Brooklinks: Thursday Spring Shadows Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images:

• Resigned Director of Troubled Sunset Park Agency Still There [NYDN]
• Forest City Ratner's "Shadowy Foundation" Dispenses $1.7M [AYR]
• Three Firefighters Hurt in Brownsville [NYT]
• Father of the Year: Gives Two-Year-Old a Gun, She Shoots Herself [NYDN]
• Lawmaker Seeks Help for Sick Brooklyn Girl [Sun]
• Post-Fire Scenes at Brooklyn Heights Gristedes [BHB]
• So, is That Northside Pier Almost Ready for the Public? [INSIJS]
• Ohio Knitting Mill Bites Dust on Smith Street [PMFA]
• Empty Retail Space on Columbia St. Becomes a Botanica [ABL]
• Pretty Kitties Needs a Home [OTBKB]
• The Surest Sign of Spring: Mr. Softee [BK 11201]
• Earth Day at Hattie Carthan Memorial Garden [Bed-Stuy Blog]
• Daffodil Project Blooms on Cortelyou Road [Flatbush Gardener]
• Doll Neighborhood [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Magnolias and Dancers [A Year in the Park]