Bay Ridge
The bull that escaped a local slaughterhouse [/breaking-cow-still-loose-brooklyn/] last year for a romp in Prospect Park, has died in New Jersey. [http://www.nj.com/sussex-county/index.ssf/2018/05/bull_that_escaped_in_brooklyn_dies_in_nj.html] Brooklyn Heights neighbors ask, ‘Why doesn’t 194 Columbia Heights’ owner
Announcements
Brooklyn College Library. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – Tuition is going up, the faculty is fearing more cuts, and facilities not in direct public view are crumbling. Students are demanding full, proper funding. Students of the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university system in the US
Borough Park
BOROUGH PARK/KENSINGTON – The Community Board 12 meeting on Wednesday night was a heated affair, with many residents at the Kensington corner of the district upset over being kept in the dark about plans that will substantially affect their parts of the area, issues with schools and sanitation dominated. The
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – It can takes years for professional artists to get their work exhibited at a major institution like the Guggenheim, but some lucky Brooklyn elementary school students will have their artwork included in a group show at the museum later this month. The Guggenheim Museum ‘s Learning
Arts & Culture
MARINE PARK – This Sunday, April 15th (@2pm), kicks off the first of three free Sunday lectures at the Hendrick I. Lott House [http://lotthouse.org]. As recently as 120 years ago, most of current day Brooklyn was quite rural, and Lott House is one of last surviving farmhouses of the
Announcements
KENSINGTON/DITMAS PARK/WINDSOR TERRACE – The P.S. 130 PTA is holding its 8th Annual Spring Auction on Saturday, April 14, from 6:00pm to 9:30pm at Don Patron located at 1217 Church Avenue in Ditmas Park. The school is looking to raise $30,000 and so far the
Central Brooklyn
Erasmus Hall High School is located at 911 Flatbush Ave. (Photo/ Google Maps) FLATBUSH – An Erasmus Hall High School teacher has been arraigned on a 25-count indictment charging him with sexually abusing a 16-year old boy on multiple occasions, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced yesterday. Mervyn Affoon, 66, a business
Bed Stuy
via DOE: Chancellor Carranza (second from right).BENSONHURST/BEDFORD STUYVESANT – The new Department of Education Chancellor Richard A. Carranza has been visiting schools this week, his second on the job, and yesterday was Brooklyn’s turn. He visited three schools, starting with the Brooklyn Studio Secondary School in Bensonhurst: >
bath beach
The Brooklyn College campus. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)BAY RIDGE – Ross Barkan, a graduate of Stony Brook University who is running for New York State Senate seat representing District 22, has released his education platform, promising to fight for free tuition, “no strings attached”, for New York state residents attending
bath beach
Via NYC DOTBy Andrew Gounardes, a candidate in the New York’s 22nd Senate District race. BAY RIDGE In the wee hours of the morning on March 31st, the New York State Legislature and Governor Cuomo approved a $168 billion budget, and once again there was absolutely zero money allocated
bergen beach
BARCLAYS CENTER – More than 4,000 Success Academy students from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens filled the Barclays Center Friday morning for a lively rally to help get them ready for their upcoming state exams [http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountability/resources/testing/default.htm]. Students from Success Academy Bergen
Bed Stuy
2017 School Performance DashboardBEDFORD STUYVESANT – It was recognized as a Rewards school [/21-brooklyn-public-schools-named-best-new-york-state/] this winter – named one of the best in New York State. While it may not be the best school in the city, it is the best elementary school in District 16 and it does a great job