Central Brooklyn
(Image: Prospect Park Alliance)After dozens of trash cans in Prospect Park were overturned on Tuesday night, covering the green space with garbage and detritus, park workers, volunteers and community members teamed up to get the park back into shape. “Prospect Park Alliance was saddened by a significant act of
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Council Member Chaim Deutsch. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Southern Brooklyn Council Member Chaim Deutsch pled guilty today for filing a false tax return related to outside income he received from his real estate company. According to the office [https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/new-york-city-council-member-pleads-guilty-tax-fraud] of Jonathan Larsen, U.S.
Downtown Brooklyn
A rendering of the redesigned plaza at One Pierrepont Plaza. (Image: DLANDstudio Architecture)Brookfield Properties is planning a fresh look for a Downtown Brooklyn public space it controls. The developer presented its plans to revamp the privately-owned public space near its building One Pierrepont Plaza [https://www.brookfieldproperties.com//en/
Central Brooklyn
Workers installing solar panels at Carver Houses, a New York City Housing Authority development in northern Manhattan. (Image: Accord Power Inc.)A new initiative seeks to give some low-income New Yorkers access to renewable energy, saving them a few bucks in the process. And it’s making use of public
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Brooklynites gathered outside the Barclays Center after Derek Chauvin’s conviction on Tuesday, April 20th. (Image: Adrian Childress)Within minutes of a Minnesota jury’s pronouncement [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/george-floyd-chauvin-verdict.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage] that police officer Derek Chauvin was
Brooklyn Heights
When Ali Ahmed and Akram Nassir saw the “For Rent” sign at 151 Atlantic Avenue, they immediately went in and left a deposit. They had no idea what they wanted to put in the space, formerly Beasts and Bottles, but knew that they had to have it. The Nassir family
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Photo by Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitState Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is sounding the alarm about the MTA’s debt levels, saying it could leave the agency unable to fully fund a capital program to improve service for bus and subway riders. The MTA, though, says the comptroller
canarsie
Like most of the city’s gathering spaces, worship centers for Jehovah’s Witnesses – a group with nearly 10,000 members in Brooklyn alone – closed their doors indefinitely last March. Since then, congregants have done most of the work of being a Witness at home, where they’ve gathered over
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350 Flushing Avenue (Image: NYC Department of Environmental Protection)The city announced today that it has completed a $31.6 million project to refurbish and upgrade a historic building on Flushing Avenue used by staff of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The three-story, 105,000-square-foot building at 350 Flushing
Gowanus
A sketch of thre Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Image: Department of City Planning)The bitterly-contested Gowanus rezoning plan [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus.page] took two crucial steps forward on Monday. First, State Supreme Court Justice Katherine Levine lifted a
environment
The Gowanus Generating Station (Image: Astoria Generating Company)Mayor Bill de Blasio has joined climate activists and several lawmakers in announcing his opposition to the controversial replacement of two peaker power plants using fracked gas, including one in Gowanus. The Astoria Generating Company (AGC), which operates two power plants located
Columbia Street Waterfront
The winning projects for this year’s participatory budgeting cycle in Council District 39 include a down payment to create a “Brooklyn Skate Garden,” a restoration of the Prospect Park Carousel’s historic wurlitzer organ and a renovated bathroom for PS131 in Borough Park. Those and other projects were selected