Central Brooklyn
Haroon Butt via NYPDThe New York City Police Department is asking for help in finding 28-year-old Haroon Butt, who was last seen on Saturday morning, April 22, 2017, at home on 700-block of Coney Island Avenue. He was reported missing on Sunday, April 23, and is described by the police
Central Brooklyn
> Crazy truck fire on the BQE right near my apt- melting the guard rails and stopping traffic completely. YIKES. pic.twitter.com/gHXTjfbfoM [https://t.co/gHXTjfbfoM] — Dana Erickson (@wiscodana) April 21, 2017 [https://twitter.com/wiscodana/status/855462365768409088] Today was not a good day for commuting. First, there
Business
Hinckley Place is a two block street, one of which is in Prospect Park South, between Stratford Road and Coney Island Avenue. It has a couple of larger apartment buildings and a handful of victorian homes on it. A new school is being built on the other block. But for
Central Brooklyn
535 Carlton rendering via 535 Carlton.With so many of the new developments that are required to offer affordable housing approaching completion, we’ve been posting about the opportunities to apply for the apartments one actually could try to afford to live in. City Limits [http://citylimits.org/2017/04/
fort greene
For the passive gardener, our neighborhoods provide ample opportunities for enjoyment – from neighbors’ front gardens and stoops, to Fort Greene Park and street plantings. For those of us without a garden space of our own, here are the community gardens of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Each has its own
Business
About twenty years ago, The New York Times published essentially a love letter to Flatbush [http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/10/arts/trudging-up-the-flatbush-trail.html] Avenue. It included this bit about the New Floridian Diner, located at 2301 Flatbush Avenue: “Just past Avenue S, we spot the New Floridian Diner
Arts & Culture
With the return of nice weather, the film crews are out in full force from Downtown Brooklyn to edges of Flatbush. While it is impossible to get a full list of who’s filming where ahead of time, the companies are required to post notices requesting folks to move vehicles
Business
Image by Fre SonneveldIn two weeks, global thinkers about the future of cities will converge on Brooklyn to talk about what that the rapid technological change means for all of us, urban dwellers. Whether you hail your ride via app, book your reservations on OpenTable, use CityBike, monitor your home
Police & Fire
Police are searching for two individuals in the surveillance video above in connection to an assault last night in Sunset Park. Here’s what happened, according to cops: * On Monday, April 10 at about 9:40pm, two young Asian men entered a business located by 8th Avenue and 58th Street
Central Brooklyn
Seth Low middle school (IS 96) in Bensonhurst.If you have a child at a New York City public school, or if you work at one, you know this only too well – on too many days, too many rooms are simply #TooHotToLearn. In the winter – it’s the heating: some
News
Last Sunday, April 2, a 46 -year old neighbor returned home to find his fine watches and jewelry gone. A total of $78,000 worth of watches, and another $31,000 worth of jewelry. The thief, an unidentified man, broke the kitchen window to get into the apartment in a
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Central Brooklyn
via NYPDUpdate 4/10: The hospitalized male was identified on Saturday, April 8, and has been reunited with family. The investigation is ongoing. Police are looking for public’s help in identifying a man they found Wednesday morning around 9:30, unconscious and bleeding from the head in front of