Bushwick
WILLIAMSBURG – More Citi Bikes are coming to Williamsburg and Greenpoint ahead of the L Train Shutdown this winter as the NYC Department of Transportation looks to add capacity to existing bike stations across North Brooklyn. A draft of the new plan was presented to Community Board 1 in Williamsburg last
Bushwick
A forklift unloads new CitiBike docks into a warehouse in Bushwick (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – With the date for the L Train Shutdown announced by the city (April 27, 2019), it appears that the DOT is gearing up to expand Citi Bike coverage into Bushwick in the near future. Yesterday,
Education
Proposal for the Berkeley Carroll School rooftop expansion at 181 Lincoln Place. (Image via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/06/berkeley-carroll-school-to-get-addition-181-lincoln-place-park-slope.html] )The Berkeley Carroll School [https://www.berkeleycarroll.org/] wants to raise the roof, and they now have approval to do so. Last week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission
Bookstores
Bookstores are not dead! Not only is Amazon.com opening a physical bookstore [http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-opens-first-bricks-and-mortar-bookstore-at-u-village/] in Washington state (oh, the irony), but independent booksellers like Fort Greene’s Greenlight Bookstore [http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/] are also thriving enough to expand –opening a second location, this
bartel-prichard square
Draft of Citi Bike expansion. (Courtesy of DOT)The Community Board 6 Transportation Committee [http://www.brooklyncb6.org/committees/?a=detail&content_id=55] unanimously approved the Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml]‘s plan for Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com/
expansion
The transformation of the 5th Avenue bar Jackie’s 5th Amendment into an expanded section of the neighboring pharmacy [/blog/food/now-closed-jackies-5th-amendment] is complete, and you can now purchase greeting cards and pick up penicillin where you could previously while away your night with a bucket of High Life. Slope
3rd avenue
3rd Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets is set to become our neighborhood’s chain restaurant mecca. Recently joining Subway and Dunkin Donuts is signage for a Checkers [http://checkerscompany.com/] franchise. The fast food burger chain, based out of Tampa Florida, has more than 800 restaurants operating across the
expansion
City Council just voted to approve an expansion of the Park Slope Historic District, making it the largest historic district in the city. In April, the plan got the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but with today’s vote, it’s official: no neighborhood’s got as much history