News
Photo via tammysecho / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BMmOXzogwkr/?taken-at=61172945&hl=en]Neighbors in Park Slope often spoke about their nausea this morning. Two passersby on 5th Avenue near Berkeley place — one right after the other — told us they were “sick to their stomachs” about the reality
News
Photo courtesy e.ann.s / Instagram(This story was updated on 11/10/16 at 10am.) Here are the winning candidates in yesterday’s historic election. Candidate for President / Vice President Donald J. Trump / Michael R. Pence [http://votersedge.nyccfb.info/ny/en/ballot/election/44-fcc614/address/null/zip/11218/
News
Photo via bklynspoke / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BMl4vC_jZnN/?taken-by=bklynspoke&hl=en]The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. –Cuomo signs bill seeking to move NY
Central Brooklyn
Photo courtesy e.ann.s / InstagramCandidate for President / Vice President Donald J. Trump / Michael R. Pence [http://votersedge.nyccfb.info/ny/en/ballot/election/44-fcc614/address/null/zip/11218/contests/contest/12806/candidate/129869] (Republican) [Updated 11/10 with complete totals from the NYC Board of Elections] In Brooklyn, 595,
Bensonhurst
Photo via Army Corps of Engineers.The deadline to give input to the Army Corps of Engineers is November 17, but local politicians are pushing for it to be extended until the end of the year. Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz and other pols penned a letter to Colonel David A. Caldwell,
Announcements
A surge in development is transforming greater Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Kensington — three neighborhoods where historic homes [/blog/education/murder-house-33-hinckley-place-torn-make-way-new-school/] are being razed and replaced with multi-story apartment buildings [/blog/real-estate/modern-apartment-complex-replaces-single-family-home-east-18th-street/] , forever changing the density and physical fabric of this corner of Brooklyn. While some neighbors celebrate the
history
Screenshot of front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 18th, 1920, noting the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women in the United States the right to vote. (Courtesy Brooklyn Daily Eagle)Today marks the first time in American history that voters have the chance to vote
green
A still from YouTube user Saul W’s video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS1Qyk1WIwc] of Hurricane Sandy destruction in Sea Gate immediately following the stormOn Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a bill [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/862-16/mayor-de-blasio-signs-legislation-expediting-build-it-back-construction-work] introduced by Council Member Mark
Bensonhurst
A still from YouTube user Saul W’s video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS1Qyk1WIwc] of Hurricane Sandy destruction in Sea Gate immediately following the stormOn Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a bill [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/862-16/mayor-de-blasio-signs-legislation-expediting-build-it-back-construction-work] introduced by Council Member Mark
News
Photo via _truckbeats [https://www.instagram.com/p/BMjhdx2AAeO/?tagged=ivoted&hl=en]The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. –Rebels Beamed Anti-Trump ‘Star Wars’ Scroll By Darth Trump’
green
Photo via Army Corps of Engineers.The deadline to give input to the Army Corps of Engineers is November 17, but local politicians are pushing for it to be extended until the end of the year. Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz and other pols penned a letter to Colonel David A. Caldwell,
Bensonhurst
Spotted on a Manhattan-bound Q train. Photo by Hannah FrishbergHalfway through my Q train ride from Ditmas Park to Times Square last week, I noticed a subway poster that caught my eye: the Guardian Angels Perv Busters were seeking information on a man who masturbated on an N train before