Announcements
WILLIAMSBURG – This coming Saturday and Sunday, January 12th and 13th from 10 am to 2 pm, Domino Park (South 3rd @ Kent Ave.) is inviting all neighbors to bring their naked Christmas trees to the first Mulchfest at the new park. Your tree will be turned into mulch chips, and you’
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Council Member Stephen Levin, and Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon will join neighbors on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade Saturday morning, January 12, to demand a “community-driven solution” for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) rehabilitation project. Via A Better Way NYC – Facebook
Announcements
National Grid TrucksBAY RIDGE — National Grid is in doing some work along 3rd Avenue Bay Ridge. You may smell gas. The gas company is working in the area of 3rd Avenue Between 74th and 80th Streets. Work is scheduled to take place between of 8:00 am and 8:00
Announcements
Steven H. Pollard died in the line of duty on Monday, January 7, 2019. (Photo credit: FDNY)MARINE PARK — The 61st Precinct [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/61st-precinct.page] announced road closures ahead of funeral services for fallen FDNY Firefighter Steven H. Pollard. The funeral will
News
Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers his sixth State of the City address at the Symphony Space in Manhattan on Thursday, January 10, 2017. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeBROOKLYN — Mayor de Blasio wants all New Yorkers to have a better quality of life, and Hizzoner is making sure that happens one
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – One Clinton [https://www.oneclintonbk.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw5OV8Pbj3wIVmY3ICh3zUw00EAAYASAAEgIxn_D_BwE] , the 38-story tower replacing the Brooklyn Heights Library at 280 Cadman Plaza West and Clinton Street, recently launched sales for some of the development’s 134 luxury condos. 280 Cadman Plaza West rendering [http://280cadman.com] via Marvel
Central Brooklyn
250 Parkville Avenue owned by Eric Silverstein (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Just a couple days before Christmas, former Public Advocate Letitia James released the annual Worst Landlords list for the year 2018. In the years past, the list was usually published by Thanksgiving, except in 2011. But Ms. James was
Bay Ridge
NEW YORK – Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that Coney Island will finally get ferry service as part of a Coney Island-Bay Ridge-Manhattan route. “Every day millions of us lose minutes, sometimes hours, just getting to work or to school or wherever we have to be,” de Blasio said during
Arts & Culture
[UPDATED: Friday, January 11, 2019 at 9:30am] Festival organizers have informed Bklyner that Dominic Fumusa’s interview with Gila Almagor has been cancelled. Fumusa will be joined by Film Professor Stuart Weinstock instead, for a post-film roundtable discussion. COBBLE HILL – Dominic Fumusa [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Fumusa]
history
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – After launching a contest last fall [/name-the-brooklyn-public-library-eagle/] to name the cast-copper eagle sitting above the entrance of the Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] has announced the winning moniker. Brooklyn Historical Society gifted the cast-copper eagle, Ingersoll, to Brooklyn Public Library (Photo: Nathan Haselby)Ingersoll
Arts & Culture
This weekend delivers plays, musical performances, the return of the Brooklyn Podcast Festival, and two family-friendly events at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO. Check the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around town or to list one of your own. Opera On Tap: Opera
Business
Signs were taken down throughout the city by business owners fearing fines. (Photo: Justin Mitchell/BKLYNER).City Councilmember Rafael Espinal’s Awnings Act [https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3458219&GUID=B0C7E025-D09E-4A05-A48B-7BCB7EBE7E33&Options=&Search=] overwhelmingly passed the City Council Wednesday, providing relief to small businesses