Arts & Culture
A marching band in front of John Paul Jones Park last year (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BAY RIDGE – Yo, Brooklyn! Here’s a chance to catch a classic movie under the stars tonight—Rocky will be playing in John Paul Jones Park. So pull up a camp chair under the Verrazano
Arts & Culture
The weekend will be a bit on the quieter side for those who didn’t go away for the 4th of July, but Pioneer Works is presenting Software For Artists Day, the Brooklyn Museum is hosting its Target First Saturday, and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival continues with dance and
Central Brooklyn
Bright lights in Luna Park after dark (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Look out below! A sign tumbled from a dentist’s Bay Ridge storefront [https://brooklynreporter.com/story/signage-bay-ridge-dentist-office-falls-injuring-two-elderly-women/] and struck two elderly women yesterday afternoon, but luckily, the injuries weren’t serious. The weekend also had a long, strange list
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The team behind the new 33-story, 270-unit luxury rental building coming to 120 Nassau Street [/facade-installation-begins-120-nassau-street/] recently launched a website with renderings and information about the soon-to-open tower. The Amberly, 120 Nassau StreetDeveloped by AmTrust Realty Corp and designed by the architecture studio Woods Bagot, The Amberly will
Announcements
L to R: Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and Council Member Jumaane Williams. (Photo: John McCarten)FLATBUSH – The Little Haiti Cultural & Business District [https://www.littlehaitibk.org/] resolution designating Flatbush as “Little Haiti” was passed by the City Council last week. “Little Haiti” will be defined
Bed Stuy
Salazar, center, will be interviewed tonight in Bushwick about her primary challenge for State Senate (Via Salazar for Senate [https://salazarforsenate.com/])BUSHWICK – Following the success of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s upset win in New York’s 14th Congressional District, attention is suddenly on upstart primary challenges from Democratic Socialists—like
community
RED HOOK – Following last month’s fire at the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse [/fire-tore-through-historic-s-w-bowne-grain-storehouse-thursday-night/] (595-611 Smith Street), the Gowanus Landmarking Coalition has increased its efforts to save the building from demolition by launching a petition. S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595-611 Smith Street (Photo taken June 15, 2018, the
Announcements
MARINE PARK – After announcing in April [/discount-fashion-chain-primark-to-open-first-brooklyn-store-next-month-at-kings-plaza/] the opening of its first Brooklyn location at Kings Plaza Mall, the Ireland-based discount fashion chain Primark [https://www.primark.com/en-us/homepage]encountered “technical issues” that delayed the highly anticipated grand opening. Originally scheduled to open in May, Primark notified shoppers [/technical-issues-at-kings-plaza-mall-delay-opening-for-primark-zara-
Announcements
CADMAN PLAZA – Thousands of people marched from Foley Square in lower Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Plaza on Saturday, June 30 to demand that the Trump administration end family separation at the border. The “zero tolerance” policy, introduced by Trump, calls for the prosecution of anyone who illegally
Central Brooklyn
Movie Marquee Poem at Nitehawk Prospect Park (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and subscribe [/subscribe/]. If you have news
Central Brooklyn
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Business
WINDSOR TERRACE – Casually strolling along a quiet Windsor Terrace street, passersby might be surprised to come across a bold graphic sign by the beloved Brooklyn artist ESPO [http://firstandfifteenth.net], aka Stephen Powers, reading “True Love Always” above 191 Windsor Place. True Love Always, 191 Windsor Place, Windsor Terrace (Photo: