Coworking Spaces in Brooklyn; Security After Nice Attack; Anthony Bourdain and More Brooklyn Briefs

The "Mayor's Restroom" at an East New York town hall. pic.twitter.com/pXuLeuFjST

— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) July 14, 2016

- Brooklyn driver indicted on manslaughter charges after failure to get his car repaired led to a fatal car crash on Fulton Street in December. [Daily News]

- Young Orthodox Jewish man committed suicide on Wednesday -- the 26th such suicide the New York-area's Orthodox community over past ten months. [Forward]

- Squibb Park Bridge to reopen next spring, 50 percent less bouncy. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- K2 protest held outside Bed-Stuy deli. [CBS]

- A complete list of Brooklyn coworking spaces — locales where you can rent a desk or office by the day, week, or month. [Brownstoner]

- Gov. Cuomo: After Nice attack, NY law enforcement stepping up security at airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit. [Twitter]

- Globe-trotting foodophile Anthony Bourdain will perform "brutally honest" monologue
 The Hunger at BAM in late November. [Gothamist]

- The historic Lundy’s building on Emmons Avenue continues to deteriorate, despite promises from the owner to patch up the property. [Sheepshead Bites]

- The  Jalopy Theater is putting on Dump Trump Night, a musical revue of satirical songs. [Brokelyn]

- Woman, 60, beaten and raped in Brooklyn building's boiler room by man in maintenance uniform. [Daily News]


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Fairway to Open 2nd Brooklyn Store; Time Inc. Shipping in Jobs and Dogs; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Fairway to open a second Brooklyn store. [TRD]

- Opponents of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 highrises: ‘Build only to support park!’ [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp plans to ship 300+ jobs to Brooklyn before year’s end -- and will also welcome employees’ dogs into the work area. [NY Post]

- A 47-year-old man was found dead in a car in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon — with two parking tickets affixed to his car. [Daily News]

- Literary walk through Brooklyn Bridge Park tonight. [BHB]

- Outdoor concert series launching next month in Downtown Brooklyn. [DNAinfo]

- Center for an Urban Future: Creative biz in Brooklyn grew by 125 percent vs 8 percent for Manhattan. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The state Senate has passed a bill that would prevent NYC bus drivers from being arrested at the scene of an accident. [NY1]

- Here's how to check if your bottled water is part of a voluntary recall of 14 brands due to a possible E. coli contamination. [7online]


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Job Fair Today at Brooklyn Borough Hall

Image: US Labor Dept.

Wednesday at 4:00 PM, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams will host Brooklyn Job Fair 2015 at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joraalemon St., Downtown Brooklyn, offering employment opportunities with dozens of major local businesses.

Businesses and organizations taking part in Brooklyn Job Fair 2015 include:
 All Car Rent A Car, Applebee’s, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Nets, Brooklyn Spectator, Consolidated Edison Company, Duane Reade, FC Modular, Forest City Ratner Companies, Gallop NYC, Goldman Sachs, Good Help, The Home Depot, Home Reporter and Sunset News, Inner Force Tots, Maimonides Medical Center, Midwood Ambulance Service, Modell’s Sporting Goods, NYC Bike Share, New York City Police Department, New York Life Insurance Company, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, New York State Department of Children and Family Services, New York State Department of Labor, Red Hook on the Road, Santander Bank, Sheraton Brooklyn, St. Nicks Alliance, Target, TDBank, TerraCRG, Urban Pads, and U.S. Army Battalion, NYC.



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Celebrate Brooklyn! Schedule Announced; No Funds for MTA 5-Yr Plan in Budget; More Brooklyn Briefs

Can we expect you back in Brooklyn. "All in good time" @hillaryclinton
— Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) April 1, 2015

- BRIC announces 2015 Celebrate Brooklyn! events at Brooklyn Bridge Park, starting May 14. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Nitehawk is doing a two-month tribute to Jeff Goldblum. [Brokelyn]

- Teacher calls lawmakers spineless for allowing Cuomo to gut the profession. [Curmudgegucation]

- Now we're in for it: Someone forgot to fund the MTA's five-year capital plan in the NYS budget. [Brooklyn Eagle]  

- About ten percent of McDonald’s restaurants will raise wages for workers by more than 10 percent beginning July 1.  [Slate]

- President Obama signed into law the Slain Officer Family Support Act of 2015. [Jeffries]

- Sen. Al Franken urged David Letterman to run for the opening Senate seat in his home state of Indiana. [The Hill]


