Police & Fire
Site of Brooklyn’s second police-involved shooting of 2017, 990 Atlantic Avenue on the Clinton Hill/Crown Heights border. (Photo via Yelp)Two plainclothes cops shot and killed an 18-year-old man who fired shots into a Clinton Hill bar early this morning, just six hours after another police-involved shooting in
Events
The community lighting will take place at Park Slope Playground after menorahs were vandalized. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6772822,-73.9785075,3a,75y,213.11h,93.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxBUoiKG-8zS4FiTVqru9CA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656] )After two menorahs were vandalized in area playgrounds, Borough
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPDAn early morning subway ride turned into a distasteful and disturbing experience for a young woman. Police are searching for a suspect involved in a public lewdness incident which took place on a Manhattan-bound N train on Monday, December 19, 2016 at approximately 1:30am. Cops say a
Police & Fire
Video via NYPD. Police are searching for two teenage suspects who were involved in the robbery of a 12-year-old victim’s cellphone. On Wednesday, November 23, 2016, at approximately 4:10pm, the young victim was standing on the southbound platform of the Q train at the 7th Avenue subway station
Neighbors
Apartment photo via Corcoran, photo of Chloë Sevigny by Arthur Kade via WikipediaActress Chloë Sevigny is selling her apartment just three years after moving to what she once described [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/24/chloe-sevigny-on-the-cosmopolitans-new-york-s-frat-boy-takeover-and-asshole-michael-alig.html] as the “dorkiest, hokiest” neighborhood in Brooklyn. The 42-year-old actress’ Brooklyn
News
The re-named New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)A name change and new leadership has arrived at New York Methodist Hospital (506 6th Street at 7th Avenue) in Park Slope after the announcement of its merger with New York-Presbyterian healthcare network. The merger, which was recently
Business
Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNERCreature comforts and annual rituals serve as the foundation to the holidays. And sometimes the simplest ones are the most appreciated. Angelo Fiumefreddo knows this well. As owner of the Park Slope Barber & Hair Stylist [https://www.yelp.com/biz/park-slope-barber-and-hair-stylist-brooklyn] (223 7th Street between
Food & Drink
Courtesy of Nargis CafePark Slope is about to get a taste of Uzbek food. The noted restaurant, Nargis Cafe [/yelpers-place-nargis-cafe-list-brooklyns-top-100-eateries/] in Sheepshead Bay, will open another location at 155 5th Avenue [/quintet-of-new-restaurants-playing-soon-on-slopes-5th-avenue/] (Lincoln Place and St. John’s Place) in March 2017. It is something owner and head chef, Boris
Food & Drink
Courtesy of Nargis CafePark Slope is about to get a taste of Uzbek food. The noted restaurant, Nargis Cafe [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/12/yelpers-place-nargis-cafe-list-brooklyns-top-100-eateries/] in Sheepshead Bay, will open another location at 155 5th Avenue [/quintet-of-new-restaurants-playing-soon-on-slopes-5th-avenue/] (Lincoln Place and St. John’s Place) in March 2017. It is
Nonsponsored
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Holidays
Photo via Christmas Presents [https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackunigryphon/15878989657/in/pool-christmas_present/] Want to help make a child’s holiday a bit brighter this season? Council Member Stephen Levin [http://council.nyc.gov/d33/html/members/home.shtml], whose district covers parts of our area, and the Atlantic
Business
Peter Romano at work. (Photo by Erin DeGregorio / BKLYNER)After working at his stained glass window business for the last 40 years in Park Slope, owner Peter Romano refuses to have the word “retirement” as part of both his vocabulary and future plans. At 72, he always busy because he