Hearing On Placement of Citi Bike Docking Stations in Brownstone Brooklyn

Photo: MK Metz

Do you live in Community Board 6 in Brooklyn? (Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Park Slope and Red Hook.)

 Have something to say about the placement or size of CitiBike docking stations? Here's your chance to comment. CB6 sent this notice:

IN THE MATTER OF the expansion of New York City’s bike share program, CitiBike, into the Brooklyn Community Board 6 district, the Community Board’s Transportation/Public Safety Committee will conduct a Public Hearing to gather public comment on the deployment of the bicycle docking stations, and any other aspect of the bike share program, for the primary purpose of reviewing and evaluating the density, location, placement, and size of the district’s docking stations with the Department of Transportation.

DATE: Thursday, October 20, 2016
TIME: 6:30 pm
PLACE: NYPD/78th Police Precinct
65 6th Avenue, 4th floor
(between Dean/Bergen Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Members of the public will have the opportunity to testify up to 3 minutes. Speakers must sign-in at the meeting to testify. There is no pre-registration. Speakers may not transfer time to other speakers. Written comment may also be emailed to the district office at info@BrooklynCB6.org or mailed to the address below by 5:00pm on October 20th.

250 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201-6401


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Brooklyn Prison on Lockdown; Fire in Downtown Brooklyn; Matt Damon Tours Brooklyn Heights Mansion; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Joycleen Franklin, 79, was last seen Tuesday wearing a brown beret and a blue jacket. She was last seen near Flatlands and Pennsylvania avenues in Brooklyn. If you see her call 9-1-1.

- The Metropolitan Detention Center was on lockdown Wednesday after a violent brawl between MS-13 and Crips gang members at the federal lockup in Sunset Park. [Daily News]

- 76th Precinct criticized following 4-car collision on Clinton Street Tuesday night. [PMFA] 

- Public comment period opens on a cleanup plan for contaminated site on the Gowanus Canal. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 4 films to get excited about at this year’s Bushwick Film Festival. [Brokelyn]

- Flames tore through a line of storefronts along Fulton Street near the intersection of Fulton and Flatbush Avenue on Wednesday. [Patch]

- Two former River Café employees claim they were subjected to homoerotic harassment by a manager at the landmark restaurant in Fulton Ferry. [Daily News]

- Cranberry Street Fair returns to Brooklyn Heights this Saturday. [Brooklyn Eagle]

-  The historic Lundy’s Brothers Restaurant building on Emmons Avenue will be getting some much needed improvements. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso toured the most expensive home in Brooklyn — the $40 million BH mansion at 3 Pierrepont Place. [NY Post]

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Brooklyn Eagle Posts Massive LICH (Long Island College Hospital) Archive Online

The former emergency department at LICH in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Photo by MK Metz

Do you wish you knew more about the three-year saga during which the state of New York squeezed a Brooklyn hospital -- Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill -- to death and sold it to a developer?

Do you wonder what Mayor Bill de Blasio had to do with the debacle? (He's being investigated now for his role in the closure.)

Did you know there were numerous lawsuits, marches (one involved more than a thousand people with coffins and a New Orleans-style funeral band over the Brooklyn Bridge), and protests in the rain, heat and snow?

And an elected official-led storming of the hospital?

Did you know SUNY hired security guards who went rogue and waved guns around the neo-natal ward?

And if you live anywhere between Red Hook and Williamsburg, did you know your life is at risk in a situation requiring an emergency room?

If you hunger to learn more, the Brooklyn Eagle has just published a massive archive of hundreds of detailed articles they published on the topic of LICH since the battle pitting residents against the state began. (Great source material if you're investigating any of the parties involved, too!)

