Central Brooklyn
Photo by Element5 Digital on UnsplashI spent the hours from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. yesterday, like so many New York public school parents, on Zoom calls for two of my kids’ schools, growing increasingly frustrated at being forced to make a choice with little information
Business
Caption: Darren Tomasso (left) leads a fitness class in Dumbo. Photo courtesy of Darren Tomasso.Gyms are gone, and we don’t know when they’re coming back. But that’s not stopping Brooklyn residents from finding other ways of staying in shape. Gym rats, now without a home, are
Central Brooklyn
Cyclists ride over the Queensboro Bridge, Aug. 3, 2020. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Jose Martinez, originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/8/5/21356349/two-wheel-traffic-up-on-bridges-but-city-cant-expand-bike-lanes] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] Even with many New Yorkers staying home during the pandemic, growing legions of bicyclists are pedaling over
Central Brooklyn
When you look at the map of State Senate districts that crisscross Brooklyn, what shapes do you see? Does Senate District 20, which winds its way from Brownsville to Sunset Park, look more like a backhoe or a bioluminescent fish? Does the bizarre tail, sometimes no more than a block
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Ben Mullins [https://unsplash.com/@benmullins?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/school-test?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Amy Zimmer and Reema Amin, originally published in Chalkbeat New York
Business
Restaurant owners operating in Brooklyn, and even all across America, haven’t had many reasons to be optimistic lately. Government pandemic assistance has largely fallen flat, predictions about closings are bleak, and regular customers are lower than ever on extra spending money. It’s understandable that many in the industry
Announcements
Back in May when the MTA began its enhanced cleaning of buses. (Photo: Trent Reeves / Metropolitan Transportation Authority)BROOKLYN – Draft of the Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign – a look at how well the current network serves, and where improvements could be made – was supposed to be released on June 30, but
Announcements
This is from Eid 2019, during a time where there was no pandemic. (Todd Maisel/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN – A pandemic will not stop Muslims from celebrating Eid al-Adha tomorrow, Friday, July 31. Eid al-Adha is also referred to as the Festival of the Sacrifice and is observed after the completion of
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Charles Deluvio on UnsplashI have lost count how many hours this summer I have devoted to zoom calls and group chat conversations with fellow parents about how each of my three kids’ schools is planning for reopening. It approaches full-time employment. The list of questions unanswered stretches down
Boerum Hill
Shelves are full at Vin de Table. Courtesy of Freddy Saint-Aignan.Around the country, alcohol sales are going up. The New York Post [https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/americans-drinking-crazy-amount-of-alcohol-during-coronavirus-lockdown/] reported a 55% increase at the end of March, citing increases in both liquor and wine and beer sales. Despite
Announcements
Naomi Nesmith (left) and Ayan Rahman. (Photos were given by Nesmith and Rahman) BROOKLYN – For Naomi Nesmith (18) and Ayan Rahman (18), March 13 — the day the NYC Schools shut down in the face of COVID-19 pandemic — was their last day of high school before college. Their last semester of
Development
Photo by Donny Levit / BklynerThis past week an appeals court in New York reversed a state supreme court judge’s decision to block a controversial 59-block rezoning of Inwood in upper Manhattan spearheaded by the De Blasio administration. The Inwood rezoning had been put on pause [https://www.6sqft.com/