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The corner of Hewes and South 3rd Streets, where yesterday’s gunfight broke out (Screenshot via Google Maps)WILLIAMSBURG – A gunfight erupted on a Williamsburg streetcorner just after midday yesterday, leaving a young man dead and two more in the hospital. Around 12:45 pm on Wednesday, May 24, police
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN – Yesterday, a body was spotted floating in the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, the NYPD confirmed. Officers from the 84th Precinct responded to a call of a man in the water at 9:30 am on Wednesday, May 23, said police. An NYPD Harbor unit transported the body
bath beach
Photo courtesy of Poké NomBENSONHURST/BATH BEACH – Where there is one, there will be more – places offering poke bowls seem to be popping up all over Brooklyn and not just north of the Park [/bowled-over-3-new-bowl-eateries-to-try-in-brooklyn/], this spring. Poke Nom [https://www.yelp.com/biz/poke-nom-brooklyn] opened at the beginning of
Events
We, along with hundreds of others watched the boats come in today for Fleet Week, which runs through May 29. As always, Fort Hamilton saluted with 11 cannon balls saluting USS Arlington – almost as exiting as the boats for the many schoolchildren in attendance. USS Arlington passes under Verrazano BridgeThis
Central Brooklyn
Pleasantly arranged pipes on a Brooklyn building (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)With the reveal of the MTA’s massive plan [https://www.amny.com/transit/subway-service-plan-1.18682931] to update the subway system, residents better brace for a whole lot of overnight and weekend closures: here’s how your commute might be
Education
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza (left) at a press conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio. Photo by Christina Veiga.By Alex Zimmerman, [https://www.chalkbeat.org/author/azimmerman/]Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/05/22/new-york-city-lawmakers-press-richard-carranza-on-paid-parental-leave-counselors-and-school-accessibility/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] Richard
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The end of North Henry Street in Greenpoint will serve as DSNY’s new special waste disposal site (Screenshot via Google Maps)GREENPOINT – Next month, the industrial end of North Brooklyn will become the new home of a “special waste” drop off site where New York residents can dispose of
Bed Stuy
Majority Leader Cumbo visited Medgar Evers Prep yesterday to announce results and present oversized checks for winning projects (Via @NYC Council [https://twitter.com/NYCCouncil] Twitter)CROWN HEIGHTS – City Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo paid a visit to a Crown Heights high school to announce the winning projects from Participatory
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Opening soon in Ditmas ParkMartin Raskin, a 77-year-old retired teacher who grew up in Brownsville and taught at Canarsie High School says “I’m a little bit compulsive,” of his collection of school related items offering a trip down memory lane (for some) of what schools used to be like,
Greenpoint
A rendering of the proposed timber bridge looking from Greenpoint towards Queens, demonstrating the pivot action (Via Crème)GREENPOINT – An ambitious North Brooklyn design firm is raising money to explore a major project over Newtown Creek: a wooden pedestrian bridge spanning the waterway. The project, which launched on Kickstarter [https:
Bed Stuy
Near the corner of Myrtle and Broadway, where the weekend’s overdoses occurred (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE (5/22/18): Following the wave of overdoses along the Bed-Stuy and Bushwick border stemming from synthetic cannabinoids, police have made 13 arrests in the last two days for the sale of
Bed Stuy
The Eleanor Roosevelt playground in Bed-Stuy where a man was shot late last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE (5/22/18): Earlier this month, 29-year old Johnny Mathis was shot and killed at the Eleanor Roosevelt playground in Bed-Stuy, just half a block from his apartment in the Roosevelt