Arts & Culture
Pianist and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_O%27Farrill] will present his father’s rarely performed seasonal composition “Oro, Incienso y Mirra” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcFbbq2mgk] (“Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh”) in a free performance on Christmas Eve at All Saints’ Church. The
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WALLABOUT – The Walt Whitman Initiative [https://www.facebook.com/WaltWhitmanInitiative/] is urging the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] to reconsider its decision not to designate 99 Ryerson Street [https://www.google.com/maps/place/99+Ryerson+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11205/@40.6957269,
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNERKENSINGTON – Muslims, Jews, and neighbors of all different backgrounds and faiths gathered at Ave C Plaza on a cold and snowy afternoon today, along with Assembly Member Robert Carroll and Council Member Brad Lander, to stand in solidarity against the Manhattan pipe bomber [/manhattan-subway-suspect-brooklynite-authorities-confirm-developing/] who lived in
Business
CONEY ISLAND – 30 business and property owners in Coney Island have signed a petition to send to the Department of Small Business Services hoping to prevent a business improvement district (BID) from forming in their neighborhood. The map above includes the very preliminary boundaries and is not the final BID
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
Big Story
SUNSET PARK – Last October, as the temperature outside plummeted, the heat in my Sunset Park apartment would not go above 60 degrees. Multiple conversations with the landlord, Adel Eskander, and the building’s super – co-owner Sameh Boutros – yielded apologies and promises, but no improvements. Soon, both landlord and super began
Bensonhurst
Michael Sciaraffo in his Bensonhurst living room.BENSONHURST – The sight of Michael Sciaraffo’s living room is every child’s dream come true. From Barbie dolls and action figures to sports items and art supplies, hundreds of toys are stacked up in what has become Brooklyn’s version of the
Central Brooklyn
The store at 797 Stanley Ave, where Yafaee was shot last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE 12/15/17: Police have arrested 41-year old Mark Thomas in connection with the shooting death of Abdulla Yafaee. Thomas is charged with 2nd degree murder and 2nd degree criminal possession of a
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679 Ocean Parkway (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)KENSINGTON – Today morning, a man was carrying a pipe bomb in Manhattan. The bomb went off and four people were injured. As of 5 p.m, the suspect is alive and in the hospital (in custody). The man’s name is Akayed Ullah.
Central Brooklyn
The death of local outlets for journalism is no longer a news story—we watched for years, as outlets for reporting city and neighborhood stories dwindled across the country. There is a more recent twist to the stories, however—online sources, which were often cited as the cause in the
Central Brooklyn
Dr. Diane Davis, clinical director of the Fatherhood Program, and Alan Dorvil, case manager for the program, at the Brooklyn Community Services office in Coney Island. November 8th, 2017.CONEY ISLAND – There’s a new program in Brooklyn helping men be better fathers—and challenging traditional notions of masculinity in
Business
Patty Suarez of Badlands with a client.PARK SLOPE – “Helping straight white men look less fascist was the last thing I thought I’d be doing when I started cutting hair at a queer-owned salon in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2014,” Patty Suarez [https://www.instagram.com/mrjulianray/] writes