Carroll Gardens
Real estate blog PropertyShark recently released its first quarter (January 1 – March 31, 2019) report of NYC’s 50 priciest neighborhoods with top-ten regular DUMBO being joined by the Columbia Street Waterfront District and Carroll Gardens. Via Property Shark [https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/priciest-NYC-neighborhoods]As usual, Tribeca came in
Announcements
EAST FLATBUSH — After Friday’s disclosure deadline, three women lead the pack in projected matching funds for the special election in the 45th council district. Council District 45Monique Chandler-Waterman, running on the A Vital Voice party line, came in first with $192,848. The non-profit executive submitted $24,106 in
Boerum Hill
FORT GREENE – Brooklyn Community Board 2 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb2/index.page] hosted the first ULURP public hearing for the Brooklyn Detention Center Thursday at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene. Brooklyn Detention Center, 275 Atlantic Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Last month the NYC Planning
News
EAST FLATBUSH — Brooklynites must register by Friday, April 19, to cast a ballot in the upcoming special election. Photo via ljoywilliams / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGfCKzQIaSz/?tagged=brooklynvotes&hl=en]You can register here [https://voterreg.dmv.ny.gov/MotorVoter/] for the May 14 special election. Find
Crown Heights
CROWN HEIGHTS — We have already told you about Izzy’s opening up its third business — a fried chicken spot— in Crown Heights [/izzys-fried-chicken-to-open-in-crown-heights/]. Here’s the scoop on what’s ahead among the growing retail spaces in the neighborhood. Nostrand Avenue Bar & Lounge at 818-822 Nostrand Avenue (Photo credit:
Food & Drink
PARK SLOPE – A new French bistro opened in March on the 5th Avenue corner previously occupied by Café Wolf and two former Gallic eateries—Chagall and Belleville. Le Mistral, 330 5th Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Named after the fierce wind [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_(wind)] that gusts
Bushwick
Attendees at the Bushwick Community Plan rollout event [/residents-propose-bushwick-community-plan-for-rezoning-to-tame-development/] (Chase Brush/Bklyner)BUSHWICK – From 2008 to 2018, the median price of a Bushwick home jumped 84 percent [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-25/brooklyn-s-bushwick-zooms-up-list-of-priciest-nyc-neighborhoods] , making rent more and more unaffordable for those who have been there longest. High-rise, luxury
Announcements
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order eliminating plastic from city agencies, mostly utensils and other plastics from school cafeterias and city commissaries at a recycling plant in Sunset Park. Todd Maisel/BklynerSUNSET PARK – Mayor de Blasio signed an executive order at the Sims Municipal Recycling Center in Sunset
Business
More than 50 Park Slope restaurants and bars convened on April 10th at the Grand Prospect Hall for the legendary food-and-drink festival A TASTE OF FIFTH.PARK SLOPE – If you ever wished to be able to walk up and down Fifth Avenue in Park Slope and sample the food of
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK – The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] (LPC) rejected Starling Architecture [https://www.starlingarchitecture.com/]‘s design for a new restaurant pavilion that will be built adjacent to the 1926 Marine Fire Boat Station at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Via Starling Architecture’
Arts & Culture
The temperature’s starting to heat up and so are the events around Brooklyn! Celebrate Record Store Day with live musical performances at Rough Trade NYC or spend the day outside ringing in the Bengali New Year at Avenue C Plaza. Plus, this is the last weekend to check out
News
BROOKLYN — It’s happening. Councilman Joe Borelli of Staten Island (Photo: Compliments of City Council)City Councilman Joe Borelli, a Republican, will run for public advocate, Bkyner has learned. When this publication reached out to the Staten Island lawmaker to ask about his potential candidacy, he responded, “Get ready.” There