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Jason Salmon. Courtesy of Salmon for Senate.The race to replace State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, currently the longest serving member of the Senate, is expanding even as the senator stays mum on whether she will retire or not. Democratic Socialist and former City Council candidate Jabari Brisport [https://nypost.com/
Carroll Gardens
Autumn weather has arrived and there are some great ways to enjoy it while spending time outdoors this weekend. Take a look at Bklyner’s list below. IT’S MY PARK DAY [https://www.prospectpark.org/news-events/events/2019/10/5?utm_source=PPA+Press+List&utm_campaign=c937b99789-EMAIL_
Business
The Work Heights location at 277 Franklin Ave. Photo via Sam Strauss-Malcolm.As the industry questions the coworking model exemplified by the beleaguered WeWork [https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-nightmare-ipo], local entrepreneurs like Sam Strauss-Malcolm are serving local communities in a more sustainable way and growing, if not as fast. Strauss-Malcolm
Arts & Culture
CLINTON HILL – As hundreds gathered on Sunday to celebrate to co-naming of part of Lafayette Avenue in honor of Brooklyn-born jazz musician Randy Weston, NYS Attorney General Letitia James took advantage of the occasion to call for a “permanent home to promote jazz” in the borough that would equal Manhattan’
Announcements
CLINTON HILL – A man shot and killed his girlfriend– who was an NYPD school safety agent– and then shot and killed himself over the weekend. On Sunday, September 15 at around 11:20 p.m., cops were called to a “harassment in progress” at an apartment in Clermont Avenue near
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This week’s openings and closings are full of new places from old standouts. A restaurant returns after a 15-year closure, Williamsburg gains a new beer garden, but loses a popular chocolate shop. Clinton Hill Cap’t Loui413 Myrtle Avenue between Vanderbilt and Clinton Avenues. > [https://www.instagram.com/
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CLINTON HILL – The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [https://myrtleavenue.org] will close out this year’s Myrtle Avenue Summer Series with a 90s hip-hop dance party, street dance battle, and live art installation next Friday, August 23. Matthew Geller’s I Ought To at Myrtle Avenue Plaza (Photo: Nathan Haselby)
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DOWNTOWN/FORT GREENE/CLINTON HILL – The MTA has announced additional changes to the B38 route to accommodate longer buses that will be introduced in September. Bklyner reported last week [/myrtle-ave-bid-petitions-against-b54-bus-cuts-rally-on-thursday/] that the B15, B38, and B54 buses will see changes to their schedules—adding one to three minutes between wait
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Courtney Williams at a press conference in Brownsville (Image by Zainab Iqbal/ Bklyner)CLINTON HILL — A few years ago Courtney Williams was unemployed and about to leave New York City. “I remember putting up the posters trying to leave the city, trying to sell stuff out of my apartment, and
affordable housing
Athena North/South [https://athenabrooklyn.com/]A large development in Clinton Hill / Prospect Heights opens lottery tomorrow. Via Athena North/South website.There are 114 units available between 909 Atlantic Avenue and 1043 Fulton Street, and amenities include tenant lounge with kitchenette, landscaped outdoor courtyard, fitness center, bicycle storage*, in-unit
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FORT GREENE – The Diocese of Brooklyn announced on Monday that the K-8 parochial school, St. Francis Xavier—Queen of All Saints Catholic Academy [https://sfx-qas.org/], will shutter before the upcoming school year. St. Francis Xavier—Queen of All Saints Catholic Academy, 300 Vanderbilt Avenue, via Google MapsBoard Members and
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[UPDATE: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 10:40am] Police have arrested 32-year-old Jaquan Wright of Bed-Stuy in connection with this incident and charged him with two counts of assault. CLINTON HILL – After two suspects punched and robbed a 65-year-old man [/police-searching-for-2-men-who-knocked-out-65-year-old-at-clinton-hill-station/] at the Clinton/Washington Ave A/C subway station