Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced last Friday that a 24-year-old Prospect-Lefferts Gardens resident was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for violently assaulting a 58-year-old homeless man and streaming the attack on Facebook Live. Daquan King (Photo via the Office of Brooklyn District Attorney
Bushwick
Two Brooklyn men in two neighborhoods died over the weekend from gun violence—one in a Bushwick shooting Saturday night, the other from injuries sustained in a shooting the weekend before. In Bushwick, the shooting took place at the intersection of Bushwick Avenue and Beaver Street, a few blocks from
Central Brooklyn
Brooklyn Navy Yard (Photo: Nathan Haselby)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 tips, story ideas, or questions,
Central Brooklyn
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Announcements
UPDATE- as of 9:30 am, thanks to the quick intervention by the Public Advocate’s office, water will no longer be shut off at 250 Parkville Avenue today. “This is outrageous. It should not be happening,“ Francisca Montaña from the Public Advocate’s office said upon reading our story.
Announcements
Photo: Magiceye/Flickr Creative CommonsTomorrow, Muslims all over the world will celebrate Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that lasts three days after the month-long Ramadan [/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ramadan-in-brooklyn/]. Tonight, hundreds of people will celebrate on Coney Island Ave at the annual Chand Raat Mela [/chand-raat-mela-on-coney-island-avenue-in-this-thursday/], where there will be henna stalls, shopping opportunities,
Central Brooklyn
New Williamsburg towers over Old Williamsburg on Metropolitan Avenue (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)There’s major development news all over Brooklyn this week as a variety of large-scale projects make their debut to the usual mixed reaction of delight and dismay from Brooklyn residents. First, check out the in-depth history of
brownsville
FLATBUSH/CROWN HEIGHTS/SHEEPSHEAD – If you live in the 9th Congressional District, currently represented by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, whether she will remain your congresswoman will be decided on June 26th at the Democratic Primaries. Yes, the general election is not until November 6, but in this heavily Democratic area, whoever
Central Brooklyn
With this week’s tragic death of Shaena Sinclair in Canarsie [/canarsie-crash-fatal-mother-son/], the safety of New York streets are once again under scrutiny as residents, community activists and political leaders hope to reduce the number fatal car crashes in the city. Yesterday, the activist group Transportation Alternatives released a statement
Announcements
There were an estimated two million rats [http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-rats-are-there-in-nyc-2014-11] living in New York City in 2014, and according to a recent study released by RentHop [https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/rats-continue-to-thrive-in-new-york-city-especially-during-summer] the number of sightings have been increasing each year. Via brooklyn-usa.org [http://www.brooklyn-usa.
Central Brooklyn
World Cup Fever is here. Your friends and family are posting selfies of them sporting “their” team and you want to join in and watch but it’s no fun to watch home alone or on your computer – no worries Bklyner has you covered. No matter where you live or
Arts & Culture
The forecast is looking beautiful for Father’s Day weekend (need gift ideas [/fathers-day-gift-guide-for-the-brooklyn-dad/]?), so spend some time with dad and head over to some of the fun events lined up including concerts, garden parties, the 44th Annual Seventh Heaven Street Fair, and the 36th annual Mermaid Parade in Coney