Central Brooklyn
A Battle in the Snow, Park Slope (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. Nine-Year-Old Boy Hit By Train At East New York Subway Station, Suffers Broken Legs [http://www.ny1.com/
Bay Ridge
A diagram of how the lanes will be divided on 4th Avenue under the DOT’s new protected bike lane project (NYC DOT)NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) will start implementing its plan to bring eight miles of protected bike lanes to 4th Avenue in the Spring of 2018, according
Announcements
Join Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Prospect Park Alliance Ring in the New Year with Brooklyn’s Most Spectacular Fireworks Display. Prospect Park AllianceOn December 31, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and Prospect Park Alliance will present Brooklyn’s most spectacular New Year’s Eve Fireworks Celebration at
Business
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Downtown Brooklyn
BROOKLYN BRIDGE – Anyone who’s crossed the Brooklyn Bridge in recent years is well aware that despite the breathtaking views, the trip can be a frustrating and slow experience, with thousands of pedestrians filling the pathways and bicyclists trying to maneuver through them. Opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is
Central Brooklyn
Councilmember Mark Treyger (D, 47th) has been busy making our schools better and more equal for the kids. Today, the council approved his anti-bullying bill Intro 1757-A requiring Department of Education (DOE) to collect and report bullying data – student-to-student bullying, harassment, intimidation, or discrimination, bullying complaints – every six months, including
Central Brooklyn
The death of local outlets for journalism is no longer a news story—we watched for years, as outlets for reporting city and neighborhood stories dwindled across the country. There is a more recent twist to the stories, however—online sources, which were often cited as the cause in the
Central Brooklyn
[UPDATED: Monday, December 11, 2017 at 12pm] – More information has come out regarding the hit-and-run incident that occurred in Prospect Park last Thursday morning. Michael Gitelis, an 18-year-old from Flatlands, stole a Hyundai Sonata in Camden, New Jersey some time after midnight on Thursday, December 7 and drove into Brooklyn,
Announcements
[UPDATED: Monday, December 11, 2017 at 11:25am] Following this morning’s investigation, authorities have announced that normal subway service has resumed on the 1,2,3,N,Q,R,W,7,B,C,L and M trains in both directions. Commuters should expect residual delays. A notification was issued
Central Brooklyn
Dr. Diane Davis, clinical director of the Fatherhood Program, and Alan Dorvil, case manager for the program, at the Brooklyn Community Services office in Coney Island. November 8th, 2017.CONEY ISLAND – There’s a new program in Brooklyn helping men be better fathers—and challenging traditional notions of masculinity in
Business
Patty Suarez of Badlands with a client.PARK SLOPE – “Helping straight white men look less fascist was the last thing I thought I’d be doing when I started cutting hair at a queer-owned salon in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2014,” Patty Suarez [https://www.instagram.com/mrjulianray/] writes
Central Brooklyn
Atlantic Avenue Holiday Tree located in front of The Belarusian Church, on corner of Atlantic & Bond Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)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