News
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Dozens of voters looking to cast their ballot Downtown Brooklyn were met with shut doors this morning at one of the boroughs most active voting sites. Brooklyn resident Faiza Chowderman said she and her husband arrived to the closed polling site at Urban Assembly School of Law and
Downtown Brooklyn
Congress members Joe Crowley, Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette Clarke, Assemblymember Walter Mosley and Congresswoman Carolyn MaloneyDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN— Members of the congressional delegation announced Monday, November 5, a bill to honor Shirley Chisholm, who 50 years ago was elected to Congress on this day. U.S. Representatives Hakeem Jeffries introduced bill H.
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Crews have begun work on the foundation and lower levels of One Willoughby Square, a new 34-story office tower rising at 420 Albee Square across from City Point, New York YIMBY [https://newyorkyimby.com/2018/11/one-willoughby-square-begins-ascent-towards-495-foot-pinnacle-in-downtown-brooklyn.html] reports. One Willoughby Square, rendering by DBOXThe site is visible
Business
PARK SLOPE – On a recent evening on Fifth Avenue, I sat around a table noisily slurping a variety of amber colored liquids. The gurgling escaping our lips was an aeration technique, used by sommeliers and coffee tasters, to help us discern the delicate distinguishing notes of grass, green banana, and
Business
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Following a three-year renovation, Macy’s will celebrate the grand reopening of its “reconfigured” and consolidated Downtown Brooklyn store with a series of special events later this week. Rendering via Macy’sIn 2015, Tishman Speyer purchased Macy’s upper five floors [/creative-hub-health-center-mixed-use-building-coming-downtown-brooklyn/] for $270 million to convert into
Bay Ridge
Candidate for State Assembly District 64 Adam Baumel poses with the wheelchair accessible car he drives for Uber. Photo Megan Myscofski/BklynerBAY RIDGE – Some politicians go home after a debate. State Assembly Candidate Adam Baumel gets in his car and does a shift with the ride share app Uber. Baumel
Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
Outside the Greenpoint Library, now coming Summer 2019 (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) Another axe-throwing bar has opened in Brooklyn [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2018/10/29/brooklyns-second-ax-throwing-bar-opens-greenpoint] , this time in Greenpoint, where bladed weapons seem to be on the rise [http://gothamist.com/2018/10/19/brooklyn_yupsters_heads_will_
environment
GOWANUS – The NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/index.page] (HPD) and the NYC Department of City Planning [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/index.page] (DCP) hosted a Community Workshop Thursday night to collect feedback on the preliminary site planning for Public
bath beach
State Sen. Marty Golden and Andrew GounardesBAY RIDGE – Nearing the home stretch of the election cycle and things couldn’t be more entertaining in the race for the District 22 State Senate seat in Southern Brooklyn. A Twitter account posing as State Sen. Marty Golden (@Marty4Senate is not his official
Bed Stuy
CLINTON HILL – Members of the Brooklyn Nets stopped by the Christopher “Biggie” Wallace Courts at Crispus Attucks Park in Clinton Hill yesterday to spread love, the Brooklyn (basketball) way. In the late afternoon, Nets players D’Angelo Russell and Rodions Kurucs showed up to give away free basketballs and t-shirts