canarsie
BP Station near Brooklyn Terminal Market, via Google Streetview.EAST FLATBUSH/CANARSIE – On Monday, February 17, 2020, shortly after 6 pm, NYPD responded to a vehicle fire at 401 East 80th Street – a BP Gas Station near Brooklyn Terminal Market. Upon arrival, officers report finding a white van with smoke
North Western Brooklyn
Mayor de Blasio speaks with protesters, including organizer Doug Gordon, Families for Safe Streets activist Amy Cohen, and Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White, outside the Prospect Park YMCA on Tuesday morning following the Monday, March 5, 2018 crash. Jacklyn Jeffrey-Wilensky/BklynerAdvocacy following the horrific crash that took the
Central Brooklyn
Clarendon and Flatbush, Liena Zagare/BklynerUPDATED: On Monday, February 10, a New York State judge issued a temporary restraining order [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/nyregion/nyc-broker-fees.html], so the brokers can collect fees until at least the March 13 hearing. Renters can no longer be charged brokers
Central Brooklyn
A recent video circulating on twitter shows an NYPD officer shoving a high school student on her way home from the Avenue M station on the Q line. The incident took place last Tuesday, February 4, between 3:30 pm and 4:00 pm, says Anthony Beckford of Black Lives
News
The Manhattan-bound entrance to Nostrand Avenue Station on Fulton Street. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.Work has begun to reopen the Bedford Avenue entrances to the Nostrand Av A/C subway station that were closed some 30 years ago in response to high crime, MTA informed us yesterday. The station is also
gravesend
GRAVESEND/BORO PARK – This morning a man on West 12th Street in Gravesend was shot in his face by ICE Agents attempting to arrest his mother’s boyfriend whom they were looking to deport. ICE was after neighbor Gaspar Avendano-Hernandez, 33, who they say had been already once removed from
Announcements
Blake Morris.Yesterday morning Blake Morris announced in a newsletter to his followers from his run for state senate [/blake-morris-hopes-to-unseat-state-senator-simcha-felder/] that he was running to represent the 40th Council District in the City Council. District 40 includes Ditmas Park, Flatbush and East Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and bits of Kensington.
Bay Ridge
Katherine Walsh in Sunset Park, courtesy of Katherine Walsh.Katherine Walsh, an urban planner, is leading in the race to unseat longterm Assemblymember Felix Ortiz to represent AD51, which includes Red Hook and Sunset Park along with bits of Carroll Gardens, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge, in the New York
News
Sunset from the Pfizer Building. Irina Groushevaia/BklynerJewish woman who claims Tiffany Harris assaulted her says attacker needs help, not bail [https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-bail-reform-assault-antisemitism-tiffany-harris-mental-health-20200129-ave5msd2rnaj5pwqmfe5mncfgm-story.html] (Daily News, CROWN HEIGHTS) Barr, Targeting Anti-Semitic Crimes, Enters Bail Reform Fray [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/nyregion/bail-reform-william-barr-ny.
Announcements
Photo by Hush Naidoo on UnsplashThe City and the State today laid out their preparedness plans for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak [https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html], which has spread from Wuhan City in Hubei province in China to 16 countries, including the USA, which at this
News
Jumaane Williams. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)“As I move around the city, one I love, I see neighborhoods shifting as rents rise, students struggling for a high quality, equitable education. I see streets that are congested and streets that are dangerous and streets I may need to march down. I
Central Brooklyn
Potential passenger line. Via MTAMany folks have been advocating for a passenger option along the freight line that cuts across Brooklyn connecting Bay Ridge with Astoria – for decades. Today the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that it has awarded a $1.3 million contract to engineering firm AECOM, who will