Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Last night, a city sanitation truck hit and critically injured a bicyclist on a Bushwick street. The crash took place around 8:45 pm on Wednesday, August 1, said police, and involved a woman in her 20s. The cyclist was northbound on Evergreen Street, near Menahan, when the truck,
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE – A NYPD maintenance worker was killed on his way to work Wednesday morning after a tire flew off a truck and smashed into his vehicle on the Gowanus Expressway. The incident occurred just after 6:30am, a police representative said. The 64-year-old male victim was driving a Toyota
Borough Park
Source: Joe Gratz / FlickrAn East New York man has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking and rape after allegedly forcing a 14-year old girl into prostitution across Brooklyn earlier this year. Travis Walker, 28, has been charged with sex trafficking, first-, second-, third- and fourth-degree promoting prostitution, second- and
News
A rendering of the proposed condominium project coming to 21 Powers Street (Via GE-T Architects)WILLIAMSBURG – A new condo project is back underway on a residential side street in Williamsburg, work resuming after the resolution of a stop work order. Now, a new rendering offers a preview of the finished
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CROWN HEIGHTS – Two suspects robbed a 60-year old man in the hallway of his Crown Heights residence on Monday, firing a gunshot in the process. The incident occurred just before 1:00 pm on Monday, July 30, in the area of Lincoln Place and Buffalo Avenue, said police. The two
Central Brooklyn
Lounging on a Luna Park picnic table (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Many people find fault with the changes in development and new buildings in Brooklyn, but many of them are quite impressive architecturally, if not downright cool… Here’s a list of the most beautiful new buildings in Brooklyn. [https://thebridgebk.
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerDITMAS PARK – Wirdah Khan, an 18-year-old soon-to-be freshman at Brooklyn College, won the Joseph E. Mohbat Prize for Writing for an essay on what the #MeToo movement means to her. [https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/3a71d654-5d3f-438a-ad3d-c6c6282cb3b5] “Can you hear that? She’s fairly loud — you can
Announcements
FLATBUSH – There’s a pedestrian plaza coming to Hillel Place from Kenilworth Place to Flatbush Avenue! The plaza will be located across the new entrance of the Tow Center for the Performing Arts. [/the-hillel-gate-entrance-to-the-brooklyn-college-opens-monday/] Construction has already begun, and the roads have been closed for good and construction is expected
Announcements
A workshop of Handel’s Ariodante at National Sawdust (Via Jill Steinberg/National Sawdust [https://nationalsawdust.org/])WILLIAMSBURG – The music and performance venue National Sawdust, located in Williamsburg, has announced the line-up for its fourth season, which will feature more than 25 new works. The non-profit venue on Wythe Avenue,
Announcements
A Revel scooter outside the companies offices at 12 Cypress Avenue in Bushwick (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – Sixty-eight shiny new electric scooters are hitting the streets of North Brooklyn in the next few days as Revel launches its pilot program for a ride-sharing business aiming for the space between CitiBike
Arts & Culture
The Brownsville Arts Center and Apartments rendering (By Aufgang Architects) BROWNSVILLE – A billion dollar development is headed for Brownsville, bringing an arts center and nearly 900 affordable housing units across three buildings to the neighborhood, to be built on city-owned sites. The Brownsville Arts Center & Apartments will contain 230
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerPROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN – Cynthia Nixon endorsed Council Member Jumaane Williams for Lieutenant Governor and Williams endorsed Nixon for the next Governor of New York yesterday. “Cynthia is the leader we need right now,” Williams said. “She’s been a fighter and I have been a fighter. That’