community
Jabaran Akram. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – Jabaran Akram, 22, was born in Brooklyn, the third of eight children of Pakistani immigrants who settled in Brighton Beach. These days Akram is the community liaison for Councilmember Chaim Deutsch as well as an auxiliary officer for the NYPD. Since he started
affordable housing
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Governor Cuomo announced on Thursday that construction has begun on Nevins Street Apartments, a $72 million mixed-use affordable and supportive housing development in Downtown Brooklyn. Nevins Street Apartments groundbreaking (Photo: courtesy of the Office of Governor Cuomo)Located at 50 Nevins Street between Schermerhorn and State, the development
Central Brooklyn
Rendering of 111 Montgomery (Image by Creative Soldier)CROWN HEIGHTS—One of the first luxury, full-service condo buildings in Crown Heights— 111 Montgomery [https://111montgomery.nyc/] Street between Franklin and Washington avenues —is almost finished after starting sales in May. Located on a site formerly owned by the Brooklyn Botanic
Business
DUMBO – Ample Hills Creamery [https://www.amplehills.com] opened its latest location in Brooklyn Bridge Park at the historic fireboat station last Thursday, June 13th. The location—one of 14 now operated by the company—replaced the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory [/ample-hills-to-replace-brooklyn-ice-cream-factory-at-historic-brooklyn-bridge-park-site/] during a request for proposals process released by
Coney Island
Police vehicles sit in front of PS 188 on Neptune Avenue after the attack. By Todd Maisel/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – A man picking up his child from a Coney Island elementary school yesterday afternoon was slashed in the face by the child’s stepfather and boyfriend of her mother, after the
Business
PARK SLOPE – After a decade of selling teethers, infant toys, and Brooklyn-emblazoned onesies, Lulu’s For Baby [http://lulusforbaby.nyc/] will be shuttering its 5th Avenue storefront at the end of July. Lulu’s for Baby, 44 5th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)A decline in sales due to online
Announcements
Beharry Roti, Liena Zagare/BkynerDITMAS PARK – A new restaurant will be opening in Ditmas Park, though we don’t know yet when. The owner of the place is Alan Harding, a chef who the NY Times profiled [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/dining/brooklyn-restaurant-pioneer-alan-harding-reshapes-his-career.html] in 2014 and
Announcements
A young photographer in Tamazulapam taking a class. (Photo via Direct Impact Coalition)SUNSET PARK – Eight teenagers will get the opportunity to learn the ropes of photography this summer for free. Direct Impact Coalition [https://www.directimpactcoalition.org/] is an “independent non-profit offer[ing] sustained, direct support to migrant-origin communities
Business
Eladia’s Kids daycare and preschool.By Eladia Causil-Rodriguez, owner of Eladia’s Kids daycare and preschool [http://eladiaskids.com/admissions/] which currently has four locations in Brooklyn and is in process of opening two more. The City Council’s unfunded mandate for paid vacation is a potential dream killer
Arts & Culture
Summer is officially here which means loads and loads of outdoor events throughout Brooklyn! Celebrate Make Music Day with a variety of events throughout town such as Water Night at the Gowans Canal or a Summer Solstice Dance Party in Bushwick. If you’re looking to stay out of the
Central Brooklyn
Tehilah Berman at a coffee shop in Kensington (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)The Civil Court Judge races are less than a week away, and Bklyner now has the last in a series of four interviews with candidates running in the 6th Municipal District [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Municipal-Court-Districts/
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – A new theatre group will be performing its inaugural production—William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night—this weekend at the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus. DUMB Theatre Co. [https://dumbtheatreco.org/]‘s production of Twelfth Night examines “ego or self identity and the restraints of the constructed social system,