Former Politics Reporter for Bklyner, covering Brooklyn politics and Crown Heights/PLG/Bed Stuy. @kadiagoba
Announcements
Lakou Cafe at 195 Utica Avenue. The pastry and coffee shop is adding cocktails to the menu in 2019. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — A neighborhood café in Crown Heights is looking to add cocktails to their assortment of coffee and crepes next year. Lakou Café [https://www.lakoucafe.
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Public Advocate Candidate Melissa Mark Viverito on the Q train platform at the Newkirk Avenue station in Flatbush (Photo credit: Perri Litton)FLATBUSH – The former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito [https://melissamarkviverito.com/] campaigned at the Newkirk Avenue train station on Friday morning for the New York City Public Advocate’s
Crown Heights
Inside Oholei Torah, a Crown Heights Yeshiva. (Photo credit: Rabbi Yossi Newfield)CROWN HEIGHTS — Young Advocates For Fair Education (YAFFED), a Manhattan organization looking to revise educational standards in ultra-Orthodox schools, celebrated the last day of Hanukkah in Brooklyn on Monday evening with a party and a panel discussion on
Business
Renovations on the way of the new Stocked Burger. (Photo credit: Matthew Fulton) CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After an electrical fire in 2016 shuttered their Vanderbilt Avenue business for 14 months, owners of Stocked Cafe [https://www.stockedbrooklyn.com/], Matthew Fulton and Lesley Covitz were filled with emotion over the
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Simcha Felder. (Photo: NY Senate)BROOKLYN — State Sen. Simcha Felder, who caucuses with state Senate Republicans, came up short on committee leadership roles Tuesday. He does not have any. Felder, (17) who’ll give up the Cities Committee in Albany is the lone Brooklyn “Democrat” not to receive a chair
News
Renderings: Studio V ArchitectureCROWN HEIGHTS — Community Board 8’s Land Use committee weighed in on two proposals, Thursday, December 6, urging developers to make changes that comply with the M-CROWN [/two-large-new-crown-heights-developments-in-the-works/] rezoning plan and the board’s goal to maintain jobs in the area. Currently, the area consists of parking
Arts & Culture
Flatbush Presbyterian Church on Foster and East 23rd in November of 2018. Liena Zagare/BklynerFLATBUSH – As the borough shuffles to house all the city’s newcomers, part of its history will inevitably be gutted or succumb to full demolition. Religious institutions, with their architecturally exciting structures, brought families and communities
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Bob Capano. (Facebook screenshot)BAY RIDGE — Bob Capano, a former City Council candidate and chairman of the now-defunct New York State Reform Party stepped down from Andrew Gounardes’ transition team two weeks ago. Sources say the departure comes as a result of what some called “xenophobic rhetoric” Capano spilled [https:
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The Rev. Khader El-Yateem at the Alpine Theatre.BAY RIDGE — Rev. Khader El-Yateem returned to his old neighborhood for a night to see the Brooklyn premiere of “FATHER K,” a documentary based on his 2017 run for the City Council seat to represent Bay Ridge, his home for nearly two
Central Brooklyn
1010 Pacific St. (Renderings: Studio V Architecture)CROWN HEIGHTS — Applicants released plans for two new developments in northwestern Crown Heights – 1010 Pacific Street and1050 Pacific Street, both of which fall within Community Board 8’s M-CROWN rezoning proposal. 1010 PACIFIC STREET Private developers, Avo Construction [http://www.avoconstruction.com/], whose
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2018 Public Advocate ForumBROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A group of Brooklyn political clubs is sponsoring a public advocate’s forum on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. The event will be held at First Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society [http://www.fuub.org/home/] at 119 Pierrepont Street. Doors open at 6:45 pm and
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Zellnor Myrie (Photo: Office of Zellnor Myrie)CROWN HEIGHTS – State Senator-Elect Zellnor Myrie announced on Thursday a six-person transition steering committee ahead of his January 9 swearing-in. The transition team will advise Myrie on staffing and the organization of both the Brooklyn and Albany offices. The crew will also help