Carroll Gardens
CARROLL GARDENS – Former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was indicted on Monday [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/five-takeaways-manafort-gates-indictment.html?_r=0] on 12-counts including money laundering and tax evasion in his political and business dealings with the Ukraine. 377 Union Street (on left) in Carroll Gardens
Business
Local business owner Jonathan Bayer of SkyIce, Park Slope BID Director Mark Caserta, SBS Commissioner Gregg Bishop, People With Disabilities Commissioner Victor Calise and Councilmember Brad Lander announced the new initiative in Park Slope today. (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)PARK SLOPE – In front of a 5th Ave cafe, representatives from both
Carroll Gardens
Mayor DeBlasio addresses 39th Council District residents at a Town Hall. (Megan McGibney/BKLYNER)PARK SLOPE — Mayor Bill De Blasio held another town hall in Brooklyn last night, this time in his home neighborhood, the 39th District. It was held at the William Alexander School MS 51 at 350 5th
Announcements
New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Esposito unveils a six-foot high water mark sign, Wednesday, October 26, 2017, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Coney IslandCONEY ISLAND– As the time passes, it’s easy to forget just how much water came into the city during the storm surge.
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Incumbent Stephen Levin of the 33rd City Council District will debate his opponent, Victoria Cambranes, this Sunday, October 29 in Boreum Hill. The event will take place at Commons Cafe, 388 Atlantic Ave, starting at 7:00 PM. While Cambranes has planned the event for some time, she hadn’t
Bushwick
A couple e-bikes outside a local deli. Small businesses all across the city employ delivery rides on e-bikes (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last week, Mayor De Blasio announced [https://www.facebook.com/NYCMayor/videos/10155618175616166/] that in 2018, enforcement against e-bikes in New York City would be ramped up, as they
Business
Man walks by The Bedford-Union Armory (Ben Foldy / BKLYNER)CROWN HEIGHTS – As plans to develop the Bedford-Union Armory work through the city’s approval process, neighbors sense an inevitability to a project some feel has ignored their concerns. Leveraging private development to address New York’s housing shortage, the armory
Central Brooklyn
KENSINGTON/DITMAS PARK — NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) has finished their traffic study, according to the Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and have agreed to install a traffic light at the corner of Coney Island Avenue and Hinckley Place to aid in traffic calming in front of IS 890 and PS 889
Coney Island
The haphazard construction site at the Surfside Gardens Community Center in Coney Island (Kyle Kucharski / BKLYNER)CONEY ISLAND – This October marks the five-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy’s destructive landfall here in New York, yet some areas of the city seem to have been more neglected in recovery efforts. The
environment
Local political leaders ceremoniously broke ground for the new library at Norman Ave and Leonard St yesterday (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – Local leaders broke ground yesterday on the new Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center, surrounded by North Brooklyn Community members, builders, and schoolchildren from nearby PS 34’s Green
community
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Hundreds of Brooklyn residents turned out for a town hall meeting with Mayor Bill De Blasio Wednesday evening moderated by Council Member Stephen Levin [https://council.nyc.gov/district-33/] at St. Francis College. District 33 Council Member Stephen Levin and Mayor Bill de Blasio at a Town Hall
News
Russian trolls tricked Americans into helping them sow divisions along racial lines leading up to the 2016 election and into 2017—even right here in Brooklyn. A phony website called “Black Fist” paid Bed-Stuy based activist Omowale Adewale to hold self-defense classes geared towards African-Americans, Buzzfeed News reports [https://www.