Crown Heights
A Crown Heights mural on mental health awareness on Troy Avenue and Park Place outside of MS354, The School of Integrated Learning.CROWN HEIGHTS – The New York City Mural Arts Project [https://www.muralartsproject.cityofnewyork.us/] made its mark on Brooklyn this year with a four-story mural on mental health
Crown Heights
Permits have been filed for the 15-story building seen at the rear of the Drill Shed (Rendering via BFC Partners)CROWN HEIGHTS — If you missed the Crown Heights Town Hall on Tuesday on development, it’s OK, not much was accomplished. Assemblyman Walter Mosely was the lone legislator fending off
Crown Heights
Anyone Comics at 1216 Union St. in Crown HeightsCROWN HEIGHTS — For some Brooklynites, the only way to memorialize the Marvel Comics icon, Stan Lee, was with a vigil, a short eulogy and a shot of Maker’s Mark. More than a dozen comic buffs came out to Anyone Comics Monday
Bed Stuy
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for a man in connection with a seemingly unprovoked assault of an off-duty cop walking his dog on a Sheepshead Bay street last week. On Thursday, November 8, around 9:00 am, police said the suspect walked up to a 29-year-old man near Williams Court
Central Brooklyn
907 St. Marks Avenue: Renderings: NMI Architecture, PLLC.CROWN HEIGHTS – Renovations for a Crown Heights building — slated to become the borough’s next co-living space — were voted down November 1, after a Community Board 8 committee curbed the project. CB 8’s landmark committee voted nine to one to table
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)
Borough Park
BROOKLYN – Voters were in a well-deserved tizzy this morning around 9:30 am when all of the scanners at one Crown Heights polling site went down. A long line of voters was instructed to drop their ballots into boxes at PS 22 inside 443 St. Marks Ave. this morning because
canarsie
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Two men were killed in two separate Brooklyn neighborhoods last Friday, following a spate of non-fatal shootings during the week. CANARSIE – In Canarsie, a man was shot and killed at the Bayview
brownsville
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)CROWN HEIGHTS – The man who shot an killed Khadeem Anderson, 28, in a Crown Heights deli over the summer has been arrested, police confirmed this morning. Carlos Lysius, 36, of Coney Island was arrested in the killing, charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. The
Announcements
No Electioneering. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe city announced they’ll provide language interpreters at 86 polling sites throughout Brooklyn, but the translators will be left out in the cold again this year. Voters whose native language is Russian, Haitian Creole, Italian, Arabic, Polish, and Yiddish will have to seek interpreter services
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — The heated gentrification fights of this neighborhood have begun to turn inward, and much of the drama has centered on wild accusations against a local blogger Tim Thomas, who authors the Q at Parkside [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/], by the folks behind two local groups that seem
Central Brooklyn
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)EAST FLATBUSH – A “suspicious death” from the summer has been confirmed as murder [/suspicious-east-flatbush/] and police have two suspects in custody. Annika Cansino, 23, and Alexander Alberda, 21, have both been arrested and charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping, police announced. The charges are for the death