Neighbors
From Left: Council Member Mathieu Eugene, Ahmed Khalifa, Khalifa’s dad, community leader Hassan Eltigani, and Assembly Member Dov Hikind. (Photo by BKLYNER)“I don’t like people calling me a hero. I’m just a guy,” said Ahmed Khalifa, the 17-year-old Midwood High School student who helped catch a
Food & Drink
Fried taro basket with chicken and beef. (Photo by Carly Miller / BKLYNER)My three friends and I wandered into Good Day Restaurant on a day that could not be described as good — it was a a cold, January night punctuated by icy wind and bitter rain splashing up and down
Police & Fire
Site of Brooklyn’s second police-involved shooting of 2017, 990 Atlantic Avenue on the Clinton Hill/Crown Heights border. (Photo via Yelp)Two plainclothes cops shot and killed an 18-year-old man who fired shots into a Clinton Hill bar early this morning, just six hours after another police-involved shooting in
Police & Fire
175 Ocean Parkway fire on January 3. (Photo by neighbor Liam Brown)[Update 1/16 3pm: Neighbors launched a GoFundMe page for the victims of this fire. Donate here [https://www.gofundme.com/fund175/].] A roaring blaze tore through a century-old apartment building on Ocean Parkway in Kensington last night,
Events
(Photo by Teri Brennan Photography)Last Sunday afternoon, thousands of Coney Island revelers took a leaping plunge into 2017. It was a relatively warm 48-degree winter day — which was lucky for the hoards of health nuts, veteran swimmers, and costumed characters who dove into the Atlantic Ocean for the 113th
News
Site of proposed 21-story building in Coney Island (Screenshot via Google Maps) On the last day of 2016, Red Apple Realty Group filed applications to build a 21-story, 311-unit mixed-use building on a vacant Coney Island lot, reports YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2017/01/21-story-311-unit-mixed-use-tower-filed-at-3514-surf-avenue-coney-island.html] . The proposed residential
Police & Fire
Screenshot via Google MapsIn the first few days of 2017, one livery cab crash and one hit-and-run claimed the lives of two southern Brooklyn residents. Abraham Shmailov, 56, was killed in the back seat of a livery cab when an Infinity smashed into the cab at Avenue P and West
![[Updated] Police Search For Suspect Who Tried To Rape A Woman In Ditmas Park Elevator](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/attempted-rape-ditmas-park.jpg)
News
Video via NYPD [Update 12/4 4pm: Police have confirmed that the attempted rape happened in an apartment building on Ditmas Avenue near East 22nd Street.] A man tried to rape a woman in her Ditmas Park apartment building on New Years Day, while she rode the elevator up to
News
Author and journalist Joseph Alexiou. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop) There are many mixed feelings swirling around the borough as we say goodbye to 2016. But at the very last moments of the year, we find ourselves filled with gratitude for the truly inspiring neighbors that make us
News
Ahmed Khalifa, 17, of Midwood. (Photo via Ahmed Khalifa / Facebook)A Muslim teen chased down an attacker who slapped an Orthodox Jewish woman on the Q train on Tuesday, reports the NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nyc-muslim-high-schooler-helps-nab-man-smacked-orthodox-woman-article-1.2926945] . Ahmed Khalifa, 17, a senior at Midwood High
News
Rabbi Mendy Hecht [left] prepares a replacement menorah for the ceremony on the fifth night of Hanukkah. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)Yesterday, Rabbis from Park Slope and Prospect Heights, Borough President Eric Adams, and neighbors gathered at the Lincoln Playground in Park Slope to light the Hanukkah menorah and
Events
Photo via Borough President Eric AdamsThere are hundreds of New Years Eve parties this year — at almost every local bar [http://brokelyn.com/brooklyn-new-years-eve-parties-2017/], restaurant, and music venue scattered around the borough. But where do you go for a Brooklyn party that’s so big it can’t be contained?