The Bridge

From neighbor to neighbor: we appreciate you! @DowntownBklyn has been donating meals from local businesses to our staff. The @NYPD84Pct helped deliver sandwiches from @tonylukes and @NYPDCommAffairs delivered food from Pollo D'Oro.

The rising rents in Brooklyn are taking a major toll on our mom-and-pops. Places go out of business because of the cost of retail space. Let’s create affordable commercial spaces to support our local financial and cultural economy brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/…

Well, their motto was "move fast and break things." Sure did. Who picks up the pieces?

“#Brooklyn is crawling with magazine people, so they’re happy,” said Sid Holt, chief of @ASME1963 about the Nat'l Mag Awards coming to BK, along with lots of other stellar events thebridgebk.com/brooklyn-becam… cc @BrooklynChamber @1hotelbb @barclayscenter @DowntownBklyn @MichaelRStahl

This is wonderful — it’s like going back in time!' #Brooklyn neighbors react to revival of Gage & Tollner restaurant. ow.ly/gdWe30nTrd8

ICYMI: Last week, we hosted our first #MakeItinBK meetup of the year @HanksSaloon with a conversation w/ local venture capitalist @JJ_Kasper - via @thebridgebk ow.ly/7lK130nUX5N

Lula Vourderis, matriarch of Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, dead at 87 brooklynpaper.com/stories/42/9/b…

Previously injured guard finding his rhythm in Brooklyn offense ow.ly/a8dn30nQmwg

@Julcuba @StreetsblogNYC Outstanding, intrepid work on the #Brooklyn beat! And kudos to @StreetsblogNYC for a smart hire.

Next week I’ll be heading to @StreetsblogNYC, where I'll cover transportation and the movement for safer streets across the city. Please send transit tips my way! Thanks all for reading, caring about the work we do—despite rhetoric to stop us—and keeping local news alive. -30-

Today is my last day at @brooklynpaper after three years covering the third largest, but first best, city in the country. This was my first job in journalism right out of grad school, and this newsroom, formerly led by the legendary @vdimiceli is where I learned

City Tech educators open school’s new #Downtown complex @CityTechNews brooklynpaper.com/stories/42/8/d…

Plans Change For Red Hook Office Complex bklyner.com/plans-change-f… via @bklyner

So thrilled to see @LoxPopuli is now open @BklynNavyYard!

The @BarclaysCenter's peculiar financial underperformance atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-ba… @BrooklynNets @NYIslanders @thebridgebk @NetsDaily

9 new theaters will be coming to @AlamoNYC at @CityPointBKLYN this fall! bklyner.com/city-point-new…

Working on the railroad in #Brooklyn: how a program called #FreightNYC could move more goods on rails and help unclog the highways, @ckpolansky reports. thebridgebk.com/will-brooklyns… cc @NYCEDC @RegionalPlan @BklynEagle

Apartments at Greenpoint's One Blue Slip have been leasing faster than projected — to “people without any connection to Amazon,” the developer's spokesperson said. ow.ly/mVIA30nIH8N

Brooklyn venture capitalist Charlie O'Donnell reflects on the benefits of diversity in an insightful blog post. thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2019/2/18… cc @ceonyc

New York Did Us All a Favor by Standing Up to Amazon nyti.ms/2UYaH7c

Amazon’s abrupt decision to pull out makes clear that what we've been saying has been true all along: Amazon is not interested in NYC’s version of the social compact. They want to make all the rules. That is not the kind of partner NYC needs. My statement: on.nyc.gov/2GISWoz

Breaking News: Amazon said it was canceling plans to build a corporate campus in New York City nyti.ms/2EaqEBJ