Business
Citi Bike expansion into Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, and Greenwood Heights is underway, NYC DOT announced today. The project is part of a 93 docking station expansion and will extend the bike’s services from 15th Street to 67th Street and from the southwest corner of Prospect Park to Church
Announcements
Gounardes speaking at the rally calling for the reopening of 16 schools. (Photo via Gounardes’ office)SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – Parents and elected officials are calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to re-open the 16 schools in the ‘yellow zone’ that have been ordered shut
Announcements
SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – Two yeshivas have been ordered to shut down by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) as cases of coronavirus rise, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced. Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office“We’ve shut down two yeshivas. No one wants to shut down the yeshiva. That’
Announcements
Anna with her son Jesse. (Photo by Jordan Rathkopf, with permission)SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – During the coronavirus pandemic, people have been stepping up and helping out their neighbors by raising money, handing out food boxes, along with doing everything in between. And then there is Anna and Jordan Rathkopf. This Bay
Announcements
MCU Coney Island. Via Google Maps.CONEY ISLAND — The Municipal Credit Union has announced [https://www.nymcu.org/] that it will be closing six branches on January 31, 2020 including the Coney Island branch on 1904 Surf Avenue at MCU Park, one of the neighborhood’s last full-service banking institutions.
Announcements
18th Avenue at McDonald AveBORO PARK – Stabbing seems like the way to go in Brooklyn, as another one took place over the weekend. On Sunday, October 27 at around 10 p.m., a 22-year-old man was standing on the corner of 18th and McDonald Avenues when another man approached him
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerDYKER HEIGHTS – After the vicinity of 10th and 11th Avenues from 65th to 85th Streets saw three car crashes in three hours last weekend, the community is demanding life-saving traffic measures. “We are urging, pleading, demanding the Department of Transportation (DOT) finish the traffic study they’ve
Nonsponsored
Rep. Max Rose at an Association for a Better New York event (via Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)LOWER MANHATTAN—Rep. Max Rose said Thursday there is a bias in Washington against New York City that works against its residents’ interests. Rose—a first-year Congressman who represents Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, and
Central Brooklyn
Image via Sam Raskin/ BklynerBROOKLYN HEIGHTS— There aren’t enough child care centers for residents of low-income areas of the city, Comptroller Scott Stringer said Wednesday while talking up his plan—which, if implemented, would subsidize child care for many New Yorkers— to child care providers and advocates. Stringer met
Bay Ridge
Both of their significant others are named Leigh, and now these two Southern Brooklynites are looking to share the same district. In his very first endorsement as an elected official, City Councilmember Justin Brannan of the 43rd Council district is throwing his support behind the Democratic front-runner for NY11, Max
Bay Ridge
McCabe greeting senior residents, via Liam McCabe.CONEY ISLAND – In what promises to be a blood bath of a race, last Friday the 13th, Liam McCabe became one of many hopefuls looking to replace former Assemblymember, Pamela Harris. [/brooklyn-assemblywoman-indicted-misusing-hurricane-sandy-funds-among-many-others/] McCabe re-launched his personal Facebook page with the title “Liam for
Food & Drink
SHEEPSHEAD BAY — If you’re looking for a coffee on your way down Sheepshead Bay Road, there are myriad options, from the quotidian bodega cup of joe to the artisanal, third wave cafe. Whether you’re looking to sip and stroll along the water off Emmons Ave, post up and
camps
Unless you’ve been away on vacation for the last decade or so, the idea of a “staycation” has certainly come across your radar. What you probably didn’t know is that a) the idea seems to date back to the 1940s and b) it had a national service aspect
Southern Brooklyn
In recent years, Brooklyn has become one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country with the median sales price, according to Douglas Elliman Real Estate, hitting $750,000 – a 15.4% increase from last year and a new high for the borough. But what if I told
Central Brooklyn
‘Tis the season to be … uhh, relieved that taxes are in? Provided they are [https://www.irs.gov/filing/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return]. Still, with your attention free to turn elsewhere, why not take your whole life elsewhere? Perhaps even Southern Brooklyn? 2375 East 3rd Street [http://www.kingsqueensapts.com/no-fee-rentals-nyc/brooklyn-apartments/neighborhood/
Central Brooklyn
Ever need some Comic Relief [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief_USA]? Well, you have a better chance of seeing Andy Kaufman live than finding it here. … The joke’s on you! I’m funnier than Tony Clifton *and* I’ve got links to the best real estate deals