Business
Throttle-style e-bikes will remain banned in New York, while expensive pedal assist bikes may be legalized by the DOT (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last year, Mayor De Blasio announced a crackdown on e-bikes, stating that NYPD would begin issuing tickets to riders and confiscating electrically powered bikes, which have been illegal
Announcements
BARCLAYS CENTER – Mayor de Blasio announced on Thursday [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/189-18/transcript-mayor-de-blasio-expansion-neighborhood-policing-nyc-subways] that the Neighborhood Coordination Officer (NCO) Program [/nypds-78th-precinct-rolls-neighborhood-coordination-officer-program-brooklyn-museum/] will expand down into the subway system, starting with Transit District 12 in the Bronx and Transit District 30 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/
Gowanus
SUNSET PARK – Police are looking for a suspect who engaged in an act of public lewdness on a southbound N train earlier this week. According to reports from a 31-year old woman, the man boarded the N train at 59th Street Station in Sunset Park, and sat across from her,
Central Brooklyn
Good weather and bad subways could mean more bike ridership in Brooklyn (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * Sketchy Subways: Man Draws Every New York City Subway Station [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drawing-every-new-york-city-subway-station] [Atlas Obscura] * Taco Bell Gets Boozy in Bushwick [https://patch.com/new-york/bushwick/new-bushwick-taco-bell-now-serving-boozy-slushies] [Patch] * Gentrification, Policing, and the
Arts & Culture
MARINE PARK – This Sunday, April 15th (@2pm), kicks off the first of three free Sunday lectures at the Hendrick I. Lott House [http://lotthouse.org]. As recently as 120 years ago, most of current day Brooklyn was quite rural, and Lott House is one of last surviving farmhouses of the
community
GOWANUS – Following a candlelight vigil Tuesday evening [/candlelight-vigil-held-to-save-gowanus-station/] to protest the city’s proposed demolition of the historic Gowanus Station building, the New York City Council has voted to allow the Department of Environmental Protection [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml] (DEP) to seize the property
News
Councilmember Antonio Reynoso addresses those gathered for the inaugural “Bike Train” commute over the Williamsburg Bridge (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)WILLIAMSBURG – At the corner of Hope and Union this morning, about 30 cyclists gathered at 8:00 am, drinking coffee and listening to music on a portable speaker before their commute.
Business
GOWANUS – After a transformer explosion forced the owners of A&E Supply Co. to temporarily shut down their business a few months following their February 2017 launch [/danny-meyer-alums-bring-new-food-emporium-ae-supply-co-gowanus/], subsequent financial strains resulting from the power outage ultimately left them no choice but to shutter the venue for good. >
Central Brooklyn
Erasmus Hall High School is located at 911 Flatbush Ave. (Photo/ Google Maps) FLATBUSH – An Erasmus Hall High School teacher has been arraigned on a 25-count indictment charging him with sexually abusing a 16-year old boy on multiple occasions, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced yesterday. Mervyn Affoon, 66, a business
News
Update: Oct. 5, 2018 The Board of Elections finally released the official count to confirm Mathylde Frontus as the winner with 51 votes. Frontus beat out her opponent Ethan Lustig-Elgraby with 3,792 votes to his 3,741 votes. In what is expected to be a hotly contested race for
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Bensonhurst
Firefighters work to contain the blaze in a Bensonhurst home (Via NYC 911 NEWS LLC)BENSONHURST – A four-alarm fire is burning in a Bensonhurst residence, FDNY confirmed this afternoon. As of 4:45 pm, the fire on the second floor was not yet under control, said the FDNY. There have
Greenpoint
The long-awaited North Brooklyn Traffic Study, a project from the NYC Department of Transportation, funded in conjunction by Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-33), has finally arrived. Last night, DOT staff presented their findings and recommendations to Community Board 1 in Williamsburg—which elicited mixed reactions from residents, who packed the meeting