Navy Yards
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Monday morning to celebrate the launch of NYC Ferry [https://www.ferry.nyc/] service at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Dock 72 [/nyc-ferry-navy-yard-stop/]. > Happy Launch Day! Our Brooklyn Navy Yard Stop is officially in service! We are so excited to be
Announcements
GOWANUS – The Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG) [https://gowanuscag.org/] will host a town hall on Wednesday, May 29 to update the public on the Gowanus Canal Superfund clean-up. Designated a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222] (EPA)
Business
PARK SLOPE – For those Park Slopers and others who never get Thai-rd of SkyIce, good news! As Bklyner reported [/food-news-skyice-opens-new-location-kbh-and-gristmill-close-more/] last week, the iconic eatery in now preparing to open a second, larger venue at 437 Fifth Avenue (between 8th & 9th Streets) in the former home of Sai Thai
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT PARK – The Brooklyn Community Board 6 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] Transportation Committee unanimously approved NYC Department of Transportation [https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml]‘s (DOT) proposal to install a protected bike lane on Flatbush Avenue between Grand Army Plaza and
News
CROWN HEIGHTS – Police are looking for suspects in connection to a shooting Thursday night that took the life of Jamal Simms of Crown Heights. Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] NYPD officers responded to reports of a man
affordable housing
Sarit Platkin of the DCP presented updates atCB4 meeting. Aditi Shrikant/Bklyner BUSHWICK – Wednesday night, the Department of City Planning presented an update to the Bushwick rezoning plan, only to be confronted with questions about affordable housing and general frustrations about how this plan would most likely displace longtime residents.
Announcements
The Popular® Brooklyn Half [https://www.facebook.com/events/2704914096191306/] will kick off at 7am on Saturday, May 18 with more than 25,000 runners sprinting from the Brooklyn Museum all the way down to Coney Island. Popular Brooklyn Half 2019 via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/events/2704914096191306/]Runners
News
CROWN HEIGHTS — Elected officials rallied Thursday to make the historic Weeksville Heritage Center [https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/] part of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs after lack of private funding threatened the Crown Heights house museum’s existence. Weeksville Heritage Center by Nic LehouxThe city agency currently provides funding
Education
Parents and activists outside the courtroom today. Megan McGibney/BklynerBEDFORD STUYVESANT – Bedford-Stuyvesant’s small but successful P.S. 25 Eubie Blake will remain open.The Department of Education decided this morning to keep the high performing school running, right before a hearing at Kings County Supreme Court in which Judge
Announcements
CLINTON HILL – Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/summer/] will present a packed schedule of outdoor programs this summer including lunchtime concerts, fitness classes, kids’ activities, and more. A live performance at Myrtle Avenue Plaza in 2018 (Photo: Samuel Stuart, courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)All of the
Big Story
PARK SLOPE – Amid much anticipation, Mayor Bill de Blasio, our Park Slope neighbor, finally announced his bid to become the 46th president of the United States and some Brooklyn electeds think the idea is pretty hairy. “I have a better chance of regrowing a head of hair than he has
Business
PARK SLOPE – A third outpost of Cinnamon Girl [https://www.facebook.com/Cinnamon-Girl-178436148840919/] has opened at 80 6th Avenue in the storefront that previously housed Muscle Maker Grill, Fiat Café, and Cubana Café. Cinnamon Girl, 80 6th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)The bake shop/café/grocer debuted at 277