Announcements
Eastern Parkway – Brooklyn Museum (IRT Eastern Parkway Line [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Parkway_%E2%80%93_Brooklyn_Museum_(IRT_Eastern_Parkway_Line)] )PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum station, on the 2 and 3 lines, is getting a long-awaited station upgrade, making the station ADA compliant,
Central Brooklyn
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County Committee member addressing the chair. (Photo credit: Kadia Goba/Bklyner_ Hundreds of people showed up to see “democracy in action” Thursday night at the Democratic Kings County Committee meeting but instead left more confused and with the same old, same old, including the re-election of County Chair Frank Seddio.
Central Brooklyn
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clinton hill
CLINTON HILL – The NYC Department of Design and Construction [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ddc/projects/projects.page] (DDC) met with community members Thursday evening to provide an update on the reconstruction of Putnam Triangle Plaza which has been closed to the public since March [/meeting-on-thursday-to-discuss-putnam-triangle-delays/]. From NYC Department of
Gowanus
GOWANUS – RFR Realty [https://rfr.com/home/] has enlisted the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group [https://big.dk/#projects] (BIG) to draw up preliminary designs for a residential project along the Gowanus Canal, Crain’s New York [https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/architect-tapped-gowanus-development-signals-high-end-future-once-gritty-neighborhood] reports. 175-225 3rd Street, Gowanus via Google
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – Elected officials and members of the community gathered at Flatbush’s new Pedestrian Plaza at Hillel Place from Kenilworth Place to Flatbush Avenue for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Thursday afternoon. The Plaza opened last month [/pedestrian-plaza-coming-soon-to-hillel-place/] and is located across from Brooklyn College’s new Tow Center
News
Via FacebookIt’s almost weekend, so here are Weekend Art Events: Sept. 28-30 (The Great DUMBO Drop, Red Hook Regatta, Chile Pepper Fest & More) [/weekend-art-events-sept-28-30/] Would an enormous storm surge barrier save NYC’s coast—or destroy it? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed a radical
community
DUMBO – With all the development happening in DUMBO over the years, it’s surprising that the waterfront neighborhood does not have its own public library branch. That will soon change as the Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] (BPL) announced on Thursday that it will debut a branch at
Business
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation [https://brooklynnavyyard.org] (BNYDC) released new renderings on Thursday for 5.1 million square feet of vertical manufacturing space which will add 10,000 new jobs, helping the campus reach its ultimate goal of creating 30,000 sustainable middle-class jobs. New
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The MTA route map seems to have misplaced Coney Island Avenue onto Ocean Parkway. Via MTAKINGS HIGHWAY – Starting Monday, October 1, 2018, tens of thousands of commuters from Bensonhurst to StarrettCity/Spring Creek Towers that use bus service along Kings Highway [/b82-and-why-we-need-fast-and-reliable-bus-service/] will be able to enjoy a faster ride
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WILLIAMSBURG – Seven workers at The Williams, a luxury-rental development in South Williamsburg, are looking for what they’re owed—about $200,000 in back pay, they said. Yesterday evening, outside the building at 282 South 5th Street, members of the 32BJ service workers union gathered in solidarity to rally for