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 – Brooklyn Community Board 2 [http://www.nyc.gov/html/bkncb2/html/home/home.shtml]‘s Land-Use Committee voted against Alloy Development’s 80 Flatbush project at the committee’s monthly meeting held at St. Francis College Wednesday evening. 80 Flatbush site seen from across the street (Photo: Pamela
Arts & Culture
So much is happening this weekend—Saturday is Record Store Day [/celebrate-record-store-day-2018-in-brooklyn/] and Sunday is Earth Day [/celebrate-earth-day-2018-in-brooklyn/]. There’s also an exhibition opening at The Old Stone House, an immigrant heritage tour on Coney Island, a movie night with the kitties at Brooklyn Cat Café, and lots of concerts
Central Brooklyn
3rd Avenue, Boerum Hill (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) * Meet Community Board 7’s New Chair [https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/41/15/br-checkin-in-with-cb7-chairman-ceasar-zuniga-2018-04-13-bk.html?utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=main&utm_content=link] [Brooklyn Paper] * Latino Community Fears Broadway Triangle Development Will Force Them
Arts & Culture
Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/pg/RecordStoreDay/about/?ref=page_internal]Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores, returns for a tenth year this Saturday, April 21, and over a dozen shops in Brooklyn are hosting special events including live performance, DJ sets, and special releases.
Announcements
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – A block on MacDonough Street between Patchen and Ralph Avenues was co-named Jackie Robinson Way in honor of the baseball legend who once lived on the Bed-Stuy street. Via @BrooklynDA [https://twitter.com/BrooklynDA]Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, Public Advocate Letitia James, and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
Bed Stuy
Real estate blog PropertyShark [https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/] released its quarterly report of NYC’s 50 priciest neighborhoods yesterday with DUMBO holding firmly to its fifth place ranking. As it did in the last report in December 2017 [/dumbo-boerum-hill-and-red-hook-are-brooklyns-priciest-neighborhoods/], Tribeca came in at the #1 spot with a median
Announcements
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Renowned architect Daniel Libeskind [https://libeskind.com/people/daniel-libeskind/] recently released renderings of his firm’s first building in New York City—the Sumner Houses Senior Building in Bed-Stuy. > [https://www.instagram.com/p/BebeoDjDnw0/] [https://www.instagram.com/p/BebeoDjDnw0/] Studio Libeskind is working on this project
Central Brooklyn
Earth Day 2018 [https://www.earthday.org] is Sunday, April 22 and there are lots of events taking place across Brooklyn where you can show the planet some love and celebrate. Founded by John McConnell [http://www.earthsite.org/john.htm] on April 22, 1970, Earth Day is celebrated worldwide,
celebrity
FORT GREENE – It was revealed last year [/celeb-blogger-compensated-living-300-ashland/] that Rookie [http://www.rookiemag.com/] magazine founder and social media star, Tavi Gevinson, moved into an apartment at 300 Ashland [http://www.300ashland.com/building] and was being compensated by Two Trees, the building’s developers, in a partnership deal consisting
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – It can takes years for professional artists to get their work exhibited at a major institution like the Guggenheim, but some lucky Brooklyn elementary school students will have their artwork included in a group show at the museum later this month. The Guggenheim Museum ‘s Learning
environment
PROSPECT PARK – Following up on a call about a fire in Prospect Park at approximately 6:15am Saturday morning [https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-dies-after-setting-himself-on-fire-in-prospect-park-brooklyn-479774923.html] , police discovered a horrific scene—the remains of 60-year-old David Buckel, a prominent gay rights lawyer and environmental activist who set himself on
Downtown Brooklyn
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Scaffolding surrounding a building on the corner of Court and Joralemon Streets collapsed on Saturday morning, injuring three people. The corner of Court and Joralemon Streets via Google MapsThe scaffolding erected outside the Starbucks located at 50 Court Street, as well an entrance to the Brooklyn Borough Hall