Business
CONEY ISLAND – At its Tuesday, March 12, meeting, the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission greenlighted the way to the redevelopment of the long boarded up Shore Theater. The commission had sent the developer back after initial hearing to revise a number of elements [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/lpc/downloads/
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Participatory Budgeting [https://council.nyc.gov/pb/] vote week (March 30—April 7) is almost here! If you live in Council Member Brad Lander’s District 39 [https://council.nyc.gov/district-39/], be sure to check out the upcoming Project Expo (April 2) where you can learn all
Announcements
PROSPECT PARK – BRIC [https://www.bricartsmedia.org] announced on Thursday that legendary diva Patti LaBelle [https://www.pattilabelle.com/] will kick off the 41st BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival season with a free concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell on Tuesday, June 4. Patti LaBelle (Photo: Whitney Thomas, courtesy of BRIC)
Education
By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat Some New York City pre-K teachers are one step closer to a potential strike. One of two locals under District Council 1707 voted Thursday to walk off the job [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/03/13/some-new-york-city-pre-k-teachers-mull-a-strike-as-de-blasio-weighs-presidential-run/] if their demands for higher pay are not
community
GOWANUS – A man was stabbed on the G train at the Smith-9th Street Subway Station this afternoon after intervening in a fight. According to cops, after a fight broke out inside the G train at around 3:55 p.m., a 48-year-old man intervened and ended up getting stabbed once
Announcements
Anthony Pandrella, an associate of the Gambino crime family that organizes crime activities in NYC, was indicted for allegedly shooting his friend of many years, throwing out the evidence, and stealing from the deceased man. On October 26, 2018, 59-year-old Pandrella from Brooklyn, met with his 78-year-old friend Vincent Zito
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS/CARROLL GARDENS/COBBLE HILL – NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer recently presented to NYC Department of Transportation [https://www.bqe-i278.com/en] (DOT) his office’s proposal for the BQE rehabilitation project, recommending a “scaled down triple-cantilever rebuild” that would save the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and create a nearly two-mile-long
Borough Park
WILLIAMSBURG — The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is naming names. Today it announced five more schools defied its mandate by allowing unvaccinated students to attend school, as the Brooklyn’s measles toll climbs to 158. The DOHMH first barred [/health-department-to-yeshiva-students-immunize-or-stay-home-as-measles-outbreak-spreads-across-southern-brooklyn/] unvaccinated students from attending schools in ultra-Orthodox communities
bergen beach
The Army Corps of Engineers gives a presentation on its ongoing study on protecting the region from severe storms. (Justin Mitchell, BKLYNER).CANARSIE – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shared its latest report on an ongoing study about how to best improve New York and New Jersey’s defenses
Police & Fire
SUNSET PARK – Police found a badly decomposed body floating in the water by the Brooklyn Army Terminal yesterday morning. Ferry docked at Brooklyn Army Terminal/Sunset Park (Photo: Bklyner)At approximately 11:15am on Wednesday, March 13, police responded to a call in the vicinity of 58th Street, near Pier
Arts & Culture
We may have lost an hour in daylight savings, but there’s no need to lose out on the weekend! Hear how Andrew Zurica became a successful restauranteur while enjoying food from Dekalb Market Hall, or take the family out to Youth Wing’s annual Comic Con celebrating AfroFuturism and
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE – About 50 residents of Community Board 10 (CB10) gathered last night at Bay Ridge’s PS 264 auditorium for a presentation of a middle school to be built in school District 20 (D20). In one of the most overcrowded districts in Brooklyn, the demand for more schools is
Announcements
GREENPOINT – Repugnant words and a swastika were drawn over the face of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on “The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon” book poster at a G Train subway stop. Yesterday, a woman tweeted the image, which included the words “Die” “Jew” and “Bitch” along with
Announcements
EAST NY – A man was struck and killed by a car as he was crossing the street. The driver did not care to stay at the scene, drove away, and abandoned the car a few blocks away. On Tuesday, March 12 just before midnight, a 51-year-old man was, what cops
Development
[UPDATED: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 5pm] The NYC Department of Buildings [DOB] reached out to Bklyner with the following clarifications. “DOB has issued several violations to the building owner already for failure to comply with a DOB issued Stop Work Order,” wrote Andrew Rudansky, DOB Senior Deputy Press Secretary.
affordable housing
CROWN HEIGHTS — Droves of people came out to a scoping hearing Tuesday where opponents and supporters battled it out over a rezoning plan that would allow the building of two 39-story mixed use towers along Franklin Avenue at the site of the old Spice Factory. A crowd gathers outside of