affordable housing
1515 Surf Avenue in Coney Island. Renderings courtesy of the developer.LCOR [https://www.lcor.com/] announced today the preliminary details for its plans to build a new housing development at 1515 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, between Surf Avenue and Mermaid Avenue and W15th and W16th Streets. The company
Central Brooklyn
The winter holidays are going to feel different this year. Celebrations will likely be smaller, quieter, and less travel-heavy. At this point, most of us are probably used to editing our lives to comply with coronavirus safety measures; that doesn’t make it any less of a bummer. Without parties,
community
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] MADISON – An 18-year-old boy was stabbed to death over the weekend.
Central Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Democratic Party’s Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday night lasted over four hours [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1DPEZA03I]. But it took less than five minutes for the first shouting match to begin. Screenshot from Wednesday’s Zoom meeting.In a tense, interruption-filled exchange, Aaron Maslow, the
Business
Grill N Dine is the kind of place you could pass every day and never really notice. Nestled next to an antiques store along Coney Island Avenue’s long stretch of auto body shops, it’s just south of Cortelyou Road, a block down and across the street from the
Central Brooklyn
Pandemic has made all kinds of public meetings move online, and the Police Community Council (PCC) meetings are no exception. However, Sector Meetings have always been intended to be neighborhood-specific and more intimate, and the Sector NCOs (Neighborhood Coordinating Officers) are committed to holding them live. 70th Precinct NCOs held
Central Brooklyn
Mayoral hopeful Maya Wiley (Flatbush) unveiled her gun violence prevention plan [https://mayawileyformayor.com/gun-violence-prevention/] yesterday. The announcement comes as citywide shooting incidents [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf] have doubled this year, as well as across both North [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/
Boerum Hill
BAY RIDGE – Police ask for help finding 51-year-old Oleksandr Zlenko, who has been missing since Tuesday, November 24. Photo of Oleksandr Zlenko. Courtesy of DCPI.Zlenko is about 5’6 tall and weighs about 150 lb, cops say, and was last seen at his residence in Bay Ridge at 10:
Announcements
Brandon West. (Photo via West’s office)Twelve of Brooklyn’s 16 councilmembers are term-limited, and the number of individuals running for office is massive. One of those term-limited is Council Member Brad Lander who represents District 39— which encompasses Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor
Announcements
Max Rose. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressman Max Rose delivered his farewell address this morning after serving two years as Congressman for the 11th Congressional District. The district, which encompasses Staten Island, Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, and Bensonhurst, will soon be represented
Announcements
By Jordan Rathkopf, courtesy of Brookfield Properties.Downtown Brooklyn has a new place to shop for the holidays. Brookfield Properties opened its first-ever Holiday Village at the MetroTech Commons yesterday, featuring over 25 local vendors. The open-air holiday market’s focus is on local artisans, accessories, home goods, beauty products,
News
The Brooklyn Democratic Party is making moves to reduce its reliance on the gender binary. But some say those moves are a smokescreen for a power grab by Party leadership. On Sunday, the party’s Executive Committee [https://www.brooklyndems.com/executive_committee], composed of 42 elected District Leaders, voted