Business
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – A very ambitious plan was announced yesterday that will add more than 5.1 million square feet of manufacturing, creative, and innovation space to The Brooklyn Navy Yard and create more than 10,000 new jobs. Brooklyn Navy Yard rendering provided by The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development
Announcements
FORT GREENE – The first east coast Whole Foods Market 365 [https://www.365bywholefoods.com/] location opens on Wednesday, January 31 at 9am at 292 Ashland Place, right next door to the new Apple store in the 300 Ashland building and across the street from BAM. Whole Foods Market 365, 292
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Brooklyn Hospital’s Maynard Building, 240 Willoughby Street, Fort Greene (Photo: Scott Bintner via Property Shark)FORT GREENE – Brooklyn Hospital [https://www.tbh.org/locate-center] is finalizing a deal to sell a 21-story medical building located at 240 Willoughby Street to the real estate development firm, Rabsky Group, for $100
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FORT GREENE – If, like me, you’ve been counting down the days until the new Whole Foods Market 365 [https://www.365bywholefoods.com] opens at The Ashland, we’ve only got a couple of more weeks left to wait. To celebrate its grand opening [https://www.facebook.com/events/411037702665295/
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PACIFIC PARK – Real estate investment firm Forest City [https://www.forestcity.net/] announced [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/forest-city-and-greenland-reach-agreement-to-restructure-pacific-park-brooklyn-partnership-300582578.html] on Monday that it has restructured Greenland Forest City Partners—the joint venture that is developing Pacific Park [https://pacificparkbrooklyn.com/], the 22-acre mixed-use development adjacent to the Barclays Center
Announcements
Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/IrondaleCenter/photos/gm.2064650020430677/10155258900202444/?type=3&theater] FORT GREENE – With Oprah Winfrey’s galvanizing speech at the Golden Globes demonstrating the power for change that can live within a single woman’s voice, the program scheduled this month at the Irondale Theater
Bay Ridge
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-09611.jpg]Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, January 15, and various local organizations are celebrating what would have been the iconic civil rights leader’s 89th birthday with events featuring readings, talks, musical performances, movie screenings, and more.
Business
PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS – Brooklyn’s beloved Greenlight Bookstore [http://www.greenlightbookstore.com] is recovering after a flood soaked nearly 1,000 titles at its 632 Flatbush Avenue outpost. Courtesy of Greenlight BookstoreA pipe burst in the space above the bookshop at approximately 6pm on Wednesday, sending streams of water down through
Education
PS 67 on the right serves students mostly from Ingersoll and Walt Whitman Houses.By Kyesha Jackson, Principal of PS 67 It takes a lot of work to turn a school around, but with a dedicated staff who understands the needs of our students — both academic and social-motional — and an
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Mayor de Blasio (left) and Councilmember Laurie Cumbo (D35), photo via Cumbo’s Office“All of you come out to hold government accountable—that government be transparent and that government be responsible to your needs.” Letitia James, Public Advocate for the City of New York Last night, the Ingersoll Community
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FORT GREENE – There are going to be a lot fewer blue and orange jerseys around the Barclays Center. Governor Cuomo announced on Wednesday that the New York Islanders will skate away from the Barclays Center and return to Long Island to a reportedly $1 billion new complex adjacent to Belmont
Announcements
Two town hall meetings this week offer Brooklynites a space to engage with elected officials before the year’s end. Residents of Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s 35th City Council District and parents with kids attending schools in the 13th School Board District will have meetings in their neighborhoods starting this