affordable housing
CROWN HEIGHTS — Developers are converting a shuttered Weeksville School, Brooklyn’s first racially integrated school, to a fully-affordable apartment building, Bklyner has learned. Located at 1634 Dean St. at the corner of Schenectady Ave., the building closed two decades ago. Now the plans propose gut renovations and turning it into
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A man was shot and killed outside of a baby shower Friday night at the border of Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, according to police. Police identified Courtney Tingle, of Ft. Greene’s Walt Whitman Houses as the victim. NYPD responded to a 9-1-1 call at
Announcements
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Community Board 8’s permits and licenses committee on Monday voted against recommending to support a “change of operations” to allow live music and backyard entertaining at Soda Bar in Prospect Heights. Drinks at Soda Bar & Lounge. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)According to the New York
Announcements
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — First lady Chirlane McCray and former Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen will unveil Wednesday the next four She Built NYC [https://women.nyc/she-built-nyc/] monuments to include iconic songstress, Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday (Screenshot Billie Holiday Instagram)The celebrated jazz singer was born Eleanora Fagan Gough, on April 7,
Arts & Culture
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – This spring the Brooklyn Museum [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org] will debut a group exhibition featuring work by contemporary LGBTQ+ artists that “honors the fight for queer liberation in the years since the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.” S.T.A.R., 2012, by Tuesday Smillie. Courtesy of the artist and
Nonsponsored
Pete Buttigieg at the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Cultural Center with New York Times journalist promoting his book and 2020 presidential run. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The first presidential candidate to visit Brooklyn is Pete Buttigieg from South Bend, Indiana. Bernie Sanders was rumored to announce in Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Residents of luxury rental tower, The Azure [https://azure436.com/#residences] at 436 Albee Square, are angry with the hordes of college students moving into their building. The Azure, 436 Albee Square via Streeteasy [https://streeteasy.com/building/the-azure-436-albee-square]The 28-story residence, which was originally marketed as
Business
Screamer’s Pizzeria in Crown Heights at 685 Franklin Ave. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — The second installment of Screamer’s Pizzeria [http://www.screamerspizzeria.com/] opened in Crown Heights last month, fueling what they call a 1,500 slice-a-day [https://vegnews.com/2018/12/brooklyns-first-vegan-pizzeria-sells-1500-slices-every-day] craving for their
history
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – After launching a contest last fall [/name-the-brooklyn-public-library-eagle/] to name the cast-copper eagle sitting above the entrance of the Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] has announced the winning moniker. Brooklyn Historical Society gifted the cast-copper eagle, Ingersoll, to Brooklyn Public Library (Photo: Nathan Haselby)Ingersoll
Business
Soda Bar at 629 Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. (Screenshot: Google Maps) PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Vanderbilt Avenue hot spot Soda Bar is looking to bring in a DJ on the weekends, but a couple of neighbors say, “Not so Fast.” Owner Galina Sokolova of Soda Bar [https://m.facebook.com/
Business
PARK SLOPE/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Brooklyn’s first licensed medical cannabis dispensary, Citiva [https://citiva.com/], officially opened for business at 202 Flatbush Avenue on Sunday, December 30. “The store is designed to provide the most patient-friendly experience possible,” Carlos Perea, Chief Operating Officer of iAnthus Capital Holdings, said in a
Arts & Culture
CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Celebrate the winter solstice—the longest night of the year—on Friday, December 21, with the return of Make Music Winter [http://www.makemusicny.org/winter-parades/], an annual outdoor celebration featuring free participatory musical parades across the city. Launched in 2011 by Make Music New York