Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Central Brooklyn
Taking advantage of a red light, skater and camera crew work to get the shot under the BQE in East Williamsburg (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Sure, Joey Chestnut gorged on Nathan’s famous hotdogs yesterday at the big-time Coney island bash, but don’t forget Feltman’s original frankfurters… [https://www.
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A rendering for the proposed multi-use building at Avenue z and East 16th Street in Sheepshead Bay (Via Citiscape Architectural Consulting)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – A bold new design for the corner of Avenue Z and East 16th Street has been revealed, showing a towering, geometric new mixed-use structure that incorporates green
Arts & Culture
A marching band in front of John Paul Jones Park last year (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BAY RIDGE – Yo, Brooklyn! Here’s a chance to catch a classic movie under the stars tonight—Rocky will be playing in John Paul Jones Park. So pull up a camp chair under the Verrazano
Central Brooklyn
Bright lights in Luna Park after dark (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Look out below! A sign tumbled from a dentist’s Bay Ridge storefront [https://brooklynreporter.com/story/signage-bay-ridge-dentist-office-falls-injuring-two-elderly-women/] and struck two elderly women yesterday afternoon, but luckily, the injuries weren’t serious. The weekend also had a long, strange list
Bed Stuy
Salazar, center, will be interviewed tonight in Bushwick about her primary challenge for State Senate (Via Salazar for Senate [https://salazarforsenate.com/])BUSHWICK – Following the success of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s upset win in New York’s 14th Congressional District, attention is suddenly on upstart primary challenges from Democratic Socialists—like
Crown Heights
A drive-by shooting aimed at a group of people outside 1655 Union Street last night claimed the life of one man (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – One man is dead after a drive-by shooting aimed at a group of people in Crown Heights last night, police confirmed. According to
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Outside 162 21st Street in South Slope, where Jose Cardoso was killed in a car crash over the weekend (Screenshot via Google MapsSOUTH SLOPE – A pedestrian was killed Saturday night after a driver lost control while attempting to park his van on an industrial side street off of 4th Avenue,
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The home at 1666 East 49th Street that caught fire last night, claiming the life of a resident (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATLANDS – Last night, a fire tore through a two-story home in Flatlands, leaving a woman dead from smoke inhalation. The FDNY received a call about the fire at
Bed Stuy
The shooting happened around 3:30 am outside Harvey’s, at 1639 Broadway (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – An early morning shooting outside a Bushwick pool hall left one man dead and sent another to the hospital on Saturday, police confirmed. The shooting happened around 3:30 am, outside of
Boerum Hill
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)BOERUM HILL – Can I speak to your manager? That’s what a bank robber asked a Chase Bank teller before robbing the place on Friday. The bank robbery took place around 5:45 on Friday, June 29, at the Chase Bank on 192 Smith Street in Boerum
Central Brooklyn
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East New York
UPDATE (7/2/18): Police have identified the deceased as Norman Hester-Bey, 27, of Canarsie. Police are looking into a silver or grey Mercedes-Benz 4-door sedan in connection with the shooting of Hester-Bey last week. The car was seen leaving the site of the shooting, where it was reported that
Bay Ridge
CROWN HEIGHTS – An arrest has been made in the stabbing that took place outside the Bedford Armory men’s shelter in Crown Heights in February [/atlantic-shelter-stabbing/], police confirmed. Rickie Drawhorn, 38, of East Harlem, was arrested yesterday and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the stabbing
Downtown Brooklyn
Borough President Adams called for funding of the FastForward plan along with Brooklyn politicians and leaders at a press conference today (Via BP Adams Twitter [https://twitter.com/BPEricAdams])DOWNTOWN – After last week’s ceiling collapse at the Borough Hall subway station, Brooklyn politicians and local leaders gathered today to
Central Brooklyn
1921 Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – A community group is filing an appeal with the city in an attempt to save a historic church on Cortelyou Road that’s slated for redevelopment. The Baptist Church of the Redeemer, at 1921 Cortelyou Road, was built in 1919. Last
canarsie
The death of Brandy Odom, who was killed in April, has finally been ruled a homicide—but further information is in short supply (Via Facebook)CANARSIE – Today, police confirmed that the April death of Brandy Odom, 26, was indeed ruled a homicide. Officials gave the cause of death as strangulation.