Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Announcements
As families come together at Thanksgiving to celebrate what they have and are thankful for, it’s an important time to turn our minds to those less fortunate in our community. Many people will hungry or homeless over the holiday, and Thanksgiving day itself is a great time to get
Bed Stuy
The robbery took place just before 3:00 am on Fulton Street (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Police are looking for the man who stole cash and cigarettes from a 7-Eleven store on Fulton Street earlier this week. Just before 3:00 am on Tuesday, November 21, the suspect entered
Announcements
The Coney Island Gospel Assembly at 2828 Neptune Ave (Screenshot via Google Maps)CONEY ISLAND – This Thanksgiving, the Coney Island community is doing all they can to make sure no one goes hungry. Every year for the last 20 years, local stakeholders in the Amusement District have come together to
Central Brooklyn
Inside the old Pavilion Theater as it’s being renovated (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. Bensonhurst Brothers Cornered the Online Market for Appliances and Big Ticket Buys [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/
Arts & Culture
Tom Finkelpearl, co-chair of the Mayoral Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers opened the discussion (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BOROUGH HALL – Politicians, teachers, art historians, feminists, futurists and more turned out to speak on the role of public monuments in New York City. The Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art,
Health
Today, the Food Bank for New York City released a new study that shows Brooklyn has the highest rate of food security of all five boroughs. The report, titled “Trade Offs at the Dinner Table,” examines the effect that 2013 cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) had on
Announcements
CONEY ISLAND – A group of Coney Island gangsters have been indicted in a slew of crimes spanning the last six years, which include murder, racketeering, witness tampering and robbery. The four members and one associate of the “West End Enterprise,” a street gang based out of the Mermaid Houses on
Central Brooklyn
The NYPD is asking for help locating two missing persons, one from Coney Island and one from East Flatbush. Coney Island Lorena Puebla, 15, missing since 11/15 (Photo via DCPI)Lorena Puebla, a 15-year old girl from Coney Island, was reported missing on Wednesday, November 15. Puebla was last
bath beach
PARK SLOPE – City Employee Nilsa J. Lopez, an off-duty School Safety Agent, was arrested for assault in Park Slope at 8:00 pm on Friday, November 17. The 50-year old was at Rachel’s Taqueria on 5th Ave when she—along with John Lopez, 67 and Arianna Lopez, 17—attacked
Dyker Heights
Councilmember Gentile throws out the first pitch at the newly renovated McKinley Park baseball field in Dyker Heights (Photo via NYC Parks Dept)DYKER HEIGHTS – Yesterday, the NYC Parks Department cut the ribbon on the new and improved baseball field at McKinley Park in Dyker Heights. The $2.5 million
News
(Photo: PROSergey Galyonkin [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergesegal/6925099745/] / Flickr)A new bill improving the privacy and protection of New Yorkers’ personal data when collected by the city was passed by the city council yesterday, November 16. The bill, Intro 1588-A [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=
Greenpoint
Cars and trucks move north on McGuinness Blvd in Greenpoint toward the Pulaski Bridge (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)NORTH BROOKLYN – Residents of Community Board 1 in Greenpoint and Williamsburg have a last opportunity to leave their comments regarding traffic improvements [http://mailchi.mp/6e511ec1eb1c/we-need-your-last-minute-input-on-transportation-in-north-brooklyn] in their neighborhoods before the DOT
Cypress Hills
CYPRESS HILLS – The NYPD is looking for a J train thief in a pattern of robberies targeting women on the Brooklyn-Queens border. Both incidents took place on southbound J trains on Wednesday, November 8, with the suspect stealing property from straphangers then fleeing through the subway station. First, at 12:
Bed Stuy
Outside 740 Gates Avenue, where the shooting took place over the summer (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Two arrests have been made in a double homicide that left two women dead [/double-homicide-brooklyn-housing-project/]outside the Stuyvesant Garden houses last July. Anthony Alexander, 18, of Bed-Stuy, and Nazir Saunders, 20, of Harlem,
Bay Ridge
Looking north on 3rd Ave from 67th Street, where the vehicle dragging Mardaknayevy came to rest (Screenshot via Google Maps)BAY RIDGE – Police have ruled the death of Gavriel Mardaknayevy in a road-rage incident last week a homicide. The driver of the second vehicle, David Cruz, 55, of Bay Ridge,
Announcements
Cold weather is definitely here, but there’s still plenty activities to get you outside this weekend! Bundle up, brave the elements and enjoy all Brooklyn has to offer! Chow down on Thai ice cream or check out the world of podcasting, or revel in Verdi’s classic “La Traviata”