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Al Qaeda in Brooklyn Court, Airbnb Gets Blasted, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- An al Qaeda operative appears before a judge in Brooklyn. Among other charges, he plotted to attack the LIRR. [The Daily Beast]

- City Council blasts Airbnb executives in contentious hearing. [NY Daily News]

- Renderings: The Cobble Hill Association has gotten copies of the modified plan for the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Henry Street (where the Shell gas station now stands). [CHA]

- Brooklyn and Barclays are a logistical and ethical minefield for the Democratic Convention, says Norman Order. [NYT]

- Forbes: Brooklyn Nets valued at $1.5 billion, 6th most expensive NBA team. [NetsDaily]

- More than 130,000 pages of declassified documents relating to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) from the U.S. Air Force have been published online by man who spent 20 years filing Freedom of Info Act requests. [abc7]

- "The unemployment rate among recent IT graduates at the moment is actually twice that of theater majors." [WSJ]

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Brooklyn Public Library Looking for Someone to Manage Lobbyists, Work Building Sales Through Land Use Approval Process

Updated:
Brooklyn Public Library is gearing up for some library real estate sales.  looking for someone to replace Josh Nachowitz (see commenter insight below).

In their employment listings, BPL says they're looking for someone to manage all aspects of BPLs Government and Community Relations strategy: Must create strategic partnerships with elected officials, and oversee and direct work of outside lobbyists.

Must also "provide strategic advice to the President and CEO on sensitive political issues."

Must have "extensive knowledge of the NYC budget process, the New York City Council, State Legislature and Brooklyn politics, and "demonstrated relationships with Brooklyn elected officials and community stakeholders."

Most importantly, the candidate must have:

"knowledge of the City’s capital budget and land use approval processes."

Looks like the library sales are still on.

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'NYC Web Development Fellowship' in Downtown Brooklyn

Photo: Danja, Flickr

If you want to become a web developer and can survive for 6 months while going to school in Downtown Brooklyn, you might try out for this fellowship:

New York City is offering a NYC Web Development Fellowship, designed to train Fellows with the skills necessary to start a career in web development. Graduates from the Fellowship will be qualified to for jobs as web developers, using HTML5, Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Javascript.

Offered by the Workforce Development Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliated with the NYC Department of Small Business Services, the NYC Web Development Fellowship will support the growing number of tech companies in the city, especially in Downtown Brooklyn where the Fellowship’s campus is located.

This Fellowship will allow New Yorkers to get training from The Flatiron School at no cost – a program that normally charges students $12,000. Only 28 students will be selected for the class. Applicants must be eligible and go through a competitive screening process.

All admitted fellows must be committed to doing 150+ hours of prework and being on campus from 9:00AM to 6:00PM, Monday thru Friday, March 31, 2014 through August 29, 2014.

More information here.

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Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's Scissura: Paid Sick Leave? How About Cutting Fines on Small Businesses

Photo: BiblioArchives, Flickr

Carlo Scissura, President and CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, sent in a statement on the expansion of paid sick leave in NYC that left no doubt that he's not the bill's biggest fan.

He might go for it, however, if the Mayor will cut some slack for small businesses, such as easing regulations and fines.

He said:

"We applaud Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito for addressing the needs of all workers in New York City.

"However, this is the first step in a larger discussion about the needs of small businesses and their employees. While we work to address the imbalances of workers, we must ensure that the needs of small businesses - the engine of job growth throughout the five boroughs - are taken into account and addressed.

"Importantly, we look forward to reviewing the bill and working with Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Mark-Viverito on the easing of other regulations and aggressive fines that have burdened small businesses for years. This is an opportunity for all Chambers of Commerce to come together and discuss the rights of workers and how to balance that with the needs of small business owners."


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More Than 5,000 Compete for Work at Kings Plaza Job Fair

Nobody can say Brooklynites don't want to work.

More than 5,000 job hunters competed for 1,200 positions at clothing and electronic stores and other retailers on October 17 at the Kings Plaza Job Fair.

“People started showing up at 8 o’clock and, by the time I got there, the line was wrapped around the corner, around the aisle, and then back towards the corner again,” Alicia Deflorimonte told Brooklyn Daily.

Did you miss the job fair? Here are some other job opportunities, courtesy of the Brooklyn Headhunter:

- Whole Foods is hiring in all departments.

- Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst is hosting a job fair on Oct. 24. (Includes financial institutions, health care, retail and others.)

- Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow Employment Fair: Nov. 7 at 25 Thornton St.

