About Abigail Koffler
About Bklyner
Bklyner is about Brooklyn first and foremost. It is currently an irregular newsletter that goes out to about 25,000 subscribers when the news warrants it, written by Liena Zagare, who also writes The Bigger Apple, Manhattan Institute’s newsletter at the intersection of politics and policy.
Bklyner started as a network of neighborhood news sites, some established as far back as 2008. These included Bensonhurst Bean (2011), Ditmas Park Corner (2012), Fort Greene Focus (2009), KensingtonBK (2012), Sheepshead Bites (2008), South Slope News (2013), and Sunset Park Voice (2016). In January 2017, these were all consolidated into one site, Bklyner.
Bklyner went on pause in September 2021, following two grueling years covering the pandemic and serving almost 500,000 readers a month.