Brooklyn Life

In the News

• How Well Does Your Community Board Represent the District? Not Very. [Eagle]
• New Midwood Charter School Sparks Racial and Religious Tensions [Eagle]
• $9 Million Federal Grant Secured to Improve South Brooklyn Bus Safety [BP]
• Cyclists to DOT: Finish What You Started on Fourth Avenue! [BP]
• Cowboy Hit and Run in Flatbush [Q at Parkside]
• Former P.J. Hanley’s in Carroll Gardens Will Be Family Friendly Spot [PMFA]
• Prospect Park Tackles Toxic Algae With Nature-Based Technology [WNYC]
• Williamsburg Restaurant Sakib Offers a Satisfying Yogurt Sandwich [Eater]
• Six-Story Building Will Replace Bushwick’s Charles Lindemann House [NYY]
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• Dumbo Riders Want a Safer York Street Station [Eagle]
• Rare New Construction Planned in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District [Eagle]
• Sunset Park Streets Flood After Water Main Break [BP]
• Mystery Tenant Lands Raw Space in Downtown Brooklyn [Crain’s]
• Boerum Hill’s HiHi Room Cracks the Code on Cincinnati Chili [NYMag]
• New ‘Welcome’ Sign Debuts on Former Watchtower Building [Curbed]
• Gin Distillers Eye New Brooklyn Location in Gowanus [Patch]
• National Grid Agrees to End Gas Moratorium [Eagle]
• It’s Bankruptcy Time for Michael Lichtenstein LLC in Williamsburg [TRD]
• Seven-Story Residential Building Coming to Nostrand Avenue in Midwood [NYY]
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• Restoring Brooklyn’s Queen of Department Stores [NYT]
• Brooklyn House of Detention Might Close by Early 2020 [NYDN]
• Witnesses’ Hotel Will Become Housing for the Formerly Homeless [Eagle]
• Atlantic Avenue’s Table 87 Expands [BP]
• Residents Fear Traffic Chaos Due to Large Pacific Park Garage [BP]
• Can the Community Get Behind Industry City Rezoning? [Bklyner]
• Coney Island Businesses Fight for the ‘Soul’ of Boardwalk [Curbed]
• A Rich New Carnitas Contender Joins Cobble Hill [Eater]
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In the News

• Three Students, $3,000 and a Dream: An Affordable Brooklyn Apartment [NYT]
• The Bed Stuy Record Store That Shaped Brooklyn’s Music Scene [Eagle]
• New Book Uncovers Brooklyn’s Garbage-Filled Island [BP]
• Coney Islanders Report Increase in Rats Amid Ongoing Construction [BP]
• Scaffolding Comes Down on South Congregational Church on Court Street [PMFA]
• First Look at Sunset Park’s New Made in NY Campus [Curbed]
• Brownsville Landlord Does About Face on Facial Recognition Plan [Gothamist]
• MTA Floods Williamsburg Subway Entrance for a Reason [Gothamist]
• Truck Gets Stuck in Gowanus Sinkhole [CBS NY]
• Fairway-Anchored Bergen Beach Shopping Center Sells for $85 Million [TRD]
• Eight-Story Mixed-Use Building Coming to Meeker Avenue in ‘Burg [NYY]
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In the News

• All-Women Hasidic EMT Group Denied Bid for Ambulance in Borough Park [NYP]
• Commercial Rent ‘Stabilization’ Bill Terrifies Real Estate Industry [NYP]
• Kensington Demands Street Safety Changes Amid Bloody Year for Peds [BK Paper]
• Local Pols Pledge $11.1 Million to Revitalize Marine Park [BK Paper]
• National Grid Gas Nightmare: Bed Stuy Family Without Heat [CBS]
• Brooklyn Raccoons Rack Up Subway Delays [The City]
• DOB Backs Off Order for Q Train Neighbors to Inspect Subway Walls [The City]
• Avery Hall Pays $30 Million for Gowanus Gas Station Site [TRD]
• OMA’s Tetris-Like Towers Break Ground at Greenpoint Landing [Curbed]
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In the News

• Homeless Students in Bensonhurst and Beyond Let Us Into Their Lives [NYT]
• Bookmobile’s Cousin Teaches Brooklyn Library Patrons to Cook [NYT
• Flatbush Residents Hope to Save Historic Character by Landmarking Block [Eagle]
• Coney Island Businesses Face Massive Rent Hike [BK Paper]
• Speed Cameras Coming to Coney Island School Zones [BK Paper]
• Report: Brooklyn Borough Hall Ceiling Collapse Was Avoidable [Gothamist]
• TF Cornerstone Reveals Renderings for Pacific Park Buildings, Park [Curbed]
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