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The Brooklyn Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan (Image: Tom Coe/Unsplash) As the coronavirus swept across the country last year, stories abounded of New Yorkers fleeing the cramped city en masse [https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/nycs-mass-covid-19-exodus-reportedly-cost-34b-in-income/] for more spacious climes, especially from the wealthy parts of Manhattan [https:
Central Brooklyn
One candidate wants to downzone the neighborhood. Another wants to remove up to $3 billion from the NYPD’s budget. Six candidates seeking to replace term-limited District 40 Council Member Mathieu Eugene gathered virtually last night for a forum organized by the Unified Political Association club [https://www.facebook.com/
Business
Wilensky Hardware at 2126 Mermaid Avenue, in Coney Island, prides itself on being the oldest family-owned business in the neighborhood, dating back to 1920. A hundred years later, both the building and possibly the business, are up for sale. Steve Feinstein, owner of Wilensky Hardware. Photo by Kouichi Shiranayagi/BklynerThe
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The Glo Hotel on 850 4th Avenue is one of several Sunset Park hotels being used as homeless shelters. (Image: Bklyner reader)Sunset Park residents say a confluence of hotel shelters in the northern part of their neighborhood has led to public safety and quality-of-life concerns, and they’re asking
Bed Stuy
A rendering of the proposed development at 1100 Myrtle Avenue. (Image: Hill West Architects)A grocery on the border of the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick neighborhoods will be closed for two years before reopening in the ground floor of a new, 11-story mixed-use building. The site will also be subject to
affordable housing
By Khari Edwards [https://khariedwards.com/], candidate for Brooklyn Borough President Let’s assume you are single, living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and desperately in need of housing because your current building is slated for demolition to make way for new construction. Your income from working full-time at a nonprofit is $35,
Downtown Brooklyn
A rendering of the redesigned plaza at One Pierrepont Plaza. (Image: DLANDstudio Architecture)Brookfield Properties is planning a fresh look for a Downtown Brooklyn public space it controls. The developer presented its plans to revamp the privately-owned public space near its building One Pierrepont Plaza [https://www.brookfieldproperties.com//en/
Central Brooklyn
Workers installing solar panels at Carver Houses, a New York City Housing Authority development in northern Manhattan. (Image: Accord Power Inc.)A new initiative seeks to give some low-income New Yorkers access to renewable energy, saving them a few bucks in the process. And it’s making use of public
Carroll Gardens
By Briget Rein, Candidate for Council in D39. [https://www.brigetrein.com/] It has finally happened: Judge Katherine Levine lifted the temporary restraining order and the ULURP process has begun on rezoning Gowanus [/gowanus-rezoning-proceeds-to-public-review/]. The rezoning is inevitable. I want to make myself abundantly clear: I was never against the
News
350 Flushing Avenue (Image: NYC Department of Environmental Protection)The city announced today that it has completed a $31.6 million project to refurbish and upgrade a historic building on Flushing Avenue used by staff of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The three-story, 105,000-square-foot building at 350 Flushing
affordable housing
Bishop Philius Nicolas, the founder of Evangelical Crusade Church, speaking at the celebration of the affordable housing that he championed along with his wife Helene Nicolas for low-income seniors. Mukta Ahmad/BklynerBishop Philius and Helene Nicolas (BPHN) Senior Residence at the corner of New York Ave and Farragut Road is
Gowanus
A sketch of thre Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Image: Department of City Planning)The bitterly-contested Gowanus rezoning plan [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus.page] took two crucial steps forward on Monday. First, State Supreme Court Justice Katherine Levine lifted a