Announcements
Benson Avenue and Bath Beach. (Photo via Loudlabs)BATH BEACH – A mother is in critical condition after she was struck by a driver while crossing the street last night. On Tuesday, October 29 at around 6:30 p.m. a 49-year-old woman was crossing Bay Parkway from the east side
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Hurricane Sandy.Hurricane Sandy slammed into Brooklyn in 2012. It caused 43 deaths and $19 billion in widespread devastation. [http://www.nyc.gov/html/sirr/downloads/pdf/final_report/Ch_1_SandyImpacts_FINAL_singles.pdf] Seven years later, the effects of the storm still linger. Though much work was done
Announcements
18th Avenue at McDonald AveBORO PARK – Stabbing seems like the way to go in Brooklyn, as another one took place over the weekend. On Sunday, October 27 at around 10 p.m., a 22-year-old man was standing on the corner of 18th and McDonald Avenues when another man approached him
brownsville
Kwesi Ashun’s sister Ama Bartley, wearing a red coat, sheds tears as she speaks about her brother’s death. Nigel Roberts/BklynerBROWNSVILLE – Dozens of Brownsville community activists, friends and neighbors held a vigil on Monday, Oct. 28, to remember Kwesi Ashun. Police Officer Lesly Lafontant fatally shot Ashun, 33,
Announcements
Abdul Latif with Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez speaking to his family on FaceTime. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE – Nearly three years since the Muslim Ban, another family has been reunited. It wouldn’t have been possible without Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez’s office or the Yemeni American Merchants Association (YAMA), neighbors
Bushwick
New HRA center in Bushwick. Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.BUSHWICK — A former industrial space in Bushwick has been revamped into a modern development, now housing a new multi-service Human Resources Administration (HRA) Center at 95 Evergreen Avenue (with an entrance at 2 George Street for clients), off the JMZ stop on
Carroll Gardens
By Reema Amin, Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/10/23/two-progressive-nyc-schools-at-the-forefront-of-refusing-to-take-state-tests-are-now-facing-more-exams/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] Two progressive schools where a majority of students opted out of state tests are now being required to give six additional tests this year. More
Arts & Culture
Clinton Hill Halloween by Love Jones via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217472774509544&set=a.2103909035585&type=3&theater] BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Once again, longtime black residents of a gentrifying Central Brooklyn neighborhood were asked to accept the apology of a new resident over racial insensitivity.
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Parachute Literary Art from their Coney Island Walt Whitman event. Courtesy of Citizens Committee for New York City.There are so many neighborhood improvement projects that can be done with a handful of folks rolling up their sleeves and getting to work. A bit of hard cash always helps, whether
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – Gowanus Souvenir Shop [https://gowanussouvenir.com/] hosted a launch party over the weekend for the release of its latest Souvenir Edition [https://gowanussouvenir.com/collections/gowanus-souvenir-editions-1]—the Gowanus Manufacturing Calendar 2020 [https://gowanussouvenir.com/collections/gowanus-souvenir-editions-1/products/2020-gowanus-calendar] . Via gowanussouvenir.com [https://gowanussouvenir.com/collections/gowanus-souvenir-editions-1/products/2020-gowanus-calendar] The
community
270 Pulaski St. in Bed Stuy. Ben Brachfeld/BklynerResidents of one building in Bed-Stuy have had it with the smoke wafting through their home – they logged 22% of Brooklyn’s residential smoking complaints over the past year, according to an analysis by apartment search engine and data aggregator Localize.city
Bay Ridge
Doctor’s Row. (Photo via LPC)UPDATE: It’s now official. While Doctors’ Row became a Historic District on June 25, 2019, when the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to grant it the designation, the City Council had to approve it to make it truly official, and that happened yesterday,