Bed Stuy
Rendering of a new seven-story condominium building planned for 429 Tompkins Avenue. (Rendering from Isaac & Stern Architects)A new seven-story condominium building is coming to the corner of Tompkins Avenue and Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The new building, which is being developed by Dragonfly Developments LLC [https://www.dragonflydevelopmentsllc.
missing person
Please help find: 14-year-old Marisol Rivera form Brownsville Marisol RiveraPolice are asking for help finding 14-year-old Marisol Rivera, who was last seen around 11 pm on Jan, 3 2020 in Brownsville. According to police, Marisol is 5’6 tall and weighs 110 pounds. She was last seen wearing all dark
Education
Entrance to D20’s headquarters. Megan McGibney/BklynerWhen Karina Costantino, the longtime superintendent of District 20 (D20) in Southern Brooklyn, retired late last summer [/exclusive-school-district-20-superintendent-karina-costantino-to-retire/'], the search for her replacement was imminent. However, Alan Aja, the IEP representative on the district’s Community Education Council (CEC), noticed he was
brownsville
Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Yoav Gonen and Eileen Grench, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/3/22211709/nypd-cops-brooklyn-brownsville-experiment-defund-police] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] A Brooklyn community’s experiment to deal with a longstanding crime hotspot in a busy commercial corridor took
Central Brooklyn
The news this Monday morning could be better. January 3 numbers reported by NYS.Instead, New York state is approaching 9% infection rates (8.34%), City is at 9% by its own count, and the curve looks awfully close to exceeding the peak of what we saw in the spring.
News
Mariya Markh, a political liaison who previously worked for several Brooklyn Council Members, announced her campaign for the borough’s 48th Council District seat [https://www.markh2021.com/] on Monday. The District includes Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay and parts of Midwood. Markh, who most recently worked [https://www.
Health
Police outside the Morgan Ave stationSix women have reported being attacked while at the Morgan Ave L stop in Bushwick since Nov 17. The first victim of these assaults was a 24-year-old woman who reported she was approached by an unknown man on the stairs at the station and punched
Announcements
Ivett Rodriguez with son Jaxel, born at midnight on January 1st. Photo by NYC Health + Hospitals.New York City’s first baby of the year was delivered at Brooklyn’s NYC Health and Hospitals in Coney Island, bringing the borough new blessings after a long and trying 2020. Jaxel Rodriguez
Bed Stuy
UPDATE: The previously apprehended man has been identified by the NYPD as Dayquan Dubose. He has been charged with the murder of his grandfather, the 79-year old James Dubose as well as assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and injury to a minor. According to reporters at Newsweek [https://www.
News
District Leader Lori Maslow at a virtual Brooklyn Democratic Party event last month.A southern Brooklyn Democratic leader is facing calls to resign from her party post after tweets about China that many saw as racist and insensitive. On Saturday, Lori Maslow, a Democratic Party District Leader from Brooklyn’s
Neighbors
Roommates Nikko Lester, right, and Stephan Nylon Bartholomew, with their Alaskan husky Onyx, Dec. 18, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/3/22211797/racial-profiling-allegations-emerge-at-luxury-brooklyn-rental-building] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] For more than a
affordable housing
About a year and a half ago, four Brooklyn neighbors joined forces to help open more doors for those in desperate need of housing – residents with rental assistance vouchers (Section 8, CityFHEPS, FHEPS, HASA, SOTA to name a few). Launched on December 31, 2020, Unlock NYC [https://weunlock.nyc/] is