Announcements
Andres Fernandez. (Photo via Brooklyn DA office)DYKER HEIGHTS – A man has been sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for shooting and killing the owner of L&B Spumoni Gardens in Gravesend in 2016. On June 30, 2016, 61-year-old Louis Barbati, the owner of L&B
Announcements
GREENPOINT – This morning, people who wanted to get the ferry at the Greenpoint pier were left stranded as it sailed by informing that the stop had been suspended indefinitely. > Greenpoint @NYCferry [https://twitter.com/NYCferry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] stop out of commission ‘indefinitely’ bc the developer sold the
COVID-19
If you feel confused about the ever-changing New York City COVID-19 numbers, you’re not alone. The Mayor stopped reporting COVID19 data for the Brooklyn cluster in his daily briefings earlier this month, and the NYC Department of Health stopped sending out their alerts. They said this was so as
Announcements
Photo by Christopher Vega [https://unsplash.com/@vegaguy?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/plastic-bag?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] New York State began to enforce the ban on plastic bags today
Announcements
The citywide daily number of people admitted to NYC hospitals for suspected COVID-19 threshold is 200 patients; today’s report is 76 patients with a confirmed positivity level of 16.4% for the coronavirus. The number of newly reported cases on a seven-day average threshold is 550 cases; today’s
Announcements
Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BROWNSVILLE – A 22-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed over
Health
The ScanVan launched in 2007 and has since served thousands of women. Courtesy of Project Renewal.A 40-foot-long, state of the art van is changing the way women in New York can get mammograms. The ScanVan travels throughout all five boroughs providing thousands of mammograms, clinical breast exams, and care
Announcements
A person passing by David Kutz’s art. (Photo via Arts Gowanus on Atlantic Ave, with permission)BROOKLYN – Beginning tomorrow, all sorts of artwork including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, installation, and sculptures, will be displayed on storefronts, roll down gates, and dining fences in a socially-distanced art exhibit called Arts
Business
John LaPolla (center) co-owns Bitter & Esters [https://bitterandesters.com/], the only homebrew shop in New York City, pictured here at a Breminaries gathering during more social times. Credit Renee Jonas/Courtesy of Brewminaries. My brother Dan spends a total of $3 to make a gallon of his quarantine hooch,
affordable housing
Neo-Renaissance row houses on the 300 block of East 25th Street. Residents are looking for landmark status to preserve their community amid rapid development in East Flatbush. Liena Zagare/BklynerWhen Julia Charles was pushed out of her Far Rockaway home after Hurricane Sandy, she and her family decided to plant
affordable housing
Brooklyn Community Board 14 will be hosting two public hearings [https://cb14brooklyn.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a2503b5d85bca56fb11363ff&id=c66fecb111&e=edff6ac595] on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, beginning at 6:30 PM online about a 190-bed men’s shelter in Flatbush and new residential development on Cortelyou
Central Brooklyn
As over 200 people piled into a virtual rally on Oct. 15, emotions rang high. Students, teachers, council members, and more voiced their concerns for the proposed budget cuts of Learning To Work (LTW) [https://camba.org/programs/learning-to-work/], a program that helps support and re-engage students who have dropped