Daily Links: 80 Flatbush Developers Planning Passive House Schools, Entirely Electric Towers
In the News
- Brooklyn Tech High School Evacuated After Bomb Threat [NYP]
- OddFellows Ice Cream Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park [Eagle]
- Boutique CBD Store Opens in Park Slope [BP]
- Environmental Watchdogs Demand Better Water Quality for Gowanus Canal [BP]
- Duck Waddles Onto Brooklyn Subway Tracks Amid Train Delays [BP]
- Passive House Schools, All-Electric Skyscraper Coming to 80 Flatbush [Curbed]
- Do Rezonings Always Have to Lead to Gentrification? [Gothamist]
- Ops Pizza Magicians Unleash Bigger Williamsburg Restaurant Friday [Eater]
- Six-Story Residential Building Planned for Flatbush’s Snyder Avenue [NYY]
Daily Links: Tenants Not Yet Flocking to the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s New WeWork
In the News
- Architect Designs a Building of the Past to Fill a Vacant Lot in Bed Stuy [Eagle]
- To Get Raw Sewage Out of Newtown Creek, EPA Takes the Cheap Route [Eagle]
- Speedster Plows Through DoBro Scaffolding, Kills Woman [BP]
- Park Slope Pasta Shop Expands to Sprawling New Space [BP]
- WeWork Leasing Has Stalled at Navy Yard [Crain’s]
- Sea Gate Adrift After Local Politician’s Corruption Scandal [The City]
- Inside Dumbo’s New Oddly Satisfying ‘ASMR Spa’ [Gothamist]
- Council Could Force City to Study Racial Impact of Rezonings [City Limits]
- Comedy Club Replaces Beloved Videology Bar in Williamsburg [Patch]
Daily Links: Public Hearing on Industry City Rezoning Coming Shortly Before Community Vote
In the News
- Brooklyn’s Muslim Presence Goes Back Centuries. Here’s Proof From 1643 [NYT]
- Manhole Explosion Scorches Car in Crown Heights [NYP]
- In Southern Brooklyn, a Nearly 40-Year Wait for Trash Upgrades [Eagle]
- Inventor Debuts Package-Theft Deterrent Outside Borough Hall [BP]
- New E-Sports Venue Opening in Bushwick Next Year [BP]
- These Walls Talk: History of an 1830s Boerum Hill House [casaCara]
- First Public Hearing on Industry City Rezoning Set Up Next Week [Patch]
- Four-Story Residential Building Planned for Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville [NYY]
Daily Links: Even the McDonald’s in Prospect Heights Is Getting Priced Out of Brooklyn
In the News
- Landlord Hits Prospect Heights McDonald’s With Rent Increase [NYP]
- Ending Moratorium, National Grid Still Faces Outcry in Brooklyn [Eagle]
- New Laws Require All New Roofs to Contain Solar Panels or Green Space [BP]
- Can Williamsburg Survive Its Hotel Boom? [Daily Beast]
- Chez Ma Tante Chefs Open Le Crocodile at the Wythe Hotel [NYM]
- Greenpoint Grocery The Garden Closes After 25 Years [Greenpointers]
- Five-Story Residential Building Coming to Sterling Place in Crown Heights [NYY]
Daily Links: Sunset Park Residents Are Exploring Agreement With Industry City Over Rezoning
In the News
- Real Estate Thought It Was Invincible in New York [NYT]
- Artists’ Studios in Brooklyn and Beyond: How About the Living Room? [NYT]
- Changing Brownsville ‘One Rope at a Time’ [NYT]
- Thousands Left Without Power in Dyker Heights and Borough Park [NYP]
- Hacked DOT Sign Trolls Drivers in Downtown Brooklyn [NYP]
- Sunset Park Residents Move Toward Agreement With Industry City [Eagle]
- BQE Neighbors Present City With United Vision for Highway’s Rehab [Eagle]
- Crown Heights Street Is More Lake Than Roadway, Residents Say [BP]
- NYCHA Playgrounds Languish in Disrepair While Funds Go Unspent [The City]
- 1 Dead, 7 Hurt in Flatbush Apartment Building Fire [ABC]
- Tensions Rise Amid Uncertain Timeline for Bushwick Rezoning [City Limits]
Daily Links: Cyclists Ask City to Finish Bike Lane-Blocking Construction on Park Slope’s 4th Avenue
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]
Daily Links: Dumbo Residents Want a Safer, Second Entrance to York Street Subway Station
In the News
- 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]
Daily Links: Boerum Hill’s Brooklyn House of Detention Could Possibly Close in Early 2020
In the News
- 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]
Daily Links: Subway Entrance Flooded by MTA on Purpose Bemuses G Train Riders in ‘Burg
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]
Daily Links: Kensington Residents Push for Safer Streets After Ped Deaths
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]
