Bensonhurst
Inside Nyonya. (Photo by Hannah Frishberg / Bensonhurst Bean)To many, artisan cheese and shiny, new condo towers are seen as being iconically Brooklyn, but locals know that it’s hard to beat the commercial strips under the elevated tracks in terms of embodying this borough. Bensonhurst’s 86th Street is
Central Brooklyn
Upside burger on 18th Avenue at East 4th Street. (Photo by Dina Rabiner)Upside Craft Burgers, offering “fast-casual” quality kosher dining, opened only three weeks ago but judging by the crowd (fifty plus people on a recent Sunday evening), you’d think the joint was already an established neighborhood
News
(Courtesy BKLYNER/Justin Fox)Treyf [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treif] marks the spot at The Gumbo Bros. This review marks the first time I have called something “sinfully good”, but it is the best way to describe the Leviticus and Deuteronomy-prohibited [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_animals]
Holidays
Photo via Flickr/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/europedistrict/11351076073/in/photolist-ii4esa-qoighm-i3PqmY-qwvcWz-7v5HET-qe9bUN-aT96FP-qeJyGE-aT96e6-aT963F-dzsRTR-dukstv-ii4gNc-ibvT9q-ii4eEz-qrccfM-6f3P9m-Fps2eM-qbnrq3-aT96Lk-7Nqw9-dy8oq8-dy8bg2-5NAkh7-dzsSJr-dzsSRk-ii3tke-dur3Ay-4hnQf8-dzsGxn-imVGK9-dC88zP-
Nonsponsored
(Sample 2-way bike lane image via Transportation Alternatives petition [https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/two-way-protected-bike-path-flatbush]) [Update 12/7: We spoke to the petition’s founder and added in her story throughout] Local Council Members take note: A petition for a 2-way protected bike
Bensonhurst
Behold, a Grin and Tonic. Photo by Kyle MackieThe “Grin and Tonic,” a twist on the classic cocktail, won the 2015 Brew York New York Sweepstakes. New York City residents can submit their innovative beer idea to the 2016 contest now until December 28 for a chance to brew it
Health
A newly constructed, modern medical facility has come to our community. The Brooklyn Hospital [http://www.tbh.org] Center [http://www.tbh.org] (TBHC) has opened an ambulatory care facility at 2244 Church Avenue, between Bedford and Flatbush Avenues. The hospital’s new, spacious Flatbush location offers primary care, dental
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Central Brooklyn
Surveillance video via NYPD Help cops find a man who threatened a fast-food worker and stole his phone near Brooklyn College on Tuesday. The suspect cajoled an employee to open the door at Popeye’s, 2158 Nostrand Avenue between Flatbush Avenue and Avenue H, at 1:15am on November
News
The house that is currently on the property. Photo via Google MapsYet another small house will be demolished to make way for a four-story trade school on East 17 Street between Avenue Y and Avenue Z, according to permits filed by [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/12/four-story-
News
The house that is currently on the property. Photo via Google MapsYet another small house will be demolished to make way for a four-story trade school on East 17 Street between Avenue Y and Avenue Z, according to permits filed by [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/12/four-story-
Feature
Bahij Chancey. (Photo by Lindsay Abrams / BKLYNER)In what will turn out to be the final days of the Cobble Hill tavern Buschenschank, at a table pushed up against an open window that looks out at the intersection of Court and Sackett Streets, 25-year-old Bahij Chancey is sipping
Arts & Culture
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