert at Empire-Fulton Park [DumboNYC]
• Former Windows [justiNYC]
• Kinara II Sucks [Clinton Hill]
• Home is...New York 2000 [Apartment Therapy]
• The Lodge [A Test of Will]