Announcements
This weekend: Don’t miss Sunset Park’s biggest fall celebration – Sunset Park 5th Avenue Street Festival – check out all that’s new and revisit old favorites this Sunday, September 16th, from 11 am to 6 pm. 5th Avenue will be closed between 44th and 59th streets, parking is impossible
Announcements
Everyone’s invited to take part in the sunniest and funniest street celebration in Sesame Street Live! Let’s Party! The inaugural production under Feld Entertainment’s new partnership with the non-profit educational organization, Sesame Workshop features favorite Sesame Street pals Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and more in a
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Wednesday that three gang members have been sentenced in connection with the shooting death of Governor Cuomo aide, Carey Gabay, during J’Ouvert celebrations in 2015. Photo via Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office.Twenty-six-year-old Micah Alleyne, of Jamaica, Queens was convicted
Bay Ridge
DOT crews painting the new bike lane on 9th Street (Photo: Pamela Wong)The other day a bicyclist in Park Slope ended up with stitches when he asked a driver from Bensonhurst to move his car off the freshly painted 9th Street bike lane [https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/09/
News
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/] (DBP) and the New York City Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] (DOT) launch “Willoughby Walks” today, temporarily transforming the blocks surrounding the intersection of Willoughby and Lawrence Streets into a public playground. Via NYC
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerMIDWOOD – Primary Polls are definitely busier than they were in June this morning. At 9:30 a.m., I was one of three voters in the room– number 25 in my polling station at Brookdale Senior Citizen Center of Agudath Israel. A poll worker told me, “Not
Announcements
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Michelle Obama is coming to Brooklyn! The former First Lady will promote her new memoir, Becoming, with a ten-city book tour, making her only New York City appearance at the Barclays Center on Saturday, December 1. The event will feature conversations between Obama and a moderator (to be
News
SUNSET PARK – A 47-year-old construction worker was buried yesterday afternoon when a 20-foot brick retaining wall collapsed on top of him at a construction site located at 714 39th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues in Sunset Park. > #NYPD [https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYPD?src=hash&ref_src=
Arts & Culture
The sun returns (hopefully) just in time for a weekend packed with fun things to check out, from music, poetry, performances, exhibits, books, food, and more! Don’t forget to celebrate the Brooklyn Army Terminal’s 100th anniversary [/bat-celebrates-centennial-with-a-block-party/] at a block party on Saturday featuring performances by Busta Rhymes,
Announcements
Election time is here! NYC Primaries will be held tomorrow, Thursday, September 13. Doors will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. If you are registered and eligible to vote, please do! * Find out where your polling site is with this locator [https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search]
Bay Ridge
CONEY ISLAND/AY RIDGE – A Walmart backed charter school group, is throwing some skin in the 46th Assembly race with a last-minute mailer backing Mathylde Frontus. Over the weekend, some residents in the Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Bay Ridge area received a mailer from Moving New York Families Forward
Boerum Hill
Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinPROVISIONS [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provision]: a stock of needed materials or supplies; especially: a stock of food. It’s also an apt name for The Greene Grape [http://www.greenegrape.com/]’s grocery on Fulton Street in Ft. Greene. The owners and staff of the