Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH – The New York City Police Department wants your help in identifying a white man in his 30’s who attacked a middle aged woman last Friday, November 9, on her way out of the Church Avenue B/Q stop. Last Friday, around 7:30pm, Ann Marie Washington (57) was
Bed Stuy
Tashawn Sutherland is facing eviction at 250 Clarkson Ave. after having lived at the residence for several years under the city’s now-defunct “cluster-site” shelter program.UPDATE: Nov. 13, 2018 The Legal Aid Society secured a temporary stay for 60 residents — formally placed in the city’s “cluster” housing program
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
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Two teenagers have been arrested and charged after drawing swastikas on residences in Brooklyn Heights last week, police confirmed. Jarrick Wiltshire, 18, and Daul Moultrie, 17, both turned themselves in and were arrested after police circulated surveillance photos of the suspects following the incident, which took place on
Central Brooklyn
Subway car from the 1918 Malbone wreck.CreditNew York Transit MuseumPROSPECT HEIGHTS—Lawmakers and transit officials gathered outside the Willink Plaza Entrance of Prospect Park Thursday to remember the worst subway accident in New York’s history-the Malbone Street wreck [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/nyregion/100-years-after-new-yorks-deadliest-subway-crash.html]
Announcements
Kadia Goba and the stack of newspapersKENSINGTON-DITMAS PARK-FLATBUSH – We at Bklyner mostly think of ourselves as internet people, and we’ve been bringing you news about various Brooklyn neighborhoods for almost a decade, online. But we keep hearing from our readers and advertisers that neighbors miss the stories they care
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – Decades after telling neighbors nothing could be done to make crossing Coney Island Avenue at Cortelyou Road safer, the Department of Transportation is adding another crosswalk and other traffic calming measures for the intersection. The changes will legalize the well-trodden path used by neighbors to cut across Coney
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
Business
Ditmas Park Helpers will help keep Cortelyou Road clean. From right Kathie Lee (Co-President of CORMA, The Farm on Adderley/Sycamore) and Susan Siegel (Co-President of CORMA, Brooklyn ARTery), Anthony Finkelstein of DPH and the men you will see sweeping the street. Liena Zagare/BklynerDITMAS PARK – The busy commercial stretch
Central Brooklyn
Caton Park Manor, 570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)DITMAS PARK – The grim red-brick Park Manor Home For Adults was a house of horrors before the New York State Department of Health finally forced it to close its doors in March of 2017 — a place where disabled
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – This is the 6th year we are asking our readers to donate to CAMBA to fund holiday meals for 500 families that rely on the non-profit’s food pantry on Church Avenue. What we started as 500 Turkeys For 500 Families has become more inclusive of vegetarians.
Bed Stuy
SPONSORED: Join us on November 10th at the 11th Annual Toast Of Brooklyn Wine & Food Festival [http://www.thetoastofbrooklyn.com] at 55 Wythe Ave in the heart of Williamsburg, One Brooklyn’s most desirable neighborhoods. This year the festival will be located on 2 floors giving our guest a