News
Transportation: * Man Beaten Up in Bike Lane … For Trying to Ride in the Bike Lane [https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/09/11/man-beaten-up-in-bike-lane-for-trying-to-ride-in-the-bike-lane/] in Park Slope. He had the audacity to ask a driver from Bensonhurst to get out of the bike lane. Cops responded and arrested the driver, and
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – For a second year in a row, the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club [http://www.gowanuscanal.org] and the Gowanus Souvenir Shop [https://gowanussouvenir.com] hosted a poetry reading [https://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/bookend/watery-words-reading-niedecker-on-the-gowanus-at-dawn/] Wednesday morning on the Gowanus Canal as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival [/brooklyn-book-festival-sept-10-17/]. Gowanus
Business
CONEY ISLAND – Letitia James and Julia Salazar aren’t the only ones getting endorsements snatched away from them. Ethan Lustig-Elgrably, running for the 46th Assembly District, seems to be in the same boat – losing support from small business owners along Mermaid Avenue over his ambiguity on forming a Coney Island
Announcements
SUNSET PARK – A criminal justice reform nonprofit is relocating its headquarters from Lower Manhattan to Sunset Park. Industry City via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BTrP9g6hv6f/?hl=en&taken-by=industrycity]The Vera Institute of Justice [https://www.vera.org/] recently signed a 15-year lease for a 35,000-square-foot
Announcements
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK – The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is celebrating the third anniversary of its Environmental Education Center [https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/activities/classroom] this Sunday with a series of free environmentally-themed activities, including a guided nature walk. Brooklyn Bridge Park Environmental Education Center (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) The Environmental
Nonsponsored
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill hold a media availability on crime statistics at One Police Plaza on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeFor those of us who do not get NY1, or have given up on cable altogether, here is what Mayor
clinton hill
The lot at 445 Grand Avenue will soon see a nine-story residential development (Via PropertyShark)CLINTON HILL – Another major residential development will come to Clinton Hill, this time replacing a parking lot at the corner of Grand Avenue and Fulton Street. The permits filed for 445 Grand Avenue by Ranger
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Chun KitToday, New York solemnly remembers those lost 17 years ago in the 9/11 attacks—our hearts are with the families and friends who carry on their memories. Ahead of the Manhattan commemorations, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams held a 9/11 remembrance at Brooklyn Borough Hall
News
SOUTH SLOPE – A brand new 11-story luxury condominium building focusing on “personal well-being” will debut soon on the corner of 18th Street and 4th Avenue. Arbor 18, 185 18th StreetAdam America Real Estate and CGI Strategies are developing the building, Arbor 18 [https://arboreighteen.com/], located at 185 18th Street.
Food & Drink
3 Start Diner, 1611 Avenue USHEEPSHEAD BAY – A neighbor emailed worried about the sudden closure of the 3 Star Diner on Avenue U, just before the holidays. While the old school diners have been disappearing across the boro at an alarming rate, this one was closed by the Department of
Flatbush
FLATBUSH — New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams, a lieutenant governor hopeful, received his first congressional nod Monday inside a Flatbush church he once attended as a child. U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke met Williams on the second leg of his 5-borough bus tour where the two greeted seniors on Monday.
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC)/ Brooklyn College Presents was shut down last week and employees were fired without notice, Bklyner has learned. Sources at BCBC tell Bklyner the firings came as a surprise and that Brooklyn College cited budgetary reasons.