News
4th Avenue – 9th Street Station entrance via Google Streetview 2009A Brooklyn jury yesterday convicted Johnny Jacob, 45, of Brooklyn, of first-degree rape for raping a 19-year-old woman on a subway platform in Park Slope in 1998. “Thanks to the DNA evidence collected at the time of this attack the defendant
Holidays
Photo by Shimi Kutner/COLlive, courtesy of the photographer and The Great Parade Lag B’omer is a Jewish holiday [http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/lag-baomer/] that occurs on the 33rd day of the traditional Omer count—the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot. A break from the “semi-mourning” of
Central Brooklyn
TONIGHT: Tuesday, May 16 7:00 pm Town Hall Meeting at Roosevelt High School, with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, NYC Councilmember David Greenfield and NY State Assemblymember Dov Hikind. Where: 5800 20th Avenue, Brooklyn (between 58th and 59th Streets)7:30 pm – 70th Precinct
Central Brooklyn
1173 Bergen Street (Photo by Nathan Haselby)On April 28, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine extended the temporary restraining order once again [/opening-crown-heights-homeless-shelter-delayed/] on 1173 Bergen Street, prohibiting the homeless shelter from opening while Crown Heights neighbors negotiated with the shelter’s operators and the City. This was the
Announcements
On Monday May 22, NYC DOT will begin post-Superstorm Sandy recovery construction on the Third Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Traffic will be reduced to a single lane between the hours of 7am to 3:30pm from Monday to Friday, May 22 – May 26, and then again from Tuesday
Announcements
Image via MTA [http://nymta.civicconnect.com/courtesy]The MTA launched a new awareness campaign [http://www.mta.info/news/2017/05/14/mta-launches-new-awareness-campaign-encourage-customers-offer-pregnant-disabled-and] encouraging commuters to show some courtesy by getting up and offering their seats to pregnant, senior, or disabled riders who need to sit. The pilot program
Food & Drink
The Gage and Tollner building, 372-374 Fulton Street via JJ Operating [http://www.jjop.com/flyers/374%20Fulton%20Street%207_21.pdf]The historic Gage and Tollner building located at 372-374 Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn has been vacant since late last year, after a discount store peddling clothing, trinkets,
Central Brooklyn
“Bold winK” bike rack designed by David Byrne, Fort Greene (Photo by 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
camps
We get it; Brooklyn is #trending with Brooklyn-based summer camps. Although you might think the booming borough has it all, it doesn’t have Chelsea Piers Summer Sports Camp [http://www.chelseapiers.com/summer-camp/]s [http://www.chelseapiers.com/summer-camp/]. Chelsea Piers is Manhattan’s premier destination for youth sports
celebrity
Photo via Douglas Elliman [https://anncutbilllenane.elliman.com/new-york-city/239-waverly-avenue-brooklyn-msjjopf] Back in the 1990s, when young comedian Chris Rock was on Saturday Night Live, he purchased a beautiful home at 239 Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill. Rock has long since moved on from SNL and Brooklyn, and recently put the
North Western Brooklyn
Jay Street subway station (Photo by u_bahn_berlin via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1q0WghnXf/?taken-at=129192017520317])The NYPD report that they found the body of a dead 57-year-old man on a northbound A train this morning at the Jay Street subway station. Police arrived on the scene
Arts & Culture
A detail of artist Linda Serrone Rolon’s work which will be on view at Kruchkow’s Shoe Store, 7808 5th Ave, as a part of the Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk. (Photo by Bay Ridge SAW via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bayridgesaw/photos/a.169802423182849.1073741825.129252413904517/785430904953328/