Central Brooklyn
By Zainab Iqbal/BklynerThe federal public charge rule takes effect today, February 24, 2020. The rule will make it harder for people who have used public benefits in the past to get their green cards going forward. “This rule I think is going to radically transform who gets to get
Arts & Culture
The cover of “SalviYorkers” displays a photo of Geronima Campos, a Salvadoran woman who lived in New York. Courtesy of Carmen Molina-Tamacas.They’ve filled jobs in media [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7L0LhEd0GI] and construction [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/business/economy/salvadoran-immigrant-workers.html] , here in
Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST — At 10:00 a.m. yesterday, a woman parked her 2002 Toyota RAV4 outside a commercial strip in Bensonhurst. She entered a store near 2211 86th Street, leaving her 11-year-old son in the back seat with the car still running. Photo of car from surveillance footage. Courtesy of DCPI.
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, just before 8 pm, a man entered a Metro PCS at 716 Rockaway Avenue, asked to use the phone, pulled out a gun and demanded property, the police inform us. https://bklyner.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/674-20-73PCT-ROBBERY-video-.mp4 The
Arts & Culture
Time machine Via Google StreetviewBAY RIDGE — Brooklyn’s changed a lot in the last 56 years, but Bay Ridge’s Hall of Fame Billiards Club had remained more or less intact. Owned by Jean Balukas, one of the greatest pool players of all time and the first woman to compete
Arts & Culture
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Workshop participants at Mixteca’s mural. Courtesy of Mixteca.SUNSET PARK — Veronica Rosales was born and raised in Sunset Park. She first heard of Mixteca [http://www.mixteca.org/] when she was about 10 years old and her mom signed Rosales and her sister up
Central Brooklyn
Clarendon and Flatbush, Liena Zagare/BklynerUPDATED: On Monday, February 10, a New York State judge issued a temporary restraining order [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/nyregion/nyc-broker-fees.html], so the brokers can collect fees until at least the March 13 hearing. Renters can no longer be charged brokers
bath beach
By Clifford Michael, THE CITY [https://thecity.nyc/2020/02/bail-law-fuels-gop-challenge-to-reformer-in-swing-district.html] . A year after State Sen. Andrew Gounardes beat GOP stalwart Marty Golden, Brooklyn Republicans are weighing challenges against the freshman Democrat — with a rallying cry of undoing bail reform. Gounardes, 36, beat the longtime state senator by 1,
Central Brooklyn
A B35 bus. Ben Brachfeld/BklynerBROOKLYN — Back in October, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) began to study Brooklyn’s bus network in preparation for a [https://new.mta.info/brooklynbusredesign]redesign and hosted 10 community open houses across the borough [/tell-the-mta-what-you-hate-about-your-brooklyn-bus-route-this-fall/] to solicit input on which routes to fix and
Bay Ridge
Katherine Walsh in Sunset Park, courtesy of Katherine Walsh.Katherine Walsh, an urban planner, is leading in the race to unseat longterm Assemblymember Felix Ortiz to represent AD51, which includes Red Hook and Sunset Park along with bits of Carroll Gardens, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge, in the New York
Bay Ridge
95th Street subway station in Bay Ridge. Via Wikimedia Commons. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Ridge%E2%80%9395th_St_td_(2018-09-19)_01.jpg] BAY RIDGE — A woman was sexually assaulted in a subway bathroom on Monday morning. Yesterday, around 10.15 a.m., a 31-year-old woman on
Dyker Heights
The back entrance of PS229 in Dyker Heights, on Bay 7 Street and Benson Avenue. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.DYKER HEIGHTS — Mornings at the intersection of 14th and Benson Avenues are hectic and dangerous for students attending PS229 in Dyker Heights. In the morning, during drop-off, city buses and school buses