Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – After plans to erect a nine-foot-high brick wall [/cb6-tables-developers-planned-9-foot-high-wall-at-lich-condo-site/] along Amity Street were tabled at a Brooklyn Community Board 6 Landmarks & Land Use Committee [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/landmarks-land-use.page] meeting in October, Fortis Property Group [https://fortispropertygroup.com/] developed an alternate plan to
Development
420 Kent’s section of waterfront park, as seen from the East River Ferry (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)As the high-rise towers at 420 Kent get ready to open in 2019, the waterfront esplanade, which will join the project to a series of parks and developments running the length of the
Business
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Just northeast of downtown Brooklyn sits the Brooklyn Navy Yard [https://brooklynnavyyard.org], home to a museum, a whiskey distillery, carpenters, fashion designers, and fishmongers, situated not far from three NYCHA developments—Whitman, Farragut, and Ingersoll Houses. Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 92, 63 Flushing Avenue (Photo: Ann
Arts & Culture
PARK SLOPE/SUNSET PARK – Photographer Larry Racioppo [http://larryracioppo.com/index.html] loves his native Brooklyn and has made it his life’s work for nearly 50 years to document the borough’s transforming neighborhoods as well as his family and friends who have called it home. Brooklyn Before, Photographs,
Announcements
Lakou Cafe at 195 Utica Avenue. The pastry and coffee shop is adding cocktails to the menu in 2019. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — A neighborhood café in Crown Heights is looking to add cocktails to their assortment of coffee and crepes next year. Lakou Café [https://www.lakoucafe.
Central Brooklyn
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Ditmas Park
Public Advocate Candidate Melissa Mark Viverito on the Q train platform at the Newkirk Avenue station in Flatbush (Photo credit: Perri Litton)FLATBUSH – The former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito [https://melissamarkviverito.com/] campaigned at the Newkirk Avenue train station on Friday morning for the New York City Public Advocate’s
Big Story
City Councilmember Rafael Espinal speaks in front of City Hall on December 5. (Justin Mitchell/BKLYNR).City Councilmember Rafael Espinal’s bill to provide relief from the signage crisis sweeping the city [/merchants-take-down-signs-as-panic-over-fines-sweeps-city/] has been finalized, his office said Thursday. Espinal introduced the Awnings Act to combat onerous signage fees
Animals
We know—it’s been Hot Duck this and Hot Duck that all winter, right? But plenty of local species have called Brooklyn home since time immemorial, long before flashy-feathered waterfowl transplants started gentrifying Central Park. And for more than a century, the Audubon Society in New York has been
Business
There are lots of businesses coming and going as we approach the end of the year. Check out our list of what’s recently opened, closed, or launching soon. OPENINGS: Aesop is coming to 225 5th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Aesop [https://www.aesop.com/us/], 225 5th Avenue
News
PARK SLOPE – After a sneaker-head attempted to use a stolen credit card on a quick shopping spree, police are looking to track down the shoeless bandit. On Wednesday, December 11, police said the suspect entered a Park Slope Footlocker, at 532 5th Avenue, around 11: 45 am. Inside, he attempted
Crown Heights
Inside Oholei Torah, a Crown Heights Yeshiva. (Photo credit: Rabbi Yossi Newfield)CROWN HEIGHTS — Young Advocates For Fair Education (YAFFED), a Manhattan organization looking to revise educational standards in ultra-Orthodox schools, celebrated the last day of Hanukkah in Brooklyn on Monday evening with a party and a panel discussion on