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Stuart Balberg and others rush to vote at the end of the Community Board 9 meeting, before time ran out (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS— Community Board 9 (CB9) ended its regularly scheduled sessions for the summer in a state of even more uncertainty, with vacancies for key
Bay Ridge
Here, we bring you another installment of openings and closings around Brooklyn. Check out the spots opening all over the borough- from Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Bay Ridge, and more. Crown Heights Mexicocina Agaveria [https://www.mexicosina.com/] Mexicocina Agaveria’s guacamole and the JCP, two of the most popular items
Business
Bernie Sanders. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN—On Wednesday at 9p.m., half of the Democratic presidential candidates will in Miami take the stage for the first debate, and some Brooklyn venues will of course be holding watch parties. Wednesday’s lineup includes New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,
Central Brooklyn
The outside of Brooklyn Suya on Franklin Avenue (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklnyer) CROWN HEIGHTS—On Franklin Ave., a Nigerian fast-casual restaurant that began as a pop-up will soon begin its sixth month in the neighborhood, where it serves traditional Nigerian cuisine with a twist to make it more accessible
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Caroline CohenBROOKLYN—In Tuesday’s judicial elections, Caroline Cohen, Margarita Lopez Torres and Bernadette Neckles came out on top. With 99 percent of the ballot scanners reported [https://web.enrboenyc.us/CD226450.html] as of early Wednesday morning, Cohen [/meet-the-6th-municipal-district-candidates-caroline-cohen/] won the 6th Municipal District Civil Court judge race, decisively
Central Brooklyn
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill hold a media availability on crime statistics at One Police Plaza on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeCROWN HEIGHTS—Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that the city will be “very aggressive” in response to an uptick
Business
New York City makes up the largest market of co-working spaces in the US with Manhattan alone boasting 245 coworking spaces [https://commercialobserver.com/2018/02/manhattan-is-tops-for-coworking-space-la-ranks-second-report/] ! And increasingly more startups and small nonprofits have started to see the larger benefits in this model. One Brooklyn based co-working space that
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS—A person over the weekend put a noose outside a Pentecostal church in Crown Heights, in a possible hate crime, according to the NYPD. Police are reviewing surveillance footage from a building across the street from the United House of Prayer for all People at 1325 Park Pl,
Central Brooklyn
By Sam Raskin/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS—Mayor Bill de Blasio came to a Crown Heights public school Thursday to pitch his plan for a less punitive approach to handling in-school misbehavior while touting the recently approved expansion of social service workers assigned to New York’s schools. After citing progress on
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS—An 11-year-old boy was shot in the chest by a stray bullet Thursday night in Crown Heights, police say. A gunman opened fire around 7 p.m. at 243 Schenectady Avenue, while a boy was walking past a group of men at whom the gunman shot from a
Central Brooklyn
Inspector Francis Giordano responds to a man criticizing how the NYPD handled the situation (Photo by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—The lawyer and allies of a teenager who was wrongfully arrested last week stormed out of the 71st Precinct June Community Council meeting Thursday, while a representative of the
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Rendering of 111 Montgomery (Image by Creative Soldier)CROWN HEIGHTS—One of the first luxury, full-service condo buildings in Crown Heights— 111 Montgomery [https://111montgomery.nyc/] Street between Franklin and Washington avenues —is almost finished after starting sales in May. Located on a site formerly owned by the Brooklyn Botanic