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Opinion: Running For Office Should Not Be This Hard

Simmons, center, petitioning earlier this year. Campaign Photo.Running for New York City Council District 39 is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’m an educational leader, a mom, a pandemic learning wrangler of a third-grader; I started a school, parented a colicky baby, and even survived sudden

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Openings and Closings: Tikka Masala, Tiered Cakes, and Tofu

Join us in welcoming a new birria truck, several new pizzerias, and a new Brooklyn home for a Manhattan favorite. Sadly, we say goodbye to two Park Slope spots this week. As always, let us know if we’ve missed anything, and stay safe. You can find the last edition

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Brooklyn Gets 8 Michelin Starred Spots and 37 on the Bib Gourmand List, Williamsburg Dominates

Pierogies at Pierozek. Courtesy of STUNTMANpr.Earlier this week, the Michelin Guide announced their Bib Gourmand list, which this year includes 37 Brooklyn spots. Bib Gourmand is the group’s designation that recognizes restaurants that allow you to enjoy two courses and a drink or dessert for $40 or less.

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18 Members of The Bed-Stuy Hoolies Gang Indicted

Mugshots of the 18 alleged gang members. Courtesy of Brooklyn DA’s office.Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced this morning that 18 members of the Bed-Stuy based Hoolies gang have been indicted on numerous charges. The most high profile case involved was the shooting and killing of 22-month-old Davell

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11-Story Mixed-Use Development Coming to Bed-Stuy Grocery Site

A rendering of the proposed development at 1100 Myrtle Avenue. (Image: Hill West Architects)A grocery on the border of the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick neighborhoods will be closed for two years before reopening in the ground floor of a new, 11-story mixed-use building. The site will also be subject to

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Black-Owned Brooklyn Gets Grant Money And Exposure For 20 Local Businesses

Skal Cafe was also awarded the grant. Photo Courtesy of VH1 and Black-Owned Brooklyn.Black-Owned Brooklyn, run by the husband and wife duo Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa, has been featuring businesses on their Instagram and online publication since 2018. The pandemic highlighted issues and inequalities that have long

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Cornegy Snags Transit Workers Union Endorsement in Brooklyn Borough President Race

Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr.Council Member Robert Cornegy, Jr. has picked up an endorsement from the city’s major transit union in his campaign to become Brooklyn Borough President. The Transport Workers Union of America’s Local 100 branch is so supportive of Cornegy that, according to a press

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Openings and Closings: Biscuits, Burgers, and Bubble Teas

Welcome back to Openings and Closings. Join us in welcoming some new soul food, a bar with a tree inside, and several new Domino Park tenants. Sadly, we must say goodbye to one bar— but it may not be goodbye forever. As always, let us know if we’ve missed

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OPINION: We Need To Elect Emerging Leaders That Represent The True Diversity Of This City.

Jason Walker, Campaign photo.Deciding to run for City Council was one of the hardest decisions I ever made. This decision to suspend my campaign has been even harder. I am an intersectional organizer who has been organizing to advance Black liberation, secure equal rights, advocate for equitable access to

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Hollingsworth Endorsed by Construction and Building Union in Central Brooklyn Council Race

Michael Hollingsworth (Image: Tess Mayer)Tenant organizer Michael Hollingsworth has been endorsed by a notable construction and building union in his run for a Fort Greene City Council seat. LiUNA-NY, a PAC connected to the New York branch of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), which represents construction

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Openings and Closings: Pork Katsu, Pistachio Tart, and Pide

Welcome back to Openings and Closings. This week we welcome back a spot we thought was gone for good, as well as a crowd-funded Crown Heights newbie, several coffee shops, and a new pub. No goodbyes, thankfully. As always, let us know if we’ve missed anything, and stay safe.

