Arts & Culture
The Yard: Gowanus, 3rd Avenue Rendering by Lucy EkaiaWith the Center for an Urban Future’s recent report [/number-artists-moving-brooklyn-rises/] showing the influx of artists to Brooklyn over the years, it’s good to hear that two new facilities are being developed to accommodate some of them. The Yard: Gowanus [https:
Central Brooklyn
Sunset Park, Brooklyn (via Fashion Institute of Technology)Hey Brooklyn! Are you trying to figure out how to get your clothing line off the ground, how to price your work or how to merge sustainability and ethics into your design process?The Fashion Institute of Technology [http://www.fitnyc.edu/
history
City Point, Downtown Brooklyn. October 2016. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER) It’s impossible to avoid all the development going on in Downtown Brooklyn with all the construction cranes hovering high above the area adding countless, modern, glass and steel towers to the skyline. According to DNAinfo [https://www.dnainfo.
Events
Interior of the Brooklyn Army Terminal during the “Doomocracy” Haunted House. (Photo via Creative Time’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/creativetime/].)Have you had all you can take of mainstream politics in the United States? Has reality gone to a place that is just too dark for you?
Business
Photo via Jacques Torres Chocolate Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/jacquestorreschocolate/].Did you know that some of New York City’s finest chocolates are made in Sunset Park? Today is National Manufacturing Day [http://national manufacturing day] — and it is being marked in Brooklyn, including Sunset Park, which is
Business
The Brooklyn Army Terminal. (Courtesy NYC Economic Development Corporation)A food manufacturing hub is coming to the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Last month, the City’s Economic Development Corporation [http://www.nycedc.com] announced that it has designated the 55,000 square foot Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT) [http://www.nycedc.com/
Police & Fire
An NYPD boat sailing near Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. (Courtesy: Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mitchwaxman/9418909587/in/photolist-fmjnET-asdAtn-fmjmdD-97dEAQ-97ayvg-eDtzCA-eDtzWN-eDnsDv-eDtAcJ-eDtA1u-eDtzUq-eDnsLD-a3QHK5-fmjszk-fmyvHm-fmyCyQ-fmjomF-aXhedF-8CiWDU-97dFbq-bEoEam-rxqET4-rzbHEf-h5aRv7-eDnsPP-eDtA3b-eDtzWU-eDtzBJ-eDnsH6-eDnsEz-eDtA1J-eDtA2Y-eDtzYo-eDnsQi-eDnsBD-eDtzZy-eDtzXU-eDnsKX-eDnsF2-eDtzAw-eDnsHi-eDtA1m-eDnsM8-eDnsDt-eDnsKa-eDtA4E-fmjpYt-fmyzKU-fmyAFu-eDtzAJ
Bensonhurst
Photo via Industry City [https://www.facebook.com/IndustryCityBK/photos/pb.118852951506737.-2207520000.1445821252./726488584076501/?type=3&theater] Last September, Industry City announced the creation of the Innovation Lab [http://southslopenews.com/blog/jobs/innovation-lab-industry-city-plans-help-community-job-training-entrepreneurship/] , a jobs center that plans to provide job training as well as education and
58th st
Photo By Erica ShermanThe 58th Street Ferry launched into service today and transit advocates are praying that enough people use it. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is reporting [http://brooklyneagle.com/articles/transit-advocates-got-their-ferry-now-they-need-passengers-2013-08-02-153000] that if the ferry fails to attract riders, it is unlikely to keep sailing past Labor Day. Last