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Central Brooklyn

Expanded Organics Collection Has Arrived At Last!

Photo provided by NYC Department of SanitationSome people have brownstone envy. I have brown-bin envy. I often find myself strolling along some Brooklyn street that is just peppered with those increasingly familiar DSNY [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/index.page] brown bins. And, as much as I love the

Business

[Update: Re-Opened!] Sycamore Closed Temporarily After DOH Inspection

Sycamore Bar and Flower shop, 1118 Cortelyou Road, June 27. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)[Update 6/28 at 4pm: Sycamore passed another DOH inspection today, according to owners and city officials. See our second story, published 6/30 here [/sycamore-re-opens-clean-bill-sans-flower-shop-food-court/]] Today, Ditmas Park’s favorite flower shop-bar had a

Central Brooklyn

Century-Old Wellhouse Reopens As NYC Parks’ First Compost Restroom

The renovated Wellhouse, near the Vanderbilt Street park entrance. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)City officials are helping Brooklynites do their duty for the environment. Yesterday, the city’s first public composting toilets opened in the historic Prospect Park Wellhouse after a $2.34 million renovation. The comfort station will

Bay Ridge

200 Volunteers Clean Up Trash-Ridden Bensonhurst Streets

Photo via Assemblyman William Colton’s office.On Saturday, more than 200 young volunteers worked to clean up Bensonhurst. The clean-up event on Saturday, June 17, was a part of the bigger “Speak-Up & Clean-Up [/colton-and-treyger-kick-off-first-speak-up-clean-up-campaign-of-2015-bensonhurst/] ” campaign (launched in 2011) organized by Assemblyman William Colton, District Leaders Nancy Tong and

Big Story

More Party Boats = More Trouble On Sheepshead Bay’s Piers, Locals Say

(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Trouble is rising again on the Sheepshead Piers, with a spike in party boat numbers spurring the return of gridlock, trash heaps, and drunken rows every weekend, say neighbors. The boats and their clientele have been a long-time nuisance for many [/booze-cruise-lovers-sheepshead-bay/] who live south

Central Brooklyn

Scenes From Flatbush’s Neighborhood Beautification Day

(Photo by Nathan Thompson)Notice more flowers and fresh coats of paint in the neighborhood lately? The annual get together to clean up the neighborhood from Newkirk Avenue to Prospect Park earlier this month was deemed a major success, with volunteers of all ages repainting nearly 60 mailboxes and fire

Announcements

Parking Rules, Trash Collection & What You Need To Know On Memorial Day

Photo via daniellenebzIf you’re hanging around the neighborhood this Memorial Day weekend, we’ve put together a list of places and services that will either be closed or operating on a limited schedule on Monday, May 29: • Government offices and courts are closed. • There is no mail delivery. • All

Bensonhurst

Mayor de Blasio Sits In The Hot Seat At Hyper-Local Town Hall

A district resident questions de Blasio on allowing the mass slaughter of chickens during a Jewish holiday, despite sanitation violations. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)“This is the first Mayor in history to have a town hall in this community,” said City Council Member David Greenfield, welcoming Mayor Bill de

Nonsponsored

Long-Neglected Neck Rd Corner Will See Light Of Day, Says Cymbrowitz

Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz at East 16th Street and Gravesend Neck Road. (Photo via Cymbrowitz’s office)After almost a decade, a ‘forgotten’ street corner in Sheepshead Bay is expected to open to pedestrians again next month, said Assembly Member Steven Cymbrowitz. The city fenced off the corner of Gravesend Neck

Central Brooklyn

Letter To The Editor: Parking And Abandoned Cars

To the editor: Thank you for your recent article on abandoned and illegally parked cars on Hinckley Place off Coney Island Avenue (Whose Parking Lot Is Hinckley Place? [/whos-parking-lot-hinckley-place/] by Liena Zagare – April 21, 2017). It is good to know that I am not the only one that has noticed.

Business

Whose Parking Lot Is Hinckley Place?

Hinckley Place is a two block street, one of which is in Prospect Park South, between Stratford Road and Coney Island Avenue. It has a couple of larger apartment buildings and a handful of victorian homes on it. A new school is being built on the other block. But for

Nonsponsored

Tons of Brooklyn Trash Will Be Trucked To New Gowanus Site

North Brooklyn households produce 780 tons of garbage daily! Currently, a fleet of trucks picks up 1,600 tons of trash each day around the borough and delivers it to various private “land-based transfer stations” located mainly in north Brooklyn [https://patch.com/new-york/gowanus/1-600-tons-city-trash-will-soon-be-trucked-gowanus-waterfront-each-day] (Bushwick, Greenpoint, Williamsburg), where