Community Corner
🌱 P38 Fights Food Insecurity + M-CROWN Moonshot + Rents Plateau
The quickest way to get caught up on the most important things happening today in Brooklyn.
Hello, everybody! I'm here with your fresh copy of the Brooklyn Daily, filled with all the things you need to know about what's going on in town. In today's issue, you'll get updates on...
- Guilty verdict in rock-throw killing of elderly woman
- Mayor Eric Adams says YES to rezoning Atlantic Avenue
- Rents are flattening (but they're probably not getting lower anytime soon)
But first, today's weather:
☀️ Cooler with sunshine. High: 48 Low: 30.
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Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:
1. Yesterday, a Brooklyn man plead guilty to killing Queens woman GuiYing Ma with a rock. The 33-year-old suspect, Elisaul Perez, was accused last year after an incident in Corona last year when a 62-year-old woman was hit in the head with a rock while outside sweeping a sidewalk. She died three months later. In court on Thursday, Perez pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges. He will be sentenced in January and faces 20 years in prison.
2. Elementary school students in Boerum hill are getting a lesson in kindness this holiday season, partnering with City Harvest to help families fighting food insecurity. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the food insecurity crisis in the United States. In NYC, visits to food pantries and soup kitchens are 70 percent above pre-pandemic levels so donations especially this year are crucial. Kids at PS 38 Elementary are donating food for the City Harvest food drive, hoping to beat last year's donation of a whopping 1,500 pounds of food.
3. Crown Heights is the latest stop on the mayor's City of Yes train. Mayor Eric Adams is pushing for a 'moonshot' housing plan and long-awaited, multi-use rezoning of Atlantic Avenue. The local community board has been trying to get the section of Atlantic, that stretches between Nostrand and Vanderbilt avenues, rezoned since 2013, a plan known as M-CROWN. However, for years, the city's planning office told the community board that M-CROWN was off the table unless part of a larger mayoral rezoning process. The mayor has just stepped up in this regard, according to a statement given yesterday. The mayor's announcement addressed infrastructure needs but he did not make explicit the board's major goal of requiring an amount of non-residential floor area to be reserved for light industrial job creation. Should all go according to community hopes, the M-CROWN will help create a mixed-us neighborhood built upon mixed-use buildings.
4. Some thought the day might never come, but rents in Brooklyn and Manhattan are flattening. Seemingly undying increases having plagued the city over the last year, culminating to an average monthly cost in both boroughs that remains near record levels, up from 20 percent a year ago. In November, average rent in Brooklyn was $3,964 and in Manhattan $5,249. The sharp increases that got us here in 2021 were due to a number of factors, including post-pandemic job creation and greater demand from transit remote workers to live in New York City. Looking ahead, prices are likely to drift lower, although only very slightly. So, Brooklyn, don't expect bargains. As monthly real estate reporter Jonathan Miller said, "Plateauing of rental prices doesn't mean they will start falling."
Today in Brooklyn:
- Mommy & Me Cooking Class, Speakitaly NYC Brooklyn, Today @ 10 a.m. | Details
- Volunteer with Make Compost, Not Trash, 103 Otsego St., Today @ 2 p.m. | https://www.makecompost.nyc/mc...
- TGIF Comedy, EastVille Comedy Club, Today @ 4 p.m. | Details
- Clusterf!ck Cabaret: Holiday Spectacular, House of Yes, Today @ 5:30 p.m. | Details
- Friday Night Groove, 2112 Flatbush Ave., Today @ 11 p.m. | Details
🐝 Brooklyn Buzz:
- "Burlesque, books, and booze" At the link, check out 14 things to do in Brooklyn this weekend! (Brooklyn Magazine)
- Tis the season inside the Brooklyn Borough Hall Holiday Market! Check out Urbanspace's latest installment of the once-exclusively-Manhattan favorite holiday shopping experience. (PIX11 New York News)
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- Holidays on Atlantic Avenue (December 10)
- You Can't Go WRONG this Holiday Season with Broadway's Funniest Smash Hit! (December 11)
- Please Give A F$%k! (A Comedy Show With A Cause) (December 11)
- Berkeley College Legal and Justice Studies/National Security Career Seminar (December 14)
- Success Academy Crown Heights and Prospect Height In-Person Tours (December 15)
- Greene Hill School Lower School Tour (December 15)
- Mid-Century Modern and Design | Online Auction (December 15)
- Victorian Carol Sing-Along with Two 19th Century Pipe Organs! (December 15)
- AllIOne Collective's Holiday Fundrasing Event (December 17)
- Holiday Lights At The Bronx Zoo (December 23)
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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Friday. I'll see you around!
— Carlie Houser
About me: I'm a recent grad based in Brooklyn, NY. I love to write, run, read, and find new restaurants and venues around the city.
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