Billy Richling is a staff reporter for Bklyner, covering politics, real estate and everything else. He lives in Flatbush, and previously worked for the Times Square Alliance.
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District Leader Lori Maslow at a virtual Brooklyn Democratic Party event in December.Southern Brooklyn Democrat Lori Maslow resigned from her District Leader position in the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Thursday, after weeks of intense criticism over a series of racist tweets threatened to derail the party’s election forum.
East New York
Assembly Member Charles Barron and Congress Member Hakeem Jeffries.Firebrand Assembly Member Charles Barron has a powerful foe in his run for East New York’s City Council seat. Influential Congress Member Hakeem Jeffries, whose Brooklyn district includes East New York, is backing Nikki Lucas [https://electnikkilucas.com/], a Starrett
Central Brooklyn
1020 Cortelyou Road (Source: TerraCRG)A 12,500-square-foot property in the heart of Ditmas Park’s Cortelyou Road commercial district sold today, paving the way for more new development on a mostly low-rise street already at the center of a rezoning fight. The commercial real estate firm TerraCRG [https://www.
Education
Council Member Mark TreygerThe city needs to pick up the pace when it comes to installing wifi in homeless shelters, argue the City Council’s education chair and the head of the NYC Bar Association. In a joint letter sent yesterday [https://mcusercontent.com/6fe866f4b5e485eb450be1baa/files/ef767369-5a53-4cbe-a6db-3ed31c79bd38/2020806_Wifi4Homeless_DOE_
Education
Assembly Member William ColtonAssembly Member William Colton is calling on southern Brooklyn residents to take to their cars to protest the conversion of a Gravesend schoolyard into a public park. In a strongly-worded press release [https://nyassembly.gov/mem/William-Colton/story/95130] sent Tuesday afternoon, Colton called on residents to
Central Brooklyn
A majority of voters in Brooklyn–and across the city–would give up parking for pedestrian and public transit improvements. The protected bike lane along Flatbush Ave. Liena Zagare/BklynerThat’s according to a new poll [https://www.transalt.org/press-releases/poll-majority-of-voters-support-adding-protected-bike-lanes-bus-lanes-in-their-neighborhood-near-universal-support-for-expanding-crosswalks-green-spaces-even-if-it-results-in-less-parking] commissioned by the safe streets advocacy group Tr
brownsville
Amidst the well-documented increase in gun violence across New York City last year, one area stood out: the NYPD’s 75th Precinct, which includes the neighborhoods of East New York and Cypress Hills, had both the most shooting incidents and the highest number of police misconduct complaints [/what-will-it-take-to-fix-the-citys-most-troubled-police-precinct/] of anywhere
News
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)When it comes to the new administration in Washington, Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral candidate Eric Adams is wasting no time getting to work. In a letter sent Thursday [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CWtjg1YO864g_YyXCRMfUS-eNxVbXCiJ/view?usp=sharing] , Adams
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Attendees at a virtual Community Board 13 meeting on Wednesday voiced opposition to a planned shelter at 100 Neptune Avenue.Over 300 people joined a virtual community meeting Wednesday night to discuss a planned Brighton Beach shelter; seemingly all of them left unsatisfied. At the two-hour virtual meeting, which was
Central Brooklyn
The Flatbush Savings Bank Building in November 2020. (Image: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)An activist group is asking the city to landmark a Flatbush Avenue Bank before its owners demolish it to construct a new, mixed-use building in its place. In a letter sent [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MvnMHWbb-qwF6ygvZLIUe7X-fTSh--s1/
Arts & Culture
Volunteers from the Brooklyn Navy Yard distribute books at a Brooklyn Book Bodega event in Fort Greene in November. The event was organized in partnership with the Ingersoll Residents Association and Ingersoll Cornerstone Community Center. Book Bodega co-founder Seema Aghera is second from the left; co-founder Rebecca Cohen is on
Central Brooklyn
On Friday, candidates across New York City submitted their latest campaign finance disclosure reports to the city’s Campaign Finance Board [http://nyccfb.com/] (CFB). If early fundraising numbers are any indication, the fight to replace term-limited Eric Adams as the next Brooklyn Borough President is down to a race