The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance in locating 12-year-old Alvaro Arguello of East 10th Street. The boy was last seen at 5:30pm on Friday, November 22 with his friends on 34th Street in Manhattan. He’s described as 5 feet tall and weighing 107 pounds. Anyone with
We spotted a dog on 7th Avenue that looked a lot more ready for winter than we are! Take any photos in Park Slope recently? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag them #parkslope
Common Core Tests
Several teachers from local elementary schools will join a Columbia University Teachers College professor for presentations at Teachers Talk Testing [http://www.teacherstalktesting.com], a forum about how New York City’s and New York State’s high stakes testing policies are impacting teachers professionally and in the classroom, and
Brooklyn Community Board 6
At a packed meeting [/blog/events/this-thursday-see-methodist-expansion-presentation-at-cb6-meeting-at-john-jay] last night, the Community Board 6 land use committee rejected [http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/news/199151/methodist-hospital-officials-detail-expansion-plans/] New York Methodist Hospital [http://www.nym.org/]’s request for a zoning variance [/blog/news/methodist-hospitals-application-to-the-board-of-standards-and-appeals] to construct a new ambulatory center [/blog/tag/
HOV lanes
Could HOV lanes ease traffic on the Prospect Expressway? District 44′s Councilmember David Greenfield [http://council.nyc.gov/d44/html/members/home.shtml] thinks so, which is why he’s asked New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald to investigate the possibility of installing high occupancy vehicle
The 25th annual New York Cares Coat Drive [http://www.newyorkcares.org/coat-drive] is underway, and you’ll have an opportunity to drop off a coat at locations around NYC through February 7. Let’s warm our city up! You can drop off clean, gently used coats as these local
Dragonfly Boutique
Dragonfly Boutique [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dragonfly-Boutique/580318428652761?ref=ts&fref=ts] , the clothing and accessories shop that opened at 145 5th Avenue in April [/blog/business/now-open-dragonfly-boutique], will be closing at the end of the month. As Here’s Park Slope [http://www.heresparkslope.com/home/2013/
Park Slope Barber
Or, in this case, deck the window, as the Park Slope Barber [http://www.yelp.com/biz/park-slope-barber-and-hair-stylist-brooklyn] lights up the shop at 223 7th Avenue. Take any photos in Park Slope recently? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.
Brooklyn Sausage Fest
It’s really starting to head into winter, and the weather looks like it will get really chilly by Sunday, but you should head out and enjoy some events — you can warm up once you get there! Community Bookstore Holiday Party [https://www.facebook.com/events/242488132568132/?fref=ts] When:
Fabipops
Fabipops [http://fabipops.com/], the cake pop business run from a a showroom at 60 4th Avenue that opened over the summer [/blog/food/now-open-fabipops], closed up the 4th Avenue space yesterday as they prepare to open a retail shop in 2014. Since opening, owner Fabiola Scarbrough has had success
Got an idea for the future of the Gowanus neighborhood? You’ll have a chance to share them when several local leaders come together for Bridging Gowanus [http://bridginggowanus.org/], a community planning process that launches next month. Council Member Brad Lander [http://bradlander.com/], Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez [http://velazquez.
Berkeley Place
Some no parking signs popped up yesterday along Berkeley Place, between 7th and 8th Avenues, announcing road repair work that would be going on today. Turns out the Department of Transportation will be replacing two speed bumps that were removed earlier this year when there were sewer repairs and the