Arts & Culture
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up—and we’ve listed a few parties down below where you can go check out the game—but there’s lots more happening this weekend aside from football. DUMBO’s First Thursday Gallery Walk is taking place tonight, the sixth annual Myrtle Avenue Black
Central Brooklyn
Think you know all about Brooklyn news? Try our brand new monthly news quiz and see how well you’ve kept up with all the happenings throughout the borough in January! If you’re reading BKLYNER regularly, consider becoming a subscriber [/subscribe/]—you can keep up-to-date on all things Brooklyn
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNERBROOKLYN – “Sex trafficking in Brooklyn?” – This very question made a young woman create a documentary [http://inourbackyard.nyc/], a young survivor tell her story, and a historic Brooklyn Heights church take a big step to help combat sexual exploitation in the borough we call home. “We Are
Business
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – A longtime local institution is slated for closure. Delissa Reynolds, owner of Prospect Heights’ Bar Sepia [https://www.barsepia.com], announced earlier this month that her beloved venue will be shuttering in March after 14 years on Underhill Avenue. Bar Sepia, 234 Underhill Avenue (Photo courtesy of Delissa
Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST – “We have all seen it time and again in our communities: the Department of Transportation resurfaces our streets, only for a utility company to rip up the street a couple of weeks later in order to perform work. The process is inefficient, and residents are left inconvenienced,” Council Member
Central Brooklyn
The cotton-candy man before a parade in Williamsburg last week (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * Myrtle Ave Plaza Construction Took Six Years to Complete [https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/01/22/it-took-ddc-six-years-to-build-this-clinton-hill-plaza/] [NYC StreetsBlog] * Horse Fortress: Photos of Historic Clinton Hill Stables [https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/brooklyn-architecture-261-vanderbilt-avenue-clinton-hill-stable-charles-pratt/] [Brownstoner] * Not in My
environment
GOWANUS – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222] announced last week that the Gowanus Canal cleanup has been stalled due to issues with the dredging and capping pilot project [/work-begins-gowanus-canal-cleanup/] that was scheduled to begin at the end of 2017. 4th Street
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – The city announced last week that a 16-story mixed-income residential building will be built on two parking lots at NYCHA’s Wyckoff Gardens development in Boerum Hill. Wyckoff Gardens (Photo: Kate Leonova via Property Shark)The project is part of the NextGen Neighborhoods program [http://www1.nyc.gov/
Business
GOWANUS – Real estate development and investment firm, Two Trees, has purchased two adjacent commercial sites in Gowanus for more than $100 million, Crain’s New York [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180129/REAL_ESTATE/180129906] reports. Via Google MapsThe first site formerly housed a Pathmark supermarket at 1-37 12th Street.
Announcements
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – The Brooklyn Public Library is hosting a reading and reenactment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s The Drum Major Instinct sermon on Sunday, February 4—fifty years to the day that he originally delivered the speech and two months before he was assassinated. Martin Luther King’s
celebrity
CLINTON HILL – In Patti Smith’s 2010 bestselling, award-winning memoir, Just Kids, the punk icon documented her time living in a “seedy” Clinton Hill apartment with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. 160 Hall Street, Clinton Hill (Photo: Christopher Bride via Property Shark)The two struggling artists moved into the second floor
Announcements
FORT GREENE – The first east coast Whole Foods Market 365 [https://www.365bywholefoods.com/] location opens on Wednesday, January 31 at 9am at 292 Ashland Place, right next door to the new Apple store in the 300 Ashland building and across the street from BAM. Whole Foods Market 365, 292