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Glenn Alan and Cynthia Gordy, the duo behind Instagram’s “Black Owned Brooklyn” (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last week, our list of black-owned coffeeshops [/black-owned-coffee-shops-alternatives-to-starbucks-in-brooklyn/] generated an enormous reader response. Even Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams got in on the action, launching a #BLKCoffeeInBK [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLKCoffeeInBK?src=hash]
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[UPDATED: Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 4:40pm] Back to the Land’s owner, David Basham, told BKLYNER Thursday afternoon that the store’s final day will be Sunday, April 29. The store’s lease did not expire, as previously reported. Basham explains that business has decreased significantly, making it
Business
From Assemblymember Jaime Williams (D59): Unbeknownst to the residents of Marine Park, Mill Basin and the Rockaways, the “Party Boats”, with their intoxicated and rambunctious revelers, were moved to the Mill Basin area. The quiet inlet off of Jamaica Bay will no longer be so quiet. In a surprise phone
Announcements
Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl [https://www.bkbookcrawl.com/] will be returning for a third year on April 28th, 2018 across Brooklyn, New York. The crawl is a self-guided tour through Brooklyn’s many, eclectic, wonderful independent bookstores riddled across the sprawling borough. On Indie Bookstore Day, Brooklynites are invited to explore
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Malia Mills Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinFour years ago, fashion designer Malia Mills moved her studio from the garment center in Manhattan to Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. She’d been in Manhattan since beginning the business in her apartment in 1993 in between nights waitressing at the Odeon. The
Announcements
MARINE PARK – The Ireland-based discount fashion chain, Primark [https://www.primark.com/en-us/homepage], will debut its first Brooklyn store next month at the Kings Plaza Shopping Center [http://www.kingsplazaonline.com]. (Courtesy: Macerich [http://www.macerich.com/Leasing/Property/159911])The retailer currently has 352 stores in eleven countries
Arts & Culture
2,500 people via McWatters [https://medium.com/@mmcwatters/the-population-of-a-q-e7418c737fad] * Harbor Seal Spotted Sunbathing In Gowanus This Past Week-End [https://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/2018/04/harbor-seal-spotted-sunbathing-in.html] (PMFA) * Population of the Q Train [https://medium.com/@mmcwatters/the-population-of-a-q-e7418c737fad] (McWatters) * Oceanside Grill at the renovated Aquarium [http://beta.nydailynews.com/new-york/
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CLINTON HILL – After learning that the Putnam Avenue building they have called home since 2011 had been sold [/after-losing-lease-brooklyn-food-co-op-fights-to-stay-alive/], members of the Greene Hill Food Co-op [http://www.greenehillfood.coop] launched a fundraising page [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-save-the-greene-hill-food-co-op-community] in an effort to raise enough cash to relocate the
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GRAVESEND – Work at the old Staples location at 1949 Stillwell Avenue has been progressing quickly, following the approval of plans in late December, and the building is starting to look a lot more like a Foodtown – which it will become soon, though we have not been able to confirm the
Bushwick
Mr. Adams is a man of his word. On Tuesday, after we published the list of Black-Owned Coffee Shops in Brooklyn, our Borough President, Eric Adams announced he planned to not just tweet about it#BLKCoffeeinBK [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLKCoffeeinBK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw], but support
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Throttle-style e-bikes will remain banned in New York, while expensive pedal assist bikes may be legalized by the DOT (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last year, Mayor De Blasio announced a crackdown on e-bikes, stating that NYPD would begin issuing tickets to riders and confiscating electrically powered bikes, which have been illegal
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GOWANUS – After a transformer explosion forced the owners of A&E Supply Co. to temporarily shut down their business a few months following their February 2017 launch [/danny-meyer-alums-bring-new-food-emporium-ae-supply-co-gowanus/], subsequent financial strains resulting from the power outage ultimately left them no choice but to shutter the venue for good. >