Bay Ridge
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams speaks in front of City Hall on Wednesday, December 5, 2018. (Justin Mitchell/BKLYNER).NEW YORK – From City Hall to Sunset Park, city officials scrambled this week to help constituents caught up in the wave of sign and awning violations sweeping the city, [/merchants-take-down-signs-as-panic-over-fines-sweeps-city/] which
Bed Stuy
Holiday shopping is in full gear and Brooklyn shops have every type of gift you and the women in your life could want. From chocolate, beauty and spa treatments and terrariums to women-centered accessories, a subscription to an exclusive book club and the opportunity to find a new passion. There
Central Brooklyn
570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)KENSINGTON/DITMAS PARK – The city needs homeless shelters and the latest one is slated for the border of Ditmas Park and Kensington. The former Park Manor Adult Home is being renovated into a shelter that will provide 139 beds for single
Bay Ridge
Salahi Deli’s new sign has a deeper backstory. Justin Mitchell/Bklyner.BROOKLYN – A local business in Ditmas Park got an eye-catching new look last week, when Salahi Deli substituted the awning it had used as a sign for almost three decades with a graffiti-style design painted directly onto its
Animals
Pickles (left) and Violet via FBDITMAS PARK – It took three months, but finally Pickles the Dog, has been found. But wait, there’s more! Pickles brought along a friend, Violet, who had been missing since 2016! Today Pickles returned home to his family and Violet is safe at Sean Casey
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – The Flatbush Presbyterian Church is for sale and will likely follow the trend of church operators who lease a portion of their space to large residential developers. Colliers International [https://www2.colliers.com/en], a Canadian acquisition and brokerage firm, listed the church at 494 E. 23rd St.
Announcements
Photo via Rodneyse Bichotte.MIDWOOD/FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – After intense rain over Thanksgiving weekend, streets in parts of Brooklyn turned into rivers and lakes. Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte was caught in one yesterday, tweeting, “We are under water!” She said she reached out to various City agencies including the Mayor’s
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – Amazon may soon be our next door neighbor, but Amazon packages have been missing across Ditmas Park and Kensington for months. In over six months, over 100 packages (both Amazon and others) have been reported missing by neighbors at a building near Cortelyou and Stratford alone — and that
Central Brooklyn
KENSINGTON – Last night at PS130, a couple dozen residents listened to the DOT present their solutions to what has been a longstanding issue – crossing Church Avenue where ocean Parkway becomes Prospect Expressway safely. Of particular concern are the north-side crossings, especially the one where traffic turns from Church Avenue onto
Central Brooklyn
KENSINGTON – Last spring, local officials held a Town Hall with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to address yet another terrible pedestrian death at the intersection of Ocean Parkway/Prospect Expressway and Church Ave in late February [/dangerous-ocean-parkway-intersection-claims-another-life/]. “This
Borough Park
FLATBUSH – It would have been easy for 76-year old Marcella to stay home rather than brave the cold and rainy Tuesday morning. But that was not an option. Her $700 monthly Social Security check had been stretched to the limit to cover her $500 rent (not including gas and utility
Central Brooklyn
Most of us will never experience the extreme hunger that millions of Americans face, but every day, CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Emergency Food Pantry helps hundreds of our neighbors get the emergency food they need [https://www.camba.org/programs/health/nutritionalservices/beyondhungeremergencyfoodpantry] . Families, elderly people and those simply struggling