Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Animation Block Party/instagram)TGIF! Don’t let the Nor’Easter forecast [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170728/jackson-heights/rain-storm-summer-noreaster-new-york-city?utm_source=Brooklyn&utm_campaign=c80421a642-Mailchimp-NYC&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7260a5da5b-c80421a642-136793013] rain on your parade this weekend. You can still enjoy the summer
Central Brooklyn
Flatbush junction mural. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Photos: The Last Secret, Illicit Parties Atop The Old Kosciuszko Bridge [ Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2017/07/26/kosciuszko_bridge_parties.
Announcements
2220 Nostrand Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Next weekend, a new local vendor market is set to open on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush. Junction flea, opening in the parking lot at 2220 Nostrand Avenue between Avenues H and I, will include vendors from local businesses spanning clothing, food, and
Central Brooklyn
Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue, via 2014. (Photo via Ditmas Park Corner)Four months after he introduced the legislation, State Senator Simcha Felder said he’s dropping his controversial bill to increase the speed limit on Ocean Parkway to 35mph. “I thought a lot about that bill as a result
Announcements
(Mosquito — identified as an “ochlerotatus notoscriptus.”) Photo: JJ Harrison [http://jjharrison89@facebook.com] via Wikimedia Commons.Weather permitting, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) will be spraying key mosquito breeding locations in three marshy areas and non-residential Brooklyn zip codes beginning tomorrow, from 6am to 7pm. An
Announcements
> Widow of Detective Wenjian Liu has baby girl https://t.co/imE2z3fdP4 pic.twitter.com/PVF04Z2ozl [https://t.co/PVF04Z2ozl] — News12BX (@News12BX) July 26, 2017 [https://twitter.com/News12BX/status/890066649604169728] Two and a half years after the death of NYPD cop Wenjian Liu, his wife gave birth to
Nonsponsored
Council Members Mark Treyger, Stephen Levin, and Ydanis Rodriguez, with Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives Paul Steely-White, July 25, 2017. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Today, elected officials and safety advocates demanded safer streets and justice against criminal drivers after two young men died in hit-and-run crashes in Brooklyn on
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPD88-year-old Bath Beach resident Mary-Joyce Bonsignore, missing for a week, was found dead on a Brooklyn rooftop earlier today, said cops. On Tuesday, July 25, at 11:45am, police found Bonsignore on the rooftop of 1853 Cropsey Avenue, where she was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation
Central Brooklyn
> Dennis Ofuoma, 19, charged with sexually assaulting two women in Crown Heights on July 13 #Brooklyn [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brooklyn?src=hash] “I want $800 million, that’s it.” pic.twitter.com/cS5qjTXa68 [https://t.co/cS5qjTXa68] — Andy Mai (@MaiAndy) July 25, 2017 [https://twitter.com/MaiAndy/status/
Central Brooklyn
A totally innocent squirrel (Photo by Pamela Wong)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Crazed squirrel goes on biting rampage in Prospect Park [NY Post [http://nypost.com/2017/07/21/crazed-squirrel-goes-on-biting-rampage-in-prospect-park/amp/] ] -Furious Crown
Central Brooklyn
Today, a Brooklyn man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for violently assaulting, raping and robbing a sex worker in Boro Park two years ago [/borough-park-woman-bound-and-raped-in-her-home-as-reports-of-rapes-surge-citywide-bensonhurst/] , said the Brooklyn DA’s office. 30-year-old Robert Hernandez Brooklyn man was convicted in June of the violent attack, which including binding the
Business
Rocky’s Pizzeria, 474 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)A neighborhood-staple pizza joint is temporarily closing its doors for repairs after a fire tore through its basement on Saturday night, said owners. The flames sparked in the basement of Rocky’s Pizzeria just after 5:30am on