East New York
Rendering of the redesigned Sankofa Park in the New Lots section of East New York (Image: Parks Department)A redesigned East New York park will get new green space, playground equipment and a memorial for the enslaved Africans buried at the site hundreds of years ago. The city’s Parks
Central Brooklyn
Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Errol Stephenson, a 28-year-old male who lives in the Bronx neighborhood
brownsville
NYPD Deputy Inspector Craig Edelman (middle) makes an appearance in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2021 State of the City video. Screengrab/NYC Mayor’s Office/YouTube By Greg B. Smith and Eileen Grench, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/2/1/22261453/nypd-brutality-video-de-blasio-precinct-reform-slideshow]
Downtown Brooklyn
Protestors in front of of 227 Duffield Street last year.The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously on Tuesday morning to preserve the building at 227 Duffield Street. The building, known as the Harriett and Thomas Truesdell House for its longtime owners, has historical ties to the nation’
Announcements
The winners of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s “Make It in Brooklyn” competition: Ilona Wilcox of UrbanEnergy, Tammy Kwan of Cognitive ToyBox, and David Helene of Edquity.Three Brooklyn startups focused on increasing access to green energy, remote education and student financial aid have “made it.” Or, at the very
Greenpoint
An overhead view of the draft design for Box Street Park with labeled features (Via NYC Parks)North Brooklyn’s elected officials are calling out the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) for failing to deliver on a 16-year-old promise that would allow for a new Greenpoint park. At a virtual press
News
via @NYCSanitationThe 2,424 residents of Glenwood Houses were without heat all day today as the snowstorm that made Mayor de Blasio issue a State of Emergency blanketed the city. The outage follows a weekend where four Glenwood Houses buildings, which house 497 residents, were without heat or hot water
Central Brooklyn
A rendering of the proposed development at 960 Franklin Avenue.The City Planning Commission (CPC) voted on Monday to certify a controversial Crown Heights rezoning proposal [/960-franklin-avenue-project-proposal/] at 960 Franklin Avenue, the Old Spice Factory, allowing the proposal to proceed through the city’s uniform land use review process (ULURP)
Bensonhurst
A fire destroyed the Bensonhurst home of a half dozen delivery cyclists and other immigrant workers. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/brooklyn/2021/1/27/22253511/deliveristas-bensonhurst-community-rallies] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] After a Monday
fort greene
Aerial Photo of Ingersoll Houses via NYCHAFORT GREENE — The 4,046 neighbors who live at the 21-building Ingersoll Houses [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/ingersoll-report-en.pdf] complex have been without heat and hot water since 10 am today. NYCHA, the city’s worst landlord [/nycha-jason-korn-again-top-public-advocates-list-of-worst-landlords/], has failed
Central Brooklyn
The Associated Supermarket at 975 Crown Heights near Sullivan Place. (Image: Google Maps)[Editor’s note: this story has been updated to include comment from the property owner, Midwood Investment and Development, and to correct details regarding the notice given to Associated Supermarket’s management.] A 30-year-old Crown Heights supermarket
flatlands
District Leader Lori Maslow at a virtual Brooklyn Democratic Party event in December.Southern Brooklyn Democrat Lori Maslow resigned from her District Leader position in the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Thursday, after weeks of intense criticism over a series of racist tweets threatened to derail the party’s election forum.