DUMBO
DUMBO – Last year, The Time Out Group announced its plans to launch Time Out Market New York [/new-food-hall-coming-to-dumbos-empire-stores/] , a 21,000-square-foot, two-story venue at the Empire Stores featuring food vendors, three bars, rooftop access, a performance stage, and an exhibition space. Empire Stores (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)In November
Arts & Culture
Celebrate the start of spring by exploring various events throughout Brooklyn this weekend! With new art exhibitions premiering, such as a Ronald Hall’s Undisclosed: Visual Conversations and various music events like Revolution, Vol. 37 there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Plus, two exhibitions, ‘EN’ and the Park Slope/
Development
GOWANUS – The environmental review process for the Gowanus Draft Zoning Proposal [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus-framework.page#navigation] is underway, with the release on Friday of NYC Department of City Planning [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/index.page]‘s (DCP) Environmental Assessment Statement (EAS) and
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE — On Monday afternoon City Councilman Justin Brannan tweeted a skunk sighting. “Skunk amok in #Bay Ridge? I’m here for it,” the tweet read. Now Brooklyn’s favorite vegetarian lawmaker is turning his animal rights advocacy into legislation through a slate of animal rights bills. Brannan introduced legislation
Boerum Hill
[UPDATE: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 5:15pm] The Community Board 2 Borough-Based Jail System public hearing is scheduled for Thursday, April 11 from 5pm to 9pm at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, 357 Clermont Avenue. (Doors open at 4:30pm. Enter on Greene Avenue. Stair-free entrance on Clermont Avenue)
affordable housing
Roxanne Crumbley at her apartment.RED HOOK – Ten years after Roxanne Crumbley’s daughter showed signs of lead poisoning, her two-bedroom public housing apartment still has not been inspected for lead. Crumbley has lived in Red Hook West since 1991. Her problems began after she had her daughter, Angellina, and
affordable housing
CROWN HEIGHTS — Developers are converting a shuttered Weeksville School, Brooklyn’s first racially integrated school, to a fully-affordable apartment building, Bklyner has learned. Located at 1634 Dean St. at the corner of Schenectady Ave., the building closed two decades ago. Now the plans propose gut renovations and turning it into
Announcements
Photo: John Delaney/WCSCONEY ISLAND – The Polar Bear Plunge has come and gone and now so have the $60,000 in donations. The Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge announced that $60,000 raised by those participating in the icy plunge on New Year’s day, will be going to nine
Arts & Culture
CROWN HEIGHTS -There was standing room only in each of the sessions at the 2019 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium, held yesterday at Medgar Evers College. The attendees were excited, engaged, and unapologetically black as they embraced the day’s special guests and speakers. “I always feel extra black
Business
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN — These aren’t your momma’s biscuits. Christoper Gandsy adored his grandmother’s buttery biscuits, but he ran into trouble when he tried to duplicate her South Carolinian tradition for his family. “My wife has a gluten allergy and we wanted that southern experience,” said Gandsy owner,
affordable housing
The mostly black neighborhoods of Canarsie and East New York had the highest numbers of foreclosures in Brooklyn in 2017, and local officials blame the city’s foreclosure program. Created to help the city tackle urban blight, the Third Party Transfer program [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/development-programs/
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A man was shot and killed outside of a baby shower Friday night at the border of Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, according to police. Police identified Courtney Tingle, of Ft. Greene’s Walt Whitman Houses as the victim. NYPD responded to a 9-1-1 call at