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Brooklyn liquor store owners push against Bottle Bill expansion
NEW YORK -- The Bottle Bill expansion aims to add different kinds of containers like wine and liquor bottles to the list of vessels redeemable across the state. It also aims to increase the 5-cent deposit, established decades ago, to encourage consumers to recycle.However, it also faces pushback from independent liquor store owners like Michael Correra of Michael Towne Wines & Spirits in Downtown Brooklyn."We just don't have the space and have the area. We don't need extra rats. We don't need bugs," he said.Correra is also the executive director of the Metropolitan Package Store Association, which represents 3,500 liquor...
Roz Chast To Get Best of Brooklyn Award
Cartoonist Roz Chast will receive the [Brooklyn Book Festival’s] annual BoBi (Best of Brooklyn) award, given to those who best exemplify the spirit of the New York City borough. About Roz Chast from The Brooklyn Book Festival:. Roz Chast‘s cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978, where...
Arctaris Impact Provides Key Opportunity Zone Investment in $475 Million Mixed Income Development in Gowanus, Brooklyn
BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 29, 2024-- Arctaris Impact Investors, LLC, a Boston-based impact investment firm that leads revitalization initiatives in underserved communities, made a $27 million equity investment in 310 and 340 Nevins Street, a $475 million mixed-use/mixed-income project in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. The transaction marks Arctaris Impact’s first investment in Brooklyn and will support New York City’s efforts to transform a formerly contaminated industrial area into an economically diverse and vibrant community. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240729598100/en/ (Graphic: Business Wire)
Grace Potter to Celebrate Brooklyn Bowl’s 15th Anniversary Next Week
Grace Potter has tacked on a last-minute tour date that will double as an opportunity to celebrate Brooklyn Bowl’s 15 anniversary. The artist, who is currently on the road in support of her fifth solo album, Mother Road, announced that she will perform at the venerable Brooklyn, N.Y. venue on Thursday, August 8.
The NY Islanders prospect pipeline has Ontario Hockey League roots
The New York Islanders' prospect pipeline is improving, as is their ranking when measured against the young and upcoming talent of other teams around the league. The recent 2024 draft class, headlined by Cole Eiserman, Jesse Pulkkinen and Kamil Bednarik has a lot to do with that, but so does the talent that has developed in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) over recent seasons. As part of a 32-part series entitled "OHL In The System," Joelle Wood wrote about some of the organization's top prospects that have OHL roots.
Bodycam video of NYPD shooting of man in Brooklyn
The family of James Christian, a man shot and killed by the NYPD in May, spoke out Monday after the New York Attorney General's office released body camera footage of the incident that led to Christian being fatally shot.
Local athlete becomes 1st Black woman to win individual fencing medal for USA
A local athlete has made history at the Paris Olympics.Lauren Scruggs, who was born in Queens, won silver and became the first Black woman from the United States to win an individual medal in a women's fencing event.Not only is Scruggs an Olympic medalist, but she is also a student at Harvard University.She says her upbringing and balancing her athletic and academic life have helped her when she competes.The 21-year-old says she wants others to see her win as an opportunity to break barriers."Just growing up in the environment has made me a solid fencer because of those hardships, and...
Teachers Stand Up For I.S. 347 Principal Who Was Denounced by Colleagues
After a public display of teacher and staff outrage against a new principal at a Bushwick middle school a few weeks ago, the school community is trying to move forward on a unified footing. It has been about a month since about a dozen teachers, staff, parents and elected officials...
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