News
The L train line has seen two passengers hit by trains in the last two days (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Governor Cuomo dropped the announcement today that L train service to Manhattan may not have to be shut down after all to make necessary repairs. This seems to have come as
Bushwick
BUSHWICK — On November 6, State Sen. Julia Salazar was elected the youngest female New York state senator in history. She turned 28-years-old on December 30. Bklyner spoke to her new chief of staff, Boris Santos, who gave us some insight on what’s to come for the freshman senator serving
clinton hill
CLINTON HILL – MedRite Urgent Care [https://medriteurgentcare.com] will open its first location in Brooklyn at 504 Myrtle Avenue in early 2019. The medical facility will be tailored to meet the needs of busy Brooklynites, offering evening and Sunday hours, walk-in appointments, and preventative, pediatric, and occupational medical services. MedRite
Arts & Culture
Park Slope Library interior with two-story iron bookshelves, wood details, and stained glass. (Photo: Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein)Walk into one of the four Brooklyn Public Library branches in Park Slope, Red Hook, Pacific, or Carroll Gardens – and you’ll be entering a well-used building that, in three out of the four
Development
The corner of Clay and Commercial Streets, where a nine-story building will go up on a lot marred by toxic chemicals (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – Developers have filed for a new nine-story residential building in North Greenpoint, above a toxic plume of phthalates that has leaked from the Nuhart Site
Animals
The Williamsburg Bridge. (Photo: Paul Stremple)WILLIAMSBURG – Trains were delayed for over two hours last night after a dog was found roaming the subway tracks over the Williamsburg Bridge. At approximately 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night, the MTA tweeted “Metropolitan Av-bound M trains and Jamaica-bound J trains are running
Arts & Culture
The first weekend of 2019 offers photography, painting, living sculptures, comedy, and lots of music including performances at National Sawdust, Roulette, Brooklyn Museum and more. Check the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around town or to list one of your own. Trish Townes, Let This Be America at
Greenpoint
A pedestrian inspects the stop work order posted to the Greenpoint Library construction site (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – After delays pushing back the completion date of the Greenpoint Library by half a year, progress was being made on the site—until it was hit with a stop work order on
Greenpoint
A woman stands at the entrance to McGolrick Park, where new signs have omitted Polish (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – All down Nassau Avenue on the approach to McGolrick Park, Polish signs can be seen on the storefronts, like Kubuś Photo Service, Cracovia Liquors, Jaslowiczanka Bakery or Krajan Polish Deli. But
Announcements
PARTNER NEWS: The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) received the highest grade “A” for patient safety from the prestigious Leapfrog Group. TBHC is one of only two hospitals in all of New York City to get an “A” and is the only A-rated hospital in Brooklyn. In fact, only about 8%
Announcements
GOWANUS – The city’s styrofoam ban went into effect Tuesday, January 1, 2019, a law reaching as far back as 2007 with fourth and fifth graders from Brooklyn leading the charge. Students from PS 15 in Red Hook joined the mayor and other public officials at the Hamilton Avenue Marine
Announcements
Here’s how the street signs would look like. (Photo via PAYO)DITMAS PARK – The Coney Island Avenue strip between Avenues C and H, also known as “Little Pakistan,” will be co-named “Muhammad Ali Jinnah Way,” after the founder of Pakistan. “This is a really great achievement of the Pakistani-American