News
Shoppers at the McDonald Avenue ShopRite in Brooklyn gear up for the state ban on single-use plastic bags, Feb. 17, 2020. Photo: Virginia Breen /THE CITY By Virginia Breen Additional Reporting By Gabriel Sandoval, originally published in THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/02/new-yorkers-still-confused-on-how-plastic-bag-ban-will-work.html] on February 19. Less
Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST — At 10:00 a.m. yesterday, a woman parked her 2002 Toyota RAV4 outside a commercial strip in Bensonhurst. She entered a store near 2211 86th Street, leaving her 11-year-old son in the back seat with the car still running. Photo of car from surveillance footage. Courtesy of DCPI.
Health
Jodie Patterson, a Brooklyn neighbor and advocate, author of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation talks with First Lady Chirlane McCray.“It’s a more personal way to reach people where they are,” First Lady Chirlane McCray said, announcing the launch of Thrive with Chirlane McCray [https:
Central Brooklyn
The New York City Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating the following individuals: EAST FLATBUSH – Melvin Martin, 66, of East 45th Street in Brooklyn. UPDATE 02/119/2020 – Mr. Martin was found and is well. It was reported to police that he was last seen at
canarsie
BP Station near Brooklyn Terminal Market, via Google Streetview.EAST FLATBUSH/CANARSIE – On Monday, February 17, 2020, shortly after 6 pm, NYPD responded to a vehicle fire at 401 East 80th Street – a BP Gas Station near Brooklyn Terminal Market. Upon arrival, officers report finding a white van with smoke
Development
About 15 protestors held signs and chanted against the demolition of 227 Duffield Street in September of 2019 [/11th-hour-plea-to-stop-demo-of-abolitionist-place-house/], a small 3 story brick house that is slated to be demolished by a developer to make way for another skyscraper on that street. Todd Maisel/BklynerWedged between a string of
brownsville
Andre Clarke. Courtesy of DCPI.BROWNSVILLE — On Sunday morning, cops arrested 45-year-old Andre Clarke of Staten Island and charged him with brutally raping an 11-year-old girl in Brownsville. Clarke was found at a hotel in Queens after calling himself in. Clarke is accused of raping the 11-year-old daughter of the
Business
Grand Street L- Station. Courtesy of Grand Street BID.WILLIAMSBURG — Grand Street Business Improvement District (BID) [https://www.grandstreetbk.org/] thinks you need to get out more and trying new restaurants is the perfect excuse. For the past seven years, the Grand Street BID, which consists of six blocks between
Central Brooklyn
NYPD, East Flatbush. Liena Zagare/BklynerWhat’s behind the increase of NYPD stop-and-frisks in 2019? While law enforcement officials downplay the rise, alarm bells are going off among some civil liberties groups. Cops used the controversial policing tactic 22% more last year compared to 2018, according to statistics NYPD reported
brownsville
Three people went missing in Brooklyn over the holiday weekend. Cops are asking anyone who has seen these people to come forward with any information that may help bring them home. BROWNSVILLE — A 13-year-old girl went missing on Valentine’s Day last week. Unique Beyah of Amboy Street in Brownsville
brownsville
Construction on Moore Street between Humboldt Street and Graham Avenue. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.NORTHERN BROOKLYN — Over the past few months, members of the North Brooklyn community have spoken in opposition to National Grid’s Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure (MRI) project, a 30-inch-wide, 36,000-foot-long pipeline that would travel from Brownsville to
Arts & Culture
A photo of Bernie Sanders with his high school track team in a December, 1958 issue of James Madison High School’s newspaper, the Madison Highway. Courtesy of Brooklyn Public Library.Before Bernie Sanders became the Democratic frontrunner for the 2020 presidential election, he was a mean track runner. In