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.
News
107 Columbia Heights via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/107+columbia+heights/@40.6994149,-73.9958412,3a,75y,88.37h,99.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJybfyZjjAbhbytdQTQ6uBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x15529d9996dd94a9!6m1!1e1] After almost a year since going on the market, 107 Columbia
Events
Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/black-artstory-month-2017-photos/?utm_source=Myrtle+Minutes+E-Newsletter&utm_campaign=9af47a2970-Tree+Lighting+in+Fort+Greene+Park+%26+more&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_942e880905-9af47a2970-74753449] February is Black History Month and there are a variety of events happening all around
Arts & Culture
Photo by Ground Floor Gallery via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/events/237887826669584/]Park Slope’s Ground Floor Gallery [http://groundfloorbk.com/] (339 5th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues) is organizing a new exhibit entitled “Marked Urgent” — An Exhibition in Defense of Free Press, and they need your help!
Food & Drink
Fort Greene’s Pink Tea Cup will be the focus of the upcoming docuseries Hustle & Soul (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)I used to visit the iconic soul food restaurant Pink Tea Cup [http://thinkpinkteacup.com/site/index.php] when it was still located at its original location in
jobs
“Made in NY” Campus rendering via the Office of Mayor Bill de BlasioMayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/084-17/state-the-city-mayor-de-blasio-creates-made-ny-manufacturing-campus-bush-terminal-in#/0] the city’s $136 million plan for a 300,000-square-foot “Made in New York” Campus at Sunset Park’s Bush Terminal. Joined by
fort greene
Photo by Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/MyrtleAveBrooklyn/photos/rpp.156063095280/10154883270805281/?type=3&theater] The fire that tore through the first two floors of 419 Myrtle Avenue (on the corner of Clinton Avenue) Tuesday morning left one firefighter injured and major damage to
Neighbors
Photo via Twitter [https://twitter.com/JoAnneSimonBK52]The We Support Our Neighbors poster campaign [http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=de1856c91955710facb4b0079&id=e6c6ea2d18] lets Brooklyn residents and business owners show their support for their neighbors as well as their opposition to the anti-Muslim, anti-refugee, and anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Trump
Food & Drink
Dot & Line owners Bart Rozyk and Amber Eltaieb are expecting their first baby in May (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Are you tired of being served a splash of ‘tude with your morning latte? Then pay a visit to Dot & Line [http://www.dotandlinebk.com/], a new coffee
Ditmas Park
Emergency Town Hall Announcement via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/AAFSCNY/photos/gm.395023280864707/10155122676677642/?type=3&theater] Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested more than 600 people across 11 states [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/nyregion/immigration-arrests-sanctuary-city.html?_r=0] last week, with 40 of those
Nonsponsored
575 4th Avenue via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/575+4th+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11215/@40.6655825,-73.9944549,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25ae51b2e5931:0xac9c7ecb7bad1b61!8m2!3d40.6655785!4d-73.9922609] The Daten Group, a New York-based developer, has secured the financing needed to proceed with
Arts & Culture
Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photo by bam_brooklyn via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQTKHo8lFrz/?taken-by=bam_brooklyn])Harvey Lichtenstein, the former President and Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music [http://www.bam.org/], passed away on Saturday at the age of 87. The New York Times
Police & Fire
Photos via NYPDPolice are looking for a group of men involved in a series of city-wide grand larceny thefts targeting drug stores throughout Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. In 10 incidents dating from October 28 – December 8, 2016, the suspects entered pharmacies and stuffed over-the-counter medications and cosmetics into plastic