Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Bed Stuy
The end of Division Avenue, near where Merceda Young’s body was found. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Bed-Stuy man was sentenced to 20 years yesterday for stabbing his pregnant girlfriend to death in Williamsburg. Alex Jeffrey, 34, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in July and was sentenced yesterday in
News
A rendering of the proposed residential development headed to Berry and North 1st in Williamsburg (Via IMC Architecture)WILLIAMSBURG – The latest renderings and permits filed in Williamsburg have mostly centered around office space, but a new residential development coming to Berry and North 1st gets back to the most common
Central Brooklyn
School is back in session! Best of luck to the students starting today! According to an interview with WNYC [https://www.wnyc.org/story/back-school-09042018/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cb_bureau_ny] , Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is poised to sign off on an integration
Bed Stuy
Looking across the basketball courts at Hancock and Spencer, where two men were shot this weekend (Screenshot via Google Maps)Two separate incidents of gun violence claimed two lives in Bed-Stuy over the weekend, police confirmed, including the son of an aide to the Brooklyn Borough President. The first shooting
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Arts & Culture
Once again, revelers took to the Brooklyn streets on Labor Day to celebrate J’Ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade with music, dancing and colorful costumes! For the second year, J’Ouvert began at 6:00 am, instead of during the pre-dawn hours, as a security measure aimed to
Central Brooklyn
Police blocked off the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Prospect Place after a shooting early Monday morning (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)CROWN HEIGHTS – A streetcorner shooting early Monday morning has police searching for a suspect. Around 7:30 am on Monday, September 3, an unidentified man fired several shots at a
Central Brooklyn
Think you know all about Brooklyn news? Try this week’s news quiz and see how well you’ve kept up with all the coverage on BKLYNER! If you’re reading BKLYNER regularly, consider becoming a subscriber [/subscribe/]—you can keep up-to-date on all things Brooklyn and support the local
Central Brooklyn
A drummer at last year’s J’Ouvert Celebration (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)There’s a lot going on in Brooklyn every day, so we’re debuting a new feature: Lunchtime Links! We’ll give you a quick overview of what’s going on in Brooklyn, from our own reporting and
Bushwick
The building at 266 Wilson Avenue, where Quinones was living at the time of the murder (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – This week, a man walked into the 1st Precinct Police Station to confess a murder from 2014 in Bushwick. Police said Ricky Gonzalez, 34, arrived at the Tribeca police
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Two men shot at each other and missed—but struck a bystander instead. Now, police are trying to track them down. The shooting took place in Crown Heights, near the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and St. John’s Place, around 10:45 pm on Tuesday, August 28, police
Central Brooklyn
Artist Uta Brauser’s @fishwithbraids van parked on 9th Street, Park Slope (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)A team from NYU Tandon in Brooklyn broke down spending on political ads [https://thebridgebk.com/how-nyu-team-illuminates-facebook-political-ad-spending/] —and found the current president was one of the biggest buyers on Facebook. When you gotta go,
Bed Stuy
The Governor’s announcement is part of the billion dollar “Vital Brooklyn” program (Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)This week, Governor Cuomo announced funding to create 1,000 affordable homes for seniors on unused NYCHA land in Central Brooklyn. The $15 million commitment is part of the