Central Brooklyn
Unmarked construction. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Many neighbors write to DPC to find out what’s happening in the neighborhood, like the purpose of ambiguously marked construction projects spotted around town, from road resurfacing [http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2016/10/17/controversial-school-rezoning-plan-in-brooklyn-has-racial-undertones.html] to major highway
Central Brooklyn
Cortelyou Road and Westminster Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)This week, two streets are facing water service interruption because the Department of Environmental Protection is replacing cast-iron water mains running underneath the sidewalk. Water service will be interrupted on Cortelyou Road (between Coney Island Avenue and Argyle Road) and
Bensonhurst
2159 83rd Street (Photo via Google Maps)A cute yellow home on 83rd Street may soon become condos, according to new Department of Buildings filings first reported by YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/08/three-story-six-unit-residential-building-planned-at-2159-83rd-street-bensonhurst.html] . The home’s owner Michael Calabrese — who lives in Staten Island — has filed
Bensonhurst
Construction equipment surrounds the West 22nd Street entrance to the Coney Island Amphitheater. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The Coney Island Amphitheater sure doesn’t appear ready to host thousands of concert-goers in nine days for its first show with Ziggy Marley [http://coneyislandlive.com/events/ziggy-marley/]. In addition to
Arts & Culture
Construction equipment surrounds the West 22nd Street entrance to the Coney Island Amphitheater. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The Coney Island Amphitheater sure doesn’t appear ready to host thousands of concert-goers in nine days for its first show with Ziggy Marley [http://coneyislandlive.com/events/ziggy-marley/]. In addition to
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Workers are nearing completion of the Second Avenue Subway’s 72nd Street station. (Photo: MTA [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/8744771284/] / Flickr)Anyone who gets out of of the Q train at Dekalb Avenue/Flatbush Avenue is instantly immersed in the tremendous change sweeping the neighborhood, but soon that
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The northern perimeter of Fort Greene Park (Courtesy Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)Fort Greene Park has won $5 million earmarked for capital improvements thanks to overwhelming public support received during the New York City Parks Department Parks Without Borders [https://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/planning/parks-without-borders] initiative. The announcement was
Bensonhurst
Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst BeanBy now, you may have noticed that a large portion of Seth Low Playground [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/seth-low-playground-bealin-square] has been gated off by and bulldozers parked are there round the clock. What we are seeing is the second phase of a multi million
Education
(courtesy Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia Commons) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Jay_Educational_Campus.jpg] Students feel like they’re again getting the shaft at the John Jay Educational Complex. A new change.org petition [https://www.change.org/p/new-york-methodist-hospital-instruction-not-disruption] claims that, starting in September, construction
Education
Construction cranes at work along Flatbush Avenue. (Photo by Fort Greene Focus.) The intersection of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenues, where it meets with Albee Square and Fulton Mall is likely slated for even more development — even beyond the talk of “Brooklyn’s tallest tower” at 340 Flatbush Avenue Extension [/blog/
Nonsponsored
Photo via rasura_fotography [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCQ5A5LE-BP/?taken-at=222330146]Wouldn’t it be wonderful if construction in the neighborhood was as aesthetically pleasing as this photo? Take any photos in the neighborhood lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr
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Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.Add sidewalk closures to the list of ways we’re being impacted [/blog/2015/09/14/water-service-will-be-cut-on-and-off-again-this-week-on-myrtle-avenue/] by construction and new development along Myrtle Avenue. The sidewalk between 490 and 504 Myrtle Avenue will be closed **for the next FOUR months** due to construction