Sunset Park

After a 2 year hiatus FIRST SATURDAYS are back at the Brooklyn Museum beginning this Saturday. The FIRST SATURDAYS are jam packed so attendees have to pre-register in an effort to manage the number of people inside the museum at any one time so plan ahead and pre-register.

#FIRSTSATURDAYS, #BrooklynMuseum, #pre-register

This new business that is opening up in Sunset Park will be more than the sound of music to the 500 local residents who will be employed there.

#EmbroideryStudio, #BrooklynArmyTerminal, #500jobs

NEW YORK CITY — The more infectious and more dangerous "Delta" coronavirus variant now accounts for about 23 percent of cases in New York City, health officials said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday said officials are monitoring the variant "very carefully" amid fears it could spark a resurgence of COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated people.

"The answer to the Delta variant is more and more and more vaccination," he said.

Midwood straphangers with disabilities will soon be stuck as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority prepares to close the #Flatbush Ave #Brooklyn #College subway’s elevator until next year — leaving the station’s steep staircase as the only option to board the 2 and 5 trains. 

Work to replace the elevator, situated at the southern point of the busy intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand avenues, will start on July 7, and is expected to continue until the first quarter of 2022.

The lift, which was installed in 1997 to comply with the federal government’s Americans with Disabilities Act, has reached the end of its “useful lifespan” — even outlasting a hydraulic elevator’s standard of 17.5 years, an MTA spokesperson told Brooklyn Paper.

It will be upgraded to include modernized equipment, including a new elevator cab, and new equipment in the cab, shaft, and pit. The MTA will also renovate the elevator’s machine room, spruce up its surveillance and fire alarm systems, and upgrade its “LiftNet remote monitoring equipment” which will allow the authority to be more responsive to elevator failures.

#DisabilitiesAct

Dave Delaware sat in his perch in the stands just to the right of home plate, working himself into a sweat. The diehard Brooklyn Cyclones fan showed no mercy — heckling every single member of the Hudson Valley Renegades who came up to bat, and cheering on every member of the Cyclones.

“Shake it off 23! It doesn’t even matter!” he shouted, his heckles especially audible in the reduced capacity crowd of 1,315, when Cyclones pitcher Jose Butto gave up a two-run home run during the Clones 3-4 home opener loss to Hudson Valley. “We got bats!  Let’s get back to work!” 

Let the good times stroll!

Bay Ridge’s beloved “Summer Strolls” are returning for their ninth hurrah this summer after taking a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, officials announced Monday. 

“What is going to make our neighborhoods feel like they’re back is bringing back our traditions,” said state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, who represents a swath of southern Brooklyn which includes Bay Ridge. “Summer streets is one of those traditions.”

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They’re ready to unbatten the hatches!

Storied Brooklyn Heights watering hole Montero’s Bar and Grill will relight its famous vintage neon sign Friday and welcome patrons back indoors after a 15-month pandemic closure, the owners announced Wednesday.

“We are proud to announce that this Friday, May 28th, marks our reopening. Yes, you heard it right. Those neon lights will illuminate Atlantic Avenue once again. We can’t wait to serve you, to see you, and to welcome you,” reads a social media post by the bar from May 26.