News
SUNSET PARK – An argument between two coworkers turned violent, then deadly, this week after a Brooklyn man succumbed to injuries sustained in a fight on Monday. In the early evening of Monday, September 24, police responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress at 140 58th Street, in
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Green parrots of MidwoodThe state finally released the public school test scores [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/09/26/find-out-how-well-your-new-york-city-school-scored-on-state-tests/] yesterday, and the results are … well, unimpressive overall and disturbing when one drills down along racial and socio-economic lines. New York Test Scores Highlight Gaps Among Students from
Animals
OwnerDr. Anna Samuel at the ribbon cutting last week.SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Back in 2015, we wrote about the East 17th Street’s Bay Veterinary Clinic Closing After 37 Years, To Be Replaced By 5-Story Office Building [/east-17th-streets-bay-veterinary-clinic-closes-after-37-years-to-be-replaced-by-5-story-office-building-sheepshead-bay/] . As it happens, a new veterinary clinic opened in mid-August in its place
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CONEY ISLAND – DII Stores, the neighborhood’s discount store, celebrated grand opening this Monday at its new location at 626 Sheepshead Bay Road. “We are pleased to begin welcoming new and existing customers to this new ultra-modern location,” said Morris Dweck, principal at DII Enterprises of the 11,900 square
Business
CROWN HEIGHTS — Another coffee shop has emerged within the Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway corridor— this one promising better service and waffles. Coffee Land replaces Owl & Thistle General Store, at 833 Franklin Ave. between Union St. and Eastern Parkway and opened in late summer. The interior is mostly white,
community
Cannabis Sativa PlantDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – More than 300 people filed into Long Island University’s Kumble Theater Tuesday evening to weigh in on the legalization of recreational marijuana throughout New York State. The forum is part of a series of 15 sessions occurring throughout the state with the objective of hearing
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – At the lobby of the Brooklyn College Library, lies a new exhibit celebrating Brooklyn’s diversity and immigrant life. The various panels tell the stories of immigrants in their own words. It’s called “We are Brooklyn.” [https://wearebrooklyn.org/] “Here we are in one of
Announcements
BROOKLYN – Cycle 8 of the New York City Council’s Participatory Budgeting [https://council.nyc.gov/pb/] has officially begun! Participatory budgeting (PBNYC) is a city program that allows residents to vote on $1 million to $1.5 million in projects developed by community members. PBNYC gives New Yorkers the
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Brandon McNamara, of Queens, was arrested after assaulting two men in Williamsburg over the weekend (Via DCPI)WILLIAMSBURG – Police have arrested a Queens man after an anti-gay assault of two men in Williamsburg last weekend. [/weekend-crime-blotter-sept-24-18/] Brandon McNamara, 25, of Middle Village, surrendered himself to the NYPD at the 7th
Nonsponsored
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Greenland Forest City Partners announced today the next phase of its 22 acre, 15 building, mixed-use Pacific Park [https://pacificparkbrooklyn.com/] development project. Rendering of B4, Pacific Park’s tallest building at Atlantic & 6th AvenueForest City [https://www.forestcity.net/], the real estate investment firm that initiated
Central Brooklyn
60 Clarkson Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)A Brownsville man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter for stabbing his ex-wife’s girlfriend to death in front of her four children in 2016. [/woman-fatally-stabbed-building-served-local-homeless-shelter-ditmas-park/] Alwasi Tyson, 37, was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for
Announcements
Some good news for local news aficionados – there’s a new kid in town and they are hiring. It was announced this morning that in response to dwindling local news coverage, THE CITY, a new non-profit news site aimed at providing in-depth and non-partisan coverage of New York will be