Announcements
Photo via a straphanger.FORT GREENE – Train service was delayed this morning after a 29-year-old man was hit by a southbound Q train from the DeKalb station platform around 9:45 am. He was taken to Methodist Hospital in serious but stable condition, with lacerations to the head. > We
Arts & Culture
PROSPECT PARK – In honor of BRIC [https://www.bricartsmedia.org]‘s 40-year milestone, the media organization commissioned the New York-based Peruvian artist Grimanesa Amorós to create a monumental light installation. HEDERA by Grimanesa Amorós at Prospect Park Bandshell (Photo: Nathan Haselby) Inspired by the shape of Prospect Park’s Bandshell
Bed Stuy
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerPROSPECT PARK – Crystal Bobb-Semple, known as Persephone, is the founder of Camp Half-Blood, [http://camphalfbloodbklyn.com] a summer camp based on the Percy Jackson books for kids who have big imaginations. We spoke on a hot summer Tuesday, both of us seated on beach chairs using the
Boerum Hill
FORT GREENE – Members of the Brooklyn Bear’s Rockwell Place Community Garden [https://brooklynbears.wordpress.com/rockwell/] will host their annual Summer Solstice Celebration on Thursday despite fears of a “serious threat to the Garden’s future.” Brooklyn Bear’s Rockwell Place Community Garden at Lafayette & Flatbush (Photo: Pamela
community
PARK SLOPE – Several Park Slope and Prospect Heights neighbors filled the hall at the Sixth Avenue Bible Baptist Church (97 Lincoln Place) Tuesday evening for the 78th Precinct’s quarterly Neighborhood Coordination Officer [/nypds-78th-precinct-rolls-neighborhood-coordination-officer-program-brooklyn-museum/] (NCO) Sector C Build The Block Meeting. L-R: Officer Kareem Abdelaziz, Sergeant Anthony Dimichele, Officer William
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – Even as the city responds to community organizing for better parks in Brownsville, a new report shows significant failures in access and upkeep—and warns that a planned upgrade may temporarily create a serious open space vacuum in the Brooklyn neighborhood. The report from New Yorkers for Parks [http:
Announcements
RED HOOK – Council Member Carlos Menchaca [https://council.nyc.gov/district-38/] (District 38) has released a statement regarding Thursday night’s two-alarm fire at the historic S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse [/fire-tore-through-historic-s-w-bowne-grain-storehouse-thursday-night/] located at 595-611 Smith Street. S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595-611 Smith Street (Photo taken June 15, 2018,
Announcements
UPDATE- as of 9:30 am, thanks to the quick intervention by the Public Advocate’s office, water will no longer be shut off at 250 Parkville Avenue today. “This is outrageous. It should not be happening,“ Francisca Montaña from the Public Advocate’s office said upon reading our story.
Announcements
Photo: Magiceye/Flickr Creative CommonsTomorrow, Muslims all over the world will celebrate Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that lasts three days after the month-long Ramadan [/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ramadan-in-brooklyn/]. Tonight, hundreds of people will celebrate on Coney Island Ave at the annual Chand Raat Mela [/chand-raat-mela-on-coney-island-avenue-in-this-thursday/], where there will be henna stalls, shopping opportunities,
Announcements
There were an estimated two million rats [http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-rats-are-there-in-nyc-2014-11] living in New York City in 2014, and according to a recent study released by RentHop [https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/rats-continue-to-thrive-in-new-york-city-especially-during-summer] the number of sightings have been increasing each year. Via brooklyn-usa.org [http://www.brooklyn-usa.
Business
PARK SLOPE – When it opens in 2020, just two years from now, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital’s new, six-story, 400,000 square foot facility will be the largest ambulatory care center in Brooklyn. James W. Perkins, Chair of the Board of Directors of NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital signs the last
community
GOWANUS – The NYC Department of City Planning [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/index.page] (DCP) presented its long-awaited “Gowanus: A Framework for a Sustainable, Inclusive, Mixed-Use Neighborhood” to Community Board 6 [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] Monday evening after releasing the document last week [/gowanus-rezoning-framework-released/]. The