Last night NP attended a presentation on “Planting the Seeds for Change – Cultivating an Inclusive Plan for Community District 8” prepared by masters students of the Neighborhood Planning and Preservation Studio at Pratt.  The project was overseen by Professors John Shapiro and Vicki Weiner. Drawing...

Apparently the city’s Department of Information and Technology has recently announced a new program to add Wifi in various parks across the city, including in 8 parks in Brooklyn.  While we could not determine whether Brower Park or St. Johns Park would be included in the ranks, we are curious...

Planning and Historic Preservation graduate students at Pratt Institute have spent the spring semester studying your community, Community District 8 in Brooklyn, and I know many of you spoke to them or filled out a survey designed to get your input. We thank you so much for your thoughts, feedback...

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One of the nation’s largest suppliers of black hats to Jews, after Borsalino, Mr. Lacorazza, who was born in Bogotá, and is not Jewish, sells some 5,000 of the hats a year under his Puerto Fino and Barbisio labels, manufactured in the factory his father founded in Colombia. Read the rest of the...

Correction: This entry originally ran yesterday with a statistic indicating that approximately 23% of stores on Nostrand were nail salons, that figure was actually supposed to read 13%.  It has been corrected in the body of the post as it now appears. Curious after reading an article that appeared...

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via the NY Daily News Keston Boyce was so moved by the image of a brutally beaten elderly Brooklyn woman, he led a door-to-door effort to raise the $900 stolen from her during the attack.  Jump here AKPC_IDS += "148,";Popularity: 1% [?]

Jump here for more info Downtown trains skip 66, 59, and 50 Sts Weekends, Sep 27 – 29 and Oct 4 – 6, 12:01 AM Sat to 5 AM Mon <!– No trains between 149 and East 180 Sts Take the 2 instead Weekend, Sep 6 – 8, 12:01 AM Sat to 5 AM Mon Why is service being changed? We are making structural...