Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGREENPOINT – Two weeks after cyclists and advocates called on Mayor Bill de Blasio to better protect them, two more cyclists were killed by drivers in trucks. One was in Brooklyn. This marks the 17th cyclist death in NYC just this year. On Tuesday, July 3 at around
Business
Cena [https://cenabrooklyn.com], a new Mexican eatery and coffee shop in Windsor Terrace, opened on July 12th and neighbors could not be more excited. The exterior of Cena. The logo was painted and designed by Watman’s wife, Molly Watman. Ellie Plass, Bklyner.“That first weekend was bananas. We
Central Brooklyn
Dr. Fatima Husain. (Photo via Husain)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – When Dr. Fatima Husain entered an operating room for the first time in medical school, she passed out. These days, the sight of blood no longer makes her squirm. A urologist with NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Brooklyn [https://weillcornell.org/urology-at-newyork-presbyterian-medical-group-brooklyn] since April,
Central Brooklyn
Assembly Member Diana Richardson and State Senator Zellnor Myrie at a press conference outside 245 Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — Residents of a block in Prospect Lefferts Gardens still lack full power nearly two days after the weekend heat wave-induced Con
Borough Park
Photo via Loudlabs.BORO PARK – A woman is dead after being stabbed multiple times last night. On Monday, July 22 at around 10 p.m., a woman was found unconscious and unresponsive outside her home on 46th Street and Eighth Avenue with multiple stab wounds to her body. The woman
Announcements
Blackout in Mill Basin, July 21, 2019 (Photo: Todd Maisel)SOUTHEAST BROOKLYN – Yesterday, when temperatures hit the high 90s and people were urged to stay indoors and in cooling areas, Con Edison decided to voluntarily strip power from 30,000 Brooklynites in order to make repairs to prevent a bigger
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerSUNSET PARK – Local politicians, community leaders, and several organizations met together in Sunset Park High School to discuss U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) threats and deportations in the neighborhood. Sunset Park has been a target for ICE. Since Saturday, July 13, there have been four
Announcements
Makki Masjid located at 1089 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) MIDWOOD – The fight for accountability at the beloved Makki Masjid in Little Pakistan has found its way out the doors of the mosque and into the court. Makki Masjid, officially the Muslim Community Center of Brooklyn (MCCB), has
Brooklyn Heights
Welcome back to this week’s edition of openings and closings. This week, eagerly awaited openings in Red Hook and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and drama at the Time Out Market. Windsor Terrace Cena Brooklyn> [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_2xmjFzHg/] [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_2xmjFzHg/] 601
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Dozens gathered in the cafeteria of the Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens [https://www.ccbq.org] St. Charles Jubilee Senior Center (55 Pierrepont Street) on Wednesday to celebrate the 100th birthday of Vivian Levy, a longtime member and community activist. Community members toast Vivian Levy at her 100th
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH — On the night of the mass shooting [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/live-updates-two-people-are-dead-as-police-investigate] at the Las Vegas Harvest Festival in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded several hundred, Dr. Kevin Menes was on duty at nearby Sunrise Hospital. [https://sunrisehospital.com/]There, Dr. Menes, a night
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE/BENSONHURST/SOUTH SLOPE – Earlier this month, one man sexually abused a sleeping woman inside a car. Another man grabbed a woman’s butt and then ran. Another man pulled up a woman’s skirt. Cops need help searching for all three men. On July 3 at around 1: