Announcements
At the Sunset Park protest against ICE last Sunday. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)SUNSET PARK/MIDWOOD – Two doors were knocked on by ICE officials today. One in Sunset Park and one in Midwood. Neither families opened the doors, the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) confirmed with Bklyner. There
affordable housing
Brad Lander. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE—Council Member Brad Lander, who is running for comptroller, brought in $360,532 over the last six months, out-raising all of the other candidates running for the citywide position. The latest campaign finance filings, submitted Monday, show he has raised the cash
brownsville
Citi Bike. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN—Citi Bike will within the next four years be expanded in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods, the city announced Tuesday. Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Park Slope, Prospect Park South, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, East Flatbush and Sunset Park will all get more Citi Bike
Announcements
Big crowd at MCU Park in Brooklyn on Opening Night for the baseball game between the Staten Island Yankees and Brooklyn Cyclones, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (Gordon Donovan)CONEY ISLAND – MCU Park is hosting a free community baseball game. The teams? Hatzolah Flatbush and the NYPD. The game isn’t
Brooklyn Heights
DOJ’s Richard Donoghue and FBI special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the New York Field Office, Michael Driscoll, announcing the decision not to charge Daniel Pantaleo (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS— Family members of Eric Garner and local politicians on Tuesday criticized the Department
Announcements
Council Member Deutsch holds the sign with Gerald Fox. (Photo via NYC Council.) CONEY ISLAND – The intersection on Surf Avenue and West 12th Street has officially been co-named after NYPD officer Leon Fox who was killed while on duty in 1941. On February 15, 1941, Fox was gunned down near
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – A member of the Bushwick Food Coop [https://www.bushwickfoodcoop.org/] walking by the space in the wee hours of the morning on July 3rd discovered the devastating fire – which is estimated to have started around 3:00 am. While the direct cause of the fire is still being
Bay Ridge
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order eliminating plastic from city agencies, mostly utensils and other plastics from school cafeterias and city commissaries at a recycling plant in Sunset Park. Todd Maisel/BklynerPARK SLOPE— Some New York Republicans want Mayor Bill de Blasio to move out of Gracie Mansion
North Western Brooklyn
[UPDATE: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 11:30am] The NYPD released the identification of the victim. Her name is Jin R. Yang, 30, of Bensonhurst. RED HOOK – Police recovered a woman’s body found floating in the water by Van Brunt Street Tuesday morning. Erie Basin via Google MapsAt approximately
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – Cobble Hill has usurped DUMBO as Brooklyn’s priciest neighborhood, according to Property Shark’s recently released report Priciest NYC Neighborhoods in Quarter 2 2019 [https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/priciest-NYC-neighborhoods]. Via Property SharkCobble Hill was the only Brooklyn neighborhood to make it into the top ten, coming
bath beach
Former State Senate candidate Jasmine Robinson speaks at the demonstration alongside Garner family member Jewel Miller and Ph-Je Bethea (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS—Family members of Eric Garner and a former state senate candidate on Monday called on the man who killed Garner five years ago to
Bushwick
Some of the ginger beers in their selection. Courtesy of Brooklyn Crafted. BUSHWICK- “Very few bottling lines exist now in Brooklyn, and many of them have super high minimums,” Marcia Hu says. “We really want to work with local businesses in Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn, and give them