Business
The new space boasts an open-concept layout, bright yellow accents, and hand-painted table signage. Courtesy of POWERHOUSEToday is the opening day of a brand new, 2,300 square-foot bookstore in Sunset Park. Located inside the Food Hall at Building No 2 (220 36th Street), this is the third POWERHOUSE location
Central Brooklyn
Neighbors, elected officials and housing advocates gathered outside of 1616 President St. Wednesday evening to protest a mass eviction threatened by landlord Jason Korn. Photo by Alex Williamson/BklynerThe city’s worst landlord warned tenants at one of his distressed properties in Brooklyn that they have 14 days to call
Central Brooklyn
Nostrand Playground’s current layout from NYC Parks Department. The proposed community center would be on Farragut Place where the turf fields are now.Over 120 attendees asked questions and made suggestions for the new recreation center in East Flatbush at a Parks Department’s virtual meeting Thursday night. The
Announcements
Blackout in Mill Basin, July 21, 2019 (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)Con Edison is facing $25 million in penalties and possible license revocation from the NYS Public Service Commission because of the massive power outages in Manhattan and Brooklyn last year, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced. In July of 2019, Con
Central Brooklyn
By Josefa Velasquez, Rachel Holliday Smith, and Greg B. Smith, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/11/19/21578783/new-york-hospitals-brace-for-covid-wave] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] As the number of COVID-19 cases nationally reaches new heights [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54966531]
Central Brooklyn
Statewide Positivity Rate is 2.72%, NYC is 2.53%, and Brooklyn is at 2.4%, second-lowest in the city and holding steady. 7-day positivity in Brooklyn is 2.2%. Statewide, 32 people died from COVID-19 yesterday, of whom 7 in NYC and of those, 4 in Brooklyn. For the
Bed Stuy
CROWN HEIGHTS – Police are asking for help finding 66-year-old Anthony Monderson, who was reported missing on November 17, but was last seen on Friday, November 6. Photo of Anthony Monderson. Courtesy of DCPI.Monderson was last leaving his residence at approximately 10:00 on Friday, November 6 in Crown Heights.
affordable housing
Rendering of proposed development at 959 Sterling Place from Hope Street Capital The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] decided on Tuesday to postpone its vote on a proposal to build a seven-story residential building next to the historic Methodist Home for the
bath beach
Assemblyman William Colton. Zainab Iqbal/BklynerIn the lead-up to New York’s state primary election on June 23rd, most Brooklynites were focused on the several close races for State Senate and Assembly seats or on whether the Board of Elections could handle a surge in mail-in ballots [https://www.nytimes.
Central Brooklyn
Brooklyn, we should be proud. All that mask-wearing and distance keeping and following annoying restrictions mean we are at a 2.2% infection rate, against the city’s 2.5% or 3.00% 7-day averages (first one from Governor, Second from Mayor). Governor eliminated the Brooklyn Orange zone today, turning
Central Brooklyn
Bedford Av L line entrance on Mon., October 19, 2020. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitMTA presented today its best case and doomsday plans and projections for the coming [https://new.mta.info/document/24121]years: proposed 2021 budget and four-year financial plan reflects the worst financial
Election 2020
Andrew Gounardes. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)State Senator Andrew Gounardes declared victory Wednesday afternoon in his fight for reelection to New York’s 22nd State Senate District. > As the vote count comes to a close, it’s clear that our community has given me the incredible honor of being