Arts & Culture
WILLIAMSBURG – Lions and tigers and dinosaurs? A menagerie of animals from different classes, climates, and eras mingle in artist Alexis Kandra [http://www.kandra-art.com/index.htm]‘s surreal paintings currently on view at Lucas Lucas [https://www.lucaslucasnyc.com/] in Williamsburg. Migration, 2019, by Alexis Kandra on view at
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS/WILLIAMSBURG – Cops are looking for suspects related to two separate homicides in three days in the borough. On September 17 at around 4:47 a.m., 60-year-old Gary Smith was found slumped on the steps of a building on Schenectady Avenue between Lincoln Place and St. Johns Place.
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WILLIAMSBURG – Cops are searching for the man who slashed a woman and robbed her last week. On September 10 at around 1:20 a.m., a 24-year-old woman was walking on Humboldt Street near Boerum Street when a man approached her. According to cops, he displayed a knife and demanded
Business
The exterior of the spot. Courtesy of Amor y Amargo.WILLIAMSBURG – Amor y Amargo has been serving the East Village for over eight years. They’ve built a reputation around their bitters-based cocktails, the tight quarters (only eight seats), and beverage director Sother Teague. Now, Teague and owner Ravi DeRossi
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WILLIAMSBURG – An off-duty NYPD School Safety Agent was arrested after assaulting a police officer that was trying to stop a fight between her and a man over the weekend. On Saturday, September 9 at around 10:30 p.m., 33-year-old Melinda Breland was outside Cozzi Pizza on Broadway Avenue near
hate crimes
Image courtesy of NYPD[UPDATE: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 10:15am] The police have arrested two suspects in connection with the below incidents. Deandre Diagle, 19, of East New York is being charged with four counts of robbery and four counts of assault. Michael Bellevue, 20, of Flatbush is
Central Brooklyn
Vizel shows tour takers around Williamsburg (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner) WILLIAMSBURG / FLATBUSH — Frieda Vizel left the Satmar community roughly ten years ago. But these days, she is giving tours of Hasidic Williamsburg [https://friedavizel.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwyqTqBRAyEiwA8K_4O85xFy1mtKPWYfD66PYw4apt9okLvgAkxNxYeRCaZRt5vkHk0N6J2BoC11UQAvD_BwE] four days a week for a living. “I definitely never
Borough Park
Bill de Blasio announcing the public health emergency in April. (Ed Reed/ Mayoral Photography Office)WILLIAMSBURG – The measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, but a public health emergency was put in place in New York City in April as the disease spread across some Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Business
It takes a certain kind of restaurant to capture our heart from the hours of 12:00 am – 2:00 am. We’ll be honest, maybe we’ve had a few drinks, and now what we want is to sit down in a comfy place, eat something- often something with
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The exterior of Pomp and Circumstance. Ellie Plass, BklynerWILLIAMSBURG – For Pomp and Circumstance [https://pandcdining.com], their small stature is part of their strength. The thirty seat, cozily brick-walled restaurant opened in early June on Lorimer Street right off of the Metropolitan Avenue subway stop, in a part of Williamsburg
Bushwick
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez at a recent press conference (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Thursday defended a program aimed at keeping first-time offenders out of jail that he’s administered in recent years, after receiving criticism from a top NYPD official and the
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There’s something about the summer heat that just makes us want to drink a fun cocktail and pretend we’re somewhere that’s tropical and breezy, trading concrete for sand. These places all manage to do that – both in drink and atmosphere (although you’ll have to use your