Pam was a staff reporter at Bklyner, covering North-Western parts of Brooklyn between 2016 and 2019. She also writes about art at arthag.typepad.com.
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1173 Bergen Street via Google MapsThe battle continues over the opening of a senior men’s homeless shelter at 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. Today Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine issued a temporary injunction against the shelter, extending the previous temporary restraining order until mid-April while she reviews
Arts & Culture
A rendering of one piece in the multi-part Public Art Fund project Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (Image courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio)To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Public Art Fund will present Good Fences Make Good Neighbors [https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6185_ai_weiwei_
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Senior Resource Fair (Photo courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair [http://myrtleavenue.org/announcing-the-2nd-annual-senior-resource-fair/] returns tomorrow, March 29, from 11am to 2pm at Mercy Home [https://www.mercyhomeny.org/] at 273 Willoughby Avenue (at Classon Avenue). The free event, presented by the
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The vacant lot on 9th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenues believed to be the final resting place of hundreds of Revolutionary War heroes (Image via Google Maps)A vacant lot located on 9th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenues in Gowanus may be the final resting place of hundreds
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Proposed 7th Avenue Bike Lane Extension for 15th to 20th Streets via DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/7th-avenue-park-slope-feb2017.pdf]The Department of Transportation (DOT) failed to sell all Community Board 7 (Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace) members on a bike lane extension on 7th Avenue. DOT presented
North Western Brooklyn
> Shooting in Red Hook tonight. > Posted by NYC Council District 38 [https://www.facebook.com/NYCCouncilMember38/] on Friday, March 24, 2017 A dispute between two men at the Red Hook Houses West at 80 Dwight Street escalated into a gun battle around 10pm on Friday night, according to
North Western Brooklyn
Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Saturday afternoon, March 25 (Photo by Nathan Haselby)As BKLYNER reported Saturday morning [/fire-union-hall-park-slope-last-night/], there was a fire at bar/music venue Union Hall located at 702 Union Street (at 5th Avenue) just before midnight Friday night. FDNY received a call at 11:50pm Friday
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1173 Bergen Street via Google MapsThe New York City Department of Home Services Press Secretary, Isaac McGinn, reached out to BKLYNER late Friday with additional information following the court-issued temporary block [/temporary-block-issued-crown-heights-homeless-shelter/] on the homeless shelter proposed for 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. “Despite today’s ruling, we are
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Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)It’s the first official weekend of spring! Get yourself out and dance away your winter blues, catch a performance, check out an exhibition or reading, or craft with some special kids. S.A.D. Party 2017: Drink. Dance. Resist [http:
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Photo by iamchriscummins via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BPTMiojBlQ5/?taken-at=136283596392354]The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. –A 67-year-old woman was kicked and spat on by man on the 2 train [DNA Info
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Crown Heights residents protesting the opening of 1173 Bergen Street homeless shelter at a March 15 town hall meetingA judge temporarily blocked the opening of 1173 Bergen Street, a senior men’s homeless shelter in Crown Heights that would provide transitional housing for more than 100 residents. Judge Paul Wooten
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Harlem Globetrotters players Hoops Green and Buckets Blakes at The Children’s Health Center of The Brooklyn Hospital Center (Photo by Dina Rabiner)Two players for the Harlem Globetrotters paid a surprise visit to the young patients at The Children’s Health Center at The Brooklyn Hospital Center on Thursday.