Announcements
Newkirk Plaza sits above a popular subway station, seeing 1000s of visitors per day. Katie Herchenroeder/BklynerBrooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, with the support of other elected officials and Flatbush Development Corporation, is calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to solidify who is responsible for Newkirk Plaza, the oldest outdoor
Central Brooklyn
NEWKIRK PLAZA – Cops need assistance searching for a man that forcibly touched a woman inside the Newkirk Avenue Subway Station. On Sunday, April 7th at around 6:50 a.m., a man grabbed a woman’s butt as she was stepping inside a Q Train heading north. The 36-year-old woman
Announcements
DITMAS PARK – A swastika was drawn on– and then painted over– a pole at the Newkirk Plaza Subway Station this morning. Jess Goldsmith, a neighbor, posted a photo of the swastika that her friend sent her on Facebook, saying, “I don’t even know what to say about this. How
Central Brooklyn
1501 Foster Avenue at Marlborough Road. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)After months of construction [/three-new-restaurants-opening-foster-avenue-victorian-flatbush-counter-progress/] , Sunset Bagels cafe and grill could open in two weeks at 1501 Foster Avenue and Marlborough Road. The cafe, which has two other locations [https://www.facebook.com/sunsetbagels/] in Sunset Park and Bay
News
UPDATE [2:00pm]: Normal Service Returns As of this morning, B and Q trains are bypassing Ditmas Park’s Newkirk Plaza station in both directions due to a ConEd issue, confirmed MTA officials. This is all we know at this time but we’ll continue to update this story. Meanwhile,
Central Brooklyn
Cortelyou road circa 1916, still two full centuries after Ditmarsen’s day. (Photo courtesy Brooklyn Historical Society [http://www.brooklynhistory.org/blog/2014/10/01/photo-of-the-week-transformation-discovery/] )You wait for him at the corner of Cortelyou and 16th Street— a timeless, local rendezvous spot to meet anyone. But this isn’t
Arts & Culture
Albert Marques on keyboards, joined by Israeli bass player Ran Livneh. (All photos by Chris Farrell)Ditmas Park musician Albert Marquès doesn’t boldly go where no artist has gone before, but he is on a mission to seek out — well, not new life and new civilizations, but new venues
Central Brooklyn
/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/683-16-MCS-70-Pct-Bank-Rob-video.mp4The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in identifying the man in the video above who robbed a Newkirk Plaza bank branch on March 5th [/blog/crime/newkirk-plaza-chase-branch/]. The man entered the Chase Bank at Newkirk Plaza around 11am on Saturday, March 5th
Central Brooklyn
Individual suspected of robbing the Chase branch at Newkirk Plaza today. Photo: NYPDThe NYPD is asking for the public’s help in identifying the man in the photos above who is believed to be connected to a bank robbery that occurred today — Saturday — at Newkirk Plaza. Police say that they
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park CornerWe love a good bagel and lox and recently Coffee Z, the newish coffee shop in Newkirk Plaza [/blog/food/newkirk-plazas-coffee-z-celebrates-opening-with-fresh-fruit-smoothies-cold-brews-pastries-more/] , has started serving up Lox Sandwiches, as well as adding other breakfast and lunch options to their menu. We stopped by this week
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerUpdate: This event has been rescheduled for Friday, December 18 at 5:30pm. The Flatbush Development Corporation [http://www.fdconline.org/] and the Newkirk Plaza Merchants Association are hosting a holiday celebration in the plaza on Thursday, December 17, from 6-8pm. Activities include a tree lighting
Central Brooklyn
Photo by amberala [https://www.instagram.com/amberala/]If you’ve ridden the subway to or from the neighborhood in the last week, you might have noticed a new addition to the block. Stand alone maps outlining the neighborhood around the Newkirk Plaza, Cortelyou Road, and Beverley Road subway stops
Beverley Road
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThere are several film shoots happening next week in our area– if the weather doesn’t postpone them — so make sure to move your cars and keep a lookout for stars! On Tuesday, the CBS show Blue Bloods [http://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/] is
34 Newkirk Plaza
Alex Belanchuk in his work space. Photo by Ditmas Park CornerFor 20 years, Alex Belanchuk has taken the shoes that have become the victims of our lives — the athletes’ sneakers that have seen one too many laps around the field, the construction workers’ boots trampled by sun and dust and
10 Newkirk Plaza
Photo courtesy Anthony FinkelA man claiming to have a gun, but not actually showing it, robbed the Dunkin’ Donuts in Newkirk Plaza [http://www.yelp.com/biz/dunkin-donuts-brooklyn-98] just before 5pm Friday, making off with about $100, a spokesman from the 70th Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/
newkirk plaza
Yeah, we know you’re probably all tired of the snow, but we can’t help but ooh and ahh at how pretty it looks falling in our neighborhood, especially illuminated by the lights at Newkirk Plaza, as photographed by copper.and.stars [http://instagram.com/p/yd3KmHEpVh/?modal=true]