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Brooklyn Startup Company Brings Retro Design To New Smart Clock

Tidbyt displays upcoming train times./ Photo provided by SinghA new type of smart device will be hitting the market soon, though its design looks like something out of the 1980s. The smart clock, boasting a retro design, LED screen, all in a trendy North American walnut wood case, can tell

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Crime Blotter: Brooklyn Robbery Pattern, Deadly BQE Crash and More

BQE – This morning, Thursday, March 18, 2021, just before 6:30 am a car crashed into the center dividing barrier on the westbound Gowanus Expressway at the Belt Parkway exit (72 Precinct), killing the 52-year-old driver of the 2014 Nissan Maxima. EMS were first at the scene providing emergency care

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Openings and Closings: Bibimbap, Branzino, and Beef Yaroa

This week we welcome a new Italian eatery with a great happy hour, a coffee shop with a cause, and a pop-up at a gone-but-not-forgotten favorite. We say goodbye to Crown Height’s Associate Supermarket after a long road, which you can read more about here. As always, let us

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Two Arrests: In Sunset Park Stabbing And Attempted Rape In Bed Stuy

Photo by David von Diemar on UnsplashSunset Park – On Sunday, February 28, a man was arrested and charged with an assault that left one man dead and three injured. Last Friday, around 9:30 pm, 45-year-old William Smith, from Brownsville, attacked four Asian men on 57th St and 7th Ave

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Openings and Closings: Tortillas, Tomato Butter, and Toast

Welcome back to another week’s openings and closings. This week we say hello to another (yes, another) crab restaurant, a new sandwich shop, and give a Manhattan bakery a new Brooklyn home. Our goodbyes are a mixed bag this week, with one extreme tragedy and one just a quick

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Fulton Crossing Brings New Heights To Bed-Stuy

Welcome to Fulton Crossing, Brooklyn’s latest highrise luxury residential development seeking tenants and residents. 1430 Fulton Street Rendering. Fischer +Makooi Architects, courtesy of The Moinian Group.The large mixed-use residential project at 1430 Fulton Street and 293 Herkimer Street on the southern edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant was designed by Karl

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First Lady Chirlane McCray Tells Canarsie Vaccine Site Workers: “You are Loved”

Chirlane McCray, center left, visits a Canarsie vaccination site. Around her, from left to right, are Department of Health First Deputy Commissioner Torian Easterling; site administrator Joanne Yarde; administration manager Kizzi Belford; and operations manager Ed Bobb (Image: Lloyd Mitchell/Canarsie Courier/Pool)New York first lady Chirlane McCray stopped

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Soup Shop Project Helps Restaurants and Comforts Customers

When the going gets tough, the tough make soup. Especially when the tough are in the midst of yet another snow storm, during a global pandemic, in the middle of winter. Tanoreen’s lamb and veggies soup.Photo by Alec Holst.Soup Shop aims to help struggling restaurants get back

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Brooklyn Council Member Cornegy Misused Office for Borough President Run, Complaint to Council Charges

Councilmember Roberty Cornegy (D-Brooklyn) calls for greater police accountability during a press conference in Foley Square, June 2, 2020. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYClaudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY. This article was originally published by THE CITY Employees were asked for campaign work and contributions — both banned under ethics rules — a former

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Brooklyn’s Seafood Boom: “The Crab Craze Has Moved Up Into New York” 

Over the last year, the influence of Brooklyn’s seafood-heavy coastal neighborhoods has started spreading inward. We’ve reported the openings of new seafood boil, crab, and lobster spots, not in the typical Sheepshead Bay, Red Hook and beach neighborhoods, but instead in East Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Bed-Stuy. The

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Bed-Stuy Community Board Seeks Compromise in Rezoning Former Nursing Home Site

Rendering of BRP’s proposed development at 270 Nostrand Avenue. (Image: BRP)A developer wants to build a 14-story mixed-use building at the site of a former Bed-Stuy nursing home owned by a controversial healthcare provider. The local community board has questions. BRP Companies has filed a rezoning request for

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Currently Open: Affordable Housing Lotteries

While we all know that what the city deems “affordable housing” is only rarely truly affordable, it’s worth keeping an eye out and application in (click here to apply). Here are the current housing lotteries open for applications: 1620 Fulton St, via HPDThe Garnet, Bed Stuy The building at

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MTA Reopens Bedford Ave Entrances of Nostrand Ave Subway Station

The Bedford Ave and Fulton St entrance of the Nostrand Ave station on the Fulton St A/C lines. By Marc A. Hermann / MTAToday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) reopened the Bedford Avenue entrances of the Nostrand Avenue A-C subway station in Bedford-Stuyvesant.  For the last 30 years, all customers

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Middle School Screens and G&T Hot Issues at D16 Town Hall With Schools Chancellor Carranza

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza during D16 Town Hall. Zoom screenshot.Tuesday evening, January 26, saw Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza take part in a town hall with School District 16, which covers the eastern part of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The Chancellor is required to hold town halls with each district in New York