Business
Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]As first reported by DNAInfo [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161027/red-hook/school-bus-strike-nyc] and other news outlets, roughly 900 city school bus drivers and attendants voted to authorize a strike Wednesday night after rejecting a proposed
Education
Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]Roughly 900 city school bus drivers and attendants voted to authorize a strike Wednesday night after rejecting a proposed contract from management, as first reported by DNAInfo [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161027/red-hook/school-bus-strike-nyc] and
News
Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNERDespite the intense focus of recent years on cleaning up the Gowanus Canal, polluters still try to dump there illegally. As first reported by DNAInfo [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161026/gowanus/cesspool-company-fined-900k-for-dumping-sewage-into-gowanus-canal] , a Queens-based company, A&L Cesspool, pled guilty yesterday at the Brooklyn
Arts & Culture
Photo via Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/AlamoNYC/].After much anticipation, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will officially open [https://drafthouse.com/nyc/program/brooklyn-grand-opening] its downtown Brooklyn theater this Friday. Brooklyn moviegoers have a new spot for indie classics (and not so classic films) like Suburbia, Heavenly
Bensonhurst
Responding to the great need in our community, NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island recently launched a full suite of programs for women with breast cancer, and others deemed high risk for the disease. The programs are guided by Dr. Sunny Mitchell, Associate Chair of Surgery, Director of Women’s Health,
Health
Responding to the great need in our community, NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island recently launched a full suite of programs for women with breast cancer, and others deemed high risk for the disease. The programs are guided by Dr. Sunny Mitchell, Associate Chair of Surgery, Director of Women’s Health,
Central Brooklyn
Carly Miller, editor of Ditmas Park Corner, at work on Cortelyou Road. (Photo: Sarah Crean/DPC)We at Ditmas Park Corner depend on your support [/community-partners/]and the support of our advertisers to tell the stories nobody else tells about our neighborhood. We thought you’d like a look behind
News
The Metropolitan Detention Center, on 29th Street near the waterfront, houses 1,800 inmates. (Photo via U.S. Bureau of Prisons)On June 3rd, 2016, four judges — Robin S. Garson [https://ballotpedia.org/Robin_S._Garson], Cheryl J. Gonzales [https://ballotpedia.org/Cheryl_Gonzales], Brenda P. Murray [https://www.federalpay.
fort greene
Photo via Google Maps of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (right) and its rectory. The church was completed in 1859 and is a New York City Landmark. The rectory dates to 1868.As first reported by The Real Deal [http://therealdeal.com/2016/09/30/clinton-hill-church-plans-16-story-resi-building-next-door/] , the landmark St. Mary’
Events
Interior of the Brooklyn Army Terminal during the “Doomocracy” Haunted House. (Photo via Creative Time’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/creativetime/].)Have you had all you can take of mainstream politics in the United States? Has reality gone to a place that is just too dark for you?
history
Clip from the December 29th, 1891 “4 o’clock” edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.If only we could travel back in time to Brooklyn’s past. The next best option are the fabulous archives of the venerable Brooklyn Daily Eagle. I went poking around the Daily Eagle archives today
Announcements
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Sometimes a primary is almost as important as a general election. Just think of the presidential primaries this spring. Registered voters who wish to participate in the 2017 NYC mayoral primary must have their correct party affiliation registered by tomorrow — Friday, October 14th. Don’t