Council Member Robert Cornegy

Newly Modernized LIRR Nostrand Avenue Station Opened Today

New canopies and new yellow tactile warning strips at Nostrand Avenue Station. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.BED-STUY — MTA Long Island Railroad (LIRR) President Phillip Eng invited local officials and members of the community to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly modernized Nostrand Avenue LIRR Station, which opened this morning. The two-track

affordable housing

City Housing Official Defends Heavily Scrutinized Third Party Transfer Program to Skeptical Council Members

Council Member Robert Cornegy addresses the media ahead of Monday’s Third Party Transfer hearing (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CITY HALL — Mayor de Blasio’s housing commissioner on Monday made an adamant defense of a heavily criticized housing program that allows the city to take control of homes whose

community

Helen Keller Services Opens New Headquarters In Downtown Brooklyn

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Helen Keller Services [https://www.helenkeller.org/hks/about-hks] for the Blind held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday morning to celebrate the opening of a new 44,000 square-foot headquarters at 180 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. After 65 years at 57 Willoughby and a $500,000 grant from

Bed Stuy

NYC Health + Hospitals Opens New Clinic In Bed-Stuy

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – NYC Health + Hospitals [https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org] held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of its new NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health [https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/gotham-health/] neighborhood clinic located at 485 Throop Avenue (between Madison St. & Putnam Ave.) in Bed-Stuy. The new facility, “co-located” with

Announcements

July 11th Declared Brooklyn Patriots’ Day

FORT GREENE – Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Council Member Robert Cornegy, Jr. [https://council.nyc.gov/district-36/] (District 36, Bed-Stuy, Northern Crown Heights) joined local veterans and first responders Wednesday morning in Fort Greene to honor the service of Brooklyn heroes, past and present, and declare July 11