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.
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the man seen in the photos and surveillance video below in connection to the robbery of a cab driver early last month. Via NYPDAt approximately 7:30am on Thursday, November 2, police say the suspect hailed a taxi in
Animals
WINDSOR TERRACE – Kensington Stables [http://kensingtonstables.com] may be safe for the next five years, according to the property’s seller. Kensington Stables (Photo: BKLYNER)The stables, located near Prospect Park at 55 Caton Place near East 8th Street, went on the auction block in February [/historic-kensington-stables-sold-bankruptcy-auction-week/]. The property was
Central Brooklyn
The City Council held a hearing on Tuesday to grill NYCHA Chair, Shola Olatoye, about the agency’s failure to properly conduct lead paint inspections in thousands of public housing apartments. Red Hook Houses (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)NYCHA did not conduct inspections between 2012 to 2016 in 55,000
Announcements
BOERUM HILL – DreamStreet Theatre Company [http://www.dreamstreetnyc.org] will present a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town for their annual winter production scheduled for next week. Set in a small American town, Wilder’s three-act play tells stories of the townspeople’s everyday lives. The DreamStreet Theatre
fort greene
FORT GREENE – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Monday that a 33-year-old Brooklyn man was sentenced to 90 years to life in prison for fatally shooting three people near the Ingersoll Houses in September 2015, including a 76-year-old innocent bystander. Allen Cooper (Photo via the Office of Acting
Food & Drink
PARK SLOPE – Having passed by the original Milk Bar [https://www.milkbarbrooklyn.com] on the corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and Prospect Place many times but never stopping in because of lines and packed tables, I was excited to learn that a second outpost was opening in Park Slope. Milk Bar,
Business
FORT GREENE – A year after announcing it will debut the East Coast’s first outpost of Whole Foods Market 365 [https://www.365bywholefoods.com] in Fort Greene, the supermarket chain revealed today [http://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/whole-foods-market-365-fort-greene-to-open-january-31] that the official opening date of its value brand store will be
Central Brooklyn
WINDSOR TERRACE – An anonymous LLC recently filed for permits to construct a three-story residential building at 271 McDonald Avenue across from Green-Wood Cemetery at Fort Hamilton Parkway. 271 McDonald Avenue via Google MapsThe 30-foot-tall building will feature 12 apartments, approximately 1,162 square feet each, which typically connotes condominiums, according
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT PARK – More than 5,000 runners crossed the finish line at Saturday’s 30th annual New York Road Runners Jingle Bell Jog [http://www.nyrr.org/races-and-events/2017/nyrr-jingle-bell-jog-5k] 5K race around Prospect Park. PS 107 5th grade Rising New York Road Runners Ryder White and Maddie Philo with
Animals
PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS – A concerned dog-owner is requesting the community’s help in locating her lost dog, Teddy. “I know this may sound small, but it means the world to me,” Teddy’s owner wrote in an email asking that we post info about the lost pup. “While on a walk
community
BOERUM HILL – Last Friday, December 1, NYC Parks [https://www.nycgovparks.org/] unveiled two newly renovated basketball courts at Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park located on Wyckoff Street between Hoyt and Bond Streets. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park, Photo credit: Daniel Avila/NYC ParksNYC Parks Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Martin Maher
Central Brooklyn
EAST FLATBUSH – Police responded to a 911 call shortly after 10pm Saturday night, December 2, regarding an assault at 80 East 93rd Street between Rutland Road and East New York Avenue. When officers arrived, they found 30-year-old Darnell Pettway unconscious and unresponsive in the lobby of the residential building with