A Crown Heights comic book fair will commemorate Brooklyn Pride Weekend by featuring work from some of the borough’s own queer artists. The Brooklyn Pride Comic Book Fair will take place on Sunday, June 13 outside Anyone Comics, and will include the work of more than a dozen local cartoonists, which the organizer hopes will serve as a means for residents to reconnect and celebrate gay pride as the city emerges from the pandemic. “With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosening restrictions, we wanted to do something for the artists on the safer side,” John Jennison told Brooklyn Paper, adding that he…
Tenants of city’s ‘worst landlord’ demand meeting amid dangerous living conditions
Tenants of one of the city’s “worst landlords” are demanding a meeting with the property owner after years of unsafe conditions in their Crown Heights apartment building, the residents say. Apartment dwellers at 776 Crown St. say their landlord Jason Korn, who topped the Public Advocate’s list of the worst slumlords in 2019 and 2020, has allowed their homes to deteriorate, with only patchwork repairs being done when a full overhaul is needed. Now, the tenants are calling for a ground-up repair of the crumbling…
960 Franklin Avenue rezoning moves forward after judge tosses restraining order
A Brooklyn judge tossed a temporary restraining order that was halting progress on the controversial 960 Franklin Ave. development in Crown Heights — paving the way for the hotly-contested building to move forward through the city’s seven-month Land Use Review Process. The rezoning change would call for the proposed mixed-use development to rise high above the adjacent Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which both garden stewards and Parks Department employees say would devastate plant life in the flower emporium. A lawsuit, filed by activists Alicia Boyd and Michael Hollingsworth, had halted progress on the building by arguing that city planning honchos violated a law that required the city to provide details about rezonings 30 days before certifying them — which is an initial step in the…
Crown Heights subway stations officially renamed for Medgar Evers
City transit officials have officially renamed two Crown Heights subway stations after civil rights icon Medgar Evers and the nearby CUNY college campus bearing the anti-segregationist’s name. Franklin Avenue station along Eastern Parkway will now be known as “Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College” station, while President Street station along Nostrand Avenue will henceforth don signs reading “President Street-Medgar Evers College.” The new signage marks a rare name change within the 472-station subway system, and makes the two train depots among the few bearing a person’s first and last name, said one city transportation honcho. “You don’t just go around renaming subway stations every day or it loses what’s important about it,” New York City Transit President Sarah Feinberg said on…
Proposed development in C’ Heights historic district faces overwhelming opposition
Community members voiced their overwhelming opposition to a proposed seven-story apartment building in the Crown Heights historic district on Thursday, saying the project is out of character for the area’s landmarked section, and would accelerate gentrification in the working-class enclave. “They need to go back to the drawing board and start again,” said Phara Souffrant Forrest, the Democratic nominee for the area’s 57th Assembly District. The Land Use Committee of the area’s Community Board 8 voted 14-to-2 to withhold support for developer Hope Street Capital’s plan, which needs approval from the city Landmarks Preservation Commission to build in the Crown Heights North landmarked district. The…
Mosley announces run on Working Families line in November, party begs to differ
Central Brooklyn Assemblyman Walter Mosley announced Thursday that he will run on the Working Families Party line after losing the Democratic nomination to a primary challenger in June — but the party itself begs to differ. After announcing his run on Twitter, the party’s official account replied to Mosley, clarifying that they had endorsed Mosley’s challenger, Phara Souffrant Forrest in the November election. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I am running for re-election as the Assemblymember for the 57th District on the Working Families Party Line. Vote for me in column D of your ballot to continue representing the interests of our district in Albany…
36 Council candidates blast pol’s “dog-whistle” calls to cancel West Indian Day Parade
A cadre of 36 City Council candidates are calling on Councilman Joe Borelli to apologize after the Staten Island legislator fired off a controversial letter demanding an end to Brooklyn’s popular West Indian Day Parade — which the would-be pols deemed an unwarranted “racist” attack on a majority-Black celebration. “We are deeply disgusted by your racist call to end our West Indian Day Parade. Every single parade, no matter which part of our wonderful diversity as Americans it celebrates, requires additional …
The best cheap things to do this weekend, body song edition
Indulge yourself, feel the romance, go back to the beginning, have a brass band blowout, and more ways to get rhythm this weekend.
The 20 best cheap things to do this weekend, krampus edition
Grab last-minute gifts at Arts in Bushwick Holiday Market, and more holiday weekend events…
The 20 best cheap things to do this weekend, cirqudelic edition
Knit the night away, color and chill, take a throwback ride, feel the festivities of fall, and more ways to cirque-umnavigate this weekend.
Photo Wednesday 091014 : West Indian Parade 2014 Edition
I was in the parade which feels like many more than ten days ago. Not in the parade in the teen aged sense of the days when I’d hope the barricade and join the mostly other non participant paraders, but in a more age mature stroll with my niece and nephew down the parkway lanes, enjoy the people watching and food scents.From my point of view, having walked back and forth from Franklin to Nostrand and back, as well as taking the train out to Utica Av, (with the exception of a lack of information dolled out to the rank and file officers on where crowds could permissibly cross streets) the parade was a grand success.I have lots of pics (Senator Chuck…
‘Amazon’ Cuomo pens open letter to the one that got away: Jeff Bezos
The Amazon HQ2 letter signed by Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jefferies and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney urges Amazon to reconsider promising “Governor Cuomo will take personal responsibility for the project’s state approval”
CrowHill Comm Assoc Meeting tonight 11/18
The meeting will be held at the Gospel Tabernacle Church 725 Franklin AveBetween Park Pl and Sterling Pl in Crown Heights to discuss local issues, all are welcomed especially Crown Heights residents.This is the tentative agenda:Opening statement from CHCA Vice President Paul CarsonReport on Halloween Parade by CHCA President Frank EsquilinStatus of children’s workshops & Scholar’s Program by CHCA President Frank EsquilinCommunity Survey by CHCA President Frank EsquilinCommunity Information by CHCA Project Manager Constance Nugent-MillerThanksgiving Food Basket cost approval by CHCA Treasurer Joanne CrispeReport on CHCA website by CHCA Secretary Josh Thompson Guest Speaker: Mr. Mathew Pitt from Councilwoman Cumbo’s Office…
A Sunny Design-Build Comes to Crown Heights
Palmer Thompson-Moss and Dane Risch purchased what appeared to be a tear-down on Bergen Street and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights in 2013 and transformed it into King Tai, a sun-filled neighborhood bar that they designed and contracted for themselves.“The building itself brought a lot to the table, kind of ironically,” recalls Thompson-Moss. “Everyone said, ‘What are you going to do with that thing?’ It had a dirt floor; the metal cornice was falling…