Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNERKENSINGTON – Brooklyn’s diverse community wore red and held masks at Avenue C Plaza to celebrate Bengali New Year 1425 on Sat. April, 14. The celebration started with face painting and Bangladeshi music, continued with a performance from an all-female Samba drumline, and ended with a parade
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE – Bklyner has learned that Democratic District Leader Kevin Peter Carroll [/meet-candidate-kevin-peter-carroll-bay-ridges-district-43/] will not seek re-election, possibly clearing the way for a hotly contested race which could include a formal rival hoping to regain his post.The 31-year-old Bay Ridgite won the committee seat in the 64th Assembly district
Downtown Brooklyn
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Scaffolding surrounding a building on the corner of Court and Joralemon Streets collapsed on Saturday morning, injuring three people. The corner of Court and Joralemon Streets via Google MapsThe scaffolding erected outside the Starbucks located at 50 Court Street, as well an entrance to the Brooklyn Borough Hall
Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT PARK – Council Member Mathieu Eugene [https://council.nyc.gov/district-40/] and Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org] President Sue Donoghue hosted a groundbreaking Friday morning for a new fitness area planned for the Park’s Parade Ground. Prospect Park Alliance breaks ground on new Adult Fitness Area and
Business
Throttle-style e-bikes will remain banned in New York, while expensive pedal assist bikes may be legalized by the DOT (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last year, Mayor De Blasio announced a crackdown on e-bikes, stating that NYPD would begin issuing tickets to riders and confiscating electrically powered bikes, which have been illegal
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN- Earlier this week, development firm Tishman Speyer revealed images and information on 11 Hoyt [http://www.11hoytbrooklyn.com/], the new condo tower currently being built where the five-story garage [/condo-tower-replace-macys-love-letter-brooklyn-garage/] that showcased Stephen Powers [http://firstandfifteenth.net]‘ “Love Letter to Brooklyn” mural [https://www.instagram.com/p/BAcYkyorCtT/
Central Brooklyn
Good weather and bad subways could mean more bike ridership in Brooklyn (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * Sketchy Subways: Man Draws Every New York City Subway Station [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drawing-every-new-york-city-subway-station] [Atlas Obscura] * Taco Bell Gets Boozy in Bushwick [https://patch.com/new-york/bushwick/new-bushwick-taco-bell-now-serving-boozy-slushies] [Patch] * Gentrification, Policing, and the
Arts & Culture
MARINE PARK – This Sunday, April 15th (@2pm), kicks off the first of three free Sunday lectures at the Hendrick I. Lott House [http://lotthouse.org]. As recently as 120 years ago, most of current day Brooklyn was quite rural, and Lott House is one of last surviving farmhouses of the
community
GOWANUS – Following a candlelight vigil Tuesday evening [/candlelight-vigil-held-to-save-gowanus-station/] to protest the city’s proposed demolition of the historic Gowanus Station building, the New York City Council has voted to allow the Department of Environmental Protection [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml] (DEP) to seize the property
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Performing arts facility, Brooklyn Arts Exchange [https://bax.org/homepage/] (BAX), is currently seeking a new Executive Artistic Director following the March 25 announcement by its Founding Executive Director, Marya Warshaw, that she will retire at the end of 2018. Brooklyn Arts Exchange| BAX, 421 5th Avenue via