Nonsponsored
Homelessness is at an all-time high in the city, and the city is behind on its plan to build shelters, The City news site found [https://thecity.nyc/2019/08/halfway-into-homeless-revamp-work-lags-as-hotel-use-grows.html] . The plan, called “Turning the Tide” [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dhs/downloads/pdf/turning-the-tide-on-homelessness.pdf] promised to
Development
A crane involved in building a massive synagogue in Midwood Brooklyn, overturned this morning on Avenue U and Ocean Parkway. Todd Maisel/BklynerMIDWOOD – A crane-truck collapsed into a massive construction site on Avenue U and Ocean Parkway shortly before noon this morning. The crane was apparently lifting large pallets of
Central Brooklyn
Homeless shelter at 566 Coney Island Avenue opened at the end of July / early August serving 139 single men. Liena Zagare/BklynerKENSINGTON/DITMAS PARK – The homeless shelter for 139 men [/ditmas-parks-homeless-shelter-update/] quietly opened at the end of July after extensive renovations to the old Park Manor adult home buildings. The
Big Story
Gowanus Adult Family Shelter will open at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 6th Street in Fall of 2019 in what was planned as a hotel. Liena Zagare/Bklyner GOWANUS – The city is planning to site a homeless shelter in Gowanus, Bklyner has learned. Officials will be holding a public
Development
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – In an effort to stall the impending demolition of 227 Duffield Street, activists are demanding the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/landmarks] (LPC) “calendar” a review of the house that they say belonged to abolitionists and served as a stop on the underground railroad. Michael
brownsville
Courtney Williams at a press conference in Brownsville (Image by Zainab Iqbal/ Bklyner)CLINTON HILL — A few years ago Courtney Williams was unemployed and about to leave New York City. “I remember putting up the posters trying to leave the city, trying to sell stuff out of my apartment, and
Central Brooklyn
Assembly Member Walter Mosley speaks at a press conference next to Pacific Park/ Atlantic Yards (Image by Sam Raskin)PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After elected officials and local residents demanded that the state halt the approval of recreation space at Pacific Park, an advisory board came to a deadlock on the proposal.
Development
GOWANUS – Two Trees [https://www.twotreesny.com] is asking the city to create an incentive granting more density for projects in Gowanus if developers include “public improvements” in planned buildings. Rendering of Two Trees’ Hoyt Street site, via Practice for Architecture and Urbanism [https://pau.studio/what/gowanus-office-steam-high-school/]If the
celebrity
FORT GREENE – With two growing sons, celebrity chef and television star Tom Colicchio [https://www.craftedhospitality.com/tom-colicchio/] and his wife, filmmaker Lori Silverbush [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1091262/], moved from their West Village rental in 2016 to a 19th-century brownstone in Fort Greene. Tom Colicchio and Lori Silverbush,
Announcements
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul makes an announcement at Brooklyn Navy Yard (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that the Brooklyn Navy Yard area will get $10 million in upgrades to its streetscape and to neighborhood institutions. The 6-part project is part of a
Business
Ciao Gloria coming to 550 Vanderbilt (Photo: Norman Oder)By: Norman Oder PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Ciao Gloria [https://www.ciaogloria.com/], a new cafe from a co-founder of the dessert specialist Baked—which opened in 2005 [https://bakednyc.com/about/] in Red Hook—will be the second retail outlet to open
affordable housing
160 Clarkson Avenue, where a new apartment building is planned (Image via Google Maps)FLATBUSH — Since we wrote about an eight-story apartment building [/8-story-apartment-building-to-rise-in-flatbush/] that’s set to rise in Flatbush at 290 Linden Boulevard, a series of new residential developments have been planned for the neighborhood and the neighboring