Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – A thousand gallons of gasoline flooded Warren Street off Fourth Avenue in Boerum Hill Saturday afternoon, after a gasoline truck glanced off a concrete jersey barrier next to a construction site, rupturing a valve on the truck, fire officials said. Firefighters and officials check the foam coating on
Announcements
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitSUNSET PARK – The 59th Street Subway Station is finally going to have an elevator, but that will come with street closures for three weeks. “Starting tonight at 10:00 p.m. Fourth Avenue from 58th to 60th Streets will be closed to
Boerum Hill
PARK SLOPE – The NYC Department of Transportation [https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/4th-ave-great-sts-dec2017.pdf] (DOT) announced last week that work has begun on the Park Slope portion of the 4th Avenue protected bike lane. DOT crews kicked off work last week between 1st Street and 15th Street
Development
PARK SLOPE – A 125-foot-tall, twelve-story mixed-used development has been proposed to replace the long vacant lot on the corner of 4th Avenue and Degraw Street. Construction site at 639 Degraw Street (at corner of 4th Avenue), Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019 (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)ODA Architecture [http://www.oda-architecture.com]
Downtown Brooklyn
BOERUM HILL – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 45-year-old man has been indicted for murder in connection to the fatal shooting of a Staten Island man in front of a Dunkin’ Donuts on 4th Avenue [/nypd-releases-video-suspect-4th-avenue-killing/] in September. Brooklyn Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street (Photo by
Bay Ridge
A diagram of how the lanes will be divided on 4th Avenue under the DOT’s new protected bike lane project (NYC DOT)NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) will start implementing its plan to bring eight miles of protected bike lanes to 4th Avenue in the Spring of 2018, according
Downtown Brooklyn
BOERUM HILL – The NYPD has released a second surveillance video of the man they are searching for in connection to the stabbing and shooting death [/nypd-releases-video-suspect-4th-avenue-killing/] of a Staten Island resident on the corner of 4th and Atlantic Avenues last month. Police released the latest surveillance video footage (above) last
Downtown Brooklyn
BOERUM HILL – The NYPD has released surveillance video of the man they believe stabbed and shot [/man-fatally-stabbed-and-shot-on-corner-of-4th-atlantic/] a Staten Island man to death on the corner of 4th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue Wednesday evening. At approximately 8:20pm on September 20, police found 47-year-old Steven Vargas unconscious in front of
North Western Brooklyn
Corner of 4th and Atlantic Avenues, Thursday, September 21, 9:00am (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)BOERUM HILL – A Staten Island man was killed in front of the Dunkin’ Donuts on the southwest corner of 4th and Atlantic Avenues Wednesday evening. Police responded to the scene at approximately 8:20pm
Downtown Brooklyn
Via NYC DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/atlantic-ave-flatbush-ave-study-2016.pdf] FORT GREENE – The intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues is a major hub consisting of two highly trafficked two-way roads. Vehicular, foot, and bicycle traffic will only increase with all the new commercial and residential developments rising
Business
470 4th Avenue at 11th Street (Photo by Jeff Davenjay)A reader sent in two photos on Thursday showing Starbucks signage on the ground floor of a new development nearing completion on 4th Avenue at 11th Street in Gowanus. Scaffolding surrounding 470 4th Avenue recently came down, revealing the Starbucks
Central Brooklyn
Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The intersection at Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene tops the list [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170216/REAL_ESTATE/170219909/cultural-hub-near-brooklyn-academy-of-music-becomes-nexus-of-retail-and-residential-development-and-a-place-to-buy-condos-in-brooklyn-near-parks] of six retail areas poised for growth in CPEX Real Estate’s eighth annual Brooklyn Retail Report.
Police & Fire
Help cops find four suspects accused of ambushing a teenage girl and punching her in the face on 4th Avenue near Gowanus yesterday. The 17-year-old victim was standing in front of 88A 4th Avenue when she was surrounded by about 20 people on Thursday, January 12 at 7pm, said cops.
North Western Brooklyn
Back in 2003 — well before I was elected to the City Council, before I directed the Pratt Center, when I led the Fifth Avenue Committee — the Bloomberg Administration proposed to upzone Fourth Avenue in Park Slope. We had a simple idea: mandate that developers include some affordable units for low-
Events
Trees from 2015’s Treecycle on 4th Avenue event. (Photo courtesy of S.J. Avery) Want to make sure your Christmas tree becomes mulch, but don’t want to drag it to Mulchfest 2016 [http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest?utm_source=CornerMedia&utm_medium=SponsoredPostAd&utm_
Events
Trees from 2015’s Treecycle on 4th Avenue event. (Photo courtesy of S.J. Avery) Want to make sure your Christmas tree becomes mulch, but don’t want to drag it to Mulchfest 2016 [http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest?utm_source=CornerMedia&utm_medium=SponsoredPostAd&utm_