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
CARROLL GARDENS – Though it was chilly outside Thursday evening, the mood inside the auditorium at P.S. 32 was heated as neighbors expressed their feelings about the citywide Carshare Pilot Program during a Community Board 6 [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] Transportation/Public Safety Committee Meeting. NYC
Business
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – After receiving 238 submissions from locales across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Amazon announced on Thursday [https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17044620011] that it has narrowed down the list of contenders for its second North American headquarters (Amazon HQ2) to 20 finalists. Via brooklyntechtriangle.com [http:
Arts & Culture
Temperatures are predicted [https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/11217:4:US] to hover around 50-degrees this weekend! Get out and enjoy the warmer weather and check out some of the events listed down below. Don’t forget to check out the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – The FDNY received a call just before 1pm Wednesday afternoon regarding a fire at a vacant building located on Brooklyn Avenue between Pacific and Dean Streets. 94 Brooklyn Avenue via Google MapsThe fire swept through the five-story building, from the second floor up to the cockloft [https://www.
Central Brooklyn
Lincoln Place, Crown Heights (Photo: Nathan Haselby) * Canarsie Commuters Demand Better Service On B42 Bus [http://brooklyn.news12.com/story/37269839/commuters-demand-mta-get-b24-bus-back-on-schedule] [News 12] * Long Abandoned Boerum Hill Building Is Flooding Neighboring Homes [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/01/15/brooklyn-residents-say-zombie-home-to-blame-for-basement-flooding/] [CBS New York] * Controversial Statue Of 19th-Century Gynecologist Will
Announcements
SUNSET PARK – Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams announced Wednesday morning [https://www.facebook.com/eric.adams.5895/videos/10215486015769367/] a new partnership between his administration, Brooklyn Community Services (BCS) [http://wearebcs.org], and Turning Point Brooklyn [http://www.tpbk.org] to establish a mobile shower bus that will serve homeless
Bed Stuy
Brooklyn Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 23-year-old Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 23 years to life in prison for the beating and fatal shooting of a man inside an abandoned Bed-Stuy brownstone in 2014.
Business
PARK SLOPE – The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] approved plans to restore 192 Prospect Park West, a single-story retail space beside the former Pavilion Theater situated across from Prospect Park. 188 and 192 Prospect Park West via Google MapsBack in 2014 [/relax-the-pavilion-is-not-becoming-condosjust-yet-kensington/], neighbors
Business
227 4th Avenue, the former Brooklyn Lyceum is now home to Blink Fitness (April 2017 photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)PARK SLOPE – After debuting a new gym at a former 4th Avenue bathhouse [/blink-fitness-opens-in-historic-brooklyn-lyceum-building-august-1/] last August, Greystone Development has decided to put the landmarked building up for sale again. The
Business
SUNSET PARK – The business boom continues in Sunset Park with three companies announcing new locations in the neighborhood, joining the home design emporium ABC Carpet & Home [http://www.abchome.com] which debuted a new 80,000-square-foot store at Industry City last fall. > [https://www.instagram.com/p/BcNCtgyBkaj/
Announcements
FORT GREENE – If, like me, you’ve been counting down the days until the new Whole Foods Market 365 [https://www.365bywholefoods.com] opens at The Ashland, we’ve only got a couple of more weeks left to wait. To celebrate its grand opening [https://www.facebook.com/events/411037702665295/
fort greene
PACIFIC PARK – Real estate investment firm Forest City [https://www.forestcity.net/] announced [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/forest-city-and-greenland-reach-agreement-to-restructure-pacific-park-brooklyn-partnership-300582578.html] on Monday that it has restructured Greenland Forest City Partners—the joint venture that is developing Pacific Park [https://pacificparkbrooklyn.com/], the 22-acre mixed-use development adjacent to the Barclays Center