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Business
[UPDATED: Friday, June 7, 2019 at 7:15pm] Woodland’s General Manager, Pedro Yamasaki, contacted Bklyner Friday evening to tell us that a judge lifted the Emergency Order of Suspension and that the venue is back to normal operations. A representative for SLA confirmed that the business was granted a
Education
BROWNSVILLE — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday for the second time on the radio dismissed a high school student from Brooklyn who called out his inaction on desegregating New York City’s public schools, telling her she didn’t understand his position. Tiffani Torres, on the mayor’s weekly WNYC
Boerum Hill
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Yesterday, on the anniversary of Kalief Browder [/inmates-in-the-dark-and-cold-at-brooklyn-federal-prison/]’s death after being held on Rikers Island for three years, dozens of Brooklyn residents gathered at Brooklyn Borough Hall to let Borough President Eric Adams know how they felt about the city’s ULURP proposition to expand a jail
Business
SUNSET PARK – NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center opened its doors Friday morning for a tour showcasing state-of-the-art technologies and services that will make it the premier cancer treatment facility in Brooklyn. NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center—Sunset Park. Alex Colletta/Bklyner Perlmutter Cancer Center is a
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK- This weekend and into early next, those looking for a parking spot will have a harder time. CHINA will be filming on Argyle between Cortelyou and Beverley and will take up the better part of the block. The signs request you move cars by 7pm on Saturday, June
Central Brooklyn
Middle school students march and chant during walkout (Image via Sam Raskin/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS— Students and teachers walked out of a central Brooklyn middle school school Friday, in a call to action against gun violence. Friday marked the third year that more than 200 middle schoolers at Launch Expeditionary
community
Photo Credit: Erica Krodman/Brooklyn BP’s OfficeBOROUGH HALL – On Wednesday afternoon, Borough President Eric Adams recognized four Brooklyn residents – State Trooper Joshua Kaye, Jacob Abraham, Hopeton Kiffin, and Obocho Peters – with awards for exceptional, heroic behavior. The ceremony was held in the marbled Borough Hall rotunda, decked out in
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGERRITSEN BEACH – “Drag queens are robbing children of their innocence,” people shouted outside the Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn Public Library branch on Thursday. Inside, a small room was packed with children listening to a drag queen read It’s Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr. Everyone was
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – Join Artichoke Dance Company [https://www.artichokedance.org/] next Saturday, June 15, for Gowanus Visions, a day of free performances, workshops, and activities to raise awareness of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup [/epa-outlines-next-steps-in-gowanus-superfund-cleanup/] and planned neighborhood rezoning [/cb6-grills-city-planning-on-gowanus-rezoning/]. Lynn Neuman, the Director of Artichoke Dance, has lived a few
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – After 11 years at 45 4th Avenue, the non-profit community dance and youth development center Dancewave [https://dancewave.org/] has moved a few blocks south and will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony and block party to celebrate its new home. Dancewave, 182 4th Avenue, via Google MapsLocated at 182 4th
Nonsponsored
Rep. Max Rose at an Association for a Better New York event (via Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)LOWER MANHATTAN—Rep. Max Rose said Thursday there is a bias in Washington against New York City that works against its residents’ interests. Rose—a first-year Congressman who represents Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, and
Arts & Culture
No matter what you’re in the mood for, there are events for everyone this weekend throughout Brooklyn! Learn a new skill at Blick Art Materials with their Golden Silhouette workshop or go back in time with New York Transit Museum’s annual Bus Festival. Plus, this is the last