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.
Business
PARK SLOPE – Popular gift shop and neighborhood fixture, The Clay Pot [https://www.clay-pot.com/bridal/], will be shuttering next month after 50 years on 7th Avenue. Sally and Robert Silberberg in front of The Clay Pot on the shop’s opening day, 1969 (Photo courtesy of Tara Silberberg)Waning
Carroll Gardens
CARROLL GARDENS/COBBLE HILL – Carroll Gardens neighbors will have an opportunity next week to share their ideas for improvements to Carroll Park (bounded by Court, President, Smith, and Carroll Streets). NYC Parks is hosting a visioning session at 7pm on Tuesday, February 26 across the street from the green space
Business
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – CAVA [https://cava.com/], a Washington, DC-based fast-casual Mediterranean eatery will celebrate its grand opening Thursday, February 21 at 345 Adams Street (north of Willoughby Plaza) by offering free meals to the first 100 guests starting at 10:45am. Founded by three childhood friends—Ike Grigoropoulos, Ted Xenohristos,
Central Brooklyn
Flatbush Malls (Photo courtesy Sean Claffey via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216556796985887&set=pcb.10216556797985912&type=3&theater&ifg=1] )The remnants of a car that burst into flames last Wednesday morning (Feb. 13) at Flatbush Avenue and Fleet Street were finally
Announcements
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN/PARK SLOPE – Every year Brooklyn Borough Hall celebrates Black History Month by honoring leaders and “modern-day heroes” who have worked toward advancing equality and justice in the borough. Next week’s 6th Annual Black History Month Celebration will continue the tradition by honoring local educators. Join Brooklyn Borough
Development
RED HOOK – Thor Equities may be revising its plans for Red Hoek Point [http://redhoekpoint.com], the “revolutionary office campus” proposed for the former Revere Sugar Refinery site. Rendering via SCAPE Red Hoek Point presentation to CB6, Feb. 22, 2018The 7.7-acre mixed-use campus planned for 280 Richards Street may
Announcements
2017 Prospect Park Soiree (Photo: Jonathan Grassi)PROSPECT PARK – Spring is just 29 days away [https://days.to/spring/2019]. Those counting down until the return of warmer weather and outdoor activities should get their tickets now for the third annual Prospect Park Soiree [https://soiree.prospectpark.org/?utm_source=
community
PARK SLOPE – An outdoor public seating area will be coming soon to the curbside space in front of Pokéworks on 7th Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets. Pokéworks, 258 7th Avenue between 5th & 6th Streets (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) The national fast-casual poke bowl chain opened at 258 7th
News
Extell Development’s 68-story Brooklyn Point, 1 City Point (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Disgraced former New York Congressman, Anthony Weiner, has been released from federal prison and will serve out the remainder of his sentence at a halfway house in Brooklyn [https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/17/politics/anthony-weiner-prison-release-reentry/
Business
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Big changes are happening at City Point [https://citypointbrooklyn.com]! Dine-in movie theater Alamo Drafthouse [https://drafthouse.com/calendar/downtown-brooklyn] is planning a major expansion at its Downtown Brooklyn home. City Point, 445 Albee Square West (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)The Austin-based cinema chain will add 25,000
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – A portion of 6th Street will be closed for four days to accommodate NY-P Brooklyn Methodist Hospital’s removal of a crane used for the facility’s new Center for Community Health. NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) “They have reached the tallest part of their
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – An exhibition examining the LGBTQ communities that thrived along Brooklyn’s waterfront from the 1800s through World War II will debut at the Brooklyn Historical Society [http://brooklynhistory.org/] in March. Designed by Avram Finkelstein. A founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives, Finkelstein co-curated