Daily Links: Brooklyn Public Library Plans to Have All Branches Open by July
In the News
- New York is Reawakening. It Just Needs Its Tourists Back [NYT]
- Massive Blaze Breaks Out at Coney Island Power Plant [NYP]
- Sheepshead Bay Mosque Vandalized With Anti-Palestinian Graffiti [BP]
- Libraries Reopen for Browsing, Move Some Operations Outdoors [BP]
- Brooklyn Cop Shot Three Times in Bed Stuy Survives [BP]
- Ghost Kitchen Nimbus Rents Space in Downtown Brooklyn [CO]
- Fried Chicken Makers to Open First Outpost in Park Slope [Patch]
- Crown Heights Coffee Shop Daughter is Now Open [Eater]
- Chase Bank is Closing Its Crown Heights Branch [Bklyner]
Daily Links: Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights Will Become ‘Supercharged’ Open Boulevard
In the News
- Brooklyn Businesses Say Unemployment Benefits Keeping Workers Away [NYP]
- Exhibit to Explore Brooklyn’s History of Black Resistance [BP]
- An Oral History of the Still-Wild McKibbin Lofts [Curbed]
- Caribbean-Inflected Vegan in Flatbush, at Aunts et Uncles [New Yorker]
- New ‘Hanging Garden’ Might Be on Its Way to Brooklyn’s Parks [Patch]
- Prospect Heights’ Vanderbilt to Become New ‘Open Boulevard’ [Patch]
- City Expands Free Legal Services for Tenants, Fearing Eviction Rush [TRD]
Daily Links: Will Plan to Close Rikers Island Continue After de Blasio Leaves Office?
In the News
- The Biggest Dance Show in Town Is at Barclays Center [NYT]
- Vegas-Style Weddings Land in Williamsburg [NYT]
- 24 People Rescued From Industry City Elevator Collapse [BP]
- New Song Pays Homage to Gowanus Canal’s Toxic ‘Black Mayo’ [BP]
- Next Mayor Could Scrap de Blasio’s Close-Rikers Plan [The City]
- Devocion Is Betting on a Dumbo Comeback With New Coffee Shop [Eater]
- Advocates Demonstrate in Greenpoint for ‘Good Cause Eviction’ Bill [NY1]
- When Will ‘Open Streets’ Come to Bushwick? [Bushwick Daily]
- Mayoral Candidates Fail Brooklyn ‘Price of Housing’ Question [Slate]
- Rendering Revealed for 106 North 3rd Street in Williamsburg [NYY]
Daily Links: Gas Outages Continue at NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses Despite Lawsuit
In the News
- The Philharmonic Grows in a Shipping Container in Williamsburg [NYT]
- New York Will Offer Vaccines to People at Some Subway Stations [NYT]
- Red Hook NYCHA Tenants Face New Gas Outages [The City]
- Edna Lewis’s Influence Is Everywhere at Reopened Gage & Tollner [Eater]
- Bedford Union Armory Searches for Programs for Community Center [Patch]
- Inside the Musical Performances at the Brooklyn Navy Yard [Gothamist]
- DOB Targets Brooklyn Landlord for Illegal Residential Additions [TRD]
Daily Links: Gowanus Rezoning Paused Again, in-Person Hearing Planned for June
In the News
- The Stealth Campaign to Expose Brooklyn’s History of Slavery [NYT]
- Bay Ridge Residents Demand Discounted Rent for Months With No Gas [BP]
- State Lawmakers Extend Eviction Moratorium to August 31 [Demo & Chron]
- Bodies of Hundreds of COVID Victims Still on Brooklyn Pier [The City]
- Bensonhurst Senior Run Down and Killed, Driver Not Charged [Streetsblog]
- Remembering the Prince of Mermaid Avenue [Bklyner]
- Half of Brooklyn Adults Are Now Partially Vaccinated: Data [Patch]
- Judge Pauses Clock on Gowanus Rezoning Review: Docs [Patch]
Daily Links: City Launches Program to Provide Funding to Artists for Public Works
In the News
- City Plans a $25 Million Program to Put Artists Back to Work [NYT]
- One Greenpoint Restaurant’s New Digital Life [NYT]
- Men Charged in Killing of 1-Year-Old Boy at Bed Stuy Cookout [NYT]
- Time Out Market to Reopen in Dumbo This Month [BP]
- Dough Brings Glazed Goodness to Vanderbilt Avenue [BP]
- Rent Board Consider Extending Rent Freeze for Stabilized Tenants [Gothamist]
- How a Clinton Hill Framing Shop Survived Pandemic [Gothamist]
- Residents Say Bedford Union Armory Site Poses Safety Concerns [BK Reader]
- Five-Story Building Planned at 12 Rockwell Place in Fort Greene [NYY]
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]
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]
Daily Links: Council Votes to Make ‘Open Streets’ Permanent Across City
In the News
- Indoor Dining Will Expand to 75 Percent Capacity on May 7 [NYT]
- Inferno Injures One and Leaves Over a Dozen Homeless in Brownsville [BP]
- Charges Pending for Man Accused of Shooting Two at Peter Luger [amNY]
- Cookie Shop Chip City Opens on Smith Street [PMFA]
- Facing Daunting Market, DoBro Condo Pivots to Rentals [Bloomberg]
- Greenpoint Oil Workers Hope Strike Puts Heat on Billionaire Boss [The City]
- City Council Passes Bill to Make Open Streets Program Permanent [Eater]
- King David Tacos Finds a Permanent Home in Prospect Heights [Eater]
- Morgan’s Barbecue Team Opens New Prospect Heights Mexican Eatery [Patch]
- NYC Landlords Seek 5 Percent Rent Hike on Stabilized Units [TRD]
