Arts & Culture
CROWN HEIGHTS — A neighborhood non-profit wants everyone to know what it’s like to live in Crown Heights. The Nostrand Avenue Improvement Association’s photo exhibit in Studio 1 of the The Black Lady Theatre.The Nostrand Avenue Improvement Association, Inc. (NAIA) [https://www.naiabrooklyn.org/] is highlighting Crown Heights
Announcements
Plans released for a development project at the Crown Heights Spice Factory. CROWN HEIGHTS — Plans to replace the Spice Factory on Franklin Avenue are moving forward in what is shaping up to be an enormous project that boasts nearly 1,600 units, half of which will be affordable to some.
Business
La Napa’s logo – A new tapas restaurant 656 Nostrand Avenue at Bergen St. (Photo: Courtesy of Francisco Anton)CROWN HEIGHTS — The owner of a tapas restaurant in Miami is taking over the shuttered bodega at the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Bergen Street. Francisco Anton is bringing his Latin
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – “Becky – girl, go.” This is a part of what Jyll Hubbard-Salk, founder of the Crown Heights yoga studio Urban Asanas [http://www.urbanasanas.com/], said when discussing the gentrification of the neighborhood she grew up in at the panel discussion Black-Owned Businesses: A History of Enterprise and Community
News
State Sen.Zellnor Myrie at his in-district inauguration with his mother Marcelina Cummings and State Sen. Michael Gianaris (Screenshot: Myrie’s live Twitter stream)EAST FLATBUSH – State Sen. Zellnor Myrie, who along with several other freshman senators defeated former Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) incumbents, celebrated his inauguration in East Flatbush
Crown Heights
1191 Park Place in Crown Heights – Albany Houses (Screenshot: Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS — A Crown Heights man was arraigned today for the alleged murder of his mother after police found her stuffed in a closet with several stab wounds. Jason Reeves, 32, was charged with murder in the second degree
Central Brooklyn
Community Board 9 at 890 Nostrand Ave. between Carroll and Presidents Streets. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS/PLG — Phone service at Community Board 9 was restored Wednesday after nearly a month of no service because a rat infestation in the building’s basement prohibited Verizon from repairing the rat-chewed
Central Brooklyn
Roughly 40 percent of the city’s intersections have one-way streets and Localize.city [http://www.localize.city] looked at where the most pedestrians and cyclists were injured in these types of intersections between January 2013 and January 2018. While local streets tend to have less traffic and fewer overall
Business
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Here’s a listing of what’s opening & closing in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. To start, here are some retail scoops: Good news for those on the CB9 [http://www.communitybrd9bklyn.org/] side of Franklin Avenue who were disappointed when Yoon’s closed a
Crown Heights
OBK Oyo’s Bar and Grill (formerly Summerhill) at 637 Nostrand Avenue. (Photo credit: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — The controversial bar Summerhill in Crown Heights is rebranding — a new name, coat of paint and new items on the menu. Chef Wallahi Oyo told Bklyner he entered into a co-ownership
Business
Babydudes at 715 Nostrand Ave. in Crown HeightsCROWN HEIGHTS — A Crown Heights couple is serving up coffee to residents in the nabe. Hannah Jacobs and Tali Petschek opened the coffee shop Babydudes [https://www.instagram.com/babydudes/?hl=en] last month after meeting at another commercial kitchen, ELEVEN36 [https://www.
Arts & Culture
By Megan McGibney/BklynerSince 2012, Black History Month has been celebrated along Myrtle Avenue’s retail area in Clinton Hill in an event called Black Artstory Month. Historically, visual artists create murals in storefront windows in the neighborhood, united around a common theme. This year, however, the Myrtle Avenue Business