Business
CROWN HEIGHTS—The Ryerson is on a mission to bring modern Southern food to the neighborhood. The restaurant, located at 698 Nostrand Ave. (between St. Marks and Prospect Place) had it’s soft opening last night, and is working towards offering a full menu in July. > [https://www.instagram.
Coney Island
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 for Brooklyn Cyclones, with permission)CONEY ISLAND – The Yankees and Mets are in full swing but the minor league baseball season is
Business
PARK SLOPE – Another New York State Liquor Authority [https://sla.ny.gov] (SLA) hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, June 18, regarding the fate of Woodland’s liquor license. Woodland, 242 Flatbush Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)As reported last week [/details-on-woodlands-liquor-license/], following a May 29, 2019 SLA disciplinary hearing regarding
Cobble Hill
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Community Board 2 (CB2) convened on Wednesday, June 12th, to discuss and vote on their new recommendation for the 275 Atlantic Avenue jail. The jail is part of a four-jail system proposed by the city, created in part to shrink and eventually close the Rikers Island Correctional Center.
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH – My husband was snoring through my contractions, but that was OK with me. We’d gotten to Kings County Hospital in Flatbush at 10 am the previous morning to let doctors try to coax out our overdue baby. This had been a slow, boring process, during which we’d
Development
Bklyner/Olivia OldhamWILLIAMSBURG – On Tuesday evening Community Board 1 convened for the final session before the summer break and community members scrambled for seats in the fluorescent-lit meeting room of Swingin’ Sixties Senior Center in Williamsburg; some were left to sit on the floor. On each table, among vases of
affordable housing
On Tuesday, the State Assembly and Senate announced they had come to an agreement on an ambitious rent-regulation package, and on Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would sign [https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2019/06/12/cuomo-will-sign-rent-reforms-once-they-reach-his-desk-1058649] the wide-reaching rent regulation bundle, effectively ensuring the measures
Central Brooklyn
125 Kingston Avenue. vi Google streetview.CROWN HEIGHTS – Yesterday evening, June 12 at around 7:30 p.m., a 48-year-old man was shot and killed while inside Classic Deli Market at 125 Kingston Avenue. The man was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the neck and torso in the back
Business
Gowanus Canal seen from the 9th Street Bridge (Photo: Nathan Haselby)GOWANUS – Business owners in the “industrial business zone” of Gowanus made it known to officials on Wednesday that they feel left behind by the neighborhood’s larger rezoning, urging the de Blasio administration to take steps to protect manufacturing
Business
Birdseye view of Brooklyn Navy Yard Master Plan (Architectural and Urban Design Concepts by WXY, Illustrative Visualization by bloomimages)Brooklyn’s economy is booming, driven by growth in tech start-ups, creative companies, and next-generation makers and manufacturers, a new report by the Center for an Urban Future published [https://nycfuture.
Announcements
BED STUY – In 2015, a livery cab driver was shot and killed inside his car by a man who attempted to rob him. Today, the defendant was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. In the early morning of June 29, 2015, 35-year-old Fawaz Naji, a man from Brownsville,
fire
A five-alarm fire raced through three 100+ year-old houses in Midwood Brooklyn early this morning, resulting in 13 injuries, though non-life threatening. The original fire started in 1494 East 17th Street at about 4:10 a.m. and spread quickly to two other houses of the same Queen Anne style.