Nonsponsored
With summer in full swing, the time is right to take advantage of the long days and make your move. What move? Why *the* move… to a new pad. (Courtesy Zillow/Millie Perry of Stribling [https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/112079932_zpid/7_days/40.70187,-73.960969,
Central Brooklyn
A Citi Bike station on 5th Avenue and 3rd Street outside of J.J. Byrne Playground and the Old Stone House. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -MAP:
Central Brooklyn
Red Hook (NYC The Official Guide)You’ve signed up for ReachNow [https://reachnow.com/en/brooklyn-ny/] car-sharing service and used one of their BMWs or MINIs to run some errands [/new-car-share-service-makes-rainy-day-errands-easy/] and take a much-needed day trip [/day-trip-summer-away-reachnow/]. Now use one to explore a hard-to-reach Brooklyn neighborhood in depth.
Announcements
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With A View, July 24, 2014 (Photo by Julienne Schaer)Movies With A View has been hosting film screenings by the Brooklyn waterfront for eighteen years. As if a free movie with a spectacular view wasn’t enough, this year the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
Arts & Culture
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Piper Theatre flyerThe rehearsals are over. The bus is painted. The wigs are teased. It’s showtime! Piper Theatre’s production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert opens tonight, July 6! Last month, BKLYNER spoke with [/drag-extravaganza-priscilla-queen-desert-brings-fun-music-glamour-park-slope/] John McEneny and Kim Maier, the show’s
Arts & Culture
Exploding Businessmen Bunnies/New York Times, 2017 (Courtesy of Mike Cockrill) The verve and wit of Exploding Businessmen Bunnies/New York Times, Mike Cockrill [http://mikecockrill.com/]’s contribution to The Times, the current exhibition at The FLAG Art Foundation [http://flagartfoundation.org/exhibitions/the-times/] (545 West 25th Street in
North Western Brooklyn
[Update: A person of interest has been arrested, officials confirm] Police are searching for a shirtless man who threatened to kill a 49-year-old nun as she was praying on Wednesday afternoon in a Prospect Heights church. The suspect approached the nun while she was in a vestibule at the Co-Cathedral
Central Brooklyn
Justin Farrow. (Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s office)Yesterday, a man was sentenced to 31 years in prison for a spree of armed robberies in Windsor Terrace and Kensington [/cops-after-man-in-gun-point-robbery-who-may-be-connected-to-several-similar-incidents-kensington/] two years ago, during which he robbed and pistol-whipped women walking alone at night. Bed-Stuy resident Justin Farrow, 31,
Bensonhurst
Filmmaker Jay Cusato in action, playing stickball in Coney Island. (Photo via Cusato)On Sunday in Coney Island, the gang is getting back to together for a fierce game that once determined everything to the kids on Brooklyn streets. July 9 has officially been dubbed Stickball Day in Brooklyn, and
News
Tattoo found on the victim’s body, via NYPDFriends and family held a vigil on Tuesday, July 4, for Jennifer Londono, the missing New Jersey woman whose body parts police believe were found off the coast of Red Hook and the Upper West Side. The 31-year-old New Jersey resident disappeared
Food & Drink
Pinsa Lab, 86 Fifth Avenue (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)It’s “pinsa” not “pizza!” Pinsa Lab, New York City’s first and only pinsa purveyor, officially opened for business on Tuesday, July 4, at 86 Fifth Avenue (the former Teaus space [/flushing-tea-shop-teaus-adding-park-slope-location-parkslopestoop/]) in Park Slope. A dish that originated
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by phenomenaldiva4ny [https://www.instagram.com/p/BWFvLYTFYSy/?tagged=july4th]c/instagram)Thank you for reading BKLYNER! We’re taking the day off, but not before wishing you a lovely Independence Day with family and friends. It’s a federal holiday, which means changes to some of our city