Central Brooklyn
Black minivan slowed after hitting the 6-year-old boy, then rolled away.Cops are searching for a driver who plowed into a young boy and then fled the scene in Borough Park yesterday, close to the border of Kensington and blocks from the southern edge of Greenwood Cemetery. Surveillance footage shows
Arts & Culture
Alex Watkins works on her soap box derby entry. (Photo by Donny Levit) 11-year-old Alex Watkins is explaining the trials of tribulations of constructing her vehicle. “The brakes didn’t work at first, but I finally fixed them,” she said while painting her three-wheeler. Walt started out with a three-wheeler
Central Brooklyn
481 East 21st Street. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)A four-story apartment building may be rising soon in Flatbush, replacing a century-old single family home with a more recent history of illegal home conversion complaints. Applications were filed today to build a 10-unit apartment building on the 3,200-square-foot lot
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)We ventured outside of our coffee shop routine on this beautiful Wednesday morning and landed at a reputed [https://www.yelp.com/biz/plg-coffee-house-and-tavern-brooklyn]Prospect-Lefferts Gardens staple. Gratitude Cafe, 499 Rogers Avenue at the corner of Midwood Street, is undergoing a slow rebranding to become
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Central Brooklyn
http://parkslopestoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1112-16-78-PCT-ATT-RAPE-New-Video-2.mp4 Police continue their search for a man who attempted to who attempted to rape a woman in Prospect Park [/blog/crime/woman-foils-rape-attempt-prospect-park-garfield-place/] on Wednesday, April 20. The 23-year-old woman, who was running inside Prospect Park near Garfield Place around 5:15am
Central Brooklyn
Newkirk Avenue, from road re-surfacing in August. (Photo by Alex K. / Midwood Productions [http://midwood-productions.com])Throughout the summer, the Department of Transportation has deployed fleets of massive trucks to Ditmas streets for road resurfacing projects. Regular road resurfacing, which is a smaller, cheaper project than entire road reconstruction, replaces
Central Brooklyn
190 East 7th Street, August 2016. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)One of the remaining single family houses on Kensington’s East 7th Street will be torn down to make way for a small apartment building, but the City has slowed the process down. EM Development NYC, a Bay Ridge-based
Business
New owners Sarah Flaccavento (right) and Marjorie Flaccavento (left). (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)“I want this place to be the local hangout, but one where Mom feels cool calling the landline,” said new co-owner Sarah Flaccavento, who envisions the cafes as places where kids can grow up. “Young couples
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by activist Shahana Hanif / Twitter [https://twitter.com/HShahana]) Hundreds gathered on Sunday at Kensington’s Avenue C plaza, at the first event to unite local Mosques in recent history. At the Peace and Unity Rally, neighbors, religious leaders, politicians and Bangladeshi community leaders demanded religious peace and justice
Central Brooklyn
Summer in Prospect Park. (Screenshot via Marshall Curry Productions / Vimeo [https://vimeo.com/178900066])Time to savor the last week of August and that stifling summer heat (hopefully!). Whether you’re looking to see up-and-coming musicians, an outdoor movie, or wind down with some park yoga — this is your spot
Central Brooklyn
Bedford Avenue and Snyder Avenue. (Screenshot via Google Maps)NYPD officers arrested a 16-year-old suspect for the fatal shooting of Gerald Cummings [/blog/crime/man-shot-death-outside-elementary-school-snyder-avenue/], father and husband, on August 3 near P.S. 6 on Snyder Avenue. Adonis Barnett, 16, had been part of a group that reportedly stole
Central Brooklyn
Strolling Glenwood Road / Flatbush Malls at sunset. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)This week in Ditmas Park, the community stood in solidarity for Muslim leaders killed in Ozone Park [/blog/events/community-stands-solidarity-muslims-killed-ozone-park/], we collected a mini-roundup of businesses opening and closing [/blog/business/three-in-one-out-local-business-shuffle/], found a century-old home being torn