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Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Clinton Hill’s Pfizer Mansion Enters Contract
Brooklyn Life
Join Brooklyn’s Winners at Historic Districts Council’s Grassroots Preservation Awards
The program is online this year but that gives you a chance for virtual tours of some of the places that have earned their advocates one of this year's Grassroots Preservation Awards.
Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch Set to Reopen With Renovated Interior
Brooklyn Public Library unveiled a series of interior renovations to the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza Thursday, just days ahead of the book lender’s partial reopening for in-person browsing on May 10.
Daily Links: City Launches Program to Provide Funding to Artists for Public Works
Rent board considers extending rent freeze for stabilized tenants, residents say the Bedford-Union Armory construction site poses safety concerns and more news.
Get a Preservation Perspective on Green-Wood Cemetery With a New Walking Tour
Take in a bit of preservation knowledge along with some fresh air on a walking tour through Green-Wood Cemetery with a restoration expert.
City Shows Plans for Protected Bike Lane on Meeker From Greenpoint to Williamsburg
The long-awaited project will add a two-way protected bike lane, a new pedestrian path, and metered parking beneath the elevated Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from the Kosciuszko Bridge to Metropolitan Avenue.
Daily Links: Park Slope Library Is Set to Close for Renovations Until July
In the News
- New York Extends Its Eviction Moratorium Through August [NYT]
- Minority-Owned Businesses Face Steepest Climb to Recovery [BP]
- Climate Change, Flooding and the Gowanus Rezone [PMFA]
- Park Slope Library to Close for Months-Long Renovations [Patch]
- What’s a Crown Heights Supermarket Worth? [Curbed]
- Everyone Is Lining Up for This Tamale Stand in Fort Greene Park [Thrillist]
- Anecdote Candles Consolidates Its Manufacturing HQ in Sunset Park [CO]
- Park Slope Tenants Fight Landlord’s Order to Vacate [TRD]
Daily Links: New Contemporary Art Museum Will Open in Williamsburg on June 5
In the News
- An Arts Patron Widens Her Reach With a Williamsburg Museum [NYT]
- Sudden Decision to Reopen Leaves New Yorkers Dizzy and Divided [NYT]
- The Brooklyn Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests [NYT]
- Juneteenth Added as NYC School Holiday [Gothamist]
- Brooklyn Hospital to Pay $200K in Employment Discrimination Case [Patch]
- We Asked the Bushwick Piano Building’s Architect: Why? [Curbed]
- Trump-Pardoned Real Estate Investor Buys Crown Heights Warehouse [TRD]
Explore the History of the Revolutionary War’s Prison Ship Martyrs With a New Walking Tour
A walking tour through Dumbo, Vinegar Hill and Fort Greene will explore the prisoners who died in captivity on British ships off the coast of Kings County.
Daily Links: New York Will Drop COVID Restrictions Across the State on May 19
In the News
- City Will Lift Most COVID Restrictions, Resume Subway in Late May [NYT]
- Botanic Garden to Plant Dozens of Trees Donated by Parks Department [Eagle]
- New Fort Hamilton Parkway Bike Lane Coming This Spring [Patch]
- Prospect Park West Bike Lane Use Continues to Soar in 2021: Data [Patch]
- Flatbush Locals Want Community Farm Instead of Housing [BK Reader]
- Small Brooklyn Loft Nods to the ’70s and ’80s [AT]
- New Renderings Reveal Changes for Greenwood Residential Building [NYY]
