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Kelly Carroll, executive director, Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District, addressing the crowd. Photo by Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Atlantic Avenue BID’s yearly meeting speaks to its 2024 achievements

June 4 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

BOERUM HILL — The Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) held its annual meeting Friday afternoon at Someday Bar, located at 364 Atlantic Ave., where BID staff and board members discussed the group’s accomplishments of this past year. The BID helps to promote and catalyze the growth of more than 300 small businesses along a 1.2-mile […]

This aerial photo of the Boerum Hill area shows the two sites that are slated to be developed for affordable housing.

From parking lots to housing in Boerum Hill: City seeks proposals in wake of 2022 rezoning

April 18 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

BOERUM HILL — Boerum Hill is known as one of Brooklyn’s most desirable brownstone neighborhoods. It’s also known for its concentration of parking lots — the SpotHero blog, which gives information about available parking spaces, shows no less than six parking lots or garages, all within two or three blocks of each other.  In fact, […]

The BQE.

Brooklyn jail construction could make BQE closure even more hellish this weekend

April 12 | Mary Frost

UPDATE: The NYC Department of Design and Construction had some good news for Brooklyn drivers on Saturday. Contractors found another way to dismantle a decommissioned water meter under Atlantic Avenue in front of the former Brooklyn House of Detention between Boerum Place and Smith Street, DDC spokesperson Ian Michaels told the Brooklyn Eagle. This means […]