Announcements
FORT GREENE – The Center for Fiction [http://www.centerforfiction.org] is relocating from its longtime home in midtown Manhattan to the Brooklyn Cultural District. The Center for Fiction rendering by BKSK ArchitectsScheduled to open on February 1, 2019 at 15 Lafayette Avenue, the 17,500-square-foot, three story facility will feature
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(Via Output Facebook)WILLIAMSBURG – The well-known electronic music venue Output has announced they’ll be shuttering after a five-year run in Williamsburg, going out with a bang and a New Year’s party. The venue, located at 74 Wythe, launched in 2013 and hosted DJ sets from some of dance
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SPONSORED – It’s pretty well known that kids don’t mind the cold [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5184405] as much their parents do. Visit any city playground on a weekday after school dismissal and you’ll probably see a bunch of kindergarteners being chased by
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Jalapa Jar via their InstagramNAVY YARD – Brooklyn is a place filled with bustling food start-ups. Some rise and fall in a short period of time. Others, though, ascend into local success with a chance to go beyond both the borough and the rest of the city.Jalapa Jar is one
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Renovations on the way of the new Stocked Burger. (Photo credit: Matthew Fulton) CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After an electrical fire in 2016 shuttered their Vanderbilt Avenue business for 14 months, owners of Stocked Cafe [https://www.stockedbrooklyn.com/], Matthew Fulton and Lesley Covitz were filled with emotion over the
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This morning, Borough President Eric Adams and Councilmember Mark Treyger arrived at the corner of West 2nd Street and Avenue Y to call on the city to improve street safety at the intersection where a local woman was killed yesterday in a hit-and-run collision. Francine LaBarbara, 57, was walking home
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CARROLL GARDENS – A pioneering clothing boutique will be closing on Court Street at the end of the year, much to the disappointment of neighbors and longtime loyal customers. Raina Passo, owner of Try Rae’s First at 430 Court Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Raina Passo opened Try Rae’s
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Tuesday that charges against Jazmine Headley have been dropped. Headley is the 23-year-old mother whose one-year-old son was forcibly torn out of her arms by police officers [/video-nypd-violently-yanks-1-year-old-from-mother-at-snap-office/] at a social services office last Friday, December 7. Human Resources Administration Office,
Bed Stuy
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DUMBO – After an assault on the F train, police have released photos of the suspect they’re searching for, hoping the public can help track him down. Around 4:00 pm on
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Simcha Felder. (Photo: NY Senate)BROOKLYN — State Sen. Simcha Felder, who caucuses with state Senate Republicans, came up short on committee leadership roles Tuesday. He does not have any. Felder, (17) who’ll give up the Cities Committee in Albany is the lone Brooklyn “Democrat” not to receive a chair
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Renderings: Studio V ArchitectureCROWN HEIGHTS — Community Board 8’s Land Use committee weighed in on two proposals, Thursday, December 6, urging developers to make changes that comply with the M-CROWN [/two-large-new-crown-heights-developments-in-the-works/] rezoning plan and the board’s goal to maintain jobs in the area. Currently, the area consists of parking
Bushwick
A picture of the girls from the fundraising page (Via GoFundMe [https://www.gofundme.com/support-renita-vincent-and-their-family?fbclid=IwAR0LdY0zGf420lFYjc2S8aEbeiJJvppSvXBr9VpDtbCdc4GBvFKgdKkArVg] )A fundraiser has been set up to help the family of the two girls who were killed in a Bushwick apartment fire [/two-girls-killed-in-fire-while-visiting-their-grandfather-in-bushwick/] over the weekend. Haley Harris, 8, and Payton Gomez,