Wake me up when September ends

It's Sept. 30, and Brooklyn Paper's top stories of the month include a union election, some very old sewers, community meetings, and more!

The bans, carried out at the directive of local elected officials, affect nearly 3,000 schools and over 2 million students. Utility giant National Grid, which provides natural gas to more than 1 million customers in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island, proposed a customer rate hike that would pay for new fossil fuel infrastructure at the Greenpoint Energy Center. 9 in Prospect Heights found out 25 new students, would be enrolling at the school. He’s one of many small businessowners who have found themselves in a dangerous situation after borrowing money from predatory cash advance companies. State senator Andrew Gournades’ office said the unfinished renovation has caused even the lightest rainfall sewage backups and flooding of up to four feet south of 77th Street. Here are some of the most-relevant and still enduring stories that shook Brooklyn during September.