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NYC Voting Guide; Fashion Week; and more Brooklyn Briefs

- Here's the official NYC Votes voting guide. [nycvotes]

- Brooklyn is where the cools kids headed during Fashion Week. [The Atlantic Wire]

- Last chance: Today's voting will use the old lever machines.[Gothamist]

- Whole Foods in Gowanus now hiring. [Pardon Me For Asking]

- Brooklyn B15 bus accident: 41 injured. [CBS]

- 'Radioactive' real-estate: Barclays-area landlords too quick to chase out mom-and-pops. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Park Slope group to fight Methodist Hospital expansion. [TRD]

- Brooklyn DA shuts down 5 "spas," including one in Brooklyn Heights. [CBS]



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New York Citi Bike Is Hiring

Need a job? New York's Citi Bike share program is hiring.

According to the Citi Bike website, a number of positions are open: call center manager, outreach ambassadors, bike mechanics, customer service agents and more.

Citi Bike better hurry -- Sunday was their busiest day so far, with 22,399 trips of 25 minutes each. 4,524 day passes were sold.

Meanwhile, complaints about poor customer service poured in to Citi Bike's Facebook page on Friday:

* "I sent an email several days ago and still no reply. The stations will not let me rent another bike and your phone does not work..."

* "Can we pick up our keys in person?!"

* "I second that. Would really like to pick my key up!"

* "Did u route the calls to India?"

* "Hoping to receive my key soon... I signed up on April 15 and I haven't received anything yet."

* "Still waiting for my freakin' key!!!!!!"

It would seem that customer service agents need to be hired right away.

Photo by MK Metz

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Health Care Jobs Employ More Brooklynites Than Any Other Field

 It's not construction, information or real estate -- it's the healthcare and social assistance fields (shown in green in the chart below) that provide the most employment in Brooklyn, followed by retail (shown in black).

Figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that in 2009, there were 183,009 healthcare and social assistance jobs in Brooklyn; in 2010 it was up to 191,838; by 2011, there were 198,152.

Not all possible fields are shown on this chart -- the software limited us to 10 at a time, so we picked those with the most workers and those with the most relevance to Brooklyn, including real estate and information.

Note: If SUNY succeeds in closing down Long Island College Hospital, there will likely be 2,000 fewer health care jobs in Brooklyn in 2013.

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Let 'Em Laugh: Brooklyn's Food Scene Is Bringing In the Bucks

Smorgasburg in DUMBO. Photo: MK Metz

Haters love to scoff at Brooklyn's trendy food scene, but apparently Brooklyn is laughing, too -- all the way to the bank.

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that Brooklyn's burgeoning food sector is an engine of job growth for the borough, based on a study done for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.

Brooklyn’s “food chain” -- supermarkets, restaurants, gourmet food shops and food makers— accounts for 16 percent of businesses in Brooklyn and 12.5 percent of Brooklyn’s private sector jobs.

Restaurants, cafes, coffee shops and grocery stores added one out of every five new jobs in Brooklyn since 2000. In 2011 alone, wages in the Brooklyn food sector came to $1.46 billion.

While not all food-related jobs rack in big bucks, many do -- and start-ups and "one-person specialty food manufacturing businesses" are adding tremendous vitality to the mix.

So ha ha yourself, haters. And pass the kimchi tacos.

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Unemployed New Yorkers: Apply for Sandy Cleanup Jobs! The Brooklyn Headhunter

Gov. Cuomo visits Rockaway Sunday with Congressman Meeks & NYS Sen. Smith

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that the state has secured a $27 million federal grant that will hire more than 5,000 unemployed New Yorkers to work helping clean-up communities still recovering from Hurricane Sandy.

The funding will be provided to communities to quickly hire young people and the unemployed to help with clean-up efforts.

“The enormous amount of work to be done gives us a chance to provide young and unemployed New Yorkers with job opportunities cleaning up their communities,” Governor Cuomo said.

People who are interested in applying for a job  are encouraged to contact the Department of Labor at 1-888-4-NYSDOL (1-888-469-7365) or by visiting www.labor.ny.gov/sandyjobs.

All individuals must be unemployed to be eligible. Once hired, workers will earn approximately $15 per hour to work on short and long-term projects. The work will include cleaning and repairing damaged public structures and property in each of the nine counties declared disaster areas.

In addition, Governor Cuomo said that the state has partnered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to launch a local hire program to replace FEMA employees, often from out of state, with New Yorkers. The goal is to hire upwards of 700 New Yorkers.

Individuals interested in applying for a job with FEMA should visit Governor Cuomo’s Jobs Express website at http://www.labor.ny.gov/jobs/regional.shtm

The full-time, temporary positions range from Community Relations Specialists providing outreach to the disaster-stricken communities, to administrative assistants.

