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.
Central Brooklyn
Council Member Mathieu Eugene. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)The New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) voted on Friday to levy a $10,717 fine [https://www.nyccfb.info/pdf/EC2017_Eugene_Mathieu_PM.pdf] on Brooklyn Council Member Mathieu Eugene’s 2017 campaign. The fine was for nine violations
Gowanus
Rendering of the post-rezoning Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Department of City Planning)Update: January 15th, 2020 – 5:58pm The Voice of Gowanus group announced it has filed a lawsuit against the city’s Department of City Planning (DCP) in Kings County State Supreme Court.
Central Brooklyn
1 Kenilworth Place. Joe Strini /PropertySharkA group of Flatbush-area elected officials is pushing back on the city’s plans to open a homeless shelter at the site of a recently-closed student housing facility near Brooklyn College. The city’s Department of Social Services (DSS) is looking to retrofit the former
Big Story
75th Precinct House. Mark Davis [http://www.ellebobo.com/]/BklynerLike many low-income communities, East New York was hit hard when coronavirus began to sweep through the city in late March. But the neighborhood was simultaneously the victim of two other pandemics: gun violence and police misconduct. Data from the New
Borough Park
Rendering of the new CityHawk air ambulance (Image from the Urban Aeronautics website)To avoid traffic, Hatzolah wants to take to the skies, or so it would seem. Hatzolah Air, a newly formed air division of the volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) organization whose independent chapters serve mostly Orthodox Jewish
Central Brooklyn
Council Member Antonio Reynoso speaking at a press conference in Williamsburg in 2017. (Photo: Paul Stremple/Bklyner)The New York Working Families Party [https://workingfamilies.org/state/new-york/] (WFP) announced today its endorsement of Council Member Antonio Reynoso in the race for Brooklyn Borough President, making the lefty political party
East New York
Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] There were two homicides on Sunday in the Brooklyn neighborhood of
Bay Ridge
Protestors gather outside Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ office in Bay Ridge on Saturday, January 9th. (Photo: Billy Richling/Bklyner)Just days after Republican Congress Member Nicole Malliotakis took office, public officials, activists and protestors gathered in Bay Ridge to demand she support the removal of President Donald Trump. But Malliotakis seems
Borough Park
Aaron Mastofsky speaking in a video interview while at the US Capitol building on Wednesday.The large crowd of Trump supporters who gathered in Washington on Wednesday to protest Congress’ certification of the election included multiple notable Brooklyn residents. As Gothamist first reported [https://gothamist.com/news/trump-fur-ever-costumed-capitol-rioter-son-brooklyn-supreme-court-judge] , among those
Bed Stuy
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez speaking at a virtual press conference on Wednesday, January 7th. To Gonzalez’s right stands NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison.Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Wednesday indictments against 19 alleged Central Brooklyn gang members, with charges including murder, attempted murder and weapons possession.
Business
Chain stores on Kings Highway in 2018. Liena Zagare/BklynerMore than one in every ten chain stores across Brooklyn closed in 2020, as retailers faced immense challenges stemming from the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent business shutdowns. That’s according to the latest “State of the Chains” report [https://nycfuture.org/
News
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who represents parts of north Brooklyn as well as Manhattan and Queens, spoke in a video she recorded on Wednesday afternoon from her Capitol office in DC, where she was sheltering in place after pro-Trump protestors broke into the building.The Capitol building in Washington DC was