Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – Outside the Church Avenue subway station where the Q and B take turns, the B35 drops and picks up passengers every few minutes or so. Nobody looks the same. On this particular late afternoon hour, a group of Bangladeshi women with their hair covered in headscarves
Bed Stuy
Tashawn Sutherland is facing eviction at 250 Clarkson Ave. after having lived at the residence for several years under the city’s now-defunct “cluster-site” shelter program.UPDATE: Nov. 13, 2018 The Legal Aid Society secured a temporary stay for 60 residents — formally placed in the city’s “cluster” housing program
Arts & Culture
WILLIAMSBURG – To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Public Library’s Leonard branch will be designated a literary landmark in honor of the classic coming-of-age novel. Leonard Library, 81 Devoe Street (Via Google Maps)Published in 1943, A Tree Grows in
Coney Island
By Albin Lohr-JonesCONEY ISLAND – The weather has finally turned cold in Brooklyn, and that can only mean one icy cold tradition in the forecast—the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge! Registration is now open [http://www.polarbearclub.org/] for the 2019 event, which will take place on Tuesday, January 1,
News
Having been out reporting on the tenants fighting eviction at 250 Clarkson [/tenants-face-eviction-before-the-holidays-hope-mayor-intervenes/], we decided to take a look at what has been happening along the four blocks of Clarkson Avenue between Flatbush and SUNY Downstate. In just a few short years, a dozen hundred-year-old homes have been razed and
Arts & Culture
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Several years ago, when the novelty of streaming videos and movies made “Netflix and chill” the ascendant option for socializing, filmmaker Geoffrey Guerrero [https://vimeo.com/geoffreyguerrero] decided to kick back against the zeitgeist. “I grew up in an age where you go out and chill, meet people
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – A new sign may soon welcome commuters as they travel across the East River into Brooklyn as the NYC Board of Standards & Appeals has approved a replacement for the former Watchtower sign, the New York Post [https://nypost.com/2018/11/08/nyc-approves-replacement-for-watchtower-sign-in-brooklyn-heights/] reports. Via Google MapsThe
Central Brooklyn
Dean Street, Cobble Hill (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and subscribe [/subscribe/]. If you have news tips, story ideas,
News
It was November 11, 1918, a Monday. “Commissioner of Public Works, Joseph A. Guider had been on the alert for three days, waiting for official word that the war was over, and when the word came to him at 5 o’clock this morning he was ready to pass it
Nonsponsored
PARK SLOPE – Dozens of advocates joined Council Member Brad Lander and Assembly Member Robert Carroll outside of the 7th Avenue F/G subway stop Friday afternoon to once again call on the MTA to install an elevator at the station. Rally for elevator at 7th Avenue F/G subway station
Central Brooklyn
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Announcements
Photo: Rob Fruchtman and Steven LawrenceBROOKLYN – There are over 500,000 cats living in NYC, with the majority of them calling Brooklyn their home. “It’s a total uphill battle. If every cat has six kittens and every kitten has six kittens, there’s never going to be enough homes