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This rendering shows shaded seating next to pickleball courts, and the entrance to Ash Alley. Rendering courtesy of Parks Department

Pickleball courts are coming to Anchorage Plaza in DUMBO

June 11 | Mary Frost

DUMBO — The NYC Parks Department revealed Monday that pickleball company CityPickle has turned in the winning proposal for a temporary sports/recreational concession at Anchorage Plaza, a long-neglected but spectacularly scenic area straddling both sides the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO. CityPickle, co-founded by Mary Cannon and Erica Desai, operates pickleball courts at Wollman Rink, Industry […]

Police are looking for a suspect who jumped off his scooter and attacked a man in DUMBO, Brooklyn around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Man brutally beaten in DUMBO by scooter-riding attacker

June 6 | Mary Frost

DUMBO — A man heading home from work was viciously beaten on a sidewalk in DUMBO Wednesday evening by an attacker who ran into him from behind on a scooter. The 39-year-old victim, a long-time Brooklyn resident who has worked in DUMBO for eight years, was walking near the intersection of Front and Pearl streets […]

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has been known as a small-business incubator ever since the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. was created to develop the sprawling former Naval facility. Eagle file photo by Lore Croghan

North Brooklyn: A small-business powerhouse that drives growth in city, says EDC report

May 31 | Raanan Geberer

NORTH BROOKLYN — The area containing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburg, DUMBO, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene is leading the growth of small businesses in the city, according to “Small Business Dynamism in New York City’s Economic Recovery,” a report issued by the city’s Economic Development Corp. this week. Citywide, “new […]