Announcements
Nitehawk Grand Opening announcement via their InstagramPARK SLOPE/WINDSOR TERRACE – Looks like the wait is over. Late this morning, Nitehawk announced on Instagram that their opening date is set for next Wednesday, December 19. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase online beginning Monday, December 17. The full schedule will
Business
1640 Flatbush Avenue looking north along Flatbush towards the Junction. Two lower floors would be retail and offices, upper floors residential. Rendering via S9 Architects.Community Board 14 spent over an hour at their December 5 hearing discussing the proposed 13 story building at 1640 Flatbush Avenue, before recommending approval
Central Brooklyn
570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)KENSINGTON/DITMAS PARK – The city needs homeless shelters and the latest one is slated for the border of Ditmas Park and Kensington. The former Park Manor Adult Home is being renovated into a shelter that will provide 139 beds for single
brighton beach
BRIGHTON BEACH – The number of anti-Semitic incidents is up so much that it seems we are reporting about one a day some weeks. Earlier in November, two teenagers were arrested for drawing swastikas in Brooklyn Heights [/swastika-graffiti-arrest/]. No sooner was the man that vandalized the Union Temple arrested [/man-who-defamed-union-temple-facing-25-years-for-hate-crimes/] , that
Central Brooklyn
We are joining Brooklyn Community Foundation in its call to ask you all to give in your neighborhood, in our borough, and help raise $1 million today for these 138 local nonprofit organizations [https://www.brooklyngives.org/organizations?show_all=true] working tirelessly to make Brooklyn a better place for
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Happy Thanksgiving from Windsor TerraceA year ago, I did not think I’d be writing these greetings and Bklyner’s future was most uncertain. Thanks to you, our readers – who decided to support their local news source [/membership/] – we are still in business, and in September added political reporter Kadia
Holidays
The men living around 61st Street and 10th Avenue have no plans to go to shelters, regardless of the weather. (Justin Mitchell/Bklyner).The New York City is urging individuals to prepare for extremely cold temperatures on Thursday and has activated Code Blue. The National Weather Service forecasts the temperatures
Borough Park
Defendant was captured on Video Surveillance at each crime scene, Brooklyn DA’s Office says.BORO PARK / DYKER HEIGHTS – A Dyker Heights man has been charged in six burglaries that took place across Borough Park in September and October, and included theft of religious items from a Synagogue. Charles Cajigas,
Central Brooklyn
KENSINGTON – Last night at PS130, a couple dozen residents listened to the DOT present their solutions to what has been a longstanding issue – crossing Church Avenue where ocean Parkway becomes Prospect Expressway safely. Of particular concern are the north-side crossings, especially the one where traffic turns from Church Avenue onto
Central Brooklyn
KENSINGTON – Last spring, local officials held a Town Hall with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to address yet another terrible pedestrian death at the intersection of Ocean Parkway/Prospect Expressway and Church Ave in late February [/dangerous-ocean-parkway-intersection-claims-another-life/]. “This
Borough Park
FLATBUSH – It would have been easy for 76-year old Marcella to stay home rather than brave the cold and rainy Tuesday morning. But that was not an option. Her $700 monthly Social Security check had been stretched to the limit to cover her $500 rent (not including gas and utility