Business
MIDWOOD – Only death and taxes … Looks like the taxman caught up. DiFara’s pizzeria on Ave J was shut down today by the New York State Tax Department for failure to pay taxes. > DOW JONES: “Di Fara, the beloved pizzeria in Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood, was shut down Tuesday
News
Via Coalition for the Homeless report [https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TaleofTwoHousingMarkets_FINAL.pdf] , 2019From the Coalition for the Homeless: The Coalition for the Homeless released a new report today, while rallying at City Hall with homeless New Yorkers and members of the House Our Future NY
Central Brooklyn
Homeless shelter at 566 Coney Island Avenue opened at the end of July / early August serving 139 single men. Liena Zagare/BklynerKENSINGTON/DITMAS PARK – The homeless shelter for 139 men [/ditmas-parks-homeless-shelter-update/] quietly opened at the end of July after extensive renovations to the old Park Manor adult home buildings. The
Carroll Gardens
CARROLL GARDENS – Chef Ricardo Zarate has always dreamt of opening a restaurant in New York. The executive chef at Rosaliné [http://rosalinela.com] and Pikoh [https://pikohla.com] in Los Angeles, as well as Once [https://www.oncelv.com] in Las Vegas that opened last year, will be fulfilling his
Big Story
Gowanus Adult Family Shelter will open at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 6th Street in Fall of 2019 in what was planned as a hotel. Liena Zagare/Bklyner GOWANUS – The city is planning to site a homeless shelter in Gowanus, Bklyner has learned. Officials will be holding a public
Announcements
Police sketches of the suspect who attacked off duty cop (left) and a woman in Flatbush (right), and police believe is Aleksejs Saveljevs.PROSPECT PARK SOUTH/FLATBUSH – The NYPD believes they have arrested the man who assaulted and shouted racist slurs to 57-year-old Ann Marie Washington last November. On November
News
Rezoning: In Bushwick Rezoning, City Should Implement Community’s Own Plan [https://citylimits.org/2019/08/19/opinion-in-bushwick-rezoning-city-should-implement-communitys-own-plan/] , Councilmembers Antonio Reynoso and Rafael Espinal opine in City Limits. Public Housing: Brooklyn Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuels (Chair of the Council’s Public Housing Committee) and Red Hook neighbor Julian Morales (Director of
Announcements
Jasmine Robinson speaks into a microphone with a protester holding a sign that reads “Justice for Eric Garner Now! Your Silence is Violence” (Photo: Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)Five years after Officer Daniel Pantaleo killed an unarmed black man by administering the chokehold until Eric Garner could no longer breathe, NYPD
community
PARK SLOPE – Contestants at Artichoke Basille’s Pizza [https://www.artichokepizza.com] eating contest dripped with sweat as they shoved yet another slice into their mouths. And then, another. When you thought they were going to burst, they ate another. The fourth annual contest took place last Saturday, the 17th,
Arts & Culture
29th Annual Sand Sculpture Competition Todd Maisel/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – The 29th Annual Sand Sculpture competition in Coney Island attracted more than 10,000 visitors to the beach to see sand sculptures that told stories from participants from around the country, according to the organizers, Brooklyn Community Services and the Alliance
Announcements
BUSHWICK – A 40-year-old man was shot and killed over the weekend and the suspect is nowhere to be found. On August 17th at around 9:15 p.m., cops were called to the crime scene at Halsey Street and Wilson Avenue. There, they found a man, whose name has not
Neighbors
Bicyclist struck by hit-and-run driver at Fourth Avenue and 49h Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Todd Maisel/BklynerSUNSET PARK – A Sunset Park bicycle rider was injured Saturday on Fourth Avenue at the intersection of 49th Street by what police from the 72nd Precinct at the scene described as a hit-and-run