Good morning from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where the intersection of Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue is a sudden hotbed of morning activity. As of last week, the block that houses Mr. Mango is home to two ambitious bakery projects popping up inside restaurants during the day. At Margot, Laurel Bakery's takeover of the front bar with various European boulangerie and viennoise specialities is a more permanent arrangement.
A 60-year-old woman was fatally struck by an e-bike rider in Brooklyn Monday morning, police said. The e-bike rider was zipping west in the bike lane on Flushing Ave. when he slammed into the victim near North Elliott Place in Fort Greene about 7:15 a.m., police said. The woman, police said, was crossing the street in the middle of the block.