Announcements
The city is set to distribute millions of free face coverings, and this is the latest set of locations [https://maps.nyc.gov/face-coverings/#] for distributions this week. There are 17 locations in total in Brooklyn, and most of them assume you do not work during the day: THURSDAY: Bensonhurst
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS – A 25-year-old man was shot and killed outside his home last night. On Tuesday, May 5 at around 10:30 p.m., 25-year-old Oshea Barnes was shot in the chest on Bergen Street near New York Avenue. Barnes was taken to NYC Health & Hospitals/
Central Brooklyn
BAY RIDGE – The NYPD is looking for a man who forcibly touched an MTA employee at the subway station. On Saturday, April 11 at around 9:45 a.m., an on-duty 37-year-old MTA employee was cleaning a stationary R Train at the Bay Ridge-95th Street subway station. Then, a man
Central Brooklyn
Early morning in Coney Island/Fishing. Liena Zagare/BklynerI’ve spent nearly 18 years in the New York foster care system. I’m 20 years old, living here in Brooklyn, and out of all my siblings, I’m the only one still in foster care and am currently “transitioning” out
Announcements
Brooklyn building. Photo by Anthony Fomin [https://unsplash.com/@aginsbrook?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash. [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/brooklyn?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BROOKLYN – At 2 p.m. today, some tenants across the
Central Brooklyn
BROOKLYN – Several local organizations have gotten together to launch four food carts that will give out free halal iftar meals to everyone during the month of Ramadan. Usually, for iftar, Muslims would break their fast at dusk inside the masjid. Some would gather around the table at home, but many
Central Brooklyn
Last Stop. Liena Zagare/BklynerMTA announced earlier today that it will close the subway system for deep-cleaning every night between 1-5 am starting on May 6th. “During this overnight period, the MTA will intensify disinfecting operations, cleaning its fleet of thousands of cars and buses every night, and further testing
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerEAST FLATBUSH – A cyclist is dead after being sideswiped by an MTA bus on Tuesday. On April 28 at around 4:33 p.m., 67-year-old Tadeusz Czajkowski, a Greenpoint resident, was riding his bike heading northbound on Rogers Avenue in the right lane. According to the NYPD,
Arts & Culture
Brooklyn Public Library, Courtesy of BPLDuring this unprecedented time, the Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] is asking residents to contribute to its local oral history archive, Our Streets, Our Stories [https://ourstreetsourstories.tumblr.com/], by sharing their experiences about living through the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has already
Borough Park
Borough Park parents said a yeshiva was still being run out of a building on 48th Street during the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Reuven Blau and Yoav Gonen, Originally published in THE CITYBrooklyn parents say underground yeshiva classes are flourishing in Borough Park — but cops closed a
Business
Sheepshead Bay. Liena Zagare/BklynerWhile we are seeing a positive trend in data, with deaths, hospitalizations, and critical care cases going down, the aftershocks of this virus are going to linger for quite some time. For millions across the country, COVID has resulted in a loss of income and employment.
Announcements
7-Eleven robbery.CANARSIE – Cops are looking for a man in connection to a gunpoint robbery inside a 7-Eleven last month. On Monday, March 30 at around 12:32 p.m., a man entered a 7-Eleven located at 10504 Flatlands Avenue. He displayed a black firearm and verbally threatened the employee,