Announcements
SUNSET PARK – Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams announced Wednesday morning [https://www.facebook.com/eric.adams.5895/videos/10215486015769367/] a new partnership between his administration, Brooklyn Community Services (BCS) [http://wearebcs.org], and Turning Point Brooklyn [http://www.tpbk.org] to establish a mobile shower bus that will serve homeless
Bed Stuy
Brooklyn Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 23-year-old Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 23 years to life in prison for the beating and fatal shooting of a man inside an abandoned Bed-Stuy brownstone in 2014.
Business
PARK SLOPE – The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] approved plans to restore 192 Prospect Park West, a single-story retail space beside the former Pavilion Theater situated across from Prospect Park. 188 and 192 Prospect Park West via Google MapsBack in 2014 [/relax-the-pavilion-is-not-becoming-condosjust-yet-kensington/], neighbors
Business
227 4th Avenue, the former Brooklyn Lyceum is now home to Blink Fitness (April 2017 photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)PARK SLOPE – After debuting a new gym at a former 4th Avenue bathhouse [/blink-fitness-opens-in-historic-brooklyn-lyceum-building-august-1/] last August, Greystone Development has decided to put the landmarked building up for sale again. The
Announcements
State Senator Marty Golden holds a decisive fundraising advantage over his challengers.BAY RIDGE – Democrats Andrew Gounardes and Ross Barkan are running against Senator Marty Golden in District 22 this year, and have just released their fundraising numbers. District 22 includes Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach,
Bensonhurst
The Capital One Bank on 5th Avenue and 13th Street in Park Slope was robbed yesterday, January 16 (Screenshot via Google Maps)PARK SLOPE – Police are looking for the suspect behind a brazen noontime robbery of a 5th Avenue bank that occurred yesterday in Park Slope. Just before 12:00
Bed Stuy
BEDFORD STUYVESANT – The dusty cavity below the Franklin Avenue shuttle train station in Bedford Stuyvesant is beginning to show signs of progress –– three and a half years after developer Joseph Brunner purchased the property for $19,000,000. The building was originally proposed as an 8-story, mixed-use project at 1134
Announcements
FORT GREENE – If, like me, you’ve been counting down the days until the new Whole Foods Market 365 [https://www.365bywholefoods.com] opens at The Ashland, we’ve only got a couple of more weeks left to wait. To celebrate its grand opening [https://www.facebook.com/events/411037702665295/
fort greene
PACIFIC PARK – Real estate investment firm Forest City [https://www.forestcity.net/] announced [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/forest-city-and-greenland-reach-agreement-to-restructure-pacific-park-brooklyn-partnership-300582578.html] on Monday that it has restructured Greenland Forest City Partners—the joint venture that is developing Pacific Park [https://pacificparkbrooklyn.com/], the 22-acre mixed-use development adjacent to the Barclays Center
Central Brooklyn
Suits of Armor, Prospect Place, Crown Heights (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) * $110.5M Basquiat Painting Will Be Exhibited at Brooklyn Museum Jan. 26—March 11 [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/arts/basquiat-skull-painting-is-coming-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html?_r=3] [NYT] * Two Residents Injured When Ceiling Collapses at NYCHA Complex in Crown Heights
Central Brooklyn
After Hawaii residents received a false emergency alert on their phones on Saturday saying, “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” it makes Brooklynites wonder: what if there’s a missile threat inbound to Brooklyn one day? > HAWAII – THIS IS A FALSE
News
A new design for a residential development project in Prospect Heights has been revealed for 731 and 733 Bergen Street. The new building has an updated rendering from Bizdesigns LLC, posted to their Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/bizdesigns_llc/] account: > [https://www.instagram.com/p/BdflmDFh__w/] [https: