Business
CARROLL GARDENS – A pioneering clothing boutique will be closing on Court Street at the end of the year, much to the disappointment of neighbors and longtime loyal customers. Raina Passo, owner of Try Rae’s First at 430 Court Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Raina Passo opened Try Rae’s
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Tuesday that charges against Jazmine Headley have been dropped. Headley is the 23-year-old mother whose one-year-old son was forcibly torn out of her arms by police officers [/video-nypd-violently-yanks-1-year-old-from-mother-at-snap-office/] at a social services office last Friday, December 7. Human Resources Administration Office,
Bed Stuy
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DUMBO – After an assault on the F train, police have released photos of the suspect they’re searching for, hoping the public can help track him down. Around 4:00 pm on
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Transit riders, elected officials, and members of the #FixTheSubway Coalition rallied Monday afternoon, December 10, to oppose the MTA’s proposed fare hike and call on Governor Cuomo to develop a “fair and sustainable transit funding plan” which includes congestion pricing [/fix-nyc-proposes-charging-entering-manhattan-60th-street-fund-subway-repairs/] . Rally outside of MTA Public Hearing
Business
GOWANUS – After years of construction, crews working to install high-level storm sewers along a stretch of 3rd Avenue in Gowanus are finally moving on, the NYC Department of Environmental Protection [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml] (DEP) and the NYC Department of Design and Construction [https:
Carroll Gardens
Outside 9 Douglas Street, where a traffic collision killed a member of a film crew (Screenshot via Google Maps)CARROLL GARDENS – A 63-year-old man was hit and killed by a driver in Carroll Gardens early this morning as he helped prepare for a film shoot, police confirmed. The victim, Pedro
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – A video showing NYPD officers forcibly tearing a one-year-old child out of the arms of his mother [https://www.facebook.com/nyashia.ferguson/videos/2165023130216850/] during a physical altercation at the Human Resources Administration/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) office at 275 Bergen Street last Friday, December 7,
Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
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Events
GOWANUS – Thousands of drunken Santas will wreak havoc at bars across Manhattan [https://santacon.nyc] when SantaCon [https://www.santacon.info/New_York-NY/] returns on Saturday, December 8. Avoid those sloppy Saint Nicks and stay in Brooklyn tomorrow instead. Parklife will be spreading holiday cheer throughout Gowanus with their Second
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBROOKLYN HEIGHTS – “There is no one way to be Muslim,” Zaheer Ali, the project director of “Muslims in Brooklyn” said. “Islam is not a box that you put people in. It is a box that people stand on.” Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) officially presented its “Muslims in
Bed Stuy
BED-STUY – An affordable housing lottery will launch on Monday, December 10 for seven units at 924 Myrtle Avenue (between Tompkins & Throop Avenues). Rendering of 924 Myrtle Avenue by Beam Group [https://www.jgoldmandesign.com/exteriors]Designed by Beam Group [http://www.beamgroup.net] and J Goldman Design [https://www.