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Workers bring supplies to the Hall Street migrant family shelter in Brooklyn, Feb. 21, 2024.

Brooklyn’s Hall Street Migrant Shelter Grows to 3,000, Testing Neighbors in Clinton Hill

February 26 | Gwynne Hogan, THE CITY

  A massive migrant shelter in a complex of converted warehouses on Hall Street in Clinton Hill that opened last summer with no public announcement has since grown to house around 3,000 people. Officials with the city’s Health + Hospitals recently told the local community board that the 10-building complex, adjacent to Brooklyn Navy Yard, […]

Mark Collins stands in front of P.S. 11 in Clinton Hill

This 4th-grade ‘gym rat’ will probably be a keeper

December 11 | Andy Furman

Mike Senior has found his next “gym rat.” And his name is Mark Collins. “He’s a workaholic and a gym rat,” Senior told the Brooklyn Eagle. “Mark’s future is in college basketball. He’s already fundamentally sound, and he already knows how to teach the game. He has perfect form on his shot, and it’s his […]

Subject to Inspection: Brooklyn Spaces and Issues

June 3 | By Brooklyn Eagle Staff

A proposed 18 story apartment building at 840 Atlantic Avenue, at the corner of Atlantic and Vanderbilt Avenues, has set off a vigorous debate in Council District 35. At issue, is less about the acceptability of the site for conversion to housing (it is difficult to argue credibly that converting a McDonalds and parking lot […]