Arts & Culture
GREENPOINT – The Brooklyn Public Library in Greenpoint might be closed for renovations, but that doesn’t mean North Brooklynites won’t have any access to books and services in the meantime! A bookmobile will be on site at Norman Ave and Leonard St, where residents can browse, check out and
Announcements
PBNYC District 39 Project Expo at Camp Friendship in Park Slope, March 2017 (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The new cycle of the New York City Council’s Participatory Budgeting [https://council.nyc.gov/pb/] has officially begun! Participatory budgeting (PBNYC) is a city program that allows residents to vote on
Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – An off-duty FDNY EMT was struck and killed by a car on Kosciuszko Bridge over the weekend in an apparent hit and run accident. Kevin Liang, 27, was changing lanes on his motorcycle while crossing the bridge when he was struck by the car, losing control of his motorcycle
Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – The old Kosciuszko Bridge ended with a bang, not a whimper, early Sunday morning. The old span was dropped by an “energetic felling,” conducted by Controlled Demoltion, Inc. Two sections, composed of more than more than 3,000 feet steel on either side of Newtown Creek, fell onto piles
Central Brooklyn
Atlantic Antic 2017 (Photo: Paul Stremple/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], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if you
Central Brooklyn
Atlantic Antic 2017 (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Remains Of WWII Marine From Brooklyn Heights To Be Buried In Borough After 74 Years [NY Post [http://nypost.com/2017/09/29/
Announcements
(Photo/Nathan Haselby)After a successful year, the Department of Education (DOE) will be expanding its Comfort Dog Program by adding 30 new schools across the city — nine of them in Brooklyn. The Comfort Dog Program started last year in seven schools, five of them in Brooklyn. As part of
Announcements
On September 20, a Category 4 hurricane, Hurricane Maria, slammed Puerto Rico leaving 3.4 million people without power. These American citizens are currently surviving on generators and need food, water, and other living essentials. Here’s how you can help! The Mayor’s office has set up five firehouses
Central Brooklyn
BROOKLYN – They’re back. After a rash of thefts from phone stores in the spring of this year, a new incident earlier this month has led the NYPD to identify a pattern of grand larcenies all across Brooklyn. The duo wanted for questioning in the case hit phone stores from
News
WILLIAMSBURG – Police in the 90th Precinct are looking for six teenagers after a robbery and beating at a bus stop earlier this month. On Thursday, September 14th, the two victims, 15- and 16-year old boys, were approached around 2:30 pm at the Flushing Ave/Bushwick Ave bus stop across
northern brooklyn
WILLIAMSBURG – Police arrested two teenage package thieves who stole deliveries from the mail room of a residential building near Manhattan Ave and Meserole Street in Williamsburg earlier this month. In the early afternoon on Thursday, September 14th, 17-year olds Kiara and Karisma Rouse gained entry to the mail room of
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Police are looking for a man who menaced an 11-year old boy at Myrtle-Wyckoff Station on Tuesday, grabbing him by the arm telling the child he was “going to get him.” The incident occurred around 8:30 am on Tuesday, September 26, as the boy was boarding a Queens-bound