Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK/KENSINGTON – Last night at IS62 a handful of neighbors, outnumbered at least 3:1 by city officials and police, listened to an update and asked questions about the shelter for 139 men that is set to open at 570 Coney Island Avenue [/570-coney-island-avenue-will-re-open-as-139-bed-shelter-for-men/] later this spring, at the
Central Brooklyn
Community Board 9 at 890 Nostrand Ave. between Carroll and Presidents Streets. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS/PLG — Phone service at Community Board 9 was restored Wednesday after nearly a month of no service because a rat infestation in the building’s basement prohibited Verizon from repairing the rat-chewed
Announcements
Espinal and Rodríguez. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)FLATBUSH – Candidates for the February 26 Public Advocate special election have been spending their days in debates [https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/02/06/nyc-public-advocate-debate-] , one-on-one series, and just yesterday, a forum by City University of New York (CUNY) students.
North Western Brooklyn
PARK SLOPE – The NYPD is searching for three teens and a young boy who reportedly beat and robbed a woman inside the 4th Ave-9th Street subway station last week. At approximately 9:30pm on Wednesday, January 30, the four suspects approached a 22-year-old woman on the southbound “R” platform of
Columbia Street Waterfront
COLUMBIA STREET WATERFRONT – A group of Columbia Street Waterfront residents are rallying to oppose a developer’s plans to build a seven-story building in their low-rise neighborhood. Rendering of 41 Summit Street via Sheldon Lobel presentationNeighbors Katarina Jerinic and Anthony Bradfield live on Carroll Street, directly behind the proposed development
Education
Mayor Bill de Blasio presents the Fiscal Year 2020 Preliminary Budget. City Hall. Thursday, February 07, 2019. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Reema Amin, Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/02/07/198885/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] Painting a
Central Brooklyn
Roughly 40 percent of the city’s intersections have one-way streets and Localize.city [http://www.localize.city] looked at where the most pedestrians and cyclists were injured in these types of intersections between January 2013 and January 2018. While local streets tend to have less traffic and fewer overall
Development
GOWANUS – An activist group hijacked the NYC Department of City Planning [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/index.page]‘s (DCP) Gowanus Draft Rezoning Proposal [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus-framework.page#navigation] open house Wednesday night, staging their own meeting at the event held inside the
bath beach
Photo Courtesy of Aviator Sports and Events CenterOne of the shocks parents experience — certainly in Brooklyn but most likely all over – is how soon you need to start thinking about summer camp. The holidays are barely over and it’s in the single digits outside. Time to start scrambling for
Business
Five Below on Flatbush Avenue.FLATBUSH – Five Below [https://www.fivebelow.com/] is a “trend-right, high-quality extreme-value retailer for tweens, teens and beyond” they say where everything truly does retail for $5 or less, and it is opening another two stores in Brooklyn. One of them will take prime space
Business
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Here’s a listing of what’s opening & closing in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. To start, here are some retail scoops: Good news for those on the CB9 [http://www.communitybrd9bklyn.org/] side of Franklin Avenue who were disappointed when Yoon’s closed a
Announcements
BEDFORD STUYVESANT – A shooting last night turned deadly, injuring three and killing one. Police are treating it as a homicide. On Wednesday, February 6 at about 10:26 p.m., a shooting took place in the lobby of 1778 Fulton Street. When cops arrived, they found a 20-year-old man shot