An East Village cheese triumph, a croissant-loving UWS squirrel, and more neighborhood news

Been too consumed with Pope and pizza rat news to keep up on your local neighborhood outlets this week? Not to worry: We've made the rounds and come up with key headlines from some of the city's best local news sources, covering everything from neighborhood history to a Bronx construction boom to an important development for downtown cheese lovers:

• Let's rip this Band-aid first: After a decade, Scouting NY is shutting down operations (but launching a brand new, L.A. edition)
• The new relocated branch of the East Village Cheese shop is probably opening tomorrow at 80 East 7th Street (EV Grieve)
• Forget the pizza rat and milkshake squirrel, one UWS critter-gourmand prefers croissants (West Side Rag)
• Legitimately helpful advice on how to handle random subway run-ins (Free Williamsburg)
• Get to know Bush Terminal Park, Sunset Park's "secret oasis" (Hey Ridge)
• Ever wonder who McGuinness Boulevard and McCarren Park are named after?(Greenpointers)
• Melrose is in the midst of its first major market-rate construction boom (Welcome to the Bronx)
• Why can't every neighborhood have an equivalent of Chateau Le Woof, LIC's hybrid cafe-slash-pet-store? (We Heart Astoria)
• Ugh: Park Slope has a "human-poop dumper" terrorizing its streets (DNAinfo)

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