Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK — The new P.S.889/ M.S. 890 has been open at 510 Coney Island Avenue for two weeks now, and conditions around the school have improved only marginally. We wrote last week, that all that was added were No Standing School Zone and four tapes counting traffic.
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the three men seen in the below surveillance video in connection to a shooting in Crown Heights [/20-year-old-shot-killed-front-crown-heights-deli-early-saturday/] early Saturday morning that left a 20-year-old man dead. The police describe the three men as follows: Individual 1
Central Brooklyn
Bountiful baskets (Photo Esther Shittu / BKLYNER)Last Saturday’s GreenThumb Harvest Fair [http://www.greenthumbnyc.org/]gathered community gardeners from across the city at the Brooklyn Bears Pacific Garden [https://brooklynbears.wordpress.com/] for a chance to celebrate the end of the growing season, connect with each other, and – of
Arts & Culture
Representatives from Mayor De Blasio’s office testified before the Committee of Consumer affairs last week in support of a bill [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3086319&GUID=6FDA3305-06B3-47B3-9DF6-21B605C5A8EE&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=cabaret] that would allow public dancing in New York City
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – A 20-year-old man was shot and killed as he exited a Franklin Avenue bodega early Saturday morning. 790 Franklin Avenue via Google MapsAt approximately 4:25am Saturday, September 16, the NYPD report that a man was shot in front of 790 Franklin Avenue. EMS transported the victim to
Central Brooklyn
By State Senator Kevin Parker Two recent shootings involving police officers – one of an emotionally disturbed man in the Flatbush section of my district, and the other of a police officer on tour in Cypress Hills, have once again given rise to the national debate about policing and the training
Business
DITMAS PARK – The weather was perfect for Flatbush Development Corporation’s (FDC) [http://www.fdconline.org/] 42nd annual Flatbush Frolic [http://www.fdconline.org/flatbush-frolic/] yesterday. > #brooklynlife #flatbushfrolic #soundandcolor [https://www.instagram.com/p/BZKeFoYlzDl/] A post shared by Beth Orchulli (@bwonderworld) on Sep 17, 2017 at 6:16pm
Central Brooklyn
Dean Street (Photo by 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], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if you
Central Brooklyn
(Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Pizza Festival Attendees Cry Scam After Being Served Tiny Slices in Bushwick [ NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nyc-food-festival-ignites-outrage-charging-75-tiny-pizza-article-1.3488264] ] -Rats Swarm Around
Announcements
Photo: BKLYNERDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Brooklyn District Attorney, Eric Gonzalez, just released a statement [https://twitter.com/BrooklynDA/status/908730435504615426] on the three Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting four men, outside Brooklyn Criminal Court yesterday. “It is outrageous that ICE is using courts to round up immigrants, a tactic that
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS/PLG – Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com] will roll out the final phase of the bike share program’s 2017 expansion plan over the next few weeks, fulfilling the company’s goal to increase the number of shared blue bikes across NYC to 12,000 before
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK — Last week we wrote about the closing of Brooklyn Industries on Cortelyou Road [/brooklyn-industries-closing-ditmas-park-store-sunday/]. A few weeks before that, Stems, the flower shop that resided at Sycamore bar relocated to Prospect Heights (to co-locate with a yoga studio instead) [/stems-relocates-from-ditmas-park-bar-to-prospect-heights-yoga-studio/]. It was a pleasant surprise to find out