Business
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS/PLG – It’s restaurant season and here’s what’s opening in Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and PLG. Gruit Garden & Eatery. Replacing the old Toomey’s Diner on the corner of Empire Blvd as Rogers Avenue. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)GRUIT GARDEN & BEER After
Announcements
MIDWOOD – The month-long Ramadan [/ramadan-2019/] is soon coming to an end. That means it’s time for the annual Chand Raat Mela (Night of the Moon Bazaar). Eid al-Fitr (which lasts three days and marks the end of Ramadan) is scheduled for either June 4th or June 5th based on
Announcements
Photo: Mordechai LightstoneCROWN HEIGHTS – Another act of anti-Semitism. Last night, a note saying “Hitler is coming” was on a billboard at the Jewish Children’s Museum (JCM). The hateful note was placed on an interactive billboard at the Jewish Children’s Museum. It’s a billboard where people are encouraged
Arts & Culture
The Katra Film Series [http://www.katrafilmseries.com]returns to the Alamo Drafthouse Theater for its annual Summer Series, featuring original female-driven content highlighting the current political and sociological climate including a single mother running for office in Liberia, a dark comedy about gender in the workplace and a 1940s
Announcements
BAY RIDGE — Soon Brooklyn residents can travel across the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge at the same discounted rate as their Staten Island neighbors. Verrazzano Bridge. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe New York Senate passed 55 – 2, State Sen. Andrew Gounardes’ bill [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s4490] allowing Brooklyn residents to
Arts & Culture
Spend some time outdoors this weekend with a variety of events throughout Brooklyn! Explore Red Hook while enjoying some free barbecue and watching performances during Red Hook Fest. If you know a young reader, kick off the summer with BPL’s summer reading program—the theme this year is Universe
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS — Another contentious Community Board 9 meeting for the record. This time three members of the executive board walked out of the monthly general board meeting. The gesture subsequently killed quorum for what should have been an opportunity to hear from four candidates in the long-vacant district manager’s
Central Brooklyn
Photo of the motorcycle. Adam Balhetchet/Loudlabs.KENSINGTON – Police have arrested and charged Jasmin Morales-Cruz, 24, of Coney Island Avenue, with vehicular manslaughter, DWI and driving without a license, in the death of Evvon Alexander, 28, of Foster Avenue. On Monday, May 27, 2019, just before 4:00 AM hours,
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – NYC Parks Department had planned that work on the Cortelyou Road Tot Lot would start in April. The designs were approved, the contractor selected, timeline planned out [https://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/capital-project-tracker/project/8638] – a complete and beautiful overhaul that residents have been advocated for close to
Bed Stuy
One Brooklyn Health System [http://www.brookdalehospital.org/] is spearheading a new initiative to increase 2020 Census engagement in its catchment area of Central and North Brooklyn, some of the most under-counted neighborhoods in an already severely under-counted city [/fearing-federal-funding-cuts-city-focuses-on-counting-all-brooklynites-in-the-2020-census/] . The newly formed hospital system, consisting of Brookdale University Hospital
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS — Retailers along the Franklin Avenue retail corridor are joining the food crawl trend this Sunday with the first-ever Tastes of Franklin Festival. The event runs four hours from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm along Franklin Avenue between Park and Sterling Place on June 2. Try tastings
Big Story
EAST NEW YORK — Just as a songstress belted out a high note on the ground floor of the East New York Seventh Day Adventist Church, New York City’s first lady was also testifying on a much more secular topic, “How was Iowa?” First lady Chirlane McCray addresses a congregation