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Setting sun lights up Newkirk Avenue. Liena Zagare/BklynerIt’s been a crazy few days, hasn’t it? The election seems to be the only thing in everyone’s mind– and for good reason. The ballots are still being counted and the victor has yet to be declared. As for
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S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595-611 Smith Street (Photo by Nathan Haselby taken June 15, 2018, the morning after a fire damaged the building.) * * * * After NYC DOT lifted the Stop Work Order on the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse [/dob-to-issue-criminal-court-summons-against-developer-of-bowne-storehouse/] last week, the developer quickly got back to work demolishing
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Scaffolding, netting, and sidewalk sheds surround 80 Flatbush (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * * * * Demolition has begun on the controversial 80 Flatbush development, Brownstoner [https://www.brownstoner.com/development/brooklyn-80-flatbush-avenue-boerum-hill-alloy-development-khalil-gibran-demolition/] reports. Despite a lawsuit launched by Boerum Hill residents [/boerum-hill-residents-sue-to-stop-80-flatbush-upzoning/]seeking to halt the constr
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Via sharesummer.org [https://sharesummer.org/] * While the city offers free breakfast and lunch to kids 18 and under during the summer break (from June 27 to August 30) at nearly 1,200 sites [https://www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us/news/announcements/contentdetails/2019/05/29/chancellor-carranza-launches-community-outreach-campaign-for-annual-free-summer-meals-program-available-to-all-new-yorkers-18-and-under] including schools, parks,
Central Brooklyn
S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595 Smith Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * On Thursday, NYC DOB once again issued a Stop Work Order on the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse in Red Hook due to “unsafe demolition,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle [https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/07/01/city-bars-unsafe-demolition-at-s-w-bowne-building-in-red-hook/] reports. Last
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7th Avenue F/G subway station, Park Slope (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)At a recent general MTA meeting, MTA Board Member Sarah Feinberg proposed a new method to combat fare evasion: Public shaming. NY Post reports that Feinberg suggested videotaping fare-skippers and uploading their faces to Youtube [https://nypost.com/
Coney Island
Red Hook (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * Three Luna Park Housing Corp. Officials Indicted for Conspiring to Receive Bribes, Forge Documents to Corrupt the Process by Which Mitchell-Lama Apartments are Acquired [http://www.brooklynda.org/2019/05/21/three-luna-park-housing-corp-officials-indicted-for-conspiring-to-receive-bribes-forge-documents-to-corrupt-the-process-by-which-mitchell-lama-apartments-are-acquired/] – Brooklyn DA. 78 count indictment included accepting approximately $87
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Siah Armajani’s ‘Bridge Over Tree’ at Brooklyn Bridge Park (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * D, N, and R subway service was delayed on Wednesday after a construction worker fell onto the tracks at the 53rd Street station in Sunset Park [https://www.amny.com/news/worker-falls-subway-brooklyn-1.30817480]. Emergency crews took
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The L train line at Bedford Avenue now has numerous signs telling commuters their options on taking the under-construction line to Manhattan, or getting a shuttle to the city. (Photo: Todd Maisel) * Commuting got off to a rocky start Friday evening with the long-anticipated L train tunnel repairs slowing down
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Carroll Street near 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * Earlier this month a judge ruled in favor of the NYC Parks Department when Friends of Fort Greene Park requested—via the Freedom of Information Law—a report regarding the redesign of the park that includes the removal of 58 trees
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5th Street, outside the EPA’s Gowanus Canal Superfund Cleanup staging site (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * On Thursday morning the operator of a 5 train rescued a 12-year-old boy [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/nyregion/boy-rescued-subway-tracks.html] who was discovered on the subway tracks near Hoyt Street station
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Union Street Bridge (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * The measles outbreak [/brooklyn-measles-outbreak-grows-to-121-cases/] that’s been plaguing Williamsburg and Borough Park has now spread to Crown Heights, with the area’s first case confirmed by the Department of Health this week [http://crownheights.info/crown-heights-news/636782/breaking-news-measles-hits-crown-heights/] . * Though Governor Cuomo nixed a
Central Brooklyn
Flatbush Malls (Photo courtesy Sean Claffey via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216556796985887&set=pcb.10216556797985912&type=3&theater&ifg=1] )The remnants of a car that burst into flames last Wednesday morning (Feb. 13) at Flatbush Avenue and Fleet Street were finally
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Extell Development’s 68-story Brooklyn Point, 1 City Point (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Disgraced former New York Congressman, Anthony Weiner, has been released from federal prison and will serve out the remainder of his sentence at a halfway house in Brooklyn [https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/17/politics/anthony-weiner-prison-release-reentry/
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Carroll Street (near 7th Avenue), Park Slope (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and subscribe [/subscribe/]. If you have news
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(Via Bklyner’s Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/bklynerbk/])It’s that quiet time between the two final holidays of the year, but there’s still news to be had while avoiding family and wondering whether or not those last cookies are a good idea… If you’re still in