Coney Island
CONEY ISLAND – Residents in Coney Island and Sea Gate can now look forward to two kinds of waves: those in Gravesend Bay and the yellow ones on the ground along Neptune Avenue. The Department of Transportation repaved Neptune Avenue during the past weeks and on Thursday painted dizzying double lines
Food & Drink
The weather is finally proper cold, the lights are up in the participating business districts, and it’s dark before you’ve even left work—it’s officially hot chocolate season. With weather like this, feel free to grant yourself some indulgences and get a hot, sweet cuppa chocolate to
Carroll Gardens
CARROLL GARDENS – Earlier this month, the Rogosin Institute [https://www.rogosin.org/] cut the ribbon at its first free-standing home dialysis treatment and education center in NYC, where patients can learn how to treat kidney disease at home. The new Rogosin Institute at 527 Court Street (Courtesy of Rogosin Institute)
brighton beach
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for a man wanted in connection with an assault and attempted robbery of a boy on the Q train earlier this week. The incident took place around 3:00 pm on Monday, November 26, on a southbound Q train headed from Sheepshead
Announcements
RED HOOK – Notices have gone out to Red Hook residents that Universal Television will be shooting scenes for a new series, FBI [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7491982/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1], at the Brooklyn Port Authority Marine Terminal/Red Hook Container Terminal from 3:30pm on Friday, November
Announcements
The re-named New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)PARK SLOPE/EAST FLATBUSH – Two more Brooklyn hospitals settle with the state for illegally billing sexual assault survivors for their rape examinations, said Attorney General Underwood. New York Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital [https://www.nyp.org/brooklyn] and
Arts & Culture
Muslims praying. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Next week, Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) will present its “Muslims in Brooklyn” [http://brooklynhistory.org/projects/muslimsinbrooklyn] oral history project to the world. “Muslims in Brooklyn” includes 50 oral histories from various Muslims across the borough. “These 50 people are not representative
Nonsponsored
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Some customers disappointed with the paid attractions at Winterfest during the event’s opening weekend are now feeling frustrated by the lack of response from the event’s organizers. Winterfest at Brooklyn Museum, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Lena Romanova, the founder of Winterfest at
brighton beach
BRIGHTON BEACH – The number of anti-Semitic incidents is up so much that it seems we are reporting about one a day some weeks. Earlier in November, two teenagers were arrested for drawing swastikas in Brooklyn Heights [/swastika-graffiti-arrest/]. No sooner was the man that vandalized the Union Temple arrested [/man-who-defamed-union-temple-facing-25-years-for-hate-crimes/] , that
Central Brooklyn
A night in Coney Island from over the summer (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)The major news of the day is Lyft’s $100 million investment in expanding Citi Bike. [/citi-bike-announces-100-million-expansion-following-acquisition-by-lyft/] Though a scoop from Gothamist suggests that the “vast majority” of the new bikes will be electric pedal-assist bikes. [http://gothamist.
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News
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The Emmanuel Episcopal Church church burned down last night in Sheepshead Bay, the FDNY confirmed, after the historic church caught fire for the second time in 11 years. The fire broke out after midnight, with firefighters responding to the scene by 12:30 am on Thursday, November 29,
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Local children, aged 10 to 13, will present an innovative potato pancake that they created especially for the occasion at the 10th Annual Latke Festival on Dec. 3 at the Brooklyn Museum. The youngsters came up with their latke during a recent session of the Cooks for Health program at