Author: Pailliez Caroline (Pailliez Caroline)

Community boards 2 and 6 unanimously approved a Department of Transportation proposal to increase Muni-Meter fees between 9 am and 7 pm on Atlantic Avenue between the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and Fourth Avenue, and on Smith and Court streets from Atlantic Avenue to Sackett Street. Starting this spring, fees will go up on Motorists will soon...

P.S. 58 The Carroll School is hosting “Rock the Auction” to raise money for programs funded by the PTA on March 16, at the Bell House. Among the prizes: Size 38 Christian Louboutins, a trip to Cape Cod, a night at the Standard Hotel and tickets to “The Colbert Report”. The money raised at the auction will...

Hasidic leaders said that it was a “culturally insensitive” plan to close blocks during Passover to shoot “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, and that it would create a parking nightmare in South Williamsburg. They added that Passover was the busiest time of the year. Columbia Pictures, which is filming the film at the Marcy Avenue Armory,...

Tension with the police in East Flatbush stayed high on a third night of protests, after an autopsy showed that seven bullets had struck Kimani Gray, 16. More than 200 people attended the vigil that turned violent when half of the crowd splintered off and marched to a nearby police station. The police said someone...

Protesters gathered for a second night in a row in the streets of East Flatbush on Tuesday, after the police shot a 16-year-old boy on Saturday. More than 150 people, carrying signs that said “Stop Killer Cops Now,” marched down Church Avenue to the 67th Precinct stationhouse. Unlike the previous night, the demonstration did not...

FEMA recently published expanded flood-risk zones in Red Hook and Gowanus to their Advisory Base Flood Elevations maps. The maps show now a more current picture of flood risk for areas that were affected by Hurricane Sandy. The map won’t be in use for another one year or two however. Read the full story on DNA...

City Council speaker Christine C. Quinn officially began her mayoral campaign on Sunday, with a tour of the five boroughs. Quinn’s campaign team plan to increase the number of her visits in the neighborhoods of New York ahead of the coming Democratic primary contest. Read more at The New York Times  

The Brooklyn Museum inaugurated the Robert E. Blum Gallery last Friday with an exhibition Fine Lines : American Drawing from the Brooklyn Museum, a permanent collection show including works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, and Edward Hopper. The renovation of the gallery represents one of the major steps in the museum’s decade-long project to...