Bushwick
The one-bedroom unit in the former clocktower spent only one day on the market (Photo via Nooklyn)BUSHWICK – In Bushwick, it turns out you can rent yourself an ivory tower. Or at the very least, a really expensive brick one. A record-setting rental for the North Brooklyn neighborhood was snapped
Announcements
140 units of affordable housing on India Street in Greenpoint are now available via lottery (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – Along with the massive high-rise construction coming to Greenpoint’s exploding waterfront development scene, a new building’s worth of affordable housing units has just been added to the NYC Housing
Announcements
State Senator Marty Golden holds a decisive fundraising advantage over his challengers.BAY RIDGE – Democrats Andrew Gounardes and Ross Barkan are running against Senator Marty Golden in District 22 this year, and have just released their fundraising numbers. District 22 includes Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach,
Arts & Culture
Tonight, in an unassuming storefront in Greenpoint, a venue for film and electronic art will kick off its 10th anniversary season with a rare screening. Light Industry [http://www.lightindustry.org/] is showing Bolivian film director Jorge Sanjinés’s 1989 film “The Secret Nation.” > Our 2018 season begins tonight
Central Brooklyn
Suits of Armor, Prospect Place, Crown Heights (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) * $110.5M Basquiat Painting Will Be Exhibited at Brooklyn Museum Jan. 26—March 11 [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/arts/basquiat-skull-painting-is-coming-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html?_r=3] [NYT] * Two Residents Injured When Ceiling Collapses at NYCHA Complex in Crown Heights
Central Brooklyn
After Hawaii residents received a false emergency alert on their phones on Saturday saying, “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” it makes Brooklynites wonder: what if there’s a missile threat inbound to Brooklyn one day? > HAWAII – THIS IS A FALSE
Announcements
With the L train closure a mere 15 months away, information from the MTA and DOT has been in short supply—but perhaps no longer. The two organizations have finally announced a series of joint “open house” meetings for New Yorkers to learn more about the impending closure and hopefully
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – An attack in Brownsville left one man dead and a woman in custody last Friday. Responding to reports of an assault at a residence on Howard Avenue around 8:15 pm on Friday, January 12, NYPD officers discovered a 51-year old man who had been stabbed in the neck,
Announcements
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-09611.jpg]January 15 is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. See below for a list of what is closed on Monday in observance of this federal holiday. If you’d like to honor the memory of Dr. King
Central Brooklyn
Union Street, Gowanus (Photo: Nathan Haselby)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], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if you ever
Central Brooklyn
Local politicians responded to the President of the United States referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as “shithole countries”. Just yesterday, President Donald Trump was reported by the Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.7a2cf439a92d] to have said:
Food & Drink
The Grand Republic Cocktail Club is located at 19 Greenpoint Avenue, near Transmitter Park (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Head down Greenpoint Ave, across Franklin and West, down towards the water, to where the docks and the shipbuilding used to be, and you’ll find Grand Republic Cocktail Club. It looks and