Central Brooklyn
NYC Parks / Daniel AvilaWork is finished on the two new park entrances along Flatbush Avenue side of the park, NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, and Prospect Park Alliance President Sue Donoghue announced, even though a proper ribbon cutting is yet to be scheduled for sometime in 2021. Completed
Animals
Plumb Beach is a quiet, small beach located right off the Belt Parkway in Southern Brooklyn and a haven for bird watchers whose numbers have been growing as New Yorkers look for new, pandemic – friendly hobbies. The 152-acre beach attracts fewer humans than other popular bird-watching spots in the city
Announcements
Billy Richling and Salma ElazabI’m very excited to introduce two new voices at Bklyner that you will hear more from in 2021 on these pages – Billy Richling and Salma Elazab. Billy Richling will start as a staff reporter at Bklyner in January, focusing on covering local politics and real
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – On Saturday, December 26, just after 7:30pm, police responded to a 911 call about a man shot inside 580 East 17th Street (70 Precinct). The victim, Daniel Romulus, 62, a resident at the apartment building, was shot in the chest and died from the injuries at NYC
Business
Baikal Mechanical in Brooklyn, owned by three brothers Rafic, Ruslan, and Rustam Galyanurov, has been in business since 2015. The company specializes in HVAC equipment, focusing on machines that require very little maintenance and custom-designed pieces. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Baikal mechanical has sold and installed over 1,
News
Recently-elected Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee Chair Tremaine Wright, who oversaw Wednesday’s meeting.The Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee’s virtual meeting yesterday imploded after a party-hired parliamentarian voided a recently-approved slate of reforms, resulting in hundreds of party members signing off in protest. The nearly twelve-hour meeting was
Announcements
Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death last night. The suspect
Announcements
Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] WILLIAMSBURG – A 33-year-old cyclist has died after an MTA driver crashed
Central Brooklyn
On Friday afternoon, the city’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) convened an emergency virtual meeting with the city’s community boards [https://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/15/14918194/nyc-community-board-member-get-involved] . The meeting was called with 30 minutes notice, and only District Managers — the paid staffers who oversee their
Announcements
At the ceremony yesterday. (Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit) FLATBUSH – The Flatbush Ave-Brooklyn College Subway Station will be home to a memorial in honor of train operator Garrett Goble who was killed in an arson fire in March in Harlem. On March 27 at around 3
Bay Ridge
Welcome back to yet another installment of Openings and Closings. This week we welcome a few new Greenpoint spots, a coffee shop/woodworking parlor, and yet another seafood restaurant. As usual, the few goodbyes we have are hard, but there are mercifully only three. And as always, let us know
community
The hydroponic STEM kits that the students received. Courtesy of NY Sun Works. One non-profit organization has been making it easier to bring the classroom home during the Pandemic forced blended/remote learning by providing thousands of at-home hydroponic kits to NYC public school students. NY Sun Works [https://nysunworks.