News
Image via Google Maps.A robber pushed his way into an 82-year-old woman’s Red Hook apartment Tuesday afternoon after she returned home from running errands and withdrawing cash from an ATM, CBS New York [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/05/03/brooklyn-elderly-woman-robbed/] reports. As Elsie Felder was opening her
News
Photo by Nicholas Strini via Property SharkA large piece of a landmarked building located on the corner of 7th Avenue & 9th Street came crashing down onto the sidewalk on Wednesday afternoon. A fragment of 439 9th Street, the four-story apartment building that houses Smiling Pizzeria (323 7th Avenue) on
Announcements
Courtesy of Brooklyn EatsBrooklyn Eats [http://brooklyneats.com/] is Brooklyn’s largest food and beverage trade show, taking place this year on June 23, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the New York [http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-rooms/nycbk-new-york-marriott-at-the-brooklyn-bridge/] Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge [http:
News
Fourth Avenue by iverson97 via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/aEamLuCO7o/?tagged=4thavebrooklyn]Tuesday night at St Thomas Aquinas Church on 4th Avenue (at 9th Street), the Director of NYC DOT’s Bike Program, Ted Wright, presented the agency’s plans for the proposed 4th Avenue protected bike lane
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Bike New York/facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bikenewyork/photos/a.126557167359113.23351.118113611536802/1282586338422851/?type=3&theater] )Thinking about driving out of town this weekend? THINK AGAIN! The annual 5 Boro Bike Tour [http://www.bike.nyc/events/td-five-boro-bike-tour/] is this Sunday, May 7, when approximately
Announcements
> A post shared by La Cigogne (@lacigognenyc) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQs2lAWjTKJ/] on Feb 19, 2017 at 9:02am PST The team behind one of Carroll Garden’s favorite restaurants, La Cigogne [http://www.lacigognenyc.com/], is planning to bring a new high-end cocktail bar to Smith Street.
Central Brooklyn
Prospect Park (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Photos: Bury Your Deepest Secrets In A Tomb At Green-Wood Cemetery [Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2017/05/02/brooklyn_has_secrets.php#
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Flickr/MTAFor a moment, finding this twitter account made it all seem worth it. The long nights anxiously waiting for a ghost train, the vomit-caked seats, the unexplained delays, the ‘showtime’s, the snail-slow service when the train finally does show up, the rat parades, the overcrowding, the
Arts & Culture
It would not be summer in Brooklyn without the free Celebrate Brooklyn concerts in Prospect Park. The schedule was released today [https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival] , so start making plans: June: * Lake Street Dive [https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival/lake-street-dive] , June 7, 2017 · 8:15PM@Prospect Park Bandshell
Announcements
Photo by Tom PrendergastBKLYNER received a tip from a reader that the former Market Fresh [/market-fresh-of-windsor-terrace-reopens-quelling-concerns-of-yet-another-supermarket-closure-parkslopestoop/] located at 238 Prospect Park West will soon be replaced by a new grocery store—Prospect Market. Alex Alomeri, a manager at Prospect Market, confirmed the news today, stating that he hopes the new
Education
Park Slope Collegiate, Photo by Louis Rosenfeld via FacebookThe principal of Park Slope Collegiate filed a lawsuit against the NYC Department of Education last Friday requesting a stop to an investigation that accuses her of “engaging in communist activities” and “recruiting students,” WNYC [http://www.wnyc.org/story/outspoken-principal-racial-justice-accuses-city-retaliation/] reports.
Arts & Culture
Books Are Magic, 225 Smith Street (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Book lovers were dealt a blow late last year when the beloved BookCourt closed up shop [/after-35-years-cobble-hills-cherished-bookcourt-to-close-author-emma-straub-announces-possible-neighborhood-replacement/] after 35 years. And then—poof! As if appearing out of thin air, Books Are Magic [https://www.booksaremagic.net/] arrives to