Announcements
Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/IrondaleCenter/photos/gm.2064650020430677/10155258900202444/?type=3&theater] FORT GREENE – With Oprah Winfrey’s galvanizing speech at the Golden Globes demonstrating the power for change that can live within a single woman’s voice, the program scheduled this month at the Irondale Theater
Announcements
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-09611.jpg]January 15 is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. See below for a list of what is closed on Monday in observance of this federal holiday. If you’d like to honor the memory of Dr. King
Central Brooklyn
Union Street, Gowanus (Photo: Nathan Haselby)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if you ever
Central Brooklyn
Local politicians responded to the President of the United States referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as “shithole countries”. Just yesterday, President Donald Trump was reported by the Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.7a2cf439a92d] to have said:
clinton hill
Damaged pipes led to the ceiling in the lobby of 425 Grand Avenue to collapse on New Year’s Day. [/started-bang-collapsing-ceiling-rings-new-year-clinton-hill/] According to NYC Department of Buildings, the pipes had been leaking water into the area between the ceiling and the floor above. A resident living above the lobby said
Business
PokéBowl Station, 237 Flatbush Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Restaurants serving poké [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/poke-bowl-recipes_us_5743abb0e4b0613b512b1bfd] , a Hawaiian dish consisting of cubes of raw fish served over rice, have been popping up across the city in the last year or so, with one recently
Boerum Hill
212 Pacific Street via Google MapsBOERUM HILL – Java lovers will be happy to hear that Stumptown Coffee Roasters [https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/] has signed a lease for a new retail location at 212 Pacific Street in Boerum Hill, The Real Deal [https://therealdeal.com/2018/01/11/brooklyn-blend-stumptown-inks-lease-for-its-only-bk-coffee-shop/] reports. Situated
Bensonhurst
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BENSONHURST – Police are looking for the man who violently attempted to rob a 16-year old for his coat at gunpoint last Tuesday in Bensonhurst. The 16-year old male victim was walking on
Central Brooklyn
Gowanus Canal (Photo: Nathan Haselby) * Readers Share Their New York Subway Stories [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/magazine/readers-share-their-new-york-subway-stories.html?_r=0] (NYT) * Dogs keep getting zapped on this block in Bed Stuy [https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/dogs-keep-getting-zapped-on-this-brooklyn-block/] (NYPost) * Thanks for finding my son – An open
Announcements
Via NYC DOT [http://nycdotfeedbackportals.nyc/nycdot-carshare-pilot/where-would-you-see-carshare-show-us] PARK SLOPE/CARROLL GARDENS/COBBLE HILL – Council Member Brad Lander is asking for the community’s feedback regarding the anticipated locations in his district for the NYC Department of Transportation’s (DOT) [http://nycdotcarshare.info/] two-year pilot carshare program. Last summer, DOT
Downtown Brooklyn
A ferry in front of the Williamsburg Bridge (Photo via NYC Ferry)While the NYC Ferry celebrates a year of higher than expected ridership systemwide, the coming closure of the L train could create a tidal wave of new commuters that would nearly triple the current number of passengers on
Boerum Hill
PARK SLOPE – At the Brooklyn Community Board 6 [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] General Meeting Wednesday evening, the board voted to pass the NYC Department of Transportation’ s (DOT) [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] proposal to install four miles of protected bike