Business
CROWN HEIGHTS — There are 49 days between Passover and Shavuot when observing Jews are not allowed to groom their hair. So chances are Levi Aronow, a new orthodox-Jewish barber in Crown Heights, is going to have a record month this June. Levi Aronow at work at ( ) Barbershop. (Photo: Instagram of
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH — Former City Councilman Jumaane Williams vacated his seat on March 20 after winning a crowded race for Public Advocate. Now, 11 candidates are gearing up for another looming special election, to occupy the empty seat, slated for May 14. In Alphabetical order, they are Anthony Alexis, Anthony Beckford, Monique
Education
By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat Some New York City pre-K teachers are one step closer to a potential strike. One of two locals under District Council 1707 voted Thursday to walk off the job [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/03/13/some-new-york-city-pre-k-teachers-mull-a-strike-as-de-blasio-weighs-presidential-run/] if their demands for higher pay are not
community
Cyclist holds a sign calling attention to the death of Aurilla Lawrence who was killed last Thursday night on her bike. Todd Maisel/BklynerWILLIAMSBURG – “A ray of sunshine in a dark world.” That was the message at a memorial gathering of tearful bike messengers from throughout the city on Broadway
Business
Five Below on Flatbush Avenue.FLATBUSH – Five Below [https://www.fivebelow.com/] is a “trend-right, high-quality extreme-value retailer for tweens, teens and beyond” they say where everything truly does retail for $5 or less, and it is opening another two stores in Brooklyn. One of them will take prime space
Business
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Here’s a listing of what’s opening & closing in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. To start, here are some retail scoops: Good news for those on the CB9 [http://www.communitybrd9bklyn.org/] side of Franklin Avenue who were disappointed when Yoon’s closed a
Announcements
Layoffs have been sweeping the borough and based on filings from the Department of Labor, there are many more to come. According to DOL filings [https://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=6680], we found that 112 employees at Metropolitan Jewish Home Care [https://www.mjhs.org/], Inc.
Announcements
Vice LogoEarlier today The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that “around 250 jobs are expected to be cut” as Vice, the Brooklyn Headquartered media company [https://twitter.com/vice] that employs 2,500, “reduces redundancies internationally and reorients to focus on growth areas like film and television production and branded
Arts & Culture
Old-timers may lament the death of New York nightlife, however, those reports are, perhaps, just a bit, exaggerated. While Manhattan still dominates the industry, Brooklyn and Queens are growing into destinations of their own, with liquor licenses to prove it. Last week, the Mayor’s Office of Media Entertainment released
Coney Island
CONEY ISLAND – Low-income Coney Island homeowners still recovering from Superstorm Sandy are feeling the wrath of what is now the longest U.S. government shutdown in history that started on December 22, 2018. Rebuilding Together NYC [/rebuilding-together-nyc-debuts-new-headquarters-in-gowanus/], a Brooklyn-based non-profit, provides free home repairs and accessibility modifications to low-income homeowners,
Bushwick
The North Brooklyn Industrial Zone study area (Via Department of City Planning) This week, representatives from the NYC Department of City Planning (DCP) visited North Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 to talk over their bold vision for creating jobs through zoning changes to the North Brooklyn Industrial Business Zone (IBZ)
Business
Renovations on the way of the new Stocked Burger. (Photo credit: Matthew Fulton) CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After an electrical fire in 2016 shuttered their Vanderbilt Avenue business for 14 months, owners of Stocked Cafe [https://www.stockedbrooklyn.com/], Matthew Fulton and Lesley Covitz were filled with emotion over the