Borough Park
Ice Cream HouseFinding the best ice cream in Brooklyn is about as simple or thankless a task as finding the best angel in heaven, or you know, the best slice of pizza. There are artisanal spots in northern Brooklyn serving booze-infused ice cream [https://www.tipsyscoop.com/brooklyn_location], new
Bed Stuy
BEDFORD STUYVESANT — Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul came to Bedford Stuyvesant Monday to highlight a $175 million initiative that will boost funding to the workforce development programs across New York state. Hochul joined Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. at Per Scholas. Kadia Goba/Bklyner The initiative aims to help improve the pipeline
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PARK SLOPE – For those Park Slopers and others who never get Thai-rd of SkyIce, good news! As Bklyner reported [/food-news-skyice-opens-new-location-kbh-and-gristmill-close-more/] last week, the iconic eatery in now preparing to open a second, larger venue at 437 Fifth Avenue (between 8th & 9th Streets) in the former home of Sai Thai
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PARK SLOPE – A third outpost of Cinnamon Girl [https://www.facebook.com/Cinnamon-Girl-178436148840919/] has opened at 80 6th Avenue in the storefront that previously housed Muscle Maker Grill, Fiat Café, and Cubana Café. Cinnamon Girl, 80 6th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)The bake shop/café/grocer debuted at 277
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Industry City via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BTrP9g6hv6f/?hl=en&taken-by=industrycity]SUNSET PARK – With the expansion of Sunset Park’s Industry City in flux, the local City Council member hopes pumping the brakes on the project’s approval process will serve as a model that shifts
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PARK SLOPE – Approximately 75 full-time employees of the Park Slope Food Coop [https://www.foodcoop.com/] (782 Union Street) are working towards organizing a union, the New York Post [https://nypost.com/2019/05/12/workers-at-soviet-style-park-slope-food-coop-fighting-for-union/] reported on Monday. Photo by BKLYNERThe staff members of the food cooperative claimed “unfair
affordable housing
This piece was written by Janice Hamilton and Lincoln Eccles. Hamilton provides affordable rent-stabilized housing to families in her 8-unit building in Prospect Heights, while Eccles houses 14 families in his rent-stabilized building in Crown Heights. Rent-stabilized buildings like ours are family businesses. Our immigrant grandparents and parents came to
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CROWN HEIGHTS – On May 19, Jyll Hubbard-Salk will host her latest monthly yoga class specifically for tradeswomen at her Sterling Place yoga studio in Crown Heights, Urban Asanas. The hour-long classes, which are open to tradeswomen including electricians, ironworkers and carpenters, launched this spring in collaboration with the NYC Coalition
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PARK SLOPE – There are more changes happening along 5th Avenue in Park Slope. See the list below of some new additions to the corridor and a couple of closings. SkyIce [https://skyice.net], 437 5th Avenue (between 8th & 9th Streets) SkyIce is expanding! The “2019 Dime Best of Brooklyn”
affordable housing
Like many other regions across the United States, New York City is in the midst of a housing crisis, in which one-third of the city’s residents spend more than half of their income on housing costs. On May 14, Public Agenda – a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and public engagement organization
Business
PARK SLOPE – A GoFundMe campaign was recently launched [https://www.gofundme.com/pick-quick-key-food-employees?member=2172406&utm_source=twilio&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=contacts-v2-invite-to-donate&fbclid=IwAR19x8ZSwP96oKr0qtvd6IlJ3EqGQjkUMvJXNuSTMfBaHdsvwZNGbjx_koo] to help Key Food meat department employees who have been locked out of their jobs for more than a
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Join neighbors and come out to savor the flavors and diverse offerings from local businesses on Cortelyou Road in Ditmas Park on Thursday, May 9 from 5:00 – 9:00 pm Twilight stroll on Cortelyou [https://cortelyoueats.brownpapertickets.com/] includes the following: * Cheese Tasting at the Flatbush Food Coop [http: