News
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APolice_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that 28-year-old Crown Heights resident, Derek Goodings, has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting a man during the 2014 J’Ouvert celebration. Goodings made
Animals
Prospect Park Zoo’s Red Panda via Twitter [https://twitter.com/prospectparkzoo] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Prospect Park Zoo Steps Up to the #CuteAnimalTweetOff Challenge. [DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170126/upper-east-side/
Business
Image via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsanctuaryrestaurants.org&t=Sanctuary%20Restaurants] Local restaurant owners have joined forces with the national Sanctuary Restaurants movement in its mission to provide support and resources to restaurants, their workers and their customers. Two aid groups, ROC
Kids & Family
(Photo via Save Sunflower website [https://sites.google.com/view/savesunflower/who-to-call?authuser=0])The abrupt closure of a beloved Windsor Terrace daycare facility has left 30 families without childcare, 10 workers without employment, and both collectively owed more than $100,000 by its owners. On Friday, January 20, parents
News
Mayor de Blasio made his Vision Zero budget announcement at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, which will be among DOT’s targets for major safety improvements in 2017. (Photo via NYC DOT / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BPtHpTLj2sI/?tagged=visionzero])On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
community
Hot on the heels of President Trump’s signing executive orders [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/refugees-immigrants-wall-trump.html] to expand efforts to deport immigrants living in the country illegally, bar refugees from entering the United States, and build a wall along Mexico’s border, community leaders,
Neighbors
New York Daily News Front Page on January 26, 2017Mary Tyler Moore died [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html] yesterday. She was 80. We lost both an amazing actress and a staunch Brooklynite, but don’t take our word for it. When there was a
Business
Bar Granger, Gotham Market at The Ashland (Photo via Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Fort Greene’s Gotham Market [http://www.gothammarketashland.com/food-drink/] was packed with festive foodies celebrating the grand opening of the new food hall Wednesday night. Located on the ground floor of The Ashland (590 Fulton Street at
Business
Image via doverbrooklyn.com [http://www.doverbrooklyn.com/]As Pardon Me For Asking’s [http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/] Katia Kelly has been diligently reporting, there have recently been several stores opening and closing in and around Carroll Gardens. The neighborhood has had to say a fond farewell to quite a
Arts & Culture
Image via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sunnysredhook/photos/a.285948621570455.1073741828.282871245211526/478055812359734/?type=3&theater] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Quirky Red Hook Bar Sunny’s is Saved Again. [New York Times
News
Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz introduces NYCHA Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye as Assemblyman William Colton looks on. Via Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’s Office. Last Friday, January 20, marked the first delivery and installation of new GE refrigerators and Premier ranges at Marlboro Houses [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/?s=Marlboro+Houses] in
Education
The 8th graders at I.S. 98, the Bay Academy on Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, have just won $5,000 and Best in State among all middle school teams in the Verizon Innovative Learning app challenge [https://appchallenge.tsaweb.org/]. (Brooklyn Tech team took the prize among the High