Central Brooklyn
The apartment building at 25 Lefferts Avenue, where a woman and a man were both found with knife wounds this morning (Screenshot via Google Maps)PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS – A woman is dead and a man is in the hospital after a domestic knife attack in a Lefferts Avenue apartment early
Bed Stuy
Tashawn Sutherland is facing eviction at 250 Clarkson Ave. after having lived at the residence for several years under the city’s now-defunct “cluster-site” shelter program.UPDATE: Nov. 13, 2018 The Legal Aid Society secured a temporary stay for 60 residents — formally placed in the city’s “cluster” housing program
Borough Park
BROOKLYN – Voters were in a well-deserved tizzy this morning around 9:30 am when all of the scanners at one Crown Heights polling site went down. A long line of voters was instructed to drop their ballots into boxes at PS 22 inside 443 St. Marks Ave. this morning because
Central Brooklyn
Subway car from the 1918 Malbone wreck.CreditNew York Transit MuseumPROSPECT HEIGHTS—Lawmakers and transit officials gathered outside the Willink Plaza Entrance of Prospect Park Thursday to remember the worst subway accident in New York’s history-the Malbone Street wreck [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/nyregion/100-years-after-new-yorks-deadliest-subway-crash.html]
Announcements
Kadia Goba and the stack of newspapersKENSINGTON-DITMAS PARK-FLATBUSH – We at Bklyner mostly think of ourselves as internet people, and we’ve been bringing you news about various Brooklyn neighborhoods for almost a decade, online. But we keep hearing from our readers and advertisers that neighbors miss the stories they care
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — The heated gentrification fights of this neighborhood have begun to turn inward, and much of the drama has centered on wild accusations against a local blogger Tim Thomas, who authors the Q at Parkside [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/], by the folks behind two local groups that seem
Announcements
Google Maps screenshot of 239 Hawthorne St.PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — Applications are closing November 5 at midnight for new one-bedroom affordable housing units in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. There are three affordable one bedroom units available in the four-story building at 239 Hawthorne Street between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues. The building is
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for a suspect who shot another man outside a Sheepshead Bay mini mart earlier this week. The shooting took place around 11:00 pm on Tuesday, October
Arts & Culture
EAST FLATBUSH — Ariel Rouco and Augusto Turallas first met at a bar. Turallas painted a canvas of a pint of beer and chicken wings during a party celebrating the second anniversary of Rouco’s brewery in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Two years later, the two are collaborating on a
clinton hill
Fall weather and turning leaves also means heating season for Brooklyn residents (Donny Levit / BKLYNER)It’s officially cold in Brooklyn! The high temperature is expected to top out at barely 50° today and many residents will be relying on their heaters to stay warm. But what is your landlord’
Arts & Culture
Katie Merz mural on Flatbush Avenue and Fenimore (Photo: Kadia Goba/BKLYNER) PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDEN — Katie’s at it, again. The artist, Katie Merz, best known for her 80 Flatbush mural, is tagging all parts of Brooklyn. Less than a week ago, Merz was putting the finishing touches on a gate
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE – Police have arrested and charged the MTA bus driver wanted for exposing himself to young girls in Bay Ridge last week. Matthew Wohlfahrt, 28, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, public lewdness and grand larceny, police said. Last Monday, while driving a gray minivan, Wohlfahrt