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.
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL/COBBLE HILL – Locals will no longer be able to shop the array of fresh produce on the corner of Court and Pacific Streets as Pacific Greens Gourmet is closing on Thursday, November 1. Pacific Greens Gourmet, 151 Court Street, November 1, 2018 (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The business
Events
PARK SLOPE – Excited crowds lined 7th Avenue Wednesday night cheering on the costumed marchers in the Park Slope Civic Council [https://parkslopeciviccouncil.org/annual-park-slope-halloween-parade/]‘s 32nd annual Halloween Parade. The parade kicked off at 6:30pm at 7th Avenue and 14th Street, headed north on 7th, turned west onto 3rd
Arts & Culture
Following the trick or treating and Halloween shenanigans, the weekend is looking to be on the quieter side, but there are a couple of new art exhibits and concerts to check out. Also, BRIC is hosting a family-friendly house party and Target First Saturday returns to the Brooklyn Museum with
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – The NYPD is searching for the suspect or suspects who scrawled hate symbols and racial slurs on the exterior of a residence on Garden Place near State Street on Tuesday. > @bethfertig [https://twitter.com/bethfertig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] @shaunking [https://twitter.com/shaunking?ref_src=twsrc%
News
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The modest three-story building that formerly housed the Institute of Design And Construction in Downtown Brooklyn will soon be demolished to make way for a new mixed-use tower. 141 Willloughby Street, 2007 (Photo: Scott Bintner, Property Shark [https://www.propertyshark.com/mason/ny/New-York-City/Property-Search])Last Monday, October
Business
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation [https://brooklynnavyyard.org/] (BNYDC) announced on Tuesday that it has secured $42 million in financing for the restoration of the historic Building 127. Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 127 rendering courtesy of S9 ArchitectureOriginally built in 1904 for U.S. Navy boat
Events
RED HOOK – The Red Hook community held the 5th annual Barnacle Parade on Monday, October 29 to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. 2018 Barnacle Parade, Red Hook (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The Barnacle Parade was launched by a group neighbors in 2013—the year after the superstorm brought a
Nonsponsored
PARK SLOPE – 267 6th Avenue (at Garfield), the former home of the Swedish-American Athletic Club, recently went on the market with a sale price of $5.999 million. 267 6th Avenue, November 2016 (Photo: Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Built in the 1870s, the 7,200-square-foot brownstone housed the Swedish-American Athletic Club
Business
FORT GREENE/CLINTON HILL – The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/benefitkitchen/] has teamed up with the tech company Benefit Kitchen [http://benefitkitchen.com/#about] to create an app that helps low-income Fort Greene and Clinton Hill residents find out if they are eligible for federal benefits as well
Events
RED HOOK – The fifth annual Barnacle Parade [https://www.facebook.com/barnacleparade/] returns on Monday, October 29 to commemorate the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy flooding the streets of Red Hook. Despite the tragedy and destruction caused by the storm in 2012, the event is a fun, raucous, and very Red
Animals
FORT GREENE – Despite being rescheduled from Saturday due to the Nor’easter, Fort Greene Park was packed on Sunday for the 20th annual Fort Greene PUPS Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest [http://www.fortgreenepups.org/copy-of-events]. Winners of the 2018 Great PUPkin: Kody “Oscar the Grouch” and Kara Pezzillo-Foldes (Photo:
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – At last Thursday’s Brooklyn Community Board 6 Landmarks & Land Use Committee [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/landmarks-land-use.page] meeting, representatives from Fortis Property Group [https://fortispropertygroup.com/] presented plans to build a nine-foot-tall brick wall on the Amity Street side of the developer’s