Downtown Brooklyn
A man has been murdered at Farragut Houses (84th Precinct). Cops responded to a 911 call at 12:54 am this morning of a person shot inside 237 Nassau Street. When they arrived, they found the 24-year-old victim with a gunshot wound to his torso. The man was unconscious and
East New York
Assembly Member Charles Barron and Congress Member Hakeem Jeffries.Firebrand Assembly Member Charles Barron has a powerful foe in his run for East New York’s City Council seat. Influential Congress Member Hakeem Jeffries, whose Brooklyn district includes East New York, is backing Nikki Lucas [https://electnikkilucas.com/], a Starrett
News
BAM has hired Hanif Abdurraqib as guest curator at large to curate music engagements and work on special, long-term projects. He brings a background transcending poetry, music, cultural criticism and Black performance. Photo credit: Megan Leigh Barnard.“The pandemic has helped expand my imagining of live music, and I know
Bed Stuy
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza during D16 Town Hall. Zoom screenshot. Tuesday evening, January 26, saw Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza take part in a town hall with School District 16, which covers the eastern part of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The Chancellor is required to hold town halls with each district in New York
Central Brooklyn
1020 Cortelyou Road (Source: TerraCRG)A 12,500-square-foot property in the heart of Ditmas Park’s Cortelyou Road commercial district sold today, paving the way for more new development on a mostly low-rise street already at the center of a rezoning fight. The commercial real estate firm TerraCRG [https://www.
News
The city is urging New Yorkers to prepare for extremely cold weather that is headed our way in over the next few days. “Gusty winds are in the forecast today and tomorrow with speeds up to 40 mph possible early tomorrow morning and afternoon,” officials warn, and “temperatures tonight will
Arts & Culture
O’Loughlin in an early production of “My Heart Goes Zoom,” the flagship show in the Please Don’t Touch the Artist series. (Courtesy of Siobhan O’Loughlin)Since 2015, Siobhan O’Loughlin has performed in bathtubs across the country in “Broken Bone Bathtub,” an immersive show held in strangers’
Education
Council Member Mark TreygerThe city needs to pick up the pace when it comes to installing wifi in homeless shelters, argue the City Council’s education chair and the head of the NYC Bar Association. In a joint letter sent yesterday [https://mcusercontent.com/6fe866f4b5e485eb450be1baa/files/ef767369-5a53-4cbe-a6db-3ed31c79bd38/2020806_Wifi4Homeless_DOE_
Business
Food Ford Halal Food vendor located on Bedford Ave./ Anna Conkling BklynerThe City Council is voting tomorrow, January 28, on a street food vendor permit bill. The bill, which was first proposed in 2018, [https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3686667&GUID=A0683818-66E6-4651-8B31-3D65EE4D61B1&Options=&Search=
Education
Assembly Member William ColtonAssembly Member William Colton is calling on southern Brooklyn residents to take to their cars to protest the conversion of a Gravesend schoolyard into a public park. In a strongly-worded press release [https://nyassembly.gov/mem/William-Colton/story/95130] sent Tuesday afternoon, Colton called on residents to
bath beach
The city plans to open a homeless shelter at 2147 Bath Avenue to provide temporary shelter for 150 single men in the area by the end of this year. NYC Tax Photo.“I have learned that there was no proposal presented to Community Board 11 and there has been no
Arts & Culture
Last June, right after the paint had dried on the giant new D.C. mural sporting the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the two blocks leading up to the White House, Bed-Stuy’s Monique Antoine watched from afar as the space sat idle, blocked off from traffic but otherwise completely