Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Announcements
As part of Borough President Eric Adams’ “Embrace Your Hyphen” campaign, which encourages Brooklynites to celebrate their diverse heritage, the Borough President will be hosting an Arab-American Heritage Celebration next week at Borough Hall. The event will feature music and food from the Middle East and North Africa. “This event
Boerum Hill
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)EAST NEW YORK – Police are looking for the man who sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint in an East New York park. On the morning of Monday, April 16, 2018, the 18-year old female victim was exiting the women’s bathroom at Martin Luther King, Jr. park,
Announcements
Photo courtesy of New York Restoration Project.Spring may not have exactly sprung in Brooklyn yet, but Brooklynites should get ready for the good weather anyway—and register to pick up a free tree [https://nyrp.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f936aba6c808439b0f447dac&id=eb4af5ed97&e=ae45b66374] ! Through
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – A new, brightly accented apartment design for Bushwick’s Stanhope Street has been revealed, popping up on the designer’s Instagram and promising an interesting modern addition to the neighborhood. > [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhr6f3hn6DB/] [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhr6f3hn6DB/] While the designer refers to the
Bed Stuy
The Mt. Zion Church on Hart Street, near where Claudell Gary was shot and killed last night in Bed-Stuy (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Last night, a man was shot and killed in front of the Mt. Zion Pentecostal Holy Church on Hart Avenue, police confirmed. Responding to a 911
Animals
The Mayor visited Bushwick and looked on as workers packed rat burrows with dry ice (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)Yesterday, Mayor De Blasio announced a new campaign of aggressive rat extermination strategies at the 10 NYCHA developments with the worst infestations in New York. In Brooklyn, that means the
Bushwick
The apartment building on Central Avenue where a former MTA busdriver was found stabbed to death on Monday (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – Yesterday’s stabbing death of a Bushwick man has been ruled a homicide, police confirmed this morning. Around 4:30 pm on Tuesday, April 17, police responded
brownsville
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DOWNTOWN – After receiving a tip from a neighbor, police were able to break up a robbery in progress earlier this week. Anti-crime units watched Gregory Price, 59, pull a mask over his
Arts & Culture
The statue of J. Marion Sims atop a granite base in Central Park (Via Wikimedia Commons)Today, the statue of controversial 19th-century medical pioneer J. Marion Sims has been taken down from its Central Park perch in East Harlem to be sent to Brooklyn and installed in Green-Wood Cemetery, where
Bushwick
An overhead view of the rendering for 10 Montieth Street (VIa ODA New York) BUSHWICK – It’s hard to forget the community tension and negotiations leading up to the rezoning and development of the former Rheingold Site [/bushwick-construction/]. Original promises about affordable unit numbers were walked back as the property
News
An aerial view of the waterfront—and the massive development above it. (Via Two Trees Management)WILLIAMSBURG – As the mega-development project surrounding the Domino Sugar Refinery moves along, more plans and renderings are becoming available for the promised Domino Park, which opens this summer. The park will be finished well
Central Brooklyn
Practicing for the Brooklyn Folk Festival’s Banjo Toss with a paddle (Photo: Nathan Haselby) * Day After Day, The New Signals Are Failing at Bergen Street [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/nyregion/even-newer-subway-signals-cause-headaches-on-f-train.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&smtyp=cur] [NY Times] * Council Aims to Curb Short-Notice Pilot Programs