Central Brooklyn
DeKalb Ave Station (Photo by 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. -Another Bulkhead Crumbles Into The Gowanus Canal [DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170802/gowanus/gowanus-canal-collapsed-bulkheads?utm_source=Park+Slope+
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Announcements
Via The Office of Brooklyn Borough President Eric AdamsOn Sunday, August 6th, Borough President Adams [http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/] will host an “International Day of Friendship [http://onebrooklynfund.org/international-day-of-friendship]” celebration in Brooklyn, his fourth annual festival recognizing the hundreds of cultures and ethnicities that make Brooklyn an unparalleled center
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Brad Lander and the Gowanus Green Team (Photo courtesy of the Office of Council Member Brad Lander)On Wednesday morning, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and Council Member Brad Lander launched the Gowanus Green Team, a training program that prepares young adults for “green jobs.” With $50,000 in funding provided
Central Brooklyn
A lactation pod located at Citi Field via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFg-se_pICM/?taken-by=mamava_vt]Nursing mothers visiting the Brooklyn Children’s Museum (145 Brooklyn Avenue) in Crown Heights can now comfortably breastfeed their babies in the privacy of a lactation pod. The NYC Department of
Central Brooklyn
Richard Basher, Mayoral candidate. (Photo by Tom Sullivan)Many politicians aspire to run for higher office, but it’s new territory for 30-year Brooklyn resident, Richard Bashner, who will be on the NYC mayoral ballot this Fall as a Democrat. “To do this difficult job correctly, a mayor must focus
community
Attendees pose with a sign for Christopher Wallace Way (Paul Stremple for BKLYNER)The late Brooklyn rapper “The Notorious B.I.G.” was memorialized at a naming ceremony for the basketball courts at the Crispus Attucks Playground in Clinton Hill, which are now known as the “Christopher ‘Biggie’ Wallace Courts.
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst Bean)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Cops convince man not to jump off Verrazano-Narrows Bridge after 5-hour standoff [Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cops-convince-man-not-jump-verrazano-narrows-bridge-article-1.3378410] ] -Gowanus Canal
North Western Brooklyn
Via NYPDThe body of a Clinton Hill woman who was reported missing last week was found floating in Spuyten Duyvil Creek near West 218 Street in Manhattan, the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/body-woman-found-creek-brooklyn-singer-article-1.3376110] reports. Twenty-four-year-old Lael Feldman was last seen [/help-police-find-missing-clinton-hill-woman/] at her
Food & Drink
(Photo via Coolhaus Ice cream/facebook)As if we really needed another excuse to eat ice cream this summer. Today is National Ice Cream Sandwich Day, and New Yorkers can celebrate the cool treat in the city where it all began (according to ice cream historian Jeri Quinzio [https://heavy.
North Western Brooklyn
The intersection at State and Bond Streets in Boerum Hill Tuesday morning (photo sent in by a BKLYNER reader)Several cars parked along State Street between Hoyt and Bond in Boerum Hill were smashed into by an intoxicated driver yesterday morning. A witness tells BKLYNER that she was walking toward
North Western Brooklyn
The NYPD are asking the public’s assistance in identifying the group of teens seen in the above surveillance video in connection to a robbery that occurred on a C train at the Franklin Avenue subway station on the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. At approximately 4:50am on