Business
Restaurant owners operating in Brooklyn, and even all across America, haven’t had many reasons to be optimistic lately. Government pandemic assistance has largely fallen flat, predictions about closings are bleak, and regular customers are lower than ever on extra spending money. It’s understandable that many in the industry
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Photo: FDNYCARROLL GARDENS – A three-story building that was home to Body Elite Gym collapsed yesterday. There were no serious injuries. On Wednesday, July 1 at around 4:45 p.m., a building located at 348 Court Street (on the corner of Union Street) for reasons yet to be determined fell
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Fairway Market in Red Hook. Liena Zagare/BklynerFairway store in Red Hook, along with Douglaston in Queens and Plainview and Westbury on Long Island, are expected to close by July 17, according to the company’s updated filings with the Labor Department. Fairway has been struggling since 2016 and the
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Photo by Bill Oxford on UnsplashBy Eric Umansky, originally published in ProPublica [https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-then-i-learned-how-nypd-impunity-works?token=mtRqVqWf3m79M17eu5HGekP4E211ceqH&fbclid=IwAR0R67inNGLQjjtviop1_Pu4_YCLprt6BcmwO6Rj7FToJNbn0Ldjvkt9CqU] . Last Halloween, my wife and then-6-year-old daughter were making their way home after trick-or-treating in Brooklyn. Suddenly, an unmarked NYPD car with sirens wailing began
Arts & Culture
Jamie Betesh Carter with her daughter. Family photo.Every night when I cozy up to my 11-month-old daughter, I bring out her bin of books and let her pick two for me to read to her at bedtime. Recently, without fail, she grabs “Good Night New York City” and “Good
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A rainbow drawing in the window of Jessica Miracola, a Crown Heights resident. Courtesy of Jessica Miracola.What may be the world’s purest movement – thousands of rainbows, drawn by hand and hung in windows for children and adults alike to seek out on their daily walks – is the subject
Business
We, like you, are still trying to figure out how to navigate this new reality we’ve found ourselves in. There are a lot of uncertainties, but one thing we know for certain is that we love our local restaurants and we want to support them in any and all
Bay Ridge
Brooklyn is a microcosm of the dumpling universe. Here, you can eat Tibetan momos, Georgian khinkali, and Cantonese har gow all in the same day, separated by little more than a train ride. Writer Nick Kindelsperger wrote in an article for the Chicago Tribune that “dumplings are delightful things, born
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An F train enters the East Broadway station from Brooklyn, on Feb. 25, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Jose Martinez for THE CITY. Originally posted on February 25, by THE CITY. The tunnel that carries F train riders between Manhattan and Brooklyn will undergo up to $100 million worth
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Welcome back to this week’s openings and closings. This week we have lots of hellos and only a few goodbyes— one sponsored by thousands in back taxes. Welcome new empanadas, several new coffee spots, and new cocktail bars. Openings Bay Ridge Aleli Cocina Mexicana [https://www.instagram.com/aleli_
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Katherine Walsh in Sunset Park, courtesy of Katherine Walsh.Katherine Walsh, an urban planner, is leading in the race to unseat longterm Assemblymember Felix Ortiz to represent AD51, which includes Red Hook and Sunset Park along with bits of Carroll Gardens, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge, in the New York
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BQX rendering 2020 via DOTThe Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX) [https://www.brooklynqueensconnector.nyc/] proposal to build a streetcar along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts is moving forward with a community engagement process ahead of an environmental impact review in April of this year. The city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and
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Menchaca, Lander, and Velázquez at a memorial for a bicyclist killed on 3rd Avenue in 2019. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Following a particularly deadly year for pedestrians and especially bicyclists in Brooklyn, the City has decided to lower the speed limit from 30 MPH to 25 MPH along 3rd Avenue
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The best gifts are ones bought from your local merchants! Get your holiday shopping done and enjoy a variety of discounts and perks at the Court Smith “Holiday Shopping & Cheer” event. Dec 5th from 6-9PM. 30+ retailers, live music and refreshments! Start at Invisible Dog for treats and a
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Officer Garman Chen died after his vehicle crashed at a barrier on the FDR Drive. (Photo via NYPD)CARROLL GARDENS – A 25-year-old cop from the 76th precinct is dead after speeding his vehicle with another on the FDR Drive early Saturday morning. On Saturday, November 16 at around 2:30
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By Christina Veiga, Amy Zimmer,Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/11/14/a-push-to-integrate-brooklyn-middle-schools-is-starting-to-show-results-according-to-new-data/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] A pioneering diversity plan [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/09/20/brooklyn-middle-schools-eliminate-screening-as-new-york-city-expands-integration-efforts/] is starting to shift racial demographics of schools in one