Newsletter
Good evening, and Mubarak Eid al-Adha [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha]. What better excuse to treat yourself than NYC Restaurant week. This year 46 Brooklyn restaurants [https://www.nycgo.com/restaurant-week/?neighborhood=bay-ridge,bedford-stuyvesant,boerum-hill,bushwick,cobble-hill,crown-heights,downtown-brooklyn,
COVID-19
"We do have a challenge now," Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged this morning talking about the relentless climb in COVID-19 infection rates across the city, pushing for more people to get vaccinated. As of today, just 4.5 million or 53.5% of the city's
newsletter
Good evening! I hope you are staying cool wherever you are. This heatwave, too, shall pass. Tomorrow, July 17, is the 2nd record store day of the year, and we have five delightful profiles of local record stores worth getting lost in. Celebrating Record Stores And Community [https://bklyner.com/
Good evening. Time to plan your weekend and catch up with some of this week's stories: Vision Festival Returns To Brooklyn + Live Music Picks 7/16 - 22 [https://bklyner.com/vision-festival-brooklyn-live-music-picks-7-16-22/] Piotr Orlov [https://bklyner.com/author/piotr/] | Jul 15,
There has been much talk this week about the increase in COVID-19 positivity rates across the city [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/new-york-city-new-york-covid-cases.html] - they have almost tripled in the last few weeks from an all-time low of 0.4%
Good evening. We hope you are ready for a stormy end of the week, thanks to tropical storm Elsa making its way up the east coast. Be prepared. [https://abc7ny.com/tracking-elsa-live-hurricane-update-flash-flood-severe-thunderstorm/10849921/] This morning two of Brooklyn’s most prominent federal
Good evening. Lots of celebrating today. As of today, we know who will represent Brooklyn neighborhoods in the city council in all but two Southern Brooklyn races, where Democrats will face significant Republican opposition in November. Billy has the details. [https://bklyner.com/brooklyn-races-what-we-know/] [https://bklyner.
After several days of relentless heat in New York City, the weather forecast for July 4th weekend looks mostly cool and rainy [https://weather.com/es-US/tiempo/horario/l/9997af9d31e8bd8419a6acaccbb4e26a4010f26b7425354247dccdd32f5c147f] . But whether or not the sun is shining, there’s plenty to do in Brooklyn the next few days.
Good evening. I hope you still have power, unlike thousands of us across the city. This afternoon the city issued an alert urging residents to conserve power to prevent further blackouts. Let's hope it's working as we wrap yet another hot, hot day, and that we
Good evening. I hope you are somewhere cool, and I hope the power grid holds while we weather the heatwave. Keep your phones charged. Now the news: Board of Elections released the preliminary results of ranked-choice voting outcomes [https://web.enrboenyc.us/rcv/index.html] [https://web.enrboenyc.us/
Events
Coney Island is best in the evenings. The slick crowds and tourists are gone, and the beach is filled with locals soaking up what remains of the day. Watching a movie. Listening to music. Dancing on the boardwalk. Catching up with a neighbor. Watching the sky light up on a
development
Good evening. We'll start the week off with a couple of developments that have largely been under the radar. [https://bklyner.com/another-17-story-building-proposed-for-atlantic-avenue-near-franklin-ave-shuttle-this-time-in-cb-3/] Yet another 17 story building has been proposed on