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> [https://bklyner.s3.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Screen-Shot-2018-07-30-at-6.47.02-PM.png] There was one tiny tweet yesterday morning. Apparently the MTA is moving ahead with a year-long project in Sunset Park– replacing structural steel columns and tunnel lighting, repairing steel beams and deteriorated concrete, water infiltration
northern brooklyn
WILLIAMSBURG – Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a wanted suspect after an attempted rape last weekend in Williamsburg. The attack took place on Sunday, July 22, just after 4:00 am, said police. The suspect followed a woman home from work to her apartment in
Business
via Industry CityUnlike the other Industry City [https://industrycity.com/] tenants we’ve profiled here, M Factory [http://www.mfactory.us/] did not move from somewhere else. It’s always been housed in Industry City [/todays-links-whole-foods-sinking-towards-gowanus-canal-free-phone-calls-at-new-york-jails-more/] , ever since being created by Modo Eyewear [https://www.modo.com/] a year and
Arts & Culture
SUNSET PARK – Before setting sail at the free community boating event [/free-community-boating-at-bush-terminal-park/] in Sunset Park tomorrow, head over to Bush Terminal Park early and help paint a new mural. The NYC Economic Development Corporation [https://www.nycedc.com/brooklyn] (NYC EDC) and Groundswell [https://www.groundswell.nyc/], a non-profit organization
Announcements
SUNSET PARK – A community rowing and paddling program kicks off at Bush Terminal Park on Saturday, providing locals access to the water while evaluating the possibility of creating a permanent public boating program and community boathouse in Sunset Park. Canoes outside Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The Gowanus Dredgers
Bay Ridge
The Ocean Queen Rockstar, a 350-passenger ferry and the latest addition to the NYC fleet (Via NYC EDC)The first of the New York Ferry fleet’s new 350-passenger boats has arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, making ready to begin service at the end of July. The $7.5
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DOWNTOWN – On Friday, a daylight shooting on Fulton Mall sent onlookers running after a number of men were involved in a verbal dispute that turned violent, with shots fired that sent three
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Months after John Barnes was gunned down in Crown Heights [/crown-heights-man-killed-in-saturday-shooting/] last December, police have arrested and charged a suspect in his murder, the NYPD announced. Rennie Patterson, 17, of Dyker Heights was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, police said yesterday. CONEY ISLAND – Police are looking for
Announcements
SUNSET PARK – Council Member Carlos Menchaca [https://council.nyc.gov/district-38/] will join GrowNYC [https://www.grownyc.org/] on Saturday as the non-profit group introduces a new greenmarket in Sunset Park at 6th Avenue and 44th Street. GrowNYC’s Youthstand at Irving Square Park (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)The day will
Announcements
Photo: Google MapsSUNSET PARK – A three-alarm fire at 57th Street and 8th Avenue left five firefighters in the hospital on Monday, July 9. At 2:19 pm, the FDNY responded to a fire at 764 57th Street. According to the FDNY, 33 units and 138 firefighters fought the heavy blaze.
Downtown Brooklyn
SUNSET PARK – After a horrifying knife assault that severed a woman’s arm and two of her fingers in Sunset Park [/friday-crime-blotter-14/] last week, police have arrested the alleged perpetrator. Yong Lu, 35, was arrested yesterday on Sunday, June 24, said police. Lu was charged with attempted murder, two counts
Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – Police are looking for the suspect who assaulted and attempted to rape a woman yesterday afternoon in Greenpoint. The attack came around 3:30 pm yesterday, June 21, in the vicinity of Meeker and Kingsland Avenues, near the BQE. A man knocked at the door of the victim’s