Bed Stuy
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)BED-STUY – Police are looking for a woman who set fire to a car in Bed-Stuy in the early hours of Saturday, April 28. The arsonist intentionally set fire to the car at 52 Decatur Street by unknown means around 3:30 am, said police. Surveillance video of
Central Brooklyn
Junk truck with flowers, on the block in Clinton Hill (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * Flatbush Church Doesn’t Make The Cut For Landmarking, Will Become 9 Stories of Housing [https://citylimits.org/2018/04/30/city-rejects-bid-to-landmark-century-old-flatbush-church-slated-for-demolition/] [City Limits] * Greenpoint Waterfront Retains Industrial Charm Amid Glossy Development in Williamsburg and LIC [https:
Announcements
RED HOOK – NYC Department of Parks and Recreation [https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/whats-happening/red-hook-park-remediation] (NYC Parks) and the Environmental Protection Agency [https://www.epa.gov/ny/columbia-smelting-refining-works-red-hook-brooklyn-new-york] (EPA) hosted a meeting Monday evening [/meeting-to-update-community-about-red-hook-ball-fields-scheduled-for-monday-april-30/] to provide the Red Hook community with an update on the lead remediation and improvement
Announcements
Brooklyn College Library. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – Tuition is going up, the faculty is fearing more cuts, and facilities not in direct public view are crumbling. Students are demanding full, proper funding. Students of the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university system in the US
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Council Member Brad Lander has announced the winning 2018 participatory budgeting projects for District 39 (Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Kensington, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace). Council Member Brad Lander speaking at the District 39 PBNYC 2018 Project Expo, April 9 (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)
Bed Stuy
BUSHWICK – At 2:21 am on Sunday, April 29, off-duty NYPD officer Miguel Martinez, 38, was arrested and charged with DWI, driving the wrong way and refusing to take a breathalyzer test. CROWN HEIGHTS – At 3:45 am on Saturday, April 28, NYC Corrections officer James Laraque, 35, was charged
Announcements
Awaiting the F Train. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)TGIF and you know what that means? Subway changes! Here’s what’s happening this weekend, so plan your commute! Due to construction, M train shuttle buses will now be running from Willoughby Ave (Eastbound) and Hart St. (Eastbound) from 6 AM
Central Brooklyn
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Central Brooklyn
Simcha Eichenstein Declares Candidacy for Brooklyn Assembly Seat [http://hamodia.com/2018/04/26/simcha-eichenstein-declares-candidacy-brooklyn-assembly-seat/] vacated by Dov Hikind. (Hamodia) From bootlegger to the mayor [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/nyregion/tracking-graft-from-the-bootlegger-to-the-mayor.html] – neighbors in news again – Mr. Reichberg, Mr. Rechnitz, cops … (NYT) A new bus line to
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Business
[UPDATED: Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 4:40pm] Back to the Land’s owner, David Basham, told BKLYNER Thursday afternoon that the store’s final day will be Sunday, April 29. The store’s lease did not expire, as previously reported. Basham explains that business has decreased significantly, making it
Announcements
PROSPECT PARK – Prospect Park Alliance President Sue Donoghue and NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver were joined Thursday afternoon by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Council Member Laurie Cumbo in a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off construction on a major improvement project on the Flatbush Avenue side of the
Arts & Culture
The weather is finally starting to feel spring-like. Get out and enjoy it with some of the events lined up for this weekend including the Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl [/brooklyn-bookstore-crawl-returns-for-third-year-on-indie-bookstore-day/] , a LEGO Architecture build event [/lego-lovers-can-help-build-a-replica-of-shanghai-this-saturday-in-park-slope/] , and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Sakura Matsuri 2018 [/brooklyn-botanic-garden-hosts-annual-cherry-blossom-festival-april-28-29/]. Don’t forget