Central Brooklyn
Faigy Roth at Bklyner (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)MIDWOOD — Faigy Roth never felt at home growing up in a conservative ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. She liked wearing her mid-calf-length skirts a bit higher and she was into showing off her neckline and collarbone too. She had a cell phone in a
Central Brooklyn
Community Board 9 at 890 Nostrand Ave. between Carroll and Presidents Streets. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS/PLG — Phone service at Community Board 9 was restored Wednesday after nearly a month of no service because a rat infestation in the building’s basement prohibited Verizon from repairing the rat-chewed
Feature
Door art created by Hollie Tubbs, a teacher’s assistant at PS 231 at 54. (Photo credit: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)BEDFORD STUYVESANT — Tucked behind a Brooklyn Home Depot, up five flights of stairs, along a yellow-painted wall there’s a lady that’s taking social media by storm. Except she’
Arts & Culture
BUSHWICK – Radio Free Brooklyn [https://radiofreebrooklyn.com/] went live in the basement of a bike shop in Bushwick with four microphones and a mixer over three years ago. An internet radio station was another step for co-founders, Tom Tenney and Rob Prichard, in making space for creativity to fit the
Arts & Culture
Bowls at Artshack. Photo by Megan McGibney/BklynerBED-STUY/BAY RIDGE – When Harvest Henderson joined the nonprofit ceramics studio, Artshack [http://www.artshackbrooklyn.org/] in Bed-Stuy, two years ago, she had in mind for the community studio take part in the grassroots fundraising event Empty Bowls. It was something she had
Arts & Culture
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – MacArthur recipient Okwui Okpokwasili took ballet classes as a child but her performance style is rooted in her Nigerian heritage, interest in Japanese dance and the desire to highlight an underrepresented narrative in the arts — “the complexity of the black woman.” “I guess I’m always looking for the
Bushwick
Gotham Girls Roller Derby skaters are intertwined, and waiting for the referee’s whistle to start the jam. (Rosie Misdary/Bklyner)Fast. Empowering. Fun. This is how skaters describe roller derby. At the Gotham Girls Crashpad, the four home teams scrimmage in preparation for the big event of the season,
Business
Marine Florists [http://www.marineflorists.com] at 1995 Flatbush Avenue, where Flatlands meets Marine Park at its northern tip, has been delivering flowers for every imaginable occasion – as well as “just because”- for 120 years. It’s 6 o’clock on a Sunday evening, and co-owner George Tsentzelis starts
Bushwick
205 Water © S9 ArchitectureOn a bright morning late last month, I visited the Manhattan offices of S9 Architecture [http://s9architecture.com/] – a firm that has played a special role in the huge changes sweeping Brooklyn. You might not have heard their name, but you know their work: Since their first
Business
Glenn Alan and Cynthia Gordy, the duo behind Instagram’s “Black Owned Brooklyn” (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last week, our list of black-owned coffeeshops [/black-owned-coffee-shops-alternatives-to-starbucks-in-brooklyn/] generated an enormous reader response. Even Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams got in on the action, launching a #BLKCoffeeInBK [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLKCoffeeInBK?src=hash]
Announcements
Photo: NY City CouncilFLATBUSH – Jumaane Williams [http://jumaanewilliams.com/], representing the 45th City Council district, is quite hopeful that he’ll become the next lieutenant governor of New York. Williams officially announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor in the last week of February [/williams-lieutenant-governor/], confirming all speculations [/councilmember-jumaane-williams-eyes-position-of-lieutenant-governor/]. Williams was
Events
Thank you to our reader Lori Goldkind for suggesting this interview. Know a neighbor you’d like to see recognized in Bklyner? Let us know! We’d love to tell their story too. Cathy McDonnell LaCognata, president and sole owner of Training for Warriors BrooklynMARINE PARK – A good fitness coach