Justin Mitchell
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Two family offices, Fortune 400 institutional investor take LPs stakes in Halpern OZ fund
Halpern Real Estate Ventures last month closed on almost $30 million to its first opportunity zone fund. Its investors include a major institutional investor, two multibillion-dollar family offices and several other high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth investors, the company told Active LPs. ... → Read More
Vacancies High As Flatbush Avenue Navigates Changing Demographics
FLATBUSH – The wave of rapid development sweeping over Brooklyn is hitting the Flatbush Avenue Business Improvement District, but that does not make it immune to the issues facing other neighborhoods that we have covered before – vacant storefronts. The strip, which runs from Parkside Avenue to Cortelyou Road, has been known for decades for … → Read More
Slow Progress on Surge Barriers, Surge Gates and Other Flood Mitigation Measures For Southern Brooklyn
CANARSIE – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shared its latest report on an ongoing study about how to best improve New York and New Jersey’s defenses against a natural disaster Wednesday to a crowd of less than two dozen people in a cavernous high school auditorium. “I would think of this as the frame … → Read More
As Bay Ridge Frets About Vacant Businesses, Officials Search for Answers
BAY RIDGE – Last December, City Councilmember Justin Brannan wrote an Op-Ed giving voice to widespread concern in his district, which covers Bay Ridge, Bath Beach and parts of Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. “There are too many vacant storefronts in our community,” Brannan wrote. “Sometimes it feels like every other week, another store or restaurant … → Read More
Bookery Cafe Brings Coffee, Books And Pastries To Sunset Park
SUNSET PARK — Near Greenwood Cemetery, nestled in a glass-lined space just off Sunset Park’s 5th Avenue business corridor sits Bookery, a recently-opened coffee shop with a literary bent. “I am the type of person who cannot live without coffee,” owner Alisa Ibragimova said with a laugh Friday from behind the bar in the clean, … → Read More
Sheepshead Bay Church Calls For Donations To Help Repairs
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church is asking for the community’s help. With its 150th birthday looming this year, the church, located at 3087 Ocean Avenue, is undergoing extensive renovations to its two iconic steeples as well as its sanctuary and wooden frame, and has set up a GoFundMe page for donations … → Read More
Espinal's Signage Bill Finalized With Vote Expected Next Week
City Councilmember Rafael Espinal’s bill to provide relief from the signage crisis sweeping the city has been finalized, his office said Thursday. Espinal introduced the Awnings Act to combat onerous signage fees earlier this year, and held a rally with other councilmembers plus Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams last week after a wave of new … → Read More
Owners Promise KarVér Brasserie & Bakery Cafe Will Be Back, But Different
BROOKLYN – Just over a year after opening in Sheepshead Bay, KarVér Brasserie & Bakery Cafe has closed at that location and another on Livingston Street that just opened earlier this year. The owners say they will be back, but in a different form. “We initially opened KarVér Brasserie in Brooklyn as a test kitchen, … → Read More
Merchants Take Down Signs As Panic Over Fines Sweeps City
BROOKLYN – A local business in Ditmas Park got an eye-catching new look last week, when Salahi Deli substituted the awning it had used as a sign for almost three decades with a graffiti-style design painted directly onto its building at Cortelyou and Argyle Roads. But there’s more to it than whimsy. Manager Mohamed Salahi … → Read More
Brooklyn's Street Homeless Raise Worries, But Officials Warn It's A Long Haul
BOROUGH PARK – As the first snow of winter 2018 dumped on Borough Park Thursday afternoon, a handful of men stood huddled beneath a small awning at 61st Street and Ft. Hamilton Parkway. Some of them held umbrellas atop shopping carts loaded with empty bottles and other knick-knacks in the biting cold wind, while two … → Read More
6 Years After Sandy, Brooklyn Still Vulnerable To Storms
Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City six years ago Monday, causing 43 deaths and $19 billion in widespread devastation from which the city has yet to completely recover. For many residents of southern Brooklyn from Sheepshead Bay to Gowanus, the mild flooding this weekend renewed serious worries about how vulnerable they may to another … → Read More
Orion's Belt Liquor License Delayed Over No Quarter's Reputation
BAY RIDGE – The Brooklyn Community Board 10 voiced deep concerns about whether to recommend a liquor license for Orion’s Belt, a bar looking to open at 8015 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge – the former location of No Quarter, but voted to give the prospective owners the opportunity to make changes to their operating … → Read More
McCain's daughter slams White House aide's 'he's dying' comments
Meghan McCain on Friday questioned how the White House aide who disparaged her ailing father, Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, during a meeting, still has a job. → Read More
In Alaska, soldiers relish role in U.S. missile defense
Two hours south of Fairbanks, Alaska, near the starting point of the Alaska highway, sit row upon row of missile silos embedded in the frozen ground in the shadow of snow-capped mountains. → Read More
Senate's top Democrat seeks to tear down barriers to legal pot
U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday backed the decriminalization of marijuana, unveiling a bill removing it from the federal schedule of controlled substances days after President Donald Trump softened his own stance over the drug. → Read More
Louise Slaughter, longtime progressive New York congresswoman, dies at 88
Democratic U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter, a Kentucky blacksmith's daughter who became a leading progressive voice in Congress from New York, died early on Friday, her chief of staff said. She was 88. → Read More
U.S. Senate candidate Moore's wife says 'he will not step down'
The wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama said on Friday her husband would not end his campaign in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, dismissing reports about his past behavior toward some women as political attacks. → Read More
Republican wins Montana special election despite assault charge
Republican Greg Gianforte defeated a political novice to win Montana's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, barely 24 hours after he was charged with assaulting a reporter who asked him about the Republican healthcare bill. → Read More
In testing Montana vote for Trump, Republican caught up in brawl
A Democratic political novice hopes to pull off a surprise victory in Republican-leaning Montana on Thursday in a special congressional race roiled on the eve of voting by allegations that the Republican candidate physically assaulted a reporter. → Read More