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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Manhattan Bridge. Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis via Unsplash.DUMBO was the priciest neighborhood in Brooklyn in 2020. That’s according to a new report [https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/nyc-neighborhood-sales/] released late last month by the real estate data website PropertyShark. The site’s analysis found that, despite a 31%
Election 2021
City Council candidate Steven Patzer (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)The Facebook page is called “New York Democrats [https://www.facebook.com/NYCDemocrat/].” Its profile picture is an official-looking blue “D,” and its administrator posts multiple times per day, updating its roughly 1,800 followers on political events and legislators’ birthdays.
Bed Stuy
Rendering of a new seven-story condominium building planned for 429 Tompkins Avenue. (Rendering from Isaac & Stern Architects)A new seven-story condominium building is coming to the corner of Tompkins Avenue and Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The new building, which is being developed by Dragonfly Developments LLC [https://www.dragonflydevelopmentsllc.
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Mariya Markh, a political liaison who previously worked for several Brooklyn Council Members, announced her campaign for the borough’s 48th Council District seat [https://www.markh2021.com/] on Monday. The District includes Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay and parts of Midwood. Markh, who most recently worked [https://www.
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District Leader Lori Maslow at a virtual Brooklyn Democratic Party event last month.A southern Brooklyn Democratic leader is facing calls to resign from her party post after tweets about China that many saw as racist and insensitive. On Saturday, Lori Maslow, a Democratic Party District Leader from Brooklyn’s
Coney Island
100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach, the site of a planned 170-bed shelter. (Image from Google Maps)The city is looking to build a new homeless shelter at 100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach. But some locals have concerns about the nonprofit set to run the facility, as well as
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Recently-elected Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee Chair Tremaine Wright, who oversaw Wednesday’s meeting.The Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee’s virtual meeting yesterday imploded after a party-hired parliamentarian voided a recently-approved slate of reforms, resulting in hundreds of party members signing off in protest. The nearly twelve-hour meeting was
Central Brooklyn
On Friday afternoon, the city’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) convened an emergency virtual meeting with the city’s community boards [https://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/15/14918194/nyc-community-board-member-get-involved] . The meeting was called with 30 minutes notice, and only District Managers — the paid staffers who oversee their
Central Brooklyn
Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee Chair Carlo Scissura at Wednesday’s virtual meeting.After a punishing virtual meeting [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=w_eNPFJdydM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2Z9o_LODzzbukERPeKh11vu5Hkc2wvL0GaYx-LoGEuC_rEp2GPgGGnTLw] that lasted nearly 13 hours and was filled with delays, technical problems,
Central Brooklyn
Via Kingsbrook Jewish Medical CenterWith coronavirus cases on the rise again [https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-hospitalizations-soar-64-in-2-weeks-daily-deaths-top-100-mayor-calls-for-pause-in-nyc/2783378/] in New York, a state-led plan to consolidate three struggling central Brooklyn hospitals has been put on pause for the second time in a year. In a virtual meeting on Tuesday
Central Brooklyn
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams at a virtual press conference announcing the release of the 2020 Worst Landlords Watchlist on December 15, 2020.The office of Public Advocate Jumaane Williams published its annual Worst Landlords Watchlist [https://landlordwatchlist.com/] today, which identifies the city’s 100 most negligent landlords as determined
affordable housing
The City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning voted yesterday to approve a residential upzoning [https://zap.planning.nyc.gov/projects/P2018K0303] that will allow for a 13-floor development with 278 rental apartments, a church, and retail at 312 Coney Island Avenue in Windsor Terrace. The Subcommittee’s vote was unanimous,