Nonsponsored
BIG’s rendering of the capped highway with expanded park, via The Future of The BQE Report [http://council.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NYCC-The-Future-of-the-BQE.pdf] A 1.5-mile section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) is in danger of collapsing, and officials are frantically trying to come up with
Bay Ridge
A parent speaks during a state-hosted meeting at Fort Hamilton High School to hear what families, teachers, and students think should be required to earn a diploma in New York. Photo Credit: Reema Amin/ChalkbeatOriginally posted on Chalkbeat [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/02/27/what-should-it-take-to-graduate-high-school-nyc-families-and-educators-sound-off-on-exit-exams-and-more/?utm_source=republish&
brownsville
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Wednesday, February 26, just after 3:30 p.m. a man entered Chase Bank at 975 Bedford Avenue and handed a note to a teller. The teller did as the note said, and the suspect left the bank with $1,000. No injuries were reported. Investigation is ongoing. Surveillance
Central Brooklyn
PS 399. Liena Zagare/BklynerOriginally posted on Chalkbeat [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/02/26/coronavirus-nyc-schools/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] by Alex Zimmerman on February 26, 2020 There are no immediate plans to cancel classes in the nation’s largest school system
Central Brooklyn
W9th Street by Kings Highway. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Shabnam Faruki In New York City, families work for years to save enough money to buy a home and put down roots in a neighborhood where they can create community and build enduring connections. Owning a home is often the biggest investment
homicide
VINEGAR HILL/NAVY YARD – On Monday, February 24, 2020, at approximately 3:30 pm, police responded to a 911 call for a person shot inside Farragut Houses. They found the victim, 35-year-old James Suggs, of Farragut Houses, “unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the face,” cops say. Suggs
Business
Blackout in Mill Basin, July 21, 2019 (Photo: Todd Maisel)A cascading series of scandals involving local utility providers has more and more New Yorkers clamoring for publicly-owned power, and now they have some powerful allies. City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Assemblymember Felix Ortiz, and several candidates for office spoke Wednesday
Central Brooklyn
By Zainab Iqbal/BklynerThe federal public charge rule takes effect today, February 24, 2020. The rule will make it harder for people who have used public benefits in the past to get their green cards going forward. “This rule I think is going to radically transform who gets to get
affordable housing
Building concept courtesy of Urban Cartographics.VINEGAR HILL – Community Board 2 voted on Wednesday to recommend against approving a request for rezoning of 265 Front Street that would see a truck lot in the heart of historic Vinegar Hill transformed into a 6-story residential building with first floor commercial space.
Central Brooklyn
B46 Route 2020 via MTAOn the heels of launching bus-mounted camera enforcement along B44 last year, MTA announced today that they will be rolling it out for B46 as well. The new bus-mounted cameras on the B46 Select Bus Service route will begin enforcement on Feb. 20, 2020, MTA says,
Development
About 15 protestors held signs and chanted against the demolition of 227 Duffield Street in September of 2019 [/11th-hour-plea-to-stop-demo-of-abolitionist-place-house/], a small 3 story brick house that is slated to be demolished by a developer to make way for another skyscraper on that street. Todd Maisel/BklynerWedged between a string of
Central Brooklyn
NYPD, East Flatbush. Liena Zagare/BklynerWhat’s behind the increase of NYPD stop-and-frisks in 2019? While law enforcement officials downplay the rise, alarm bells are going off among some civil liberties groups. Cops used the controversial policing tactic 22% more last year compared to 2018, according to statistics NYPD reported