DUMBO
DUMBO – More details and a website [https://frontandyork.com] have been released for Morris Adjmi’s “game-changing mixed-used project” at 85 Jay Street [/plans-for-3-former-jehovahs-witnesses-sites-in-dumbo/], the site of a former parking lot occupying a three-acre block bounded by Jay, Front, Bridge, and York Streets. Front & York rendering by Williams New
Central Brooklyn
The Winter 2019 edition of NYC Restaurant Week [https://www.nycgo.com/restaurant-week] kicked off on Monday, January 21 with nearly 400 restaurants across the city offering special prix-fixe lunch and dinner menus. Participating eateries are featuring $26 two-course lunch menus and $42 three-course dinner menus until Friday, February 8.
Arts & Culture
It may be rainy out today, but skies should clear up by tomorrow—just in time for a weekend featuring theater, music, comedy, and an anti-fascist heavy metal fest. Check the Bklyner Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around town or to list one of your own. Ionseco Suite via
community
GOWANUS – The Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group [https://gowanuscag.org]’s (CAG) monthly meeting took place as scheduled Tuesday (January 22) despite the ongoing federal government shutdown prohibiting furloughed EPA [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222] team members from attending. Via Gowanus Canal CSO Facilities Tunnel
Announcements
SEAGATE – Two people were injured in a fire that broke out just after midnight on January 23 at 3709 Laurel Ave on the first floor of the two-story house. The fire was extinguished by about 12:44 a.m. According to the FDNY, two people were hurt but they were
Announcements
EAST NEW YORK – Artists interested in having their work exhibited publicly on NYC Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] (DOT) property have until February 15 to apply to the DOT Art Program [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/dotart-overview.shtml]. NYC
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBARCLAYS CENTER – “We want to get paid,” Department of Justice worker Yolunda Silva said. “Stop holding our checks hostage.” Food and resources were provided to over 600 New Yorkers impacted by the shutdown at Barclays Center this afternoon. The pantry was put together by Food Bank for
Development
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Last Wednesday, January 16, a dozen people showed up to the first of two Brooklyn Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) workshops this month where the public is invited to comment on how a $10 million NYS grant should be spent towards making the borough’s downtown district more “vibrant
Announcements
FORT GREENE – Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes [https://www.gangstamackin.com] (G-MACC) celebrated the opening of its second Brooklyn office at 349 Myrtle Avenue (between Carlton Avenue & Adelphi Street) with a ribbon-cutting on Friday, January 18. Photo by Ill Flix via Council Member Laurie Cumbo | Facebook [https://www.facebook.
Nonsponsored
PARK SLOPE – Following the deadly crash last March at 5th Avenue and 9th Street [/details-released-mondays-deadly-collision-park-slope/] that killed Abigail Blumenstein and Joshua Lew, and later resulted in the death of Ruthie Ann Miles’ unborn child, Council Member Brad Lander has launched an online traffic issue tracker to help make his district’
Central Brooklyn
BOERUM HILL – The NYPD needs help searching for a person who escaped Department of Homeless Services Police custody over the weekend. On Saturday, January 19 at about 5:26 p.m., 31-year-old Jose Bisono was being transported to Brooklyn Central Booking by officers from the Department of Homeless Services when
Business
COBBLE HILL – Custom menswear shop Indochino [https://www.indochino.com/] opened on Friday, January 18, in the Court Street storefront previously occupied by BookCourt for 35 years [/after-35-years-cobble-hills-cherished-bookcourt-to-close-author-emma-straub-announces-possible-neighborhood-replacement/] . Indochino, 161 Court Street, between Pacific & Dean Streets (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)The storefront at 161 Court Street (between Dean and