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GREENPOINT — Politics podcasts aren’t just for policy wonks these days. The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of which Brooklyn’s U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney is vice chair is starting a podcast dubbed The Economic Explainer. The podcast [https://www.blubrry.com/economicexplainer/44187450/the-credit-card-act-turns-10/] looks to demystify the impact
Arts & Culture
There are a handful of indoor and outdoor events throughout Brooklyn this Memorial Day weekend. Dance the night away at a silent disco at The Well or celebrate Memorial Day with a concert featuring The New York City Symphonic Band at Green-Wood Cemetery. This is also the last weekend to
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS — It’s the changing of the guards at Central Brooklyn’s Underhill Walls — the 17-panel art display near the Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] that attracts onlookers throughout the borough and beyond. This year, Jeff Beler, the curator, and 16 other artists cooked up an Urban
Gowanus
GOWANUS – Comments regarding the NYC Department of City Planning [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus-framework.page#navigation] ‘s (DCP) Draft Scope of Work [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/applicants/scoping-documents.page] for the Gowanus Neighborhood Rezoning [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus-framework.page#
Arts & Culture
DUMBO – Live At The Archway [https://dumbo.is/live-at-the-archway], the performance and art series staged under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, returns for a fifth season presenting free programming on Thursday nights for 11 weeks throughout the summer. Live at the Archway, September 15, 2017, © Julienne SchaerThis year’s series
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Three years ago, Barbara Boon rented a room in Crown Heights for $975 a month on exrny.com – an online portal for apartment-seeking New Yorkers. With two dogs in tow, she moved into her spacious 3-bedroom share. Three years later she discovered she and her two apartment mates
Coney Island
Red Hook (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * Three Luna Park Housing Corp. Officials Indicted for Conspiring to Receive Bribes, Forge Documents to Corrupt the Process by Which Mitchell-Lama Apartments are Acquired [http://www.brooklynda.org/2019/05/21/three-luna-park-housing-corp-officials-indicted-for-conspiring-to-receive-bribes-forge-documents-to-corrupt-the-process-by-which-mitchell-lama-apartments-are-acquired/] – Brooklyn DA. 78 count indictment included accepting approximately $87
Events
Lott farm field in 1923. Catherine Lott/A. LooryaFLATLANDS / MARINE PARK – Farming was a way of life in much what is now known as Brooklyn until about 150 years ago. A few of those farms, all located in southern Brooklyn, have survived the city changing around them. Farm work at
Bed Stuy
BEDFORD STUYVESANT — Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul came to Bedford Stuyvesant Monday to highlight a $175 million initiative that will boost funding to the workforce development programs across New York state. Hochul joined Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. at Per Scholas. Kadia Goba/Bklyner The initiative aims to help improve the pipeline
affordable housing
FORT GREENE – The application process will launch next week for 108 units at an LGBT-friendly affordable senior residence at 112 St. Edwards Street (at Myrtle Avenue) in Fort Greene, 6sqft [https://www.6sqft.com/in-fort-greene-nations-largest-lgbt-senior-development-will-open-affordable-housing-lottery/] first reported. Ingersoll Senior Housing rendering by LiFang via Marvel Architects [https://marvelarchitects.com/work/
Announcements
Following an international design competition launched in January [/logo-design-competition-for-pops/], the Department of City Planning [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/index.page] (DCP), The Municipal Art Society of New York [https://www.mas.org/] (MAS), and Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space [https://www.mas.org/initiatives/advocates-for-privately-owned-public-space/] (APOPS) announced
Big Story
PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Scoops, an ice cream parlor and vegetarian shop in PLG that opened in 1984, faces eviction in an area undergoing rapid gentrification and neighbors are upset. Scoops and Plates Photo: Kadia Goba/BklynerThe news first broke on a closed Facebook group. Stefan Sirucek posted that the business, located