Announcements
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK – Brooklyn Bridge Park announced [https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/pages/main-street-section-of-park-temporarily-closed] on Thursday that it will temporarily close a section of the popular waterfront park to protect visitors from debris falling from the Manhattan Bridge. DUMBO Boulders, 99 Plymouth Street, under the Manhattan Bridge (Photo by Pamela Wong/
Business
[UPDATED: Monday, March 5 at 10am] Council Member Brad Lander responded on Saturday, March 3, with the following statement: “I’m genuinely sorry for what Twig Terrariums and other small businesses and residents on Third Avenue have been forced to endure. We love the small businesses in our neighborhood, and
Business
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Bar Sepia [https://www.barsepia.com/#home-section] was packed Wednesday as neighbors and patrons filled the beloved venue on its final night. Bar Sepia’s Delissa Reynolds (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Delissa Reynolds, Bar Sepia’s owner, announced in January [/savebarsepia-14-years-beloved-prospect-heights-bar-slated-close/] that the landlord of 234 Underhill Avenue,
Arts & Culture
March is here! Art in DUMBO’s First Thursday Gallery Walk is happening this week as well as Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturday. The students at Brooklyn Tech are putting on a production of Fiddler on the Roof , while PS 139 will be transformed into a carnival on Saturday.
Business
Photo credit: Roll & HillManufacturing in America – we’re hearing a lot about it these days. How do we keep it from dying? [https://www.racked.com/2018/2/20/17029148/american-giant-manufacturing-supply-chain] Is it even dying? [http://observer.com/2018/01/manufacturing-is-still-the-backbone-of-a-healthy-economy/] But in certain pockets of Brooklyn, there’s
Announcements
DUMBO – The all-women’s network of co-working and community spaces, The Wing [https://www.the-wing.com], debuted its third NYC location at 1 Main Street in DUMBO on Monday. The Wing DUMBO, 1 Main Street (Photo Credit: Troy Williams)With locations in the Flatiron and Soho, The Wing DUMBO is
Downtown Brooklyn
A blood stain left at the scene of the 2015 shooting (Photo by Fort Greene Focus)DOWNTOWN – The second shooter in a 2015 gang shooting outside an Applebee’s in Downtown Brooklyn [/17-year-old-killed-by-bullet-to-the-head-in-rush-hour-shootout-at-flatbush-and-dekalb-avenues-fortgreene/] was sentenced yesterday. The confrontation, between Fort Greene’s “900” crew an East New York gang, resulted
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Downtown lunch crowds have two new options to choose from with KarVér Brasserie & Bakery Cafe‘s new storefront opening tomorrow (March 1) at 129 Livingston Street (between Boerum Place & Smith Street) and Korilla BBQ‘s new brick-and-mortar location which launched earlier this month at 2 MetroTech
Bushwick
EAST WILLIAMSBURG – The man wanted in connection with a pair of ineffectual bank robberies was arrested yesterday, police reported. Christopher Kelly, 41, of East Williamsburg, was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted robbery, said police. Kelly was a suspect in the attempted robberies of a Chase Bank on
Borough Park
Spring is coming. * A beautiful story from Borough Park – Searching for the Woman Who Saved My Immigrant Family from Homelessness [http://narrative.ly/searching-woman-saved-immigrant-family-homelessness/] – thirty years later (by Shaheen Pasha on [http://narrative.ly/author/shaheen-pasha/]Narratively). * Fifteen years ago a college student was found shot five times in Prospect
Arts & Culture
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – As the final stop on a world tour that began at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum five years ago, the David Bowie Is [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/davidbowieis] exhibition will make its home at the Brooklyn Museum from March 2 to July 15. Prospect Heights bar
North Western Brooklyn
PARK SLOPE – Several gunshots were fired on Sackett Street between 4th and 5th Avenues early Monday morning, police say. Sackett Street & 4th Avenue via Google MapsAt approximately 2am on February 26, a witness inside a residential building on the southern side of Sackett near 4th Avenue called police after