Bushwick
Saigon Spice’s new location on Church Avenue. Photo from @saigon_spice on Instagram.We say goodbye to a few good spots this round, which is always hard. Take time to mourn, and then make your way to one of the openings. We’ve got gold-foil lobster rolls, even more
Brooklyn Heights
Henry and his family outside of Snooky’s. Courtesy of the Goldberger family. Henry Joseph Goldberger, the restaurateur behind the late Snooky’s Pub in Park Slope and numerous other Brooklyn businesses, passed away peacefully at home in Westbury, New York, on January 16th. He was 95 years old. Mr.
Bay Ridge
Welcome back to yet another installment of Openings and Closings. This week we welcome a few new Greenpoint spots, a coffee shop/woodworking parlor, and yet another seafood restaurant. As usual, the few goodbyes we have are hard, but there are mercifully only three. And as always, let us know
Kids & Family
Sledding happening throughout Prospect Park. Keira Wingate/BklynerThe biggest downfall the city has seen in years brings the perfect weather for holiday fun – sledding, building a snowman, or a snowball fight. Snowfall came racing down at a rate of 1 to 2 inches an hour, with Brooklyn getting anywhere between
Boerum Hill
Gift-wrapping during the 2019 Helping Hands Toy Store Event at the Recovery House of Worship in Brooklyn. Photo by Rachel Martin [http://rachelannmartin.com]IG: @rachelmartinphotoWhen Zac Martin and his family moved to New York City from Canada 13 years ago, he “had the sense that this is where we
Ditmas Park
If there’s one thing that this year could use more of, it’s definitely latkes. Sufganiyot. Brisket. We’ve rounded up some of the best spots to treat yourself to a Hanukkah feast this year, whether you need just a single donut or packages of colorful dreidels. Bklyn Larder
Carroll Gardens
Justin Krebs in Park Slope. Fall of 2020. By Zainab Iqbal/BklynerJustin Krebs, 42, is a community organizer running to represent District 39 in the city council in next year’s elections. He is the Director of Campaigns at MoveOn [https://front.moveon.org/] and co-founder of arts space The
Business
Park Slope’s 5th Avenue BID has found another way to try to keep holiday shopping local— specialized gift cards. The gift cards, which are available through Yiftee, can be used at any participating business in the area. Right now, around 40 businesses have signed up, including Annie’s Blue
Announcements
Dr. Vivian Bea (left) and Tracy Tomer are wearing masks that Tomer crocheted. (Photo via Dr. Bea’s team)PARK SLOPE – Last September, a month before Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Tracy Tomer, 53, found a lump in her breast. She knew there was something wrong and feared it was cancer,
Announcements
Photo via Jessie ChildsPARK SLOPE – A Chase Bank location was graffitied with red paint and a few messages over the weekend. It has since been cleaned up. Cops tell us the graffiti was reported on Sunday, October 4 at around 12:45 a.m. at 127 Seventh Avenue. According to
Announcements
At their postcarding event last Saturday where 1,200 postcards were completed. (Photo: Lia Minkoff)PARK SLOPE – Every Saturday for the last month and a half, two local women have been meeting at Prospect Park encouraging people to handwrite postcards to mail to voters throughout the country. Deborah Kaufmann and
Central Brooklyn
Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Teachers from MS88, one of two Brooklyn Schools schools (PS 1 is the other) where positive cases of COVID – 19 were reported [/in-an-early-test-for-nyc-two-schools-report-positive-cases-of-covid-19/] among staff on the second day of school have posted an open letter [https://morecaucusnyc.org/2020/09/10/an-open-letter-from-ms88-teachers/] highlighting
COVID-19
Photo by David Ballew [https://unsplash.com/@daveballew?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/school?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Reema Amin, Alex Zimmerman, and Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https:
Borough Park
Brooklyn is getting the second adulticide treatment this summer, this time focusing on Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and areas around Greenwood Cemetery, per map below. The Health Department (DOH) will be dispatching trucks that will spray DeltaGard ® and/or Anvil® in order to kill mosquitoes and the associated risk of
Events
WINDSOR TERRACE – It’s been a while, but sports events are starting to return, little by little. Tomorrow, Friday, August 28, Brooklyn will host the first race since the lockdown, and it will take place in Prospect Park. Only 300 runners will compete, and no spectators will be allowed, organizers
Boerum Hill
A view of the Gowanus Canal from the Union Street Bridge (Photo: Nathan Haselby/Bklyner)When New York City resumes its land use review process in mid-September, there will be two major rezonings on the docket: Industry City, which was recently given the green light by the Department of City