Not so fast, a Community Board 6 committee said last night to those planning an apartment building at the Bergen Tile site across from the Barclays Center arena, mainly on busy Flatbush Avenue but also extending around to lower-scale--and quiet, for no... »
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Commercial/residential building Address: 375 379 Flatbush Avenue Cross Streets: Corner Sterling Place Neighborhood: Prospect Heights Year Built: 1885 Architectural Style: Neo-Grec with Second Empire details Archi... »
We didn’t cover the Community Board 6 liquor license meeting yesterday in the flesh, but other outlets are reporting that the board’s committee on such matters approved the license for Barclays Center and then gave a thumbs-down to Kemistry Lounge, a n... »
Atlantic Yards Report Has the advent of the Barclays Center really changed retail in the blocks around it? That was the theme of a misguided Times article Tuesday, which focused significantly on gentrification-led change (see the map below, highlightin... »
An article in today's New York Times about the Atlantic Yards project illustrates, yet again, how the Times neglects covering Brooklyn and is out of touch. Fortunately, Norman Oder points out what the Times seems unable to understand. Atlantic Yards Re... »
A story in the Times today looks at the extent to which the blocks surrounding Atlantic Yards are in the midst of a retail transformation directly linked to the fall opening of the Barclays Center arena. While rents are no doubt going up nearby, we’re ... »
The North Flatbush BID is hosting a Children's Earth Day event, free and open to the public!NFBID will close 6th Avenue and St. Marks Avenues for a Brooklyn Boulders Rock Climbing wall, hula-hooping, games, planting, and arts and crafts for youth throu... »
Saturday, April 28 Greenlight Kids Story Time Brooklyn-based author and illustrator Amy Schwartz (Bea and Mr. Jones) presents her new picture book, Willie and Uncle Bill followed by an art project. Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St. (at S Portland S... »
