A 28 year old man was shot Saturday night around 10:30 pm in the Red Hook Houses. The victim was shot once in the knee and is currently recovering, in stable condition, at LICH. Detectives at the 76th Precinct are working to identify the shooter…
The NYPD nabbed a few skells in connection to burglaries in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and in areas covered by the 84th Precinct. Continue Reading →
This in from Notify NYC:
Notification issued 8/29/11 at 2:00 PM. The NYPD has issued a Missing Senior Notification for Parvez Khan, male, of Pakistani descent, age 66. He is 5’5″, 155 lbs, with brown eyes and black balding hair, wearing a white shirt, black pants, and white sneakers. He was last seen near Baltic St and Columbia St in BK on 8/23/11. Mr. Khan is in good physical condition but poor mental condition. For a photo see the attached link. If you see Mr. Khan call 800-577-TIPS (8477).
The sender included the following attachment:
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The U.S. Coast Guard training ship Eagle will arrive at Pier 7, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue (just south of Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6), this Friday, August 5, at about 9:00 a.m. She will welcome visitors on Friday from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., on Saturday the 6th from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m., and Sunday the 7th from 10:00 a.m to 7:00 p.m. Thanks to PortSide NewYork for the heads-up.
More information is now available on the deal on Brooklyn Bridge Park funding announced yesterday. Under the agreement, the city will proceed with funding park construction and development of recreational facilities which, according to a press release from State Senator Daniel Squadron, will include “a temporary pool for at least the next five summers, a Pier 5 recreational ‘bubble’ that will make the park usable in the winter, an ice skating rink, two tennis courts, and 2,200 feet of community space.” Also, we note that because no request for proposals may be issued for housing at Pier 6 before January 1, 2014, no such request can be issued by the Bloomberg administration, as he will be out of office by that date. Whoever succeeds him as Mayor may not have the same commitment to the idea of funding park operations and maintenance with housing.
Along with Senator Squadron, Assemblywoman Joan Millman and City Council Members Stephen Levin and Brad Lander have agreed to the deal.
Mayor Bloomberg announced this evening that city and state officials plan to sign an agreement tomorrow concerning the funding of Brooklyn Bridge Park that may result in smaller scale housing being built on park land, and may even eliminate the need for the two planned new buildings near the foot of Pier 6.
The New York Times: After months of uncertainty over the fate of the popular Brooklyn Bridge Park, city and state officials plan to sign an agreement on Tuesday that would allow limited private housing to be built there, to help pay an expected annual operating cost of $16 million.
The agreement ensures that the park, which now measures 20 acres, will be completed, eventually expanding to 85 acres on five disused piers along the East River. Continue Reading →
According to the Eagle, Debra D. Carey, CEO of SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital of Brooklyn, will also serve as interim CEO of University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital, the ponderous name of what we will always know as LICH, following the departure at the end of July of LICH’s interim president, Dominick Stanzione. LICH is now part of the SUNY Downstate family of hospitals, and Ms. Carey will divide her time between SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital of Brooklyn in Flatbush and LICH until a new full-time chief administrator for LICH can be found. Continue Reading →
Following a lengthy presentation by City Department of Transportation personnel of DOT’s proposals for improving access to Pier 6 of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and an even lengthier question and answer session from an audience that filled Conference Room A at Long Island College Hospital, the Transportation Committee of Community Board 6 unanimously agreed to a resolution expressing support for DOT’s proposed changes, but added (by way of “friendly amendments”) recommendations that (1) as initially suggested by Brooklyn Heights Association Executive Director Judy Stanton, a light be installed to govern left turns off Atlantic Avenue onto the BQE access ramp; and (2) as suggested by Cobble Hill community activist Roy Sloane, that a light also be installed at Columbia and Congress streets and that truck traffic from Phoenix Beverage, the tenant at Pier 7, be redirected there instead of to the foot of Atlantic Avenue near the park entrance. The resolution also urged that DOT begin study and planning for a more comprehensive solution to the park access and safety issue, which could include a pedestrian “flyover” or tunnel. Continue Reading →
City Council Member Brad Lander has released details of the City Department of Transportation’s proposals to improve safety and ease of access to Pier 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park, from Atlantic Avenue and from Columbia Street. DOT’s proposals include: Continue Reading →
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