Central Brooklyn
Red-tailed hawk spotted in Park Slope (Photo: Nathan Haselby)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and subscribe [/subscribe/]. If you have news tips, story
Central Brooklyn
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Education
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Citing concerns about the carcinogenic effects of processed meats like baloney, city lawmakers want to ban the lunchmeats from New York school lunches. Resolution 238 [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3458218&GUID=E2D39627-1649-42BB-AF90-A7E364FE5329&Options=ID|Text|&Search=238] would
Central Brooklyn
Lamont Wright was sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder of his ex-girlfriend (Via District Attorney’s Office)After being convicted of murder earlier this month, today Lamont Wright of East Flatbush was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison today, for the 2016 murder of his
Bed Stuy
WILLIAMSBURG – Yesterday, a Williamsburg man was arrested for running over his girlfriend’s leg with a minivan after a fight, police said. Larry Crump, 34, was having an argument with his 35-year old girlfriend while sitting in a van on Roebling Street, near South 8th Street around 2:30 am,
Central Brooklyn
Flatbush Avenue during Wednesday’s nor’easter, March 21, 2018 (Photo: Nathan Haselby) * Queens Council Member Wants To Ban Smoking While Walking [http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2018/03/21/smoking-while-walking-bill] [NY1] * ‘Testilying’—When Police Officers Lie [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-police-perjury-new-york.html] [New
Business
Credit: GREENE HILL FOOD CO-OPCLINTON HILL – Facing the loss of their longtime lease, members of a Brooklyn cooperative grocery store are fighting to stay together and find a new home for their business. After learning that the building they have operated out of since 2011 had been sold, the board
News
Is your employer calling you up after hours? Has the work/life balance disappeared in the face of texts, Facebook messages, emails and Slack notifications? Feeling constantly connected to work—and beholden to employers—is a big problem for plenty of residents trying to get a little R&R
Bushwick
A rendering of the proposed development in the Broadway Triangle (Image via Dept of City Planning)WILLIAMSBURG – A lawsuit filed against the developers of the Pfizer site development at Broadway Triangle has halted construction temporarily at the controversial construction project. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a coalition of
Greenpoint
A rendering of the new apartments that will make use of the old church at 120 Java Street (Rendering via SL Development)GREENPOINT – The old brick church at 120 Java Street will be getting a dramatic upgrade as it’s converted into apartments, renderings reveal. The property will retain much
Coney Island
CONEY ISLAND – The 626 Sheepshead Bay road building [https://www.google.com/maps/place/626+Sheepshead+Bay+Rd,+Brooklyn,+NY+11224/@40.5790263,-73.9776931,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c244496d83707f:0x8c26f7ef3eaf42e7!8m2!3d40.5790263!4d-73.9755044] at the new Cammeby’s office and retail center, part of the
Eastern Brooklyn
Looking north at Utica and Avenue L, where the accident took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATLANDS – Last week, a 75-year old woman was struck and killed by a car in Flatlands, police confirmed today. Officers responded to a call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian around 9: