Announcements
Den StarShow performing at the Brighton Jubilee. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / BKLYNER)41st Annual Brighton Jubilee (Brighton Beach) [/tag/brighton-jubilee/] Brighton Beach comes out to celebrate – food, rides, music. Jubilee is run by the Brighton Neighborhood Association [http://brightonbeach.com/], a non-for-profit organization, and will help fund the group’s many
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Crown Heights – The NYPD are seeking three men in connection with a sexual assault that occurred early Monday morning in Crown Heights. Two of the suspects are seen in the video below. At approximately 3:00am on Monday, August 21, the 30-year-old female victim was behind an apartment building at
Arts & Culture
Summer is winding down. There’s lots to do outdoors this weekend including concerts, walking tours, dance parties, even a soap box derby [/10th-annual-soap-box-derby-saturday/]! Don’t forget to celebrate National Dog Day [http://www.nationaldogday.com] on Saturday and check out the list of Battle of Brooklyn commemorative events [/commemorate-the-241st-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-brooklyn/
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Oil Spill In Gravesend/BKLYNERFour months after BKYLNER revealed a large, unreported oil spill in Gravesend [/breaking-oil-spill-dumps-27000-gallons-toward-gravesend-bay/], city officials are pushing to ensure future spills can’t be kept secret. City Council Member Vincent Gentile, with the support of Council Members Costa Constantinides, and Jumaane Williams will be introducing two
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Brownsville – The Chicago and New York-based architectural firm, Studio Gang, is currently constructing a new firehouse and training center for the FDNY’s Brooklyn Rescue Company 2 [https://www.facebook.com/R2FDNY/]. > A post shared by Studio Gang Architects (@studiogang) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BOPzXacgzLb/] on Dec 20,
Big Story
Enma Tenezaca said she was issued a $2,000 ticket. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal)FLATBUSH – Churros. Hot dogs. Ices. Flatbush is a home to all of the above. You won’t necessarily find them in brick and mortar stores. Instead, you would walk up to a beat up cart and order
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Several northern neighborhoods in Brooklyn will be sprayed with mosquito-killing pesticides on Tuesday, August 22 through Wednesday, August 23 to prevent West Nile Virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, the NYC Department of Health announced [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/wnv/2017/wnv-notice-20170818.pdf] late last week. The
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Brooklyn district map. Photo: ufoa.org [http://www.ufoa.org/statistics/statistics.php?boroughindex=0]City Council elections are on November 7, 2017, but primaries are in three weeks –September 12, 2017, and candidates are trying to rack up as much support as they can. Here is who will be
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East Flatbush – The NYPD is searching for the driver of the white SUV seen in the above video in connection to a hit and run incident that occurred back in June. At approximately 11:15am on Saturday, June 10, a 16-year-old female bicyclist traveling west on Farragut Road was hit
Announcements
(Photo via NYC Buildings/twitter)The National Weather Service [http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=okx&wwa=heat%20advisory] issued a Heat Advisory for New York City that will be in effect from noon today until 6:00pm this evening, August 22. It will be hot and
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Solar Eclipse at approximately 1:50pm (Photo Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The long-awaited eclipse [/see-mondays-solar-eclipse-brooklyn/] has come and gone. According to NASA [https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-who-what-where-when-and-how], the last time a total eclipse was visible in the U.S. was 1979. To watch the moon cover 70 percent of the sun,
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> #totaleclipse #eclipse #brooklyn [https://www.instagram.com/p/BYDzSiKnyb3/] A post shared by jonas (@jonasread) on Aug 21, 2017 at 7:35am PDT The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -HelloFresh Ends Annoying Street Soliciting