Announcements
Today is the last day to complete the BKLYNER reader survey. Thank you to all that have provided feedback. Winners of the thank you gifts will be selected on May 2. In January we made some big changes merging our (7) sites (Bensonhurst Bean, Fort Greene Focus, Ditmas Park Corner,
Central Brooklyn
752 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Looks like our newest Thai spot on Cortelyou Road [/new-thai-restaurant-set-open-next-week-cortelyou-road/], slated to open this week, will face some immediate competition. The shuttered Propellerhead Restaurant (formerly Visions bar), on Coney Island Avenue at Cortelyou
Neighbors
Last Thursday night Turkish Cultural Center held its 8th annual friendship dinner at the Baku Palace in Sheepshead Bay. This year the theme was combatting hate crime, and the event brought together about 300 neighbors, dignitaries, and public officials from across the borough and across religious denominations. Local Assemblyman Steven
Arts & Culture
Saturday was a perfect summery day for strolling along the streets of southern Park Slope and visiting with the artists participating in the weekend’s South Slope Studio Tour [http://open-source-gallery.org/south-slope-open-studios/]. More than 40 artist studios were open to the public on Saturday
Central Brooklyn
1173 Bergen Street (Photo by Nathan Haselby)On Friday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine extended the temporary restraining order again [/opening-crown-heights-homeless-shelter-delayed/] on 1173 Bergen Street, prohibiting the homeless shelter from opening while Crown Heights neighbors negotiate with the shelter’s operators and the City.
Bensonhurst
(Photo via City of New York [https://twitter.com/nycgov/status/858065217162551297/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbrooklyn%2520fire] /Twitter)On Friday afternoon, a damaging fire tore through a home in Bensonhurst, causing thick clouds of smoke to gather
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNERKeep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if you ever have any
Neighbors
Chinese American Social Services Center, 124 Avenue O, April 27. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Yesterday, the Bensonhurst-based Chinese American Social Services Center [https://www.facebook.com/casscenter/](CASS), packed the house for their immigration forum for a community where many have fallen victim to local immigration scams. With
camps
One summer, when I was maybe 11, I spent 4 weeks at a summer camp in Georgia. It literally changed me. (I accidentally sat on my glasses and the eye doctor subsequently told me I didn’t need them anymore.) And I returned, as most do, with a camp trunk
Central Brooklyn
To the editor: Thank you for your recent article on abandoned and illegally parked cars on Hinckley Place off Coney Island Avenue (Whose Parking Lot Is Hinckley Place? [/whos-parking-lot-hinckley-place/] by Liena Zagare – April 21, 2017). It is good to know that I am not the only
News
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6 (Photo by Jen Aylmer via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154150997697212&set=br.AbpghpWH6mkPghjLW5tM1X0VnaP7cvu1WjrJOsYG2Pp0f_cpAomHlxn7lAV_3mEFZkc9l6jtY5sTyCNY2XT15sEUHsSN56woBcFAVYUWu2OfoJsiI4jvlzaHlhnTkqoH98fBxgez2pAHTXVMrmiSdJXhOUH8vrrj921mk6d_cKgg14TUaPXGsxa-mWnzIYT38P3WkZ4B8vGvVwNS56_bjinJCffAVjdRD5-Y3Gsu87-bpFKZ_uCM6yoSDqa5dBZMBkI&type=3&theater] )The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation and the Brooklyn Heights Association were not able to
bath beach
Department of Transportation made the following suggestions for traffic calming on Cropsey Avenue at the CB 11 Transportation Committee meeting on Wednesday, April 26: Where: Cropsey Avenue from Bay Parkway to 26th Avenue. What: * DOT will install two pedestrian refuge islands: * ten expanded median tips, * a bus-boarding island between