bergen beach
Ralph Avenue Median replacement has started.FlATLANDS/BERGEN BEACH – Back in the Spring, NYC Department of Transportation presented their plan [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/ralph-avenue-apr2018.pdf] for how to make crossing Ralph Avenue safer, and now they are working on implementing the traffic calming measures. The
Announcements
Kadia Goba and the stack of newspapersKENSINGTON-DITMAS PARK-FLATBUSH – We at Bklyner mostly think of ourselves as internet people, and we’ve been bringing you news about various Brooklyn neighborhoods for almost a decade, online. But we keep hearing from our readers and advertisers that neighbors miss the stories they care
Borough Park
KENSINGTON – Boro Park’s booming Orthodox Jewish community is spilling over the borders of the neighborhood, bringing with it new religious schools and new tensions with neighbors at the sleepy end of Kensington. The big new school that opened on the corner of Clara Street and 36th Street last fall
News
Brooklyn Paw House Coming to Flatbush Brooklyn Paw HouseBrooklyn natives Ash and Kena, best known through Ditmas Paws, are expanding their business and opening Brooklyn Paw House. If all goes to plan, Brooklyn Paw House will welcome customers in early November at 1215 Flatbush Avenue, just off Ditmas Avenue. “We
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – Decades after telling neighbors nothing could be done to make crossing Coney Island Avenue at Cortelyou Road safer, the Department of Transportation is adding another crosswalk and other traffic calming measures for the intersection. The changes will legalize the well-trodden path used by neighbors to cut across Coney
Announcements
Elections are just a week away, and the pressure is building up in Southern Brooklyn. While the primaries in September pretty much decided who will represent most of Brooklyn in Congress, State Senate and Assembly, there are a few races that are not quite done yet. * Congressman Dan Donovan, a
Business
Ditmas Park Helpers will help keep Cortelyou Road clean. From right Kathie Lee (Co-President of CORMA, The Farm on Adderley/Sycamore) and Susan Siegel (Co-President of CORMA, Brooklyn ARTery), Anthony Finkelstein of DPH and the men you will see sweeping the street. Liena Zagare/BklynerDITMAS PARK – The busy commercial stretch
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — The heated gentrification fights of this neighborhood have begun to turn inward, and much of the drama has centered on wild accusations against a local blogger Tim Thomas, who authors the Q at Parkside [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/], by the folks behind two local groups that seem
News
Storm coming, Coney Island. Liena Zagare/BklynerCOASTAL BROOKLYN – The storm headed our way is expected to bring rain and high winds starting tonight through Saturday. The city’s Emergency Management Department is advising that moderate coastal flooding may happen during the Saturday high tide, and minor coastal flooding is possible
Central Brooklyn
Caton Park Manor, 570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)DITMAS PARK – The grim red-brick Park Manor Home For Adults was a house of horrors before the New York State Department of Health finally forced it to close its doors in March of 2017 — a place where disabled
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – This is the 6th year we are asking our readers to donate to CAMBA to fund holiday meals for 500 families that rely on the non-profit’s food pantry on Church Avenue. What we started as 500 Turkeys For 500 Families has become more inclusive of vegetarians.
Education
BAY RIDGE/BENSONHURST/SUNSET PARK/KENSINGTON – The October 17 meeting of Community Education Council for District 20, which stretches from Bay Ridge, to Kensington, and includes southern parts of Sunset Park and Bensonhurst, was a loud and passionate affair. NYC Department of Education presented to parents its plan to reform