Read more at:

LICH: Everything you want to know (almost) about the deal to close Long Island College Hospital 


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Boy Detective of Carroll Gardens; Cobble Hill's Problems with LICH; and More Brooklyn Briefs

#Brooklyn will celebrate Biggie's birthday w/ @barclayscenter concert featuring @iamdiddy https://t.co/49cuLaQL8d pic.twitter.com/o8Sr986yjr

— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) March 30, 2016

- Meet the boy detective of Carroll Gardens. [DNAinfo]

- Cobble Hill still awaiting answers from Fortis and NYU about LICH development plans. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The city on Tuesday bought a seven-acre lot along the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront for $53 million, to be used for the expansion of the long-promised Bushwick Inlet Park. [Brownstoner]

- A Brooklyn realtor has been arrested for allegedly pocketing deposits on apartments. [Gothamist]

- New York City bridge climbers may soon be faced with up to a year in the slammer. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Karate championship hopes dashed after Bushwick fire destroys dojo. [DNAinfo]

- Meet the guitar repair king of Greenpoint. [Brooklyn Magazine] 

- Join the Prospect Park Alliance for Opening Weekend in Prospect Park on April 2 + 3, with food, festivities and family fun. [Sheepshead Bites]

- New York native's brilliant performance on "Wheel of Fortune" is going viral. [abc7]

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Brooklyn Bridge Blocked in Tamir Rice Protest, and More Brooklyn Briefs

man cooks Xmas eve dinner on traffic island Foster Ave, Kings Hwy. good thing nice weather @NYDailyNews pic.twitter.com/UluMtpCRn3

— Todd Maisel (@ToddMaisel) December 24, 2015

- Angry at the failure to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, crowds blocked streets and blocked the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday. [RT]

- Caught on camera: Reward offered in vicious attack on a Midwood man, punched and kicked repeatedly in head. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Cops want your help locating a man wanted for public lewdness on the F train in Brooklyn. [NYPD News]

- Dinner inspired by Moby Dick coming to Carroll Gardens. [DNAinfo]

- From bumper cars to Torah taxidermy: A guide to 25 of Brooklyn's most unusual museums. [Brooklyn Magazine]

- 191 million voter records exposed online. [The Hill]

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ISIS Can't Come to Brooklyn, and More Brooklyn Briefs

RT @DevCNY: ISIS Can’t Come To Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/UY1zcO6nDy

— Darleny López (@darlopez) November 16, 2015

- It's official: ISIS can't come to Brooklyn. (Memorable video above; language alert.)

- Help redesign city streets at the Atlantic Avenue Safety Improvement Workshop. [Brownstoner]

- A 70-year-old woman was killed after being struck by a vehicle on Atlantic Avenue Monday afternoon. [DNAinfo]

- Photos: Brooklynites march in candlelight vigil past French cafes and bistros to honor Paris. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Two taken to hospital after shooting at a bus stop in Canarsie. [ABC7]

- Brooklyn's Ample Hills just landed $4 million to launch an ice cream empire. [Eater]

- One person was stabbed and another was punched in the face Monday afternoon on a subway platform in East NY. [NBC]

- Wonderful video plays tribute to South Brooklyn's enduring mom and pop stores.  [PMFA]

- A bicycle delivery man was critically injured when a tree fell on him in Red Hook Monday afternoon. [ABC7]

- Still waiting for FIOS? Brooklyn BP Eric Adams will be hosting a public forum on Verizon's Brooklyn rollout Tuesday night. [Brownstoner]

- An ad that surfaced last week on Craigslist offering a tricked-out dumpster as a rentable apartment was phony. [Brooklyn Eagle] 

- Just once month before 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' Gowanus’ Halyards Bar is showing every ‘Star Wars’ movie in the nerdiest way possible. [Brokelyn]


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Michael Wright's Body Found in Midwood, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Former Knicks draft pick Michael Wright found dead of head wound and covered in garbage bags in SUV in Midwood. Cops investigate theory it was a Grindr hookup gone bad.  [NY Daily News]

- Sad photo: Reward offered after abused dog found in East Flatbush parking lot. [ABC7]

- City students are skipping class once every 10 days. [NY Post]


- Carroll Gardens' Black Mountain Wine House on Forbes' top 10 cozy bar list. [Forbes]

- When the flashing red hand appears on crosswalk signs, pedestrians lose the right of way. Public Advocate Letitia James wants to change that. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn man runs in charity race for Sandy Hook victim so he can question her family about truther theory. [NY Magazine]

- Someone from Vice had dinner with the Cast of 'The Bedford Stop,' the "most hated girls in Brooklyn." [Vice]

