Business
Peace, Love & Paratha is a new, mobile Indian supper club delivering home-cooked Indian food to central Brooklyn residents. It’s also the creation of two women — Lily Dasgupta and Christina Das — who developed a lasting friendship over good food. Das (left) and Dasgupta. Courtesy of Christina Das. The pair
Announcements
City officials encouraged neighbors to get tested in Sunset Park last week. (Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.)Happy Monday! Lots happened over the weekend. There was crime, and then there was a wedding at the BLM mural on Fulton. Gyms open next week and museums are starting to open
Announcements
BROOKLYN – Schools are now able to use parks and streets as part of a new ‘Outdoor Learning’ initiative unveiled this morning by Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor Richard Carranza. The Outdoor Learning initiative for the 2020-2021 school year will allow schools to hold classes
Arts & Culture
Last years Brooklyn Book Festival. Photo by James Hyde.The Covid-19 pandemic has a slew of canceled events in its wake. Graduations, concerts, birthday parties— all have fallen victim over the last few months. The Brooklyn Book Festival [https://brooklynbookfestival.org/] (BBF) was determined to be different. Was there ever
Announcements
On Saturday, August 22 at around 2:00 p.m., 20-year-old Fabian Abney, who lived on Mermaid Avenue, was shot outside NYCHA’s Coney Island Houses on West 25th Street. Cops found him with a gunshot wound to the torso, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. His mother,
Education
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza tour New Bridges Elementary to observe the school’s PPE delivery and reopening preparations. New Bridges Elementary, Brooklyn. Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/8/20/21376838/carranza-says-state-budget-cuts-threaten-9000-teacher-jobs-and-in-person-learning]
Announcements
P.S. 169 Sunset Park School Equity Team sent the following letter [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCUYtP54SWLxb4zzOezaIfKMQ8f3AbffmFW0yvUkIqY/edit] to Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Chancellor Richard Carranza Wednesday, August 19, outlining their concerns over plans to reopen schools. The letter reads: We are the P.
Health
Southern Brooklyn is getting more targeted mosquito enforcement [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/wnv/2020/wnvplan2020.pdf], courtesy of the Health Department, to reduce the risk of West Nile Virus. Next Tuesday, August 25, between the hours of 8:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. the
Development
Rep. Carolyn Maloney led a rally at Foley Square last year calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Todd Maisel/BklynerWhen we caught up with North Brooklyn Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney on Tuesday, August 18, she was in high spirits. We talked about all things Brooklyn, from post office and
Bushwick
The Bagel Store on 5th Avenue. Ellie Plass, Bklyner.This week’s openings and closings bring you, miraculously, far more openings than it does closings. In a true testament to the resilience of our neighborhoods, restaurants and bars continue to pop up in almost every neighborhood. Go out and enjoy
Announcements
Ditmas Park Bubble is a new event space in Ditmas Park. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)DITMAS PARK – As thousands of small businesses close as the result of the restrictions imposed to combat COVID-19, one Brooklynite decided to take a chance, and create an event space tailored to the pandemic – meet
Arts & Culture
Volunteers working on the octopus mural at P.S. 54 in 2019. Courtesy of Lauren Cawdrey.Two years ago, on a whim, Bed-Stuy resident Lauren Cawdrey decided to buy Willoughby General [https://www.willoughbygeneral.com/], a small storefront near the Myrtle – Willoughby subway station. The space had been left suddenly