With lush period features and central air, the interior has room for a new owner to put their own design stamp on it. A wealth of woodwork fills the parlor level of this Bed Stuy townhouse, with built-ins, fretwork, a pier mirror, and mantels among the highlights. There have been some updates, like central air, but there is still room for a new owner to put their own design stamp on the interior while being surrounded by period features.
Here I am, 76 years old, grandson of the late Bertram L. Baker, the political pioneer who in 1948 became the very first Black person elected to office in the history of Brooklyn. Many tens of thousands of Blacks had lived in Brooklyn through the 1800s and into the first half of the 20th century. But it was this immigrant, born on the then British colony of Nevis in 1898, who made Brooklyn history, as the Black political pioneer.
According to Forgash, the fire broke out around 5 a.m. on the third floor of the building. Dynaco, located on the first floor, escaped direct flames but was heavily affected by smoke and flooding from firefighting efforts, he said. In the days since the fire, Forgash said the outpouring of support from neighbors, regulars and strangers alike has been overwhelming.
The days appear numbered for the striking butter yellow Italianate manse on Fort Greene's South Oxford Street, with developers applying to raze the attractive wood structure and replace it with a five-story apartment building.
"I'm very plugged into the writer community, I'm friends with a lot of great writers, and wanted to be able to bring those writers into our community," she said. "Whenever you have big book events in the city, they're not at Black bookstores and they're not in Black neighborhoods, so I really wanted to bring that to Bed-Stuy. People should expect all of their writing heroes."
It's only the first week at Barker Cafeteria, a new daytime spot on 395 Nostrand Avenue, near Putnam Avenue, in Bed-Stuy, and people are grabbing focaccia sandwiches as soon as they're on the shelves. New York has no shortage of focaccia spots; just look at the cult followings for Radio Bakery and Superiority Burger, but Barker's versions are particularly ethereal.
In Bed-Stuy, Barker Cafeteria is a daytime spot run by a couple who've worked at places like Blue Hill Stone Barns and Superiority Burger. On the menu there are sandwiches, like a cold roast beef number with horseradish, watercress, and hickory sticks, soups, salads, and pastries, like currant scones with clotted cream and jam. We haven't been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists.
A man was slashed across the body early Tuesday morning in Bed-Stuy, police said. According to the NYPD, a 58-year-old man was near 997 DeKalb Ave., near Stuyvesant Ave., just after midnight when he was attacked and slashed with a knife.
First introduced in 2018, the Brooklyn Camo City Edition uniforms are trimmed with colorful Coogi-inspired stripes meant to represent the diversity of cultures in Brooklyn and the diversity of the Nets fanbase. At the bottom of the jersey is a shoutout to Biggie's neighborhood: a Bed-Stuy patch designed by local graphic artist Eric Haze. The jerseys sold out almost instantly when they were released in 2018, according to the team, and are one of the most popular Nets jerseys of all time.
People have lived on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue almost as long as there has been an Atlantic Avenue. It started out as a path leading to early settler Ralph Patchen's farm and then became a road to the East River. Part of it became known as Division Street, as it was the informal border between the town of Brooklyn and South Brooklyn, which included today's Red Hook, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods.
According to the NYPD's officers driving the car, the cop car had its lights and sirens on as it was traveling northbound on Malcolm X Boulevard through the Macdounough Street intersection when its front end collided with two other cars.
The repair fund covers refurbishing bikes, and then we either give 'em away or we do a pay-what-you-want situation for them. It's a good stepping stone to being able to get around the city.
