affordable housing
The City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning voted yesterday to approve a residential upzoning [https://zap.planning.nyc.gov/projects/P2018K0303] that will allow for a 13-floor development with 278 rental apartments, a church, and retail at 312 Coney Island Avenue in Windsor Terrace. The Subcommittee’s vote was unanimous,
community
Whitney Hu at South Brooklyn Mutual Aid – Brooklyn Army Terminal – 11/28/20There is no typical week for South Brooklyn Mutual Aid [https://southbkmutualaid.com/] (SBKMA) founder Whitney Hu, but every week is chock full. Amid coordinating projects as diverse as a free toy store and a house cleaners’ collective,
Central Brooklyn
The Grand Army Plaza Christmas tree will be lit tomorrow, Dec 8. at 5:00pm. Liena Zagare/BklynerBrooklyn is at solid 4% COVID-19 infection rate based on data from the New York State. Of the 65,994 individuals tested, 2,765 tested positive in NYC, or 4.2%. 18,400
affordable housing
The proposed 840 Atlantic, opposite the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Vanderbilt Yard, would concentrate most of its bulk at the corner of Vanderbilt and Atlantic avenues. (Image: Vanderbilt Atlantic Holdings)A stepped-up 18-story building, with 316 rental apartments and two floors of commercial space, might replace a large plot mainly
affordable housing
1515 Surf Avenue in Coney Island. Renderings courtesy of the developer.LCOR [https://www.lcor.com/] announced today the preliminary details for its plans to build a new housing development at 1515 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, between Surf Avenue and Mermaid Avenue and W15th and W16th Streets. The company
Central Brooklyn
The winter holidays are going to feel different this year. Celebrations will likely be smaller, quieter, and less travel-heavy. At this point, most of us are probably used to editing our lives to comply with coronavirus safety measures; that doesn’t make it any less of a bummer. Without parties,
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Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] MADISON – An 18-year-old boy was stabbed to death over the weekend.
Central Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Democratic Party’s Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday night lasted over four hours [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1DPEZA03I]. But it took less than five minutes for the first shouting match to begin. Screenshot from Wednesday’s Zoom meeting.In a tense, interruption-filled exchange, Aaron Maslow, the
Announcements
Coney Island Ave and Foster Ave on this rainy day. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) The first week of December has come and gone. Before you know it, we’ll be in 2021. We hope you are staying safe and warm! Here are some stories to check out: * Have you tried
Business
Grill N Dine is the kind of place you could pass every day and never really notice. Nestled next to an antiques store along Coney Island Avenue’s long stretch of auto body shops, it’s just south of Cortelyou Road, a block down and across the street from the
Central Brooklyn
Pandemic has made all kinds of public meetings move online, and the Police Community Council (PCC) meetings are no exception. However, Sector Meetings have always been intended to be neighborhood-specific and more intimate, and the Sector NCOs (Neighborhood Coordinating Officers) are committed to holding them live. 70th Precinct NCOs held
COVID-19
Pandemic Response Lab at the Alexandria Center for Life Science. Manhattan. Wednesday, December 2, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.The vaccines are coming. The first doses are expected to arrive in the city just 12 days from now, Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning. It will first