Announcements
The Kwanzaa Crawl on December 26, 2016. Photo by Deneka Penistin, courtesy of Kwanzaa Crawl.Several of Brooklyn’s Black-owned nightspots are preparing for crowds of partiers on the day after Christmas. The revelers will be crawling from bar to bar for drinks and to show off the latest
Arts & Culture
Ladies Life Draw sessions featuring Lovejoy on the left and Adesina to the far right. Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.BUSHWICK — On the third floor of a 1931 walk-up on Irving Avenue in Bushwick lives an abstract artist. The lavender-painted stairwell leads to an old wooden bench from a theater
News
Brooklyn Bagel Boys on Coney Island Avenue. Robert S./Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniepicso/23447131383/in/photolist-BHWFgV-aNgRpZ-aNgSza-P1kJKa-adBV2p-aNgXWk-2iBCfg-dH4e6Y-aew5bk-4JgkDC-dm1NcQ-9AsNCF-6pzqY-McNAa-eaDZD7-3DnNzB-D9AuMQ-6pzri-5B5J2j-a7SwE5-a6hkBN-711xWu-8Nq7G2-4xeEpd-7MjWrW-nEoiD-8Ntdxo-9hMe75-92Tajy-BucQsH-7JZPB8-
Arts & Culture
SASKIA owner Saskia de Vries in her Industry City store; Photo courtesy of SASKIAStarting a business is always a journey, but the jewelry brand SASKIA [https://shopsaskia.com/] began with a literal one. Seventeen years ago, Saskia de Vries and her now-husband and business partner Scott Kerns met waiting
community
This Sunday, December 22, New York Senator Chuck Schumer will light the first candle on the giant menorah that is being erected at the Grand Army Plaza each winter to celebrate the eight days of Chanukah [https://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/102911/jewish/What-Is-Hanukkah.
Announcements
MCU Coney Island. Via Google Maps.CONEY ISLAND — The Municipal Credit Union has announced [https://www.nymcu.org/] that it will be closing six branches on January 31, 2020 including the Coney Island branch on 1904 Surf Avenue at MCU Park, one of the neighborhood’s last full-service banking
Announcements
Exterior of Noods N’ Chill. Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.comSOUTH WILLIAMSBURG — Two weeks ago, Plant Love House opened its fourth restaurant, Noods n’ Chill in South Williamsburg, an homage to their Chinese and Thai roots. Their first location in Elmhurst, Queens, was born out of a weekly dinner in Benjaporn’s
Bay Ridge
Congress voted to restore the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction, a measure that could provide financial relief to Brooklyn homeowners, but will likely go nowhere after President Trump threatened to veto the bill. The repeal of the 2017-tax law would remove — for two years — the $10,000 cap
Animals
Coney Island Creek. Cheyenne R. Ubiera/Bklyner.CONEY ISLAND —Southern Brooklyn’s sole remaining creek has gained more attention with the upcoming opening of a ferry dock, but residents are hoping that its newfound spotlight will also address water quality issues and pollution. Coney Island Creek [https://www.nycgovparks.org/
Opinion
New affordable housing on Flatbush Avenue under construction. Liena Zagare/BklynerIn 1949, President Harry Truman signed the Housing Act to provide “a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family.” Now 70 years later, our country is in an affordable housing crisis and homeownership is at record lows.
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerSUNSET PARK/GOWANUS — Two more pedestrians were struck and killed by drivers early yesterday morning and today. They are the third and fourth pedestrians killed in Brooklyn in just a few days. On Thursday, December 19 at around 3:30 p.m., 85-year-old Brendan Gill
affordable housing
BROWNSVILLE — L+M Development Partners [https://lmdevpartners.com/] who acquired the 625-unit Marcus Garvey Apartments, a former Mitchell Lama complex, in 2014, have secured $179 million in financing to begin construction on three new buildings, part of the Marcus Garvey Extension Project to build over 700 units of new,