Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Two teenagers have been arrested and charged after drawing swastikas on residences in Brooklyn Heights last week, police confirmed. Jarrick Wiltshire, 18, and Daul Moultrie, 17, both turned themselves in and were arrested after police circulated surveillance photos of the suspects following the incident, which took place on
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Crews have begun work on the foundation and lower levels of One Willoughby Square, a new 34-story office tower rising at 420 Albee Square across from City Point, New York YIMBY [https://newyorkyimby.com/2018/11/one-willoughby-square-begins-ascent-towards-495-foot-pinnacle-in-downtown-brooklyn.html] reports. One Willoughby Square, rendering by DBOXThe site is visible
Bed Stuy
Members of the Jewish community gather at a rally following the mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Since then, a string of hate crimes targeting the Jewish community has followed in Brooklyn (Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)An uptick in anti-Semitic crimes across Brooklyn in the weeks following the tragic shooting
Business
PARK SLOPE – On a recent evening on Fifth Avenue, I sat around a table noisily slurping a variety of amber colored liquids. The gurgling escaping our lips was an aeration technique, used by sommeliers and coffee tasters, to help us discern the delicate distinguishing notes of grass, green banana, and
canarsie
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Two men were killed in two separate Brooklyn neighborhoods last Friday, following a spate of non-fatal shootings during the week. CANARSIE – In Canarsie, a man was shot and killed at the Bayview
Business
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Following a three-year renovation, Macy’s will celebrate the grand reopening of its “reconfigured” and consolidated Downtown Brooklyn store with a series of special events later this week. Rendering via Macy’sIn 2015, Tishman Speyer purchased Macy’s upper five floors [/creative-hub-health-center-mixed-use-building-coming-downtown-brooklyn/] for $270 million to convert into
Bed Stuy
GREENPOINT – An off-duty cop was arrested after crashing his car while driving the wrong way down a one-way street in North Brooklyn this weekend, police confirmed. Harry Sepulveda, 31, was arrested and charged with driving with ability impaired, refusing to take a Breathalyzer and driving the wrong way after crashing
Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
Outside the Greenpoint Library, now coming Summer 2019 (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) Another axe-throwing bar has opened in Brooklyn [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2018/10/29/brooklyns-second-ax-throwing-bar-opens-greenpoint] , this time in Greenpoint, where bladed weapons seem to be on the rise [http://gothamist.com/2018/10/19/brooklyn_yupsters_heads_will_
environment
GOWANUS – The NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/index.page] (HPD) and the NYC Department of City Planning [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/index.page] (DCP) hosted a Community Workshop Thursday night to collect feedback on the preliminary site planning for Public
Bed Stuy
CLINTON HILL – Members of the Brooklyn Nets stopped by the Christopher “Biggie” Wallace Courts at Crispus Attucks Park in Clinton Hill yesterday to spread love, the Brooklyn (basketball) way. In the late afternoon, Nets players D’Angelo Russell and Rodions Kurucs showed up to give away free basketballs and t-shirts