Arts & Culture
O’Loughlin in an early production of “My Heart Goes Zoom,” the flagship show in the Please Don’t Touch the Artist series. (Courtesy of Siobhan O’Loughlin)Since 2015, Siobhan O’Loughlin has performed in bathtubs across the country in “Broken Bone Bathtub,” an immersive show held in strangers’
Eastern Brooklyn
Police are searching for an individual who has robbed several cab drivers over the past few months. https://bklyner.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/236-21-BRS-Rob-Pattern-176.mp4 Between 5:30 pm on November 5, 2020, and 5:30 pm on January 12, 2021, the wanted individual entered
Business
Food Ford Halal Food vendor located on Bedford Ave./ Anna Conkling BklynerThe City Council is voting tomorrow, January 28, on a street food vendor permit bill. The bill, which was first proposed in 2018, [https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3686667&GUID=A0683818-66E6-4651-8B31-3D65EE4D61B1&Options=&Search=
Business
How can New York City get our economy back on track as we all fight furiously to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic? It’s a question that everyone is desperate to answer, as New York City’s economy continues to take a beating from the COVID crisis. Between December 2019 and
Announcements
Yesterday, the Brooklyn Communities Collaborative [https://www.brooklyncommunities.org/] (BCC), a nonprofit organization focused on providing aid for Brooklyn and its residents, awarded over $300,000 in grants to Brooklyn nonprofits serving communities impacted by Covid-19. These grants are part of the BCC’s $3 million campaign [https://www.kingscountypolitics.
brownsville
Community Education Council 23 [http://www.d23rising.nyc/] (CEC23) which covers Brownsville, Ocean Hill, and parts of East New York, has only four members out of six required to have a quorum and thus find themselves in the peculiar position of being unable to even restore quorum. The Schools Chancellor
Business
Save Our Storefronts members. Photo via Save Our Storefronts TwitterPARK SLOPE – A coalition of New Yorkers are coming together to demand rent relief for commercial tenants. Save Our Storefronts [https://saveourstorefronts.com], a group made up of small business owners, organizations, and voters, have since June been working together with
environment
Elizabeth Yeampierre estimates that her team at UPROSE [https://www.uprose.org/] – the Brooklyn community-based environmental justice organization she oversees – has been advocating for the creation of green jobs along the industrial waterfront of Sunset Park for over two decades. “I found a flyer the other day at UPROSE that
Central Brooklyn
Ericka Francois, Fair Futures Youth Advocacy Youth Coordinator. Image from the virtual rally.Foster youth and elected officials called on Mayor Bill De Blasio yesterday to secure essential funding to support young people in foster care across Brooklyn and NYC. Fair Futures [https://www.fairfuturesny.org/], a coalition of child
green
By Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/17/22236287/brooklyn-wind-turbine-assembly-hub] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] A dream long nurtured by grassroots neighborhood activists approached reality last week when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-outlines-2021-agenda-reimagine-rebuild-renew-1]
Announcements
New York’s Board of Regents elected Regent Lester Young Jr. as its first Black chancellor. New York State Education DepartmentBy Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/1/11/22225008/lester-young-jr-makes-history-as-states-first-black-chancellor-for-board-of-regents] . The state Board of Regents made history Monday, electing Lester Young Jr. as its first
Bay Ridge
NYPD Lieutenant Hayward prepares to strike Brent Schmidt (R) after members of the Occupy Wall Street movement had been removed from Zuccotti Park in New York November 15, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/Lucas JacksonDeputy Inspector Joseph Hayward is now in charge of the 71st Precinct [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/