Bed Stuy
CLINTON HILL – Members of the Brooklyn Nets stopped by the Christopher “Biggie” Wallace Courts at Crispus Attucks Park in Clinton Hill yesterday to spread love, the Brooklyn (basketball) way. In the late afternoon, Nets players D’Angelo Russell and Rodions Kurucs showed up to give away free basketballs and t-shirts
Business
Patrons attend Socceroof’s opening party on November 1 in Sunset Park. (Justin Mitchell/Bklyner).SUNSET PARK – Socceroof [https://www.socceroof.com] threw its grand opening party in Sunset Park Thursday night. The brand new facilities feature 10 fields, a bar and a rooftop view of the Statue of Liberty
News
Marathon route. Click image for the full map.If you were planning on leaving Brooklyn on Sunday – fuhgeddaboutit. The annual 26.2-mile race is back, and the best thing is to simply embrace it and the fact that you will be staying right here. Verrazano bridge upper level will close
Neighbors
Police at the Union Temple of BrooklynPROSPECT HEIGHTS — Someone wrote anti-semitic messages, inside the Union Temple of Brooklyn at 17 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights near Grand Army Plaza. The temple was about to host a political event by Ilana Glazer of “Broad City”, which was canceled as the result.
News
This week, in response to the increased anti-semitism across the country, including the almost daily anti-semitic graffiti popping up across Brooklyn, many non-Jewish neighbors are planning to #ShowUpForShabbat [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/showupforshabbat?source=feed_text] to show solidarity with the Jewish community by attending a Friday night or
brownsville
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)CROWN HEIGHTS – The man who shot an killed Khadeem Anderson, 28, in a Crown Heights deli over the summer has been arrested, police confirmed this morning. Carlos Lysius, 36, of Coney Island was arrested in the killing, charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. The
Central Brooklyn
Subway car from the 1918 Malbone wreck.CreditNew York Transit MuseumPROSPECT HEIGHTS—Lawmakers and transit officials gathered outside the Willink Plaza Entrance of Prospect Park Thursday to remember the worst subway accident in New York’s history-the Malbone Street wreck [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/nyregion/100-years-after-new-yorks-deadliest-subway-crash.html]
bergen beach
Ralph Avenue Median replacement has started.FlATLANDS/BERGEN BEACH – Back in the Spring, NYC Department of Transportation presented their plan [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/ralph-avenue-apr2018.pdf] for how to make crossing Ralph Avenue safer, and now they are working on implementing the traffic calming measures. The
Bushwick
A forklift unloads new CitiBike docks into a warehouse in Bushwick (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – With the date for the L Train Shutdown announced by the city (April 27, 2019), it appears that the DOT is gearing up to expand Citi Bike coverage into Bushwick in the near future. Yesterday,
Bensonhurst
Naomi Levin Campaigns at a subway stop. Photo by Rosemary Misdary / Bklyner WESTERN BROOKLYN – In emerald heels, Naomi Levin fought for votes during the morning rush. Commuters muttered “no”, and avoided campaign cards in her outstretched hand, yet she remained undeterred. “My polls showed that a majority of voters in
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – The NYPD is searching for the suspect or suspects who scrawled hate symbols and racial slurs on the exterior of a residence on Garden Place near State Street on Tuesday. > @bethfertig [https://twitter.com/bethfertig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] @shaunking [https://twitter.com/shaunking?ref_src=twsrc%
Announcements
Kadia Goba and the stack of newspapersKENSINGTON-DITMAS PARK-FLATBUSH – We at Bklyner mostly think of ourselves as internet people, and we’ve been bringing you news about various Brooklyn neighborhoods for almost a decade, online. But we keep hearing from our readers and advertisers that neighbors miss the stories they care