homicide
FLATLANDS – A neighbor was found dead on Monday, February 11, in her Kings Highway apartment, and police say they are looking for her son. Hyacinth Khaleel, 75, was discovered after a wellness check by police around noon, and was pronounced dead by the EMS responders. The medical examiner will determine
brownsville
Via Google StreetView.BROWNSVILLE – This morning, February 13, shortly after 10 am officers from the 73 Precinct discovered a 33-year-old woman lying on the ground inside of 547 Osborn Street. She was unconscious and unresponsive, and once EMS responded she was declared dead. The medical examiner will determine the cause
News
Photo by Annie Jiang @nycfeedsme * After 30 years of being closed, 7th Avenue exit at 8th Avenue N stop has reopened. > It’s #PresidentsDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/PresidentsDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] soon l, so USPS in Brooklyn, Flushing, Jamaica, Floral Park and Staten Island
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK/KENSINGTON – Last night at IS62 a handful of neighbors, outnumbered at least 3:1 by city officials and police, listened to an update and asked questions about the shelter for 139 men that is set to open at 570 Coney Island Avenue [/570-coney-island-avenue-will-re-open-as-139-bed-shelter-for-men/] later this spring, at the
Central Brooklyn
Roughly 40 percent of the city’s intersections have one-way streets and Localize.city [http://www.localize.city] looked at where the most pedestrians and cyclists were injured in these types of intersections between January 2013 and January 2018. While local streets tend to have less traffic and fewer overall
Business
Five Below on Flatbush Avenue.FLATBUSH – Five Below [https://www.fivebelow.com/] is a “trend-right, high-quality extreme-value retailer for tweens, teens and beyond” they say where everything truly does retail for $5 or less, and it is opening another two stores in Brooklyn. One of them will take prime space
News
SUNSET PARK – “More than a thousand inmates have been stuck in freezing cells at a federal jail on the Brooklyn waterfront that has had limited power and heat for at least this week, according to federal public defenders and leaders of the union representing the jail’s corrections officers,” New
Business
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The Seaport Buffet attacker has been arraigned on 3 charges of Murder as a hate crime. “This was a violent, horrific and harrowing attack on three completely innocent, hardworking men who were targeted simply because they were Asian,” District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. “Sheepshead Bay,
Business
BIG REUSE [https://bigreuse.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjPTmsu2a4AIVCZezCh1eSAD-EAAYASAAEgJsFfD_BwE] reopens in old Pathmark spot by Lowes in Gowanus – two blocks from old spot – open 7 days a week (1 12th Street, Brooklyn). To celebrate the reopening (and a new 10 year lease) they are having a party this Saturday, February 2nd
Announcements
Vice LogoEarlier today The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that “around 250 jobs are expected to be cut” as Vice, the Brooklyn Headquartered media company [https://twitter.com/vice] that employs 2,500, “reduces redundancies internationally and reorients to focus on growth areas like film and television production and branded
News
* Senator Simcha Felder and Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein who both represent Boro Park were the only Brooklyn lawmakers to vote against the reproductive health act [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s240], which the Governor signed into law last night. * DREAM Act Passes NY Senate and heads to Governor: >
affordable housing
These buildings are coming down to make space for 80 Flatbush.This is your last chance to take some photos of the mural [/brooklyn-artist-katie-merz-chosen-to-create-80-flatbush-mural/] at 80 Flatbush Avenue – work by Brooklyn artist Katie Merz [/a-katie-merz-mural-on-gentrification-white-on-black/]. Applications for permits to start the demolition of the buildings on the block that will