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4 days ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Anna Bradley-Smith |Brooklyn Paper
Bed-Stuy is about to get even more dining options with two new restaurants slated to debut in the coming weeks: French-themed Badaboom and Mexico City cantina-inspired Dolores. Badaboom plans to open its doors sometime this week at 421 Bainbridge St., on the corner of Howard Avenue. The restaurant will serve rotisserie chicken and French-influenced comfort dishes and wine.
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1 week ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Anna Bradley-Smith |Brooklyn Paper
In an unexpected move, two new historic districts have been proposed for the area south of Prospect Park, once part of the historic town of Flatbush. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to calendar the proposed Beverley Square West and Ditmas Park West Historic Districts, a step that sets up forthcoming public hearings.
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1 week ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Brooklyn Paper |Shara Levine
BSE Global, the parent company of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, will open a multi-court youth basketball training facility on Flatbush Avenue near Barclays Center this fall. The nearly 19,000-square-foot Brooklyn Basketball Training Center will be operated by BSE’s program Brooklyn Basketball, which offers basketball clinics, summer camps and community programs for local youth.
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1 week ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Dashiell Allen |Brooklyn Paper
The parade kicked off with speeches by elected officials from Brooklyn, including Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. “I always speak as a Black, Caribbean man of faith, trying to make sure that all communities understand that has to include our trans siblings as well,” Williams said. “Let’s stand up, let’s show love.” Grand Marshal and City Council Member Chi Ossé headed the parade.
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2 weeks ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Anna Bradley-Smith |Brooklyn Paper
A housing lottery for 19 truly affordable apartments in Bushwick, spread across three new buildings, is closing in two days. The Bushwick Alliance apartments are in three new four-story buildings at 63 Stockholm St., 332 Eldert St., and 272 Jefferson St. and they include studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments. There are 28 apartments in total across the three buildings, according to Department of Building records, and 19 are included in the lottery.
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3 weeks ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Adam Daly
After more than two years under scaffolding, the more than 130-year-old Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza emerged from its extensive restoration on Thursday. The $8.9 million project, led by the Prospect Park Alliance and backed by mayoral funding, also included improvements to the area surrounding the monument. This marked the first major restoration of the 19th-century monument in nearly 50 years.
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4 weeks ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Emily Davenport |Brooklyn Paper
The NYPD is looking for a suspect who assaulted a bus driver with a wrench in Red Hook earlier this month. According to police, at 8:04 a.m. on May 13, a 71-year-old male MTA employee was operating a B61 bus near the vicinity of Lorraine Street and Hicks Street when an unknown man boarded the bus. The suspect got into an argument with the driver, pulled out a wrench and hit the driver in the forehead with the wrench. The suspect then fled the scene on a scooter headed eastbound on Lorraine Street.
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4 weeks ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Anna Bradley-Smith |Brooklyn Paper
A major rezoning plan that will dramatically reshape a swath of central Brooklyn — replacing low-lying industrial buildings with apartment towers containing potentially thousands of new units, including affordable ones — was approved by the City Council on Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Dean Moses |Brooklyn Paper
A man caught by cops allegedly urinating inside a Downtown Brooklyn subway station on Tuesday was found in possession with two guns and assorted ammunition, police reported Wednesday. Officers from Transit District 30 initially spotted the suspect — identified 49-year-old Darrick McCall — exposing himself and peeing onto the northbound track of the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets station on the A/C/G lines at about 9:45 a.m. on May 27.
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1 month ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Barbara Russo |Lloyd Mitchell |Brooklyn Paper
Residents and transportation advocates rallied in Canarsie on Sunday, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to bring a ferry dock to a notorious “transportation desert.”Led by Jibreel Jalloh, founder of The Flossy Organization, which advocates for marginalized communities, the group demanded that Adams open a fast NYC Ferry route connecting Canarsie to bustling Manhattan.
