Central Brooklyn
Photo via Community Voices HeardHundreds gathered outside City Hall yesterday demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio provide $1 billion annually to much-needed repairs in NYCHA developments. Community Voices Heard [http://www.cvhaction.org/] (CVH), a grassroots organization founded in 1994 to advocate for social, economic, and racial justice, organized the
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Raymond Campaign The 40th District has three candidates running against the incumbent Mathieu Eugene: Pia Raymond, Jennifer Berkley [/meet-your-candidate-jennifer-berkley-for-flatbushs-district-40/] and Brian Cunningham [/meet-candidate-brian-cunningham-flatbushs-district-40/]. These candidates are vying to represent Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Prospect Park, and Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Read our discussion with Pia Raymond below.
Arts & Culture
Photo by Ground Floor Gallery via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/events/237887826669584/]Park Slope’s Ground Floor Gallery [http://groundfloorbk.com/] (339 5th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues) is organizing a new exhibit entitled “Marked Urgent” — An Exhibition in Defense of Free Press, and they need your help!
News
James Madison High School students and teachers celebrate creating the borough’s longest chain of plastic bags, 2016. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a moratorium on the controversial plastic bag fee [/albany-legislators-working-block-nycs-plastic-bag-fee-sheepshead-bay/] set to begin today, effectively killing the bill after a long battle in
Central Brooklyn
Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers his State of the City address at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Monday, February 13, 2017. Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photography OfficeLast night, Mayor de Blasio delivered his State of the City address, promising: “We’re going to do things a different way here
Bensonhurst
Editor’s note: We have received the below letter to the editor from Congressman Dan Donovan’s office, in response to one by his constituent requesting a public town hall [/donovan-constituents-want-face-face-town-hall/]. The original story about the Chamber of Commerce event is here [/hard-republican-brooklyn-donovans-constituents-protest-chamber-event/], along with a video of the event
Food & Drink
Tesla Showroom in Red Hook (Photo by cjh51109 via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BD-fJ4TKu4O/?tagged=teslaredhook])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Thief Nabs Tip-Jar From Fort Greene Cafe. [DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)For the past two weeks, Brooklyn has been peppered with Trump resistance events, from parent-led immigrant support rallies [/belong-parents-stage-immigrant-support-rallies-outside-ditmas-park-schools/] to bodega strikes [/thousands-yemeni-americans-supporters-rally-trumps-muslim-ban/] to hand-delivering power bars to Senators [/thousands-brooklyn-send-senator-schumer-message-resist-trump/]. For those of you seeking to keep the momentum alive or make your voice h
Opinion
Congressman Dan Donovan. (Photo via the Congressman’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/RepDanDonovan/])Re: It’s Hard to be a Republican in Brooklyn – Donovan’s Constituents Protest Chamber Event, 2/6/17, by Liena Zagare To the Editor, I was one of the protesters who confronted Congressman Dan
News
Photo via Chelsea Skye/twitter [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BYOBAG?src=hash]) Yesterday, New York State lawmakers approved a measure to delay the City Council’s Plastic Bag Bill, which would slap a 5 cent fee on disposable grocery bags. The Republican-led State Senate voted in favor of a moratorium
Events
Dan Donovan is Brooklyn’s only Republican Congressman, representing Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Staten Island for the 11th Congressional District, and at least some of his Brooklyn constituents are really unhappy. This morning the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce held a Brooklyn Newsmakers breakfast series with the Brooklyn Congressional Delegation,
Nonsponsored
The 2017 race to succeed term-limited City Councilman Vincent Gentile — who has represented Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach and Bensonhurst for more than 13 years — is gaining momentum. Check out the opening moves from three Republicans and one Democrat who are vying for the seat in District 43. Liam