affordable housing
A luxury development near the East River waterfront in Williamsburg had a handful of affordable units up for grabsBy Rachel Holliday Smith, Ann Choi, and Will Welch, originally published in THE CITY. [https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/6/28/21306383/affordable-housing-lottery-chances-worst-low-income] THE CITY analyzed 18 million applications for apartments and
community
Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the site of the Brooklyn Black Lives Matter mural. Joralemon Street, Brooklyn. Friday, June 26, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.It’s finally Friday! The school is over for public school students across NYC! We hope you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend.
Business
Owner Chris Gandsy. Courtesy of @blackownedbklyn.People often don’t realize Chris Gandsy’s biscuits are gluten-free – even after they’ve eaten a few. He’s made them for plenty of southerners, he said, who might say little other than “these are some damn good biscuits.” Gandsy, who owns the
Arts & Culture
Lefferts Historic House is closed for renovations. BklynerWhile the Lefferts Historic House is undergoing renovations, its programming is moving online, and last week Prospect park Alliance made the official announcement of Pop-Up Lefferts. Lefferts House is an 18th-century farmhouse that features a working garden, historic artifacts, period rooms and exhibits
News
Few details were made available this morning when the Mayor announced that the city is open to considering turning streets into open dining areas and closing them to traffic. Does this mean Sheepshead Bay Road may become a Dining street? Or will it be – like the open streets – concentrated in
Arts & Culture
Connecting Downtown Brooklyn to the surrounding communities, making it more open, greener, more part of the rest of the city – these are some of the goals for the Downtown Brooklyn Public Art + Placemaking Fund, announced last year. The $600,000 fund will “award grants of up to $50,000 for
Food & Drink
McDonald’s on Bay Parkway. BklynerMcDonald’s is planning to hire about 8,555 restaurant workers in New York this summer, of which 630 are for positions in Brooklyn. Why the surge in employment? While it is unclear how many of these are new positions rather than re-hirings of laid-off
Central Brooklyn
Flatbush Library, file photo. Liena Zagare/BklynerBrooklyn Public Library (BPL) along with New York Public Library and Queens Public Library announced yesterday plans to start reopening some of its branches [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/nyc-public-libraries-0?fbclid=IwAR27Op-UGI9sHudgXaB9bop-SbFjSxUT0P2UubTl9CmilY90HxCrTIl8lhI] starting Monday, July 13 for limited service. The library has devised
community
CONEY ISLAND – A one-year-old boy died over the weekend. This morning, the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. On Saturday, June 20 at around 3 p.m., cops responded to a 911 call at a fifth-floor apartment at Gravesend Houses on West 33rd Street. When they arrived, they found
Carroll Gardens
Fairway Market in Red Hook. Liena Zagare/BklynerFairway store in Red Hook, along with Douglaston in Queens and Plainview and Westbury on Long Island, are expected to close by July 17, according to the company’s updated filings with the Labor Department. Fairway has been struggling since 2016 and the
News
928 Coney Island Avenue was built as a hotel. Will it open as a homeless shelter? Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Yoav Gonen, This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2020/6/25/21303923/hotels-could-become-affordable-housing-in-nyc] in THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] City officials are looking to capitalize on
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Mama Falcon visits her baby chicks atop the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Bridge on Wed., May 21, 2020, where Chris Nadareski examines and applies tracking bands to new peregrine falcons that have hatched in a nest built atop the structure for them. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityIt’s Thursday! We took a