Business
CONEY ISLAND – NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) has released the recently completed Commercial District Needs Assessment for Coney Island [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/sbs/downloads/pdf/neighborhoods/n360-cdna-coney-island.pdf] – one way the city is helping facilitate conversations about what is happening along the commercial corridors in our
Announcements
State Senator Marty Golden holds a decisive fundraising advantage over his challengers.BAY RIDGE – Democrats Andrew Gounardes and Ross Barkan are running against Senator Marty Golden in District 22 this year, and have just released their fundraising numbers. District 22 includes Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach,
canarsie
Councilmember Jumaane Williams, D-45 (Photo courtesy of Councilmember Williams’ Office)After an unsuccessful bid for City Council Speaker last month, it looks like East Flatbush Councilmember Jumaane Williams (D-45) has his eyes on a bigger prize: the position of Lieutenant Governor. “Do what you can, with what you have, where
Arts & Culture
Image courtesy Tabla Rasa Gallery / Audrey and Joseph AnastasiSUNSET PARK – For just over a year now, the phrase “fake news” has been ubiquitous: in tweets [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/818990655418617856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F01%2F13%2Fpolitics%2Ftrump-tweets-week-before-inauguration%2Findex.
Central Brooklyn
Forum on Healthcare in Ditmas Park (Photo by David Newman)“I can’t look my patients in the eye and tell them “I am able to provide you with the best possible care”,” panelist Devki Joshi who works at the Kings County Hospital shared. “In all honesty, I can’t
Central Brooklyn
Local politicians responded to the President of the United States referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as “shithole countries”. Just yesterday, President Donald Trump was reported by the Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.7a2cf439a92d] to have said:
News
Former teacher Mark Treyger was named chair of the NYC Council’s Education committee Thursday. Photo: NYC Council.Newly-installed speaker Corey Johnson unveiled his picks for chairs of the New York City Council [https://council.nyc.gov/]’s many committees on Thursday in a move that will impact the body’
Events
The panel, titled A Century of Striving, will be held tonight at the YWCA in Boerum Hill (Flyer via YWCA)Tonight, some of Brooklyn’s leading women politicians will hold a talk at the YWCA designed to engage with young women from the local community on the importance of women
Downtown Brooklyn
The cantilevered section of the BQE in Brooklyn Heights, under the promenade. (Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)As the prospect of $1.7 billion dollars worth of rehabilitation work on the BQE [/brooklyn-heights-section-of-infamous-bqe-slated-for-major-re-build/] looms, State Senators and Assemblymembers from Brooklyn and Staten Island have come together to write an open letter to
News
Clearing a Brooklyn sidewalk during a snowstorm (Photo: Nathan Haselby)After last week’s bomb cyclone and freezing weekend, things are finally heating up a bit—and so is the conversation over who is responsible for keeping New York’s sidewalks clear from snow. Southwest Brooklyn politicians got vocal on
News
Photo: NY AssemblyPamela Harris, Assemblywoman representing the 46th Assembly District, has been indicted [https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/brooklyn-assemblywoman-indicted-multiple-fraud-schemes-and-obstructing-justice] on 11 counts of multiple fraud schemes and obstructing justice. Charges include two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, four counts of making false
Central Brooklyn
Ms. Noel confronts Jacob Friedman, Management Operations Director for 585 E 21st St, over her eviction, along with Councilmember Jumaane Williams (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – It has not been easy reading the stories about the very elderly in our communities on the brink of eviction [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/