Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Greenpoint
A rendering of the proposed timber bridge looking from Greenpoint towards Queens, demonstrating the pivot action (Via Crème)GREENPOINT – An ambitious North Brooklyn design firm is raising money to explore a major project over Newtown Creek: a wooden pedestrian bridge spanning the waterway. The project, which launched on Kickstarter [https:
Bed Stuy
Near the corner of Myrtle and Broadway, where the weekend’s overdoses occurred (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE (5/22/18): Following the wave of overdoses along the Bed-Stuy and Bushwick border stemming from synthetic cannabinoids, police have made 13 arrests in the last two days for the sale of
Bed Stuy
The Eleanor Roosevelt playground in Bed-Stuy where a man was shot late last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE (5/22/18): Earlier this month, 29-year old Johnny Mathis was shot and killed at the Eleanor Roosevelt playground in Bed-Stuy, just half a block from his apartment in the Roosevelt
Downtown Brooklyn
DOT officials met with Community Boards 2 & 6 to give early information about the BQE repair project (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The project to repair the BQE between Atlantic and Sand Streets has been expanded to include the entire interchange around Van Voorhees Park, Department of Transportation officials
brownsville
Looking west on Eastern Parkway at Thomas Boyland Street, where a motorcyclist died over the weekend (Screenshot via Google Maps)BROWNSVILLE – A motorcyclist was killed late Friday night after hitting a merging car on Eastern Parkway in Brownsville, police confirmed. Around 10:45 pm on Friday, May 18, police responded
Bed Stuy
The 600-block of Decatur Street, where a man was shot Saturday morning (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – A man was shot and killed early Saturday morning in Bed-Stuy, police confirmed. Officers responded to a call of a man shot near 681 Decatur Street, between Saratoga Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street
Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
A rainy night in Williamsburg, outside Progress High School (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)A Brooklyn-to-Manhattan commuter has indulged an interesting hobby and art project on her daily subway rides: photographing straphangers’ hands. [https://www.6sqft.com/the-urban-lens-hannah-la-follette-ryan-on-her-viral-instagram-account-subway-hands/] But while some make art on their way to work, other commuters are at
Bed Stuy
The courtyard of the Risley Dent houses in Bed-Stuy, where Jamaal Anderson was murdered in 2015 (Screenshot via Google Maps)Today, the second shooter from a violent, daylight revenge killing in Bed-Stuy was sentenced to 18 years in jail, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced. The murder took place three
Gowanus
The partial building collapse at 217 9th Street took place last night, when the rear and side walls fell away (Photo via NYC911News LLC)GOWANUS – Last night, a loud boom startled Park Slope neighbors as the rear wall of a three-story home collapsed around 11:00 pm. The wood-frame house
Bay Ridge
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] SUNSET PARK – Earlier this month, after a man attempted to abduct two different 10-year old boys [/wednesday-crime-blotter-11/] in Sunset and Borough Parks, police asked the public to help identify him. Now, they’
News
A large auditorium hosted a mid-sized crowd during the town hall session on the L train closure (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)WILLIAMSBURG – After last week’s contentious town hall in Manhattan on the L-train shutdown, hosted by the MTA and DOT, the Brooklyn edition, which took place last night in the