Announcements
While most customers won’t miss the air-conditioning now that the weather’s turned, Con Edison is asking residents of North Brooklyn to hold off on a variety of electrical-intensive activities while crews work on equipment problems. In a press release on Friday, the company announced it was reducing voltage
community
SUNSET PARK – The NYC Economic Development Corporation [https://www.nycedc.com] invites all to celebrate the Brooklyn Army Terminal [https://www.bklynarmyterminal.com]‘s (BAT) 100th anniversary at the venue’s first-ever block party taking place this Saturday. Brooklyn Army Terminal (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The free outdoor event will feature
Announcements
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – The lottery has opened for 100 affordable units available at the two-tower Pier 6 development [/teaser-site-pricing-revealed-brooklyn-bridge-park-pier-6-condo-tower/] located in Brooklyn Bridge Park. > [https://www.instagram.com/p/BZL587zFKtl/?utm_source=ig_embed_loading] [https://www.instagram.com/p/BZL587zFKtl/?utm_source=ig_embed_loading] The first Pier 6
Bushwick
The L train line has seen two passengers hit by trains in the last two days (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – A man is in the hospital after being struck by the L train this morning at the Halsey Street station. The man fell and was struck as he was running
News
Happy rainy Monday! * L’Shana Tova to our Jewish neighbors as they celebrate the beginning of a new year. * Public schools are not in session today or tomorrow in observance. * Local politicians, however, are out in force – despite the rain that hurricane Florence, upgraded to a Category 4 Hurricane as
Bed Stuy
Clergy and acolytes preparing to enter the new St. Stephen and St. Martin’s Episcopal Church at 789 Jefferson Avenue.BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: Penny Grinage was five years old when she began Sunday School at St. Stephen & St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Bedford Stuyvesant. Back then, the church boasted a
Central Brooklyn
WINDSOR TERRACE – A previously unnamed green space across from the Prospect Expressway has been dedicated to the memory of a hometown hero. Captain John McKenna IV Park, Windsor Terrace (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) Captain John McKenna IV Park naming ceremony (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Captain John McKenna IV Park naming
Central Brooklyn
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Announcements
To all our Jewish readers – Shana Tova and may the new year be a good one for all! Public Schools are off for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, which begins at sundown on Sunday and continues through Tuesday – so no school this Monday or Tuesday. Also please remember public
Central Brooklyn
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Dyker Heights
DYKER HEIGHTS – Barone Management finally purchased the former Angel Guardian Home for Little Children [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Guardian_Home_(Brooklyn)] at 6301 12th Avenue [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?passjobnumber=321830426&passdocnumber=01] in Dyker Heights in August for $37.5 million dollars. For over
Crown Heights
CROWN HEIGHTS – A city’s former rent control board member will convert a Crown Heights landmark property into 46 residential units but there’s no guarantee the apartments will be affordable. Sarah Williams Willard, former Rent Guidelines Board member — a mayoral-appointed position which sets rents for the city’s rent-regulated