Brooklyn Today July 17, Co-Sponsored by Industry City: Is Brooklyn The New Manhattan?

July 17, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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THE LEDE: Welcome to the new week, Brooklyn! Bad news: Brooklyn may be the new Manhattan (in terms of real estate, at least). Then, in typical Brooklynite fashion, L train riders are anything but apathetic about the impending shutdown, and the Riders Alliance is chiming in with ideas for a solution. Attention, hipsters: Time to put away your ukuleles, because our borough is shaping up to be a new hotspot for country music. Finally, inDyker Heights, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

IMPRINT: Jay Z seems to be the talk of the town lately, but comedian Dave Chappelle boldly claims on the latest cover of Interview that Kendrick Lamar is the “greatest living rapper.”

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The Rundown

~IS BROOKLYN THE NEW MANHATTAN?: We hope not. But as the second quarter of 2017 wraps, Brooklyn housing prices are creeping upward into stratospheric Manhattan ranges. The average price of an apartment shot up 21 percent to $795,000, and the average price of a townhouse has hit the $1 million mark. These price jumps are the third time in a row that the borough has shattered its own record. Still, that’s nothing compared to the price tag on two Brooklyn Heights buildings owned by Kushner Companies. At about $20 million a pop, the company is looking to offload the fully renovated buildings on Sidney Place and Willow Street. (via Curbed NY and the NY Post)

~THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN: With the L train shutdown looming on the horizon, roughly 60 local business in East Williamsburg have signed lettersof support for the “Grand Street Peopleway.” The PeopleWay would create a safer, more efficient Grand Street by outlawing cars and by prioritizing bike, pedestrian and bus travel along the 1.8-mile North Brooklyn corridor. The idea for the PeopleWay comes from Transportation Alternatives, a transit advocacy nonprofit that has been supporting cyclists, pedestrians and transit users in New York City for more than 40 years. (via DNAinfo and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

~“COUNTRY IN THE CITY”: While it may be more common to spot a Brooklyn hipster with a ukulele in hand rather than a steel guitar, Brooklyn’s reputation as a cultural hotbed has attracted artists from all sorts of creative spheres, including that of country music. With local bluegrass and honky-tonk jam sessions at spots like Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook and Williamsburg’sSkinny Dennis, the borough serves up a healthy dose of twang, and is making its mark on the scene. (via Wide Open Country)

~HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS: It’s only July, but Dyker Heights officials and civic leaders are already thinking about Christmas. They are planning five months in advance to ensure that the holiday lights display that attracts thousands of tourists doesn’t get out of hand this year. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

***Brooklynite Darryle Hawes was looking for a permanent job, and after visiting Innovation Lab at Industry City, he got just what he was looking for. Darryle now works as a machine expert at Modo, a company based atIndustry City that designs and manufactures optical frames and sunglasses. To find out more about the Innovation Lab at Industry City, please visit:www.industrycity.com/innovation-lab. Look out for coverage and distribution expansion of the Brooklyn Eagle, both in Sunset Park and Industry City, coming soon.***

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Staff Picks:

LONG READ: “40 Years Since Blackout, Bushwick’s Broadway Still Struggles to Swing Back.” (via DNAinfo)

VACATION: Still in need of vacation plans? Might we suggest staying in one of these castle hotels in the UK. (via Men’s Journal)

LOOK: An inside look at the sharpest dressed men on the streets of the city for New York Fashion Week. (via NYT)

EAT: “Bordeaux Sells in de Blasio’s Brooklyn.” How a traditional French restaurant is luring New Yorkers from near and far to Bed-Stuy. (via The New Yorker)

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NATIONAL BULLETIN: Did you know that in Nogales, Mexico, there is a door in the border fence for cowboys and cattle buyers to exchange livestock? Don’t tell Donald…Bad News: Murder rates are up once again for the first half of 2017 in the United States. Good News: New York City murder rates are down 22 percent… And finally, journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Canedy will be the next administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. She is the first woman and person of color to hold the position. (via NYT, FiveThirtyEight and Poynter)

FOREIGN FLASH: After the death of activist Liu Xiaobo, Chinese activists find creative ways to sneak past internet censors and remember the political prisoner online…A photographer spends three months traveling across 12,000 miles of Australian outback…Mongolia wraps its most divisive election to date, and elects a former wrestler as president…And afamily feud over property erupts in Singapore, jolting public perception of the city state’s ruling family. (via the NYT, WaPo and the WSJ)

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ROYAL WATCH: Being a royal is not all fun and games. There is a specific set of manners that must be followed at all times. From the way you eat to the way you sit, here are 14 etiquette rules that the Royal Family must follow. Oh, and they can never, ever play Monopoly. (via Reader’s Digest)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT

6:25pm – Screening and Discussion: Trapped at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Details.

6:45pm – NYRR Brooklyn R-U-N 5K at Prospect Park. Details.

7:00pm – Ballet Barre at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2. Details.

7:00pm – Carol Sanger: About Abortion at The Strand. Details.

7:00pm – Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: Landline at Riegelmann Boardwalk. Details.

8:00pm – The Secret Science Club Presents Geologist & Geophysicist Maureen Long at The Bell House. Details.

8:00pm – I’m Glad It’s You at Sunnyvale. Details.

8:00pm – Night Train with Wyatt Cenac at Littlefield. Details.

8:30pm – An Intro to Jazz + New York City’s Jazz Scene at Prospect Heights Brainery. Details.

9:00pm – Stop Light Observations at Rough Trade NYC. Details.
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EAGLE SPORTS: It went down at Barclays Center last week as Floyd Mayweather Jr. tossed $1 bills in Conor McGregor’s face and McGregor waved Jay Z’s new CD at Mayweather. This non-stop circus will lead up to their fight on August 26. (via AP and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
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MILESTONES

Happy birthday to actress Lucie Arnaz, country singer Luke Bryan, singer and actress Diahann Carroll, actor Jason Clarke, actor David Hasselhoff, actor Donald Sutherland, opera singer Dawn Upshaw and actor Alex Winter!