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Who Won the Third and Final Presidential Debate?

Did Romney scare voters with Iran and China? Did he convince voters our country's global influence is receding?

Did President Obama convince voters their money should go to schools and roads instead of Afghanistan? Did he mention enough examples of Romney changing his positions on important issues?

Who won the third and final Presidential debate?

Vote for the winner in the poll at the top of the column on the right. And then support the candidate of your choice with your vote in the real election.

(Cell phone users: use web browser version of the website, not mobile.)

McBrooklyn voters gave a slight edge to Mitt Romney in the second Presidential debate poll. (50% vs 46%, with 4% undecided.)

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Mini Golf Under the Manhattan Bridge Archway

Golfers competed for a free beer at Brooklyn Flea's food, beer and Loosecubes happening under the Manhattan Bridge Archway in DUMBO yesterday.

- Pop-Up Loosecubes Workspace Under the Manhattan Bridge Archway

Photo by MK Metz

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Pop-Up Loosecubes Workspace Under the Manhattan Bridge Archway Today

You've eaten lunch Under the Archway.

You've drunk beer Under the Archway.

Now you can work Under the Archway. 

Every Thursday in August, Loosecubes will be operating a reserved section of picnic tables under the Manhattan Bridge Archway in DUMBO for people who want a workspace and free Wi-Fi in the Brooklyn wilds. There will be a number of table spaces reserved from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

There aren't any power sources (though we're told there might be mini golf), so make sure to come with your devices fully charged.

Interested folks can register to work for free here: loosecubes.com/dumbobid

Loosecubes finds a match between office spaces with an empty desk and independent workers looking for an alternative to the coffee shop.

The event is being put together by the DUMBO Improvement District.

Photo courtesy of Loosecubes

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'Ugly' Atlantic Terminal Barriers Coming Down; Unemployment; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- MTA begins removing 'ugly' barricade around LIRR Atlantic Terminal. NY Daily News

- If you used the ATM at Ridgewood Savings Bank at 7124 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, a skimmer may have ripped off your card information and stolen your money. Bensonhurst Bean

- Brooklyn Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz has hired disgraced ex-Brooklyn State Sen. Carl Kruger’s chief-of-staff as a campaign consultant. City and State

- Officers talk to would-be-jumper for more than four hours before getting him off bridge. Brooklyn Daily Eagle

- Did you lose a chicken near Franklin Avenue? I Love Franklin Avenue

- There's a competition that asks participants to envision the future of the contaminated Gowanus Canal. Park Slope Patch

- The Bronx and Brooklyn continued to post the highest rates of unemployment in the city in June. WSJ

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NY Attorney General Is Worried Con Ed Taking Risks with Public Safety

By MK Metz

Consolidated Edison officials said they would restart talks with its biggest union Tuesday, while a company spokesman defended its handling of the lockout, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Journal notes that for Con Ed, which serves more than three million customers, the lockout is a calculated gamble to control its labor costs.

The company wants to change pension plans for new hires.

But State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is questioning Con Ed’s emergency preparedness, says the Journal News.

“The bottom line is that without its regular outside plant workers Con Edison cannot be prepared for a storm or a heat failure. I urge the PSC to ensure that Con Ed has the proper contingency plans in place,” Schneiderman wrote Friday.

During last week's heat wave, Con Edison cut power to major swaths of Brooklyn by 5 percent over several days. But cooler weather has helped the manager-workers on the streets play catch up.

Con Ed has begun concealing the addresses on its online outage map to prevent crews from being harassed, according to Newsday.

Con Edison has a 38-year history of boosting its dividend, which currently stands at a 3.9% dividend yield.

The sign shown above, at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Downtown Brooklyn, instructs Con Ed employees to enter the building using a side entrance. The sign appeared when the lockout started last week.

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More Than 9,300 Apply for 1,900 Part Time Jobs at Barclays

More than 9,300 people applied for jobs at the Barclays Center, opening Sept. 28 in Brooklyn according to Atlantic Yards Report, quoting Crain's (subscription).

Job seekers heard about the work from postcards mailed to Housing Authority residents by developer Forest City Ratner, which also visited local churches. About 2,000 jobs are available; roughly 1,900 are part time and 100 full time.

Atlantic Yards Report asks, "Does this mean the arena's a savior, or that Brooklyn has a lot of unemployed people?"

Many of the jobs are likely at the Barclays' many bars, nightclubs and restaurants which will spill thousands of drunken, brawling patrons out into the surrounding residential streets at 2 a.m. 

Photo: Barclays Center

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