Announcements
COBBLE HILL – Brooklyn’s Digital Arts & Cinema Technology High School [https://www.digitaltechhs.org/] (284 Baltic Street) was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from IMAX as part of the company’s second annual student-made documentary film challenge. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/1549314278695983/photos/a.1552185211742223.1073741827.
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via Greenlight CardIf you’re not the busy parent of an independent tween or teenager the genius of giving your child a debit card might not be immediately evident to you. But I am. And when I found out this product [http://welcome.greenlightcard.com/bklyner] existed I was pretty
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Not sure what to get loved one, friends and colleagues for the holidays? Leave it to BKLYNER to highlight places in the neighborhood. Whether they are the yogi or wannabe yogi, book lover, chocoholic, crafter, plain ol’ kid or even a collector of Italian tschokes. We’ve got you covered.
Carroll Gardens
BROOKLYN – Thanksgiving is two days away! Too busy to plan a homemade Thanksgiving dinner? Don’t like to cook? Kitchen too small to prepare a turkey feast? No worries. There are lots of restaurants around Brooklyn open on Thursday offering full Thanksgiving menus. Check out our list below. Call ahead
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FORT GREENE – Last November it was announced [/ibrooklyn-apple-store-coming-to-300-ashland-place/] that Apple was planning to open a second Brooklyn outpost at 300 Ashland Place [http://www.300ashland.com], steps away from BAM, Atlantic Terminal, and the Barclays Center. 300 Ashland (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The tech giant was rumored to have signed
Central Brooklyn
via CAMBAEvery week, hundreds of our hungry neighbors will wait in line outside of CAMBA [https://www.camba.org/]’s Beyond Hunger Emergency Food Pantry as they wait to receive a few bags of nutritious food that will last them the week. Across the borough, hundreds of thousands more are
bath beach
PARK SLOPE – City Employee Nilsa J. Lopez, an off-duty School Safety Agent, was arrested for assault in Park Slope at 8:00 pm on Friday, November 17. The 50-year old was at Rachel’s Taqueria on 5th Ave when she—along with John Lopez, 67 and Arianna Lopez, 17—attacked
clinton hill
CLINTON HILL – The NYPD are searching for a suspect involved in a car chase in Clinton Hill Saturday afternoon that left a trail of destruction and eight people injured. Intersection of Fulton Street and Clinton Avenue via Google MapsAt approximately 4pm on November 18, police attempted to pull over a
Central Brooklyn
7th Avenue, Park Slope (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 [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if
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GOWANUS – With cleanup efforts officially kicking off at the Gowanus Canal’s Fourth Street Basin [/work-begins-gowanus-canal-cleanup/] last month, elected officials and EPA representatives hosted a town hall meeting at the Wyckoff Gardens Community Center Thursday evening to update locals on the Superfund project. Congress Member Nydia Velazquez at the Gowanus
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DUMBO – Development firm Two Trees [https://twotreesny.com/] announced on Thursday that DUMBO Market, a new “full-sized supermarket,” will open at 66 Front Street in early 2018. DUMBO (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Located between Washington and Main Streets, the “16,000-square-foot gourmet store” will join two smaller specialty gourmet
Bed Stuy
Outside 740 Gates Avenue, where the shooting took place over the summer (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Two arrests have been made in a double homicide that left two women dead [/double-homicide-brooklyn-housing-project/]outside the Stuyvesant Garden houses last July. Anthony Alexander, 18, of Bed-Stuy, and Nazir Saunders, 20, of Harlem,