Downtown Brooklyn
DOT officials met with Community Boards 2 & 6 to give early information about the BQE repair project (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The project to repair the BQE between Atlantic and Sand Streets has been expanded to include the entire interchange around Van Voorhees Park, Department of Transportation officials
Announcements
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN/FORT GREENE – Hill Country Hospitality [https://hillcountry.com/] announced last week a new concept for the Downtown Brooklyn space that previously housed Hill Country Barbecue Market. Hill Country Barbecue Market, Downtown Brooklyn via Google MapsHill Country Food Park, a 10,000-square-foot food venue, will open at 345 Adams
Gowanus
PARK SLOPE – After putting the landmarked Lyceum building, located at 227 4th Avenue, back on the market earlier this year [/landmarked-brooklyn-lyceum-building-sale/], Greystone Development recently announced that it has sold the property for $10 million to an unnamed buyer. 227 4th Avenue, previously Public Bath No. 7 and the Brooklyn Lyceum
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Works created by the first graduating class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/schools/feirstein.php] will be screened for an invitation-only audience of industry professionals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] on
Bed Stuy
The 600-block of Decatur Street, where a man was shot Saturday morning (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – A man was shot and killed early Saturday morning in Bed-Stuy, police confirmed. Officers responded to a call of a man shot near 681 Decatur Street, between Saratoga Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street
Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
A rainy night in Williamsburg, outside Progress High School (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)A Brooklyn-to-Manhattan commuter has indulged an interesting hobby and art project on her daily subway rides: photographing straphangers’ hands. [https://www.6sqft.com/the-urban-lens-hannah-la-follette-ryan-on-her-viral-instagram-account-subway-hands/] But while some make art on their way to work, other commuters are at
Bed Stuy
The courtyard of the Risley Dent houses in Bed-Stuy, where Jamaal Anderson was murdered in 2015 (Screenshot via Google Maps)Today, the second shooter from a violent, daylight revenge killing in Bed-Stuy was sentenced to 18 years in jail, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced. The murder took place three
Gowanus
The partial building collapse at 217 9th Street took place last night, when the rear and side walls fell away (Photo via NYC911News LLC)GOWANUS – Last night, a loud boom startled Park Slope neighbors as the rear wall of a three-story home collapsed around 11:00 pm. The wood-frame house
Bay Ridge
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] SUNSET PARK – Earlier this month, after a man attempted to abduct two different 10-year old boys [/wednesday-crime-blotter-11/] in Sunset and Borough Parks, police asked the public to help identify him. Now, they’
North Western Brooklyn
via Brooklyn PointBrooklyn Point [https://brooklynpointnyc.com/?utm_source=BKLYNR&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=Dedicated%20Email] will be the first – and only – for-sale residence located atop the borough’s largest food, shopping and entertainment destination. Located above City Point, a 600,000-square-foot mecca of retail, dining and
News
A large auditorium hosted a mid-sized crowd during the town hall session on the L train closure (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)WILLIAMSBURG – After last week’s contentious town hall in Manhattan on the L-train shutdown, hosted by the MTA and DOT, the Brooklyn edition, which took place last night in the