Central Brooklyn
The Associated Supermarket at 975 Nostrand Avenue (Image: Google Maps) The Associated Supermarket at 975 Nostrand Avenue has been given 30 days to vacate its space, after negotiations about the supermarket’s presence in a future development fell apart. The 30-day notice [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIvrhph6_Jn-VFga6_
Bay Ridge
Two Bay Ridge playgrounds are getting new equipment and a fresh look. At a meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 10’s parks committee [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ogsvzFJKWI] on Thursday, the city’s Parks Department presented plans to redesign J.J. Carty Playground [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/
Central Brooklyn
The Flatbush Savings Bank building on Monday, March 8th, 2020. (Image: Dann Lawrence) Demolition has started on the historic Flatbush Savings Bank building, despite some last-minute efforts by advocates [/community-group-looks-to-halt-demolition-of-flatbush-bank-building/] to preserve it. A new, mixed-use building is expected to rise at the location, which is adjacent to the Kings
Cypress Hills
Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Cypress Hills One woman has died due to shots fired in
Central Brooklyn
NYC high schools will welcome back students on March 22. Brooklyn’s Park Slope Collegiate, which shares a building with several high schools, welcomed its middle schoolers back on Feb. 25. Amy Zimmer/ChalkbeatBy Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/8/22318909/psal-nyc-high-school-reopening] The overwhelming
Arts & Culture
Emily Braden [https://emilybraden.com/] performing at a Pandemusic event in October. (Image: Josue Caceres)When the coronavirus pandemic overtook New York, Josue Caceres’ gigs—and some of his friends—started to disappear. Caceres is a sax player, originally from Brazil, who moved to Brooklyn in 2015 to pursue his
Central Brooklyn
This week marked the anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID19 in NYC. Today, March 5, marks a year since the first confirmed case in Brooklyn. Soon it will be a year since the city was shut down. And, hopefully, soon everyone will have had a chance to get
Business
This morning local politicians, community leaders, and what appeared to be hundreds of supporters marched over and blocked the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges to protest the lack of federal and state support given to undocumented workers during the pandemic. Marchers played drums and held aloft signs saying things like “Fondos
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights recently became home to a new type of maternity care center, Oula [https://oulahealth.com/]. The clinic aims to combine in-person and telehealth style appointments to provide a more comprehensive and holistic approach to pre and postnatal support. Adrianne Nickerson, and CEO and Co-Founder of Oula, says that
COVID-19
Eugene Hurkin, family photo.If there was one thing Eugene Hurkin lived for, it was to laugh and make others smile too. And if a joke was good enough to tell once—it was good enough to tell a thousand times. Every time Eugene and his family drove past a
Central Brooklyn
A rendering of what could be developed at 1620 Cortelyou Road, provided to the city last year by owner Tony Doleh. As part of the rezoning approval process, Doleh has since agreed to some design changes.A controversial proposal to redevelop [/cortelyou-market-redevelopment-gets-cb14-approval/] 1620 Cortelyou Road in Ditmas Park has the
Central Brooklyn
By Eileen Grench, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/3/3/22312705/state-bill-to-give-new-york-kids-more-miranda-protection-nypd] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] That’s all too common a practice, says a statewide coalition of juvenile justice advocates launching a “Right2RemainSilent” campaign for a law change. When