Central Brooklyn

The Down-Low: 10 Most Expensive Brooklyn Homes & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Carly Miller

Feb 17, 2017 — 1 min read

(Photo via brooklynbridgepark/instagram)

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too.

Brooklyn’s 10 most expensive homes sold in 2016. [Curbed]

Woman Gives Birth to Baby Girl on Brooklyn Bridge, Police Say. [DNAinfo]

NYPD: Hate crimes rise in 2017, led by anti-Semitic incidents. [Politico]

PLG merchants: Landlords are keeping storefronts empty until gentrification hits. [Brooklyn Paper]

Brooklyn Photos: A Vanished Community West of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [Brownstoner]

Love comes to Babeland just in time for Valentine’s Day: Sex shop workers sign first union contract in the country. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

Op-Ed: Plastic Bag Fees Make Sense. Just Not to Albany. [New York Times]

Read more

Bklyner Endorses Brannan for Council District 47

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

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

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