Announcements
Photo: Katie MillerBROOKLYN BRIDGE – One person is dead and five are injured after three cars crashed and erupted into flames on the Brooklyn-bound side of the Brooklyn Bridge this morning at 7:15 a.m. Photo: Katie MillerBoth sides of the bridge were forced to shut down the day before
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – Amazon may soon be our next door neighbor, but Amazon packages have been missing across Ditmas Park and Kensington for months. In over six months, over 100 packages (both Amazon and others) have been reported missing by neighbors at a building near Cortelyou and Stratford alone — and that
Announcements
Families for Safe Streets. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BOROUGH HALL – “Traffic crashes do not discriminate by religion, race, age, sex, political affiliation, or neighborhood,” Devan Sipher, a member of Families for Safe Streets [https://www.transalt.org/familiesforsafestreets] said. The first thing one noticed when entering the Borough Hall yesterday,
Animals
KENSINGTON/WINDSOR TERRACE – Beware! There are reports of a raccoon inside the Fort Hamilton F/G subway station. Have you spotted it? The poster outside the station reads: “Sick raccoon in station – BEWARE.” A neighbor tells us he saw it inside the tunnel near the stairs yesterday: “It was in
Borough Park
FLATBUSH – It would have been easy for 76-year old Marcella to stay home rather than brave the cold and rainy Tuesday morning. But that was not an option. Her $700 monthly Social Security check had been stretched to the limit to cover her $500 rent (not including gas and utility
Arts & Culture
CLINTON HILL – At a general board meeting Wednesday evening, November 14, Brooklyn Community Board 2 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb2/index.page] voted to approve co-naming St. James Place between Gates Avenue and Fulton Street “Christopher Wallace Way” in honor of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. The
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – Outside the Church Avenue subway station where the Q and B take turns, the B35 drops and picks up passengers every few minutes or so. Nobody looks the same. On this particular late afternoon hour, a group of Bangladeshi women with their hair covered in headscarves
Bed Stuy
Tashawn Sutherland is facing eviction at 250 Clarkson Ave. after having lived at the residence for several years under the city’s now-defunct “cluster-site” shelter program.UPDATE: Nov. 13, 2018 The Legal Aid Society secured a temporary stay for 60 residents — formally placed in the city’s “cluster” housing program
Announcements
Photo: Rob Fruchtman and Steven LawrenceBROOKLYN – There are over 500,000 cats living in NYC, with the majority of them calling Brooklyn their home. “It’s a total uphill battle. If every cat has six kittens and every kitten has six kittens, there’s never going to be enough homes
Announcements
Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/ Michael DorauschThe annual Veterans Day Parade [https://parade.uwvc.org/] will be held on Sunday, November 11, at 11 am – in Madison Square Park. The parade goes north on Fifth Avenue, from 26th to 46th Street. This year is particularly special as it marks a centennial
Arts & Culture
Bowls at Artshack. Photo by Megan McGibney/BklynerBED-STUY/BAY RIDGE – When Harvest Henderson joined the nonprofit ceramics studio, Artshack [http://www.artshackbrooklyn.org/] in Bed-Stuy, two years ago, she had in mind for the community studio take part in the grassroots fundraising event Empty Bowls. It was something she had
Business
Board members Kareem Dolah and John DeWind of the Nostrand Avenue Improvement Association.CROWN HEIGHTS — A neighborhood group in Crown Heights is taking its community organizing a step further by incorporating and registering as a non-profit. A group of residents and merchants filed and incorporated Nostrand Avenue Improvement Association (NAIA)