Announcements
GOWANUS – This past Saturday The Nature Conservancy [https://www.nature.org/?redirect=https-301] and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy [https://gowanuscanalconservancy.org/] kicked off the Gowanus Tree Network, a joint initiative teaching locals how to care for the street trees surrounding the Gowanus Canal. Gowanus Street Tree initiative kick-off event at
environment
GOWANUS – The removal of the “black mayonnaise” from the bottom of the Gowanus Canal’s 4th Street Turning Basin resumed last week after issues with reinforcing bulkheads forced the project to a halt in January [/gowanus-pilot-dredging-project-stalled-bulkhead-installation-causes-damages/]. Dredging equipment at Gowanus Canal 4th Street Turning Basin (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The cleanup
Announcements
BOERUM HILL – In an effort to prevent opioid overdoses in the city, Mayor de Blasio announced on Thursday a one-year pilot program that will provide safe, supervised injection facilities for New Yorkers suffering from drug addiction. 80 4th Avenue (between Bergen Street & St. Marks Place), site of a proposed
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS – Council Member Brad Lander (District 39) is hosting a family-friendly event this afternoon at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum to rally for the return of the B71 bus route. “8 years ago, the MTA removed the B71 bus route that ran along Union Street,” Lander posted to Facebook
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Council Member Brad Lander has announced the winning 2018 participatory budgeting projects for District 39 (Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Kensington, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace). Council Member Brad Lander speaking at the District 39 PBNYC 2018 Project Expo, April 9 (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)
environment
GOWANUS – In celebration of Earth Day 2018, clean-water activist Christopher Swain swam the 1.8 mile length of the Gowanus Canal on Sunday to advocate for the cleanup of the polluted waterway. “People say it’s crazy that I’m swimming in here with the oil, the gas, the sewage,
Arts & Culture
Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/pg/RecordStoreDay/about/?ref=page_internal]Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores, returns for a tenth year this Saturday, April 21, and over a dozen shops in Brooklyn are hosting special events including live performance, DJ sets, and special releases.
East New York
Outside the Fire Lounge hookah bar, where a suspect fired a gun into the air over the weekend (Screenshot via Google Maps)GOWANUS – Police are looking for the hothead who fired shots in the air outside a Gowanus hookah lounge over the weekend. The incident occurred at 2:15 am
Gowanus
SUNSET PARK – Police are looking for a suspect who engaged in an act of public lewdness on a southbound N train earlier this week. According to reports from a 31-year old woman, the man boarded the N train at 59th Street Station in Sunset Park, and sat across from her,
community
GOWANUS – Following a candlelight vigil Tuesday evening [/candlelight-vigil-held-to-save-gowanus-station/] to protest the city’s proposed demolition of the historic Gowanus Station building, the New York City Council has voted to allow the Department of Environmental Protection [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml] (DEP) to seize the property
Business
GOWANUS – After a transformer explosion forced the owners of A&E Supply Co. to temporarily shut down their business a few months following their February 2017 launch [/danny-meyer-alums-bring-new-food-emporium-ae-supply-co-gowanus/], subsequent financial strains resulting from the power outage ultimately left them no choice but to shutter the venue for good. >
Boerum Hill
Summer = Fun One day it will be warm again in Brooklyn and it will feel like summer is on its way. There are so many fun-filled summer camp options. Here are just a few… via Park Slope Armory YMCA Facebook pagePark Slope Armory YMCA [http://www.ymcanyc.org/prospectpark/pages/