Best of Brooklyn

La Nueva Union Bakery Receives Best Of Brooklyn Award

Shannon Geis

Aug 28, 2015 — 1 min read

La Nueva Union tres leches cake — Photo by Ditmas Park Corner

Congratulations to La Nueva Union Bakery (1114 Cortelyou Road), which has been selected for the 2015 Best of Brooklyn Award in the Bakeries by the Brooklyn Award Program.

The Brooklyn Award Program selects local businesses they believe enhance the positive image of small business “through service to their customers and community. These exceptional companies help make the Brooklyn area a great place to live, work, and play.”

We are glad to see this great local bakery honored. We love all of the great treats they have to offer, particularly their Tres Leches cake.

Bklyner Endorses Brannan for Council District 47

If you want your district to have the best possible representation in the city council right away, you should look beyond politics and pick Justin Brannan, a moderate Democrat.

Should Kagan or Brannan Represent Bay Ridge and Coney Island in City Council?

Ahead of the November 7 local elections, when we get to pick our city council members again, NY1 held a debate Tuesday night (you can watch it here) between the two incumbents in what will be the new District 47 – Ari Kagan, a recent Republican representing current Council District 47,

We’re Not Under a Rock, Mayor Adams, We’re on a Shrinking One

After seven inches of rain punished New York City on Friday, Mayor Eric Adams took almost a whole day to make his first comments about a storm that effectively ground his city, the country’s largest, to a halt. After having seven separate public events without acknowledging the storm, Adams

Streets, Migrants, And More

The weather has turned pleasant and just about every neighborhood in Brooklyn wants you to come out and enjoy all it has to offer — from Atlantic Antic Downtown, 3rd Avenue Fair in Bay Ridge, art crawls in Ditmas Park and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, to lots of literary events to go

Read more

Bklyner Endorses Brannan for Council District 47

Should Kagan or Brannan Represent Bay Ridge and Coney Island in City Council?

We’re Not Under a Rock, Mayor Adams, We’re on a Shrinking One

Streets, Migrants, And More