Arts & Culture
Greenpoint Library via BPL’s websiteIn response to the invasion of the Capitol on Jan 6, Brooklyn Public Library has put together a list of books for [https://borrow.bklynlibrary.org/booklist/january-6-2021]Brooklynites to read to better understand the historic moment. The list includes both modern and historical fiction
Central Brooklyn
While the majority of schoolchildren are learning remotely, many of them depend on school food for nutrition. To make sure no kid goes hungry, the city set up pickup locations [https://www.opt-osfns.org/schoolfoodny/meals/default.aspx] for free breakfasts and lunches – grab and go kits that can be
Arts & Culture
For aerialists like Kyla Ernst-Alper [https://www.kylaernstalper.com/], life during the pandemic has felt pretty precarious. Kyla Ernst-Alper performing at BKLYN STUDIOS. Photo by Giles Clement. Ernst-Alper, whose job – using her airborne body as a means of visual storytelling – depends on the tight margins of freelance gigs and self-produced
Bay Ridge
NYPD Lieutenant Hayward prepares to strike Brent Schmidt (R) after members of the Occupy Wall Street movement had been removed from Zuccotti Park in New York November 15, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/Lucas JacksonDeputy Inspector Joseph Hayward is now in charge of the 71st Precinct [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/
Borough Park
Aaron Mastofsky speaking in a video interview while at the US Capitol building on Wednesday.The large crowd of Trump supporters who gathered in Washington on Wednesday to protest Congress’ certification of the election included multiple notable Brooklyn residents. As Gothamist first reported [https://gothamist.com/news/trump-fur-ever-costumed-capitol-rioter-son-brooklyn-supreme-court-judge] , among those
Bed Stuy
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez speaking at a virtual press conference on Wednesday, January 7th. To Gonzalez’s right stands NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison.Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Wednesday indictments against 19 alleged Central Brooklyn gang members, with charges including murder, attempted murder and weapons possession.
Business
Chain stores on Kings Highway in 2018. Liena Zagare/BklynerMore than one in every ten chain stores across Brooklyn closed in 2020, as retailers faced immense challenges stemming from the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent business shutdowns. That’s according to the latest “State of the Chains” report [https://nycfuture.org/
parks
NYC Parks / Daniel AvilaThis winter is making us hope so hard for an early, COVID-19 free summer. Or at least one where most of us are vaccinated and can safely enjoy the breeze, and the new sprinklers at the Bensonhurst Playground. But sprinklers are not the only improvement the $7.
affordable housing
Flatbush District #1 School Building in 1931. (Photo: Brooklyn Public Library) The city is looking to develop the former site of P.S. 90 at the corner of Church and Bedford avenues in Flatbush into affordable housing and community space. The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Brooklyn Heights
Welcome to a new year of openings and closings. We’ve got lots of exciting new options to start the year off, including an underground barbecue delivery service, several new patisseries, and a new permanent home for a butcher pop-up. Mercifully, we start the year without a single closing. And
News
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who represents parts of north Brooklyn as well as Manhattan and Queens, spoke in a video she recorded on Wednesday afternoon from her Capitol office in DC, where she was sheltering in place after pro-Trump protestors broke into the building.The Capitol building in Washington DC was
News
Manhattan Bridge. Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis via Unsplash.DUMBO was the priciest neighborhood in Brooklyn in 2020. That’s according to a new report [https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/nyc-neighborhood-sales/] released late last month by the real estate data website PropertyShark. The site’s analysis found that, despite a 31%