Business
Nightlife is booming [/nightlife-thriving-brooklyn-less-pay-queens/]. There are over 24,000 restaurants in New York City, and Brooklyn has seen the fastest growth in establishments. And if folks are not eating out, they are ordering deliveries, helped by the proliferation of apps like Seamless and GrubHub. But there simply are not enough
Business
Anne Marika Verploegh Chasse in her workshop. Ben Brachfeld/BklynerPROSPECT HEIGHTS – Even amid a crisis for small businesses in New York City, with sky-high rents and online shopping clobbering brick-and-mortar retail, some old-style businesses, like old-fashioned, hand-crafted shoemaking, manage to survive and to thrive. Marika Verploegh Chasse, originally from Switzerland
Announcements
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. Ben Brachfeld/Bklyner.BROOKLYN MUSEUM – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Wednesday, October 2, announced a major expansion of non-prosecution diversion programs for low-level offenses. Those arrested for certain minor infractions will be given the opportunity to avoid prosecution by completing an arts enrichment program
Business
The Work Heights location at 277 Franklin Ave. Photo via Sam Strauss-Malcolm.As the industry questions the coworking model exemplified by the beleaguered WeWork [https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-nightmare-ipo], local entrepreneurs like Sam Strauss-Malcolm are serving local communities in a more sustainable way and growing, if not as fast. Strauss-Malcolm
Announcements
At an oath ceremony in Canarsie in June. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)DITMAS PARK – A Brooklyn woman has been waiting for her naturalization ceremony for about five years. It was scheduled and then canceled, with no reason provided. Now, her attorney and the Council on American-Islamic Relations-NY (CAIR-NY) [https://www.
Announcements
Vacant storefronts on 86th Street in Bay Ridge, February 28, 2019. (Photo: Justin Mitchell/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – A new study by Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office shows that Brooklyn is facing a substantial spike in storefront retail vacancies and rents. According to the study [https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/retail-vacancy-in-new-york-city/?utm_
Borough Park
KENSINGTON – A Kensington house that suffered a massive explosion in the basement that injured four people will have to be demolished, city officials said following the incident Monday afternoon. Firefighters battle explosion in Kensington house but keep their distance as the threat of collapse endangered rescuers. (Photo by Todd Maisel)
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Police say they have arrested a father who smothered his two-month-old baby to death last week. On Friday, September 27 at around 6:41 a.m., cops were called to a house on Cornelia Street near Broadway. There, they found two-month-old Nikollai Major unconscious and unresponsive. The baby boy
News
T-Mobile where it all took place. Todd Maisel/BklynerTwo gunmen tied up employees at a T-Mobile store on Kings Highway Friday afternoon in a brazen robbery of cash and phones from the busy store, police said. The gunman, described only as two black men by cops at this time, entered
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Cops are still searching for the individuals who attempted to rape two women earlier this month. They have some photos. To recap, on September 8 at around 4:30 a.m., a 26-year-old woman was entering her building at Garfield Place and Prospect Park West when a man
Announcements
BUSHWICK – The 41-year-old driver that killed a cyclist earlier this month was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree reckless endangerment for intentionally running over a cyclist. On September 2 at around 6 a.m., the driver, Korey Johnson allegedly saw 47-year-old Donald Roberts breaking into his 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Central Brooklyn
A woman looks at the ocean in Brighton Beach. Liena Zagare/BklynerWill Brooklyn’s growing senior population age with the dignity they deserve? Skyrocketing rents and other costs of living create challenges for elderly residents on fixed incomes. In June, Pastor David K. Brawley of St. Paul Community Baptist Church