Arts & Culture
Brooklyn Eats (Photo by Paul Stremple)DOWNTOWN – Brooklyn’s biggest food expo is back in downtown at a new location—Brooklyn Eats will be showcasing food from 57 vendors at City Point this Thursday, June 28! Brooklyn Eats features locally owned businesses serving up locally-prepared products from the borough of
Downtown Brooklyn
SUNSET PARK – After a horrifying knife assault that severed a woman’s arm and two of her fingers in Sunset Park [/friday-crime-blotter-14/] last week, police have arrested the alleged perpetrator. Yong Lu, 35, was arrested yesterday on Sunday, June 24, said police. Lu was charged with attempted murder, two counts
Arts & Culture
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – As gentrification continues to steamroll through Downtown Brooklyn, one new project stands out as a crowd-pleaser with little controversy, the restoration of the old Paramount Theatre [/paramount-theater-construction-begin-later-year/] at Flatbush and Dekalb. Speakers standing in front of the lowered scoreboard. L-R: Brett Yormark, BSE Global CEO; Kim Cline, LIU
Bed Stuy
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DOWNTOWN – NYPD Officer Michael Martinez, 40, was arrested and charged on multiple accounts after allegedly misrepresenting his income to pay less in child support. An 11-year veteran of the force, Martinez shorted
Animals
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Last Three, the 17-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicting the last three northern white rhinos in the world stacked atop one another has been relocated from Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn. The Last Three by Gillie and Marc Schattner, MetroTech Commons (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Originally installed at Astor Place
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN – Around 6 pm yesterday, hundreds of residents were gathered outside the city hall to oppose President Trump’s recent policy [https://actionnetwork.org/events/families-belong-together-brooklyn-2] separating children from parents who have entered the country without proper papers, pending immigration hearings. > Big crowd our at Brooklyn Borough Hall to
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – At a City Planning Commission [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/about/commission.page] hearing on Wednesday, June 13, supporters and opponents of 80 Flatbush voiced their opinions on the controversial development project. A rendering of the 74-story tower planned for 80 Flatbush (Via Alloy Development)The hearing
North Western Brooklyn
via Brooklyn PointOn the prowl for new digs? Look no further than Brooklyn Point [https://brooklynpointnyc.com/?utm_source=BKLYNER&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=Sponsored%20Post] , Extell Development’s first ultra-luxury property in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Point [https://brooklynpointnyc.com/?utm_source=BKLYNER&utm_medium=Banner&
Announcements
BOERUM HILL – “The Brooklyn Book Festival is amazingly unique compared to other book festivals I’ve participated in,” author Gregory Pardlo [http://pardlo.com] remarked Wednesday evening at the annual launch of the Brooklyn Book Festival [http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org]. Addressing a crowd of approximately eighty authors, publicists, and publishers
Business
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – After demolishing the Brooklyn Heights Library [https://ny.curbed.com/2017/6/19/15829320/brooklyn-heights-library-demolition-condo] almost a year ago, construction is moving along at the site of its former home at 280 Cadman Plaza West [http://280cadman.com]. 280 Cadman Plaza West rendering [http://280cadman.com] via Marvel
Announcements
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – For more than two decades, BAM has livened up lunchtime each summer with its popular R&B Festival concert series at MetroTech Commons. Via downtownbrooklyn.com [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/bam-r-b-festival] This year’s series of ten free afternoon shows kicks off on June 7 at 12pm,
Bushwick
June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month [https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-and-strategies/lgbtq-pride-month] and there are lots of ways to celebrate in Brooklyn. On Monday, June 4, Brooklyn Borough President and Brooklyn Pride [http://brooklynpride.org] are hosting a LGBTQ Pride Celebration [http://events.r20.constantcontact.