- Defend Brooklyn in this new Revolutionary War iOS game. [Technical.ly]

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Bill Murray to Lead Poetry Walk Across Brooklyn Bridge Monday Night, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Mentors and their high school mentees dance at the annual iMentor picnic in Cadman Plaza Park. Photo by MK Metz

- Bill Murray is going to lead hundreds of poetry lovers and poets across the Brooklyn Bridge in an on-the-go poetry reading Monday at 6:30 p.m. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn DA helps nab crook who stole woman's wallet. [WSJ]

- 1,000 new Citi Bikes getting redesign by Olympic racing bike designer. [Daily News]

- Fire at NY Methodist hospital in Park Slope on Saturday diverts ambulances. [NY Post]

- Five hospitals in Brooklyn will be hit of the nurses union approves a strike. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Fascinating look at the sex life of Hasidic Jews. [Salon]

- Williamsburg's Northside Festival brings hundreds of performing artists, film screenings, art installations. [MetroUS]

- Brownstone in Carroll Gardens repeatedly defaced by gay slurs. [TRD]


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Sad Story of Carroll Gardens Families Torn Apart by Real Estate Goldrush

Photo: MK Metz

 The New York Observer has come out with an article about long-time Italian Carroll Gardens families torn apart as the new generation of home owners cash in on grandma's brownstone.

The "tidal waves of cash and transplanted Manhattanites that have rolled over the leafy streets of this onetime blue-collar Italian neighborhood have altered the landscape," Chris Erikson writes.

In some cases, the family turns on the sibling who stayed behind to take care of elderly family members. In others, they try to get rid of the elderly "leftovers" while they are still alive.

And so it goes.

As Brownstone Money Rushes into Carroll Gardens, Families Fall Apart [New York Observer]

(via South Brooklyn Post)

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Brooklyn's Vitagraph Smokestack On Way Out, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Eating goodies at Sunday's Cranberry Street Fair. Photo by MK Metz

 - “The legendary Vitagraph smokestack is in danger of being torn down!” [Brooklyn Eagle]

-  Carroll Gardens hipsters: "God's wrath is upon all of you. It will come!" [PMFA]

- Brooklyn Museum celebrates 35 local artists. [Brownstoner]

- Oh, dear. Police have seized Sanford Rubenstein's mattress. [NY1]

- How millionaires and billionaires are ruining our schools. [Politico]

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Brooklyn: Assemblywoman Joan Millman Stepping Down

 The Brooklyn Eagle reports that Assemblywoman Joan Millman (Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus) is stepping down after 17 years in the state Assembly.

Millman told the Eagle that she will be taking a position with the NYC Department of the Aging.

More here.


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Fund for Exonerated Brooklyn Man; Mom Steals Honda; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Court Street Funeral Home property sells for $4.55 million. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Fund raises thousands for NYC man cleared of murder after 25 years; stranger set up campaign. [Fox]

- Brooklyn woman's mom accidentally steals a green Honda. There's a perfectly good explanaation. [NY Magazine]

- Hundreds of fireworks, thousands of road flares and miles of LED lights to erupt over Prospect Park on April 26. It haas something to do with vaginas. [Brokelyn]

- Brooklynites fund schools, libraries, gardens in participatory budgeting vote.  [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Weird collection of collages coming to Cobble Hill gallery. [Brooklyn Paper]

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Long Island College Hospital - LICH - Community Forum on Tuesday, March 25 in Brooklyn

 Hear about what has been proposed by six nine different teams bidding to buy Long Island College Hospital (LICH). Four bidders are proposing to operate LICH as a full service hospital.

Summaries of the nine proposals are here.

The forum takes place on Tuesday, March 25 from 6 - 8 p.m. at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights.

The proposals will be scored based on how well they obey the guidelines set down in SUNY's revised RFP. This RFP gives extra points for a full-service hospital, with ER, ICU, affiliation with a teaching hospital, and quick transition, among other things.

The RFP panels -- SUNY's and the people's representatives -- are both turning in their decisions on Wednesday.

Listen to the proposals and see which one you think should be your new hospital operator.

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