Business
GOWANUS – As BKLYNER reported last week [/brooklynites-tough-enough-kick-axe-beat-bomb/], axe-throwing venue Kick Axe [https://www.kickaxe.com] just debuted at 622 Degraw Street in Gowanus. Located in the old littlefield space [/big-plans-littlefield-gowanus-event-space-move-expand/], the 7,000-square-foot venue is designed to feel like a “cozy lumberjack-style lodge.” Kick Axe, 622 Degraw Street (Photo: Pamela
Gowanus
GREENWOOD – The NYPD reports they found the body of a woman on a rocky area along the Gowanus Canal shoreline Saturday afternoon. Gowanus Canal via Google MapsAt approximately 2pm on December 16, police say they responded to a call behind the Home Depot located at 550 Hamilton Avenue near 19th
DUMBO
GOWANUS/DUMBO – New York City’s first axe throwing venue opens today in Gowanus—yes, you read that right, an axe throwing venue. Courtesy of Kick AxeAxe throwing is a game of skill where players aim, then throw a dulled hatchet at a wooden bullseye. Kick Axe [https://www.kickaxe.
Business
GOWANUS – Shortly after A&E Supply Co. [http://www.aesupplyco.com] debuted at 548 4th Avenue [/danny-meyer-alums-bring-new-food-emporium-ae-supply-co-gowanus/], the restaurant/café/butcher/cheese shop offering Brooklyn-made delicacies in an otherwise food barren area, ran into a series of obstacles. First came problems with ConEd in June. “Transformer explosions fried the
Bay Ridge
A diagram of how the lanes will be divided on 4th Avenue under the DOT’s new protected bike lane project (NYC DOT)NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) will start implementing its plan to bring eight miles of protected bike lanes to 4th Avenue in the Spring of 2018, according
Gowanus
BOERUM HILL – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the man seen in the photo below in connection to a robbery late last month. Via NYPDJust before 1am on Saturday, November 25, police say the suspect snuck up on a 21-year-old woman standing in front of 59
community
BOERUM HILL – Last Friday, December 1, NYC Parks [https://www.nycgovparks.org/] unveiled two newly renovated basketball courts at Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park located on Wyckoff Street between Hoyt and Bond Streets. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park, Photo credit: Daniel Avila/NYC ParksNYC Parks Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Martin Maher
environment
Gowanus Station building, 234 Butler Street via Google MapsBROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL – A public hearing was held at Brooklyn Borough Hall Monday evening to discuss the fate of the historic Gowanus Station building [https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/building-of-the-day-226-nevins-street/] which could potentially be demolished to make room for an 8-million-gallon Combined
bath beach
PARK SLOPE – City Employee Nilsa J. Lopez, an off-duty School Safety Agent, was arrested for assault in Park Slope at 8:00 pm on Friday, November 17. The 50-year old was at Rachel’s Taqueria on 5th Ave when she—along with John Lopez, 67 and Arianna Lopez, 17—attacked
community
GOWANUS – With cleanup efforts officially kicking off at the Gowanus Canal’s Fourth Street Basin [/work-begins-gowanus-canal-cleanup/] last month, elected officials and EPA representatives hosted a town hall meeting at the Wyckoff Gardens Community Center Thursday evening to update locals on the Superfund project. Congress Member Nydia Velazquez at the Gowanus
Gowanus
GOWANUS – Construction recently wrapped and sales have officially begun for a glassy, new, eleven-story, 36-unit condo building located at 554 4th Avenue on the corner of 15th Street. Via StreetEasy [https://streeteasy.com/building/554-4-avenue-brooklyn]Developed by Brookland Capital and designed by Feingold & Gregory Architects, residents can begin moving
Announcements
GOWANUS – The Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG) [https://gowanuscag.org/] is hosting a town hall this Thursday, November 16, to let the public know what the canal cleanup will entail, the timeline, and what to expect. Designated a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2010, the