Paul was a staff reporter at Bklyner, responsible for covering Northern and Eastern parts of Brooklyn between August 2017 and January 2019.
Announcements
Industry City hopes to be home to Amazon’s HQ2 (Photo via Industry City)BROOKLYN – Amazon.com is looking for somewhere to build its second home, HQ2, and many in Brooklyn think it would be a prime location for the online mega-retailer. Borough President Eric L. Adams and Brooklyn Chamber
News
545 Broadway (Rendering via Blesso Properties)WILLIAMSBURG – Renderings were revealed this week for a new mixed-use rental high-rise to be constructed above the Lincoln Savings Bank in Williamsburg. The 27-story building will have 218 units rental property, with office and retail space below, 6sqft reports [https://www.6sqft.com/revealed-27-story-tower-at-lincoln-savings-bank-site-will-be-tallest-in-east-williamsburg/
Nonsponsored
BROOKLYN – A “rail condition” at the 50th Street MTA station caused extensive delays to the 1, 2, and 3 trains that rippled out to delay service on the 4 and 5, yet again inconveniencing countless Brooklyn commuters during this morning’s rush-hour. > Left my apartment in Brooklyn Heights at
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Drone footage released by the architecture firm ODA [http://www.oda-architecture.com/] shows construction progressing on two massive housing developments coming to Bushwick. Together, the developments at 10 Montieth Street and 123 Melrose street—site of the old Rheingold Brewery [http://www.brownstoner.com/history/rheingold-beer-brewery-brooklyn-bushwick-history/] —take up 1.
Bed Stuy
BED-STUY – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 25-year-old Prospect Park South resident, Celestino Martinez, was sentenced to twenty years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter for his role in an attack that killed a 23-year old man and injured his brother. Four other gang members
brownsville
L to R: Katherine O’Neill, Chairwoman of the CAMBA Board of Directors, Joanne M. Oplustil, President and CEO of CAMBA/CAMBA Housing Ventures, Malik Jones, Client of the Flagstone Family Center, Joslyn Carter, Administrator, NYC Department of Homeless Services, Daniel Levine, Chief Information Officer at The Rogosin Institute, Dr.
Central Brooklyn
Hankering for a cool new spot to eat in Prospect Heights or Prospect Lefferts Gardens? Here’s a few relatively new restaurants—around long enough to both iron out opening issues and for the “if you’re not first you’re last” foodies to have come and gone—that are
northern brooklyn
Pedro Sanchez, missing in Williamsburg since Monday (Photo via DCPI)WILLIAMSBURG – The New York City Police department is asking for help locating 72-year old Pedro Sanchez, missing from his home since Monday, September 11. Last seen at 1:00 pm Monday at his residence—the Bushwick Houses off Flushing Ave
Central Brooklyn
Bicyclists in Prospect ParkPROSPECT PARK – Yesterday, Prospect Park opened its streets back up to cars after a summer ban on motor vehicles [/cars-banned-prospect-park-2-month-summer-trial-officials-say/] that lasted two months. The ban, which started July 17, closed a window in which cars were allowed to use the East Drive on weekdays between 7:
Central Brooklyn
East 48th Street, near where the assault took place (Screenshot via Google Maps) EAST FLATBUSH – Police are looking for a man who assaulted another man with a baseball bat last Friday. On September 8, around 6:00 pm, two men were involved in a dispute outside 762 East 48th Street,
Dyker Heights
1042 Bay Ridge Parkway, where the fire took place (Screenshot via Google Maps) DYKER HEIGHTS – On a solemn day of remembrance in New York, among all the ceremonies and vigils, firefighters across the city were still on call. On Monday, September 11, a call of a single dwelling fire went
Central Brooklyn
Leaders of the march led chants of “Whose city? Our city!” and “Brooklyn’s not for sale!” (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)About 200 community organizers and protesters marched through rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods this Saturday in a rally opposing gentrification, racism and police violence organized by the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN)