Tag: Brooklyn
Over a half-century ago, then-mayor William O’Dwyer buried a time capsule at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn, which was the site of the Board of Transportation building at the time. The contents? Sexy microfilmed documents relating to the construction of the building. Even if it is only just a bunch of old documents, on Wednesday […]
Michael Diamond, also known as Beastie Boy Mike D, recently worked with architects John and Jill Bouratoglou to design his own townhouse. Now, he’s expanded to designing someone else’s — a 4,150 square foot single-family home on 242 Pacific Street in Boerum Hill, which will cost $4.98 million. The real estate listing emphasizes the luxury of the spot: […]
Few New Yorkers welcome subway construction and the inconveniences of alternative transportation, but in the case of the G train’s current closure, riders are more concerned about what’s going to happen when regular service is back. Commuters have reported that in the five weeks that the G train has been down, they actually prefer the […]
The ever changing legal walls on Siegel and White Streets — along the often disputed borders of Bushwick and Williamsburg in Brooklyn — have undergone another round of painting, featuring elaborate new burners by graffiti artists VOR, SEBS, EWOK, GIZ, DUEL, and LOGEK, among others. This latest round of work was sponsored by Evolve spray […]
This week, the New York Department of Education listed 40 schools in the city as “persistently dangerous.” This was determined by the number of violent incidents vs. the total student population. Of those schools, 17 are in Brooklyn, making it the highest concentration of “dangerous” schools in any borough; 11 of the schools are located in the […]
A Southern California-based, pro-weed, anti-government activist who goes by the name Reverend Bud Green has claimed responsibility for replacing two American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge with two bleached white last week. In a statement on his website and in an interview with the Daily News, Green explained that anonymous “professionals” in New York executed the action. He claims that […]
A pit bull was seen falling from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Greenpoint Tuesday night. The poor dog was apparently tossed from a moving vehicle by a horrible human being. “The way he was falling, head over heels down on the pavement, it just made us think we had probably seen a dog being thrown over the […]
The annual Collector’s Night takes place at the Brooklyn Historical society takes place tonight, featuring every clock shown in the opening credits of Back To The Future and “hundreds of pins representative of every presidential candidate in both the primary and the general elections since 1896.” One collector is bringing 600 disco shirts. Another has a number […]
Last week, Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson said in a statement he would no longer be prosecuting most low level weed cases. He said this was a move to discourage the number of arrests made for non-violent possession charges, many of which are dismissed anyway. The NYPD has responded with their own memo, asserting that they […]
In an effort to curtail unsafe driving, the NYPD handed out 4,814 speeding tickets during a crackdown this Tuesday and Wednesday. Brooklyn was apparently the speediest borough this week, with 1,249 of those tickets. Queens came next with 1,219, followed by Manhattan with 1,175, the Bronx with 782, and Staten Island with 389. Last week, officers handed out 5,258 summonses […]
