Crown Heights
Inside Oholei Torah, a Crown Heights Yeshiva. (Photo credit: Rabbi Yossi Newfield)CROWN HEIGHTS — Young Advocates For Fair Education (YAFFED), a Manhattan organization looking to revise educational standards in ultra-Orthodox schools, celebrated the last day of Hanukkah in Brooklyn on Monday evening with a party and a panel discussion on
Development
The iconic steeples of the Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church are undergoing repairs. The entrance to the adjacent Russian Orthodox St. John the Forerunner Cathedral is at the right. (Justin Mitchell/BKLYNER).SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Passers-by may notice the cables propping up the steeples to a church at the corner of
Arts & Culture
Flatbush Presbyterian Church on Foster and East 23rd in November of 2018. Liena Zagare/BklynerFLATBUSH – As the borough shuffles to house all the city’s newcomers, part of its history will inevitably be gutted or succumb to full demolition. Religious institutions, with their architecturally exciting structures, brought families and communities
Arts & Culture
CROWN HEIGHTS — NASA is working on sending humans to Mars as early as 2030 and some people are already planning for the trip. Space was the theme for a couple of dozen people that came out to Tech Tribe’s [http://mytechtribe.org/] “Chanukah on Mars” talk Wednesday night at
Arts & Culture
Muslims praying. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Next week, Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) will present its “Muslims in Brooklyn” [http://brooklynhistory.org/projects/muslimsinbrooklyn] oral history project to the world. “Muslims in Brooklyn” includes 50 oral histories from various Muslims across the borough. “These 50 people are not representative
brighton beach
BRIGHTON BEACH – The number of anti-Semitic incidents is up so much that it seems we are reporting about one a day some weeks. Earlier in November, two teenagers were arrested for drawing swastikas in Brooklyn Heights [/swastika-graffiti-arrest/]. No sooner was the man that vandalized the Union Temple arrested [/man-who-defamed-union-temple-facing-25-years-for-hate-crimes/] , that
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – The Flatbush Presbyterian Church is for sale and will likely follow the trend of church operators who lease a portion of their space to large residential developers. Colliers International [https://www2.colliers.com/en], a Canadian acquisition and brokerage firm, listed the church at 494 E. 23rd St.
Big Story
Makki Masjid. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – An ivory colored structure stands sandwiched between two typical brick-colored three-story buildings between Avenue H and Glenwood Road on Coney Island Avenue. Though the stores next to it have closed and new ones have opened, Makki Masjid has stayed in that very spot
Neighbors
Police at the Union Temple of BrooklynPROSPECT HEIGHTS — Someone wrote anti-semitic messages, inside the Union Temple of Brooklyn at 17 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights near Grand Army Plaza. The temple was about to host a political event by Ilana Glazer of “Broad City”, which was canceled as the result.
Announcements
Photo: Julieta CervantesBORO PARK – “This is a universal story of women’s empowerment that takes place in a very particular setting. We’re all fighting in some way in whatever communities we’re in,” filmmaker Paula Eiselt said. “This is a really powerful organization. They’re really breaking the ground
Borough Park
A rendering of the 18-story mixed-use building coming to Borough Park (Via Cycle Architecture and Planning)An 18-story mixed-use building is set to replace a religious center on the corner of Fort Hamilton Parkway and 43rd Street, and now new renderings are out, revealing the white, multi-tiered marvel. The building
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – Members and volunteers at the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and the NYC Commission on Human Rights (NYCCHR) spread across three subway stations in the borough to hand out fliers encouraging Brooklynites to report any form of discrimination. This Day of Visibility is in