Bushwick
The building at 266 Wilson Avenue, where Quinones was living at the time of the murder (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – This week, a man walked into the 1st Precinct Police Station to confess a murder from 2014 in Bushwick. Police said Ricky Gonzalez, 34, arrived at the Tribeca police
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Two men shot at each other and missed—but struck a bystander instead. Now, police are trying to track them down. The shooting took place in Crown Heights, near the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and St. John’s Place, around 10:45 pm on Tuesday, August 28, police
Central Brooklyn
Artist Uta Brauser’s @fishwithbraids van parked on 9th Street, Park Slope (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)A team from NYU Tandon in Brooklyn broke down spending on political ads [https://thebridgebk.com/how-nyu-team-illuminates-facebook-political-ad-spending/] —and found the current president was one of the biggest buyers on Facebook. When you gotta go,
Downtown Brooklyn
Following the completion of a two-year feasibility study, Mayor de Blasio has given the go-ahead for the proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) streetcar project. Rendering via BQX August 2018 Completion of Conceptual Design ReportIn April, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen said that a “block-by-block analysis” by an outside consulting firm studying
Arts & Culture
It’s Labor Day weekend, so it’ll be pretty quiet around town the next few days, unless of course you are anywhere near Eastern Parkway where there will be revelry and excitement all around during the annual J’Ouvert and West Indian Day celebrations. If you haven’t checked
Central Brooklyn
A weekend ferry ride from Brooklyn into the city (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)It looks like the Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards project is going to take a little longer to complete than planned—like 10 years! [https://thebridgebk.com/developer-admits-pacific-park-project-will-take-until-2035/] When the 11 towers are finished in 2035, it will have
Animals
Wildlife biologists from the U.S Department of Agriculture [http://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/programs/nrmp/ct_rabies_vaccine_info] (USDA) and Cornell University will be dropping oral vaccines down into parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island from a low-flying helicopter this week to help prevent
News
A rendering of the office project going in at 96 North 10th in Williamsburg (Via wHY Architects)WILLIAMSBURG – Another day, another office space headed to North Brooklyn. This time, it’s a commercial/office combo coming to 96 North 10th Street, between Berry and Wythe. The lot is currently occupied
Announcements
(Photo via NYC Buildings/twitter)The National Weather Service [https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=okx&wwa=heat%20advisory] has issued a Heat Advisory [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/em/resources/notify_nyc/weather-33.page] for New York City from 11am Tuesday morning through 9pm Wednesday night.
News
Industrial-inspired office space planned for 71 North 7th Street in Williamsburg (By Jeffrey Cole Architects)WILLIAMSBURG – Renderings have been revealed for another office space planned for North Brooklyn, this one in Williamsburg near the East River State Park. 71 North 7th Street, between Kent and Wythe, will turn a single-story
brownsville
CROWN HEIGHTS – After a fight at the Farmer’s Market in Crown Heights last week, police are on the lookout for two men who assaulted an employee. The incident occurred on Friday, August 24, around 11:00 pm, police said, at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Avenue. Two
Central Brooklyn
A T.E.A.L. ribbon [/turn-brooklyn-t-e-a-l-ovarian-cancer/] tied onto a tree on 5th Avenue helps raise awareness for ovarian cancer (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], Instagram