Dyker Heights
Photo by Mary Bakija/BklynerBy: City Councilman Justin Brannan and Community Board 10 District Manager Josephine Beckmann When most people talk about Christmas in New York City, they usually mention the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, the stunning holiday window displays at Saks Fifth Avenue or maybe the Rockettes at
News
The L train line has seen two passengers hit by trains in the last two days (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Governor Cuomo dropped the announcement today that L train service to Manhattan may not have to be shut down after all to make necessary repairs. This seems to have come as
Development
The corner of Clay and Commercial Streets, where a nine-story building will go up on a lot marred by toxic chemicals (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – Developers have filed for a new nine-story residential building in North Greenpoint, above a toxic plume of phthalates that has leaked from the Nuhart Site
Animals
The Williamsburg Bridge. (Photo: Paul Stremple)WILLIAMSBURG – Trains were delayed for over two hours last night after a dog was found roaming the subway tracks over the Williamsburg Bridge. At approximately 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night, the MTA tweeted “Metropolitan Av-bound M trains and Jamaica-bound J trains are running
Greenpoint
A pedestrian inspects the stop work order posted to the Greenpoint Library construction site (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – After delays pushing back the completion date of the Greenpoint Library by half a year, progress was being made on the site—until it was hit with a stop work order on
Greenpoint
A woman stands at the entrance to McGolrick Park, where new signs have omitted Polish (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – All down Nassau Avenue on the approach to McGolrick Park, Polish signs can be seen on the storefronts, like Kubuś Photo Service, Cracovia Liquors, Jaslowiczanka Bakery or Krajan Polish Deli. But
Announcements
GOWANUS – The city’s styrofoam ban went into effect Tuesday, January 1, 2019, a law reaching as far back as 2007 with fourth and fifth graders from Brooklyn leading the charge. Students from PS 15 in Red Hook joined the mayor and other public officials at the Hamilton Avenue Marine
Announcements
Here’s how the street signs would look like. (Photo via PAYO)DITMAS PARK – The Coney Island Avenue strip between Avenues C and H, also known as “Little Pakistan,” will be co-named “Muhammad Ali Jinnah Way,” after the founder of Pakistan. “This is a really great achievement of the Pakistani-American
Central Brooklyn
Nowshin Ali. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)DITMAS PARK – Nowshin Ali came to live in the United States five years ago with her son. Things weren’t going well for her in India, so she left everything behind to start a new life in Brooklyn. In these five years, she has
Bushwick
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for a suspect wanted for the attempted rape of a 26-year old woman in a Williamsburg apartment building yesterday. Around 5:30 am on Tuesday, January 1, the suspect approached the woman on the first-floor landing of an apartment building near Havermeyer and
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE — Retailers continue to shutter in Southern Brooklyn and some of the more recent closings come after businesses have been in around for decades. Here are the latest additions to what has become a haven for vacant storefronts. Farewell postings of the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in Dyker
Coney Island
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at the 2019 Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge (Photo: Stefan Ringal)CONEY ISLAND — This year, as thousands braved the frigid temperatures of the ocean, Borough President Eric Adams also took a dip in the Atlantic during this year’s Polar Bear Plunge in Coney Island