Announcements
DITMAS PARK – After closing the Church Avenue location on December 8, Buffalo’s Famous are back in business. You can now get a beer with your wings while watching your favorite game — Buffalo’s Famous [https://www.facebook.com/buffalosfamous/] have set up shop at the back of 773 Bar
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https://bklyner.s3.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/staff.mp4One of the projects we worked on last year was our identity – what does a Brooklyn-wide news organization look like these days? [http://www.wkshps.com/projects/bklyner/] How do we keep the feeling of old-school, homegrown, neighborhood news
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Photo courtesy of Sam Polcer * GERRITSEN BEACH – Long Before Levittown, Brooklyn Boasted Mass-Produced Housing [https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/01/long-before-levittown-brooklyn-boasted-mass-produced-housing/549521/?utm_source=SFTwitter] – a wonderful piece by the NYC Parks Historian-in-residence Thomas J Campanella. (CityLab) * MARINE PARK/SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Brooklyn centenarian reveals secrets to her longevity ahead
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The reason you’re reading this is because 1,745 of you chose to pay for local news. So we are going to keep publishing. Just how long will ultimately depend on you, our reader-subscribers. To keep our small, high-impact newsroom sustainable, we calculate that we’ll need 3,000
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Dear Reader, Tomorrow is New Year, and at 1,675 subscribers, we are more than halfway to our goal of 3,000 by the New Year to keep publishing. I’m overwhelmed and moved by the incredible outpouring of support, and by the number of neighbors and local business who
Bed Stuy
UPDATE 12/26 – NYPD released this video today and looking for three young men (17-18 years old) you can see in it. They are wanted in relation to the murder of Tahrim Applewhite. https://bklyner.s3.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/3393-17-homicide-79Pct.-12-21-17-Final-v.mp4 Individual#1: was wearing
Central Brooklyn
Ms. Noel confronts Jacob Friedman, Management Operations Director for 585 E 21st St, over her eviction, along with Councilmember Jumaane Williams (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – It has not been easy reading the stories about the very elderly in our communities on the brink of eviction [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/
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A gunpoint robbery in Crown Heights and a hammer robbery in Boerum Hill are just two of the crimes from the last few days: * An off-duty sanitation worker, Robert Leslie (33) was arrested for assault in Southern Brooklyn (60th Precinct) late last night, December 25. * There was a gunpoint robbery
Downtown Brooklyn
One Willoughby Square Rendering DOWNTOWN – FXFOWLE [http://www.fxfowle.com/], the architecture, interiors, and planning firm putting its design stamp on Brooklyn through The Ashland [http://www.fxfowle.com/projects/132/the-ashland/], Northside Piers [http://www.fxfowle.com/projects/28/northside-piers/], Brooklyn Friends School [http://www.fxfowle.com/projects/132/
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NYPD has released information on a number of suspects in crimes that took place in the second half of November. * The early morning commute was not a pleasant one for at least one passenger on the Manhattan-bound “R” train on Thursday, November 16. A 31-year-old woman reported the man in
Central Brooklyn
We wish we could have written all of these, and with your support [/subscribe/], we may yet one day, in the meantime, here are some good reads by others – as always – there is a Brooklyn angle. * The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-criminalization-of-gentrifying-neighborhoods/
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ID NYC sample cardEAST NEW YORK – NYC ID card – you know you want one. Brooklyn Public Library’s New Lots Branch [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/new-lots] is the newest spot to apply for the New York City’s official, government-issued identification card, which is available to all City residents