(BHB/Sarah Portlock) Transportation dominates the community calendar this week, including tonight’s major public meetings about the upcoming major rehabilitation of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and tomorrow’s public comment meeting about the future of Tillary Street. (1) Today, the state Department of Transportation holds two identical three-hour sessions about the major reconstruction project along the triple cantilevered portion […]
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Picnic chairs now at Boro Hall
The tables and chairs from the Montague Street pedestrian plaza have finally found a new home. Each day this summer, the street furniture — 25 tables and 80 chairs in total — will be out in front of Borough Hall for the public from 8 am to 6 pm. Per an email from Montague Street […]
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 6/19/09
This week’s blotters got sidelined in the hubbub of breaking Busted Chef news, but not forgotten. Here, finally, are your blotters: Cops arrested two punks for stealing iPods and cellphones from two victims — the first of whom identified the punks during the second crime. The first incident happened at 11 pm on June 8 […]
Checkers opens on Court Street
The fast-food joint Checkers opened on Tuesday at 111 Court St., in the former Busy Chef spot, bringing yet another hamburger option for Downtown Brooklynites. Franchise owner Shaista Siddiqui told BHB she’s excited “to become part of this community.” The restaurant serves burgers, bacon-wrapped burgers, chicken sandwiches, chicken fingers, and delicious spicy fries. And, the […]
This week’s community calendar
The next two weeks are busy for community meetings — there’s the usual Community Board business, as well as updates on the BQE triple cantilever reconstruction project and city Department of Transportation’s ongoing project to rework Tillary Street and surface transit in Downtown. Here’s the calendar: (1) Tonight, Monday, at 6 pm, is Community Board […]
New Tillary Street mural
Notice something different cropping up along Tillary Street this week? A new public art mural of worker bees buzzing back and forth is now on display along the 200-foot concrete traffic barrier there. The nonprofit group behind the artwork, Groundswell, and the city Transportation Department will formally unveil the mural on Saturday morning at 11 […]
Weekly Crime Blotter: 6/9/09
There were several robberies in the subway this week — and a small victory for Brooklynites who cars have been stolen borough-wide. For more neighborhood crimes, see Cobble Hill Blog.
84th Precinct Police Blotter 6/3/09
The Lebanese Food Festival on May 30 last weekend wasn’t all fun and games for everyone, apparently. A perp stole two digital cameras, an iPhone, and a camera bag, worth $1,775 total, from a woman who set her bag down around 1 pm on a table during the festivities. The woman came back to the […]
84th Precinct Police Blotter 5/27/09
Crime wasn’t too bad last week — here’s a roundup: Someone broke into a man’s Mitsubishi sedan in the early morning on May 23, after he parked it along Columbia Heights, near Cranberry Street. The perp smashed the passenger side front window and stole the man’s $700 GPS unit, iPod, and stereo. The victim lives […]
Cadman Plaza Park Soccer – Pretty Mellow
Saturday morning, we checked out the controversial soccer players at Cadman Plaza Park. Overall the group of players, mostly men and over 30, seemed downright mellow. While they did take up most of the turf field, there didn’t seem to be much competition for using it. One family played frisbee on the turf while the […]
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