Business
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Bar Sepia [https://www.barsepia.com/#home-section] was packed Wednesday as neighbors and patrons filled the beloved venue on its final night. Bar Sepia’s Delissa Reynolds (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Delissa Reynolds, Bar Sepia’s owner, announced in January [/savebarsepia-14-years-beloved-prospect-heights-bar-slated-close/] that the landlord of 234 Underhill Avenue,
Central Brooklyn
Cmdr. Eric Doyle, Flight Leader for the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, presents Yeoman 1st Class (AW/SW) Shellyann Atwater, from Brooklyn, N.Y., with their crest during a Blue Angels cresting ceremony at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California (Via Navy Outreach)FLATBUSH – Growing up
Big Story
Scene of the incident last night, where a right turning box truck with Bread depo logos on the sides killed a pedestrian crossing Ocean Parkway. Photo by Sam Polcer.We are incredibly sad to report that last night another life was claimed at the intersection of Church Avenue and Ocean
Borough Park
Spring is coming. * A beautiful story from Borough Park – Searching for the Woman Who Saved My Immigrant Family from Homelessness [http://narrative.ly/searching-woman-saved-immigrant-family-homelessness/] – thirty years later (by Shaheen Pasha on [http://narrative.ly/author/shaheen-pasha/]Narratively). * Fifteen years ago a college student was found shot five times in Prospect
Bed Stuy
Decatur Street via Google MapsBEDFORD-STUYVESANT – The NYPD announced on Friday that a third suspect has been arrested in connection to the October 11 home invasion and robbery [/91-year-old-bed-stuy-man-dies-home-invasion/] in Bed-Stuy that left 91-year-old Waldiman Thompson dead. Howard Morris, 44, of Crown Heights was apprehended on Friday in Bushwick, according to
environment
RED HOOK – Until Thor Equities resolves a number of concerns raised by neighbors [/neighbors-want-red-hoek-point-developer-address-environmental-concerns/], Brooklyn Community Board 6’s Landmarks/Land Use Committee [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/landmarks-land-use.page] voted to hold off on approving modified plans for the developer’s Red Hoek Point [http://redhoekpoint.com]
Central Brooklyn
Map of murders in 67th Precinct during 2017. Data via NYPDEAST FLATBUSH – “Safest Big City in America,” read the sign in front of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill as they announced [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0105/fewest-annual-murders-shooting-incidents-ever-recorded-the-modern-era#/0] the city’s per
Bed Stuy
Roy Isaac Jr. of “The United Fitness Squad” does a pull-up while competing in the heavyweight division at the 2018 Winter Reps competition in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn on February 17, 2018.BEDFORD STUYVESANT – An outdoor calisthenics competition brought a burgeoning online subculture back to its Brooklyn roots as Pull Up Park
Announcements
Photo: Nathan HaselbyGet your snow boots and shovels ready because we may quite possibly get hit with 4 to 6 inches of snow this weekend, ending the spring-like days! A winter storm watch is in effect from Saturday at 6 pm to Sunday morning. Temperatures are not expected to go
Announcements
Photo via Brooklyn Prospect Charter SchoolWINDSOR TERRACE – Just 90 minutes after the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-respond-shooting-parkland-florida-high-school-n848101] , two teenage boys went to social media, threatening a shooting at Brooklyn Prospect Charter School. [https://www.brooklynprospect.org/] “Don’
Announcements
Post Office on Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D9, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay) met with Anthony Impronto, Brooklyn Postmaster on Monday, February 12, to discuss how to address the poor service provided by the postal offices in her district, that has been
Announcements
Harris speaking at a campaign event in 2015. (Photo: BKLYNER)Brooklyn Assemblywoman Pamela Harris representing the 46th Assembly District has not attended any Assembly sessions in Albany following her indictment last month, yet she continues to get paid [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/brooklyn-pol-absent-albany-bust-paid-article-1.3814799] . Harris was indicted on