Exclusives such as a 27,000 gallon oil spill "that the authorities had not made public"[3] led to legal changes.
[2] A neighborhood news website named Ditmas Park Corner,[8] after five years on its own, was folded into Bklyner.
[9] Prior to merging into Bklyner, Ditmas Park Corner funded paying a reporter to walk around the neighborhood.
[8][10] On 26 August 2021, editor Liena Zagare announced that Bklyner would cease publication on 10 September 2021 after over 50,000 articles, citing financial sustainability issues and a burnout caused in particular by the two years prior.
[11] Bklyner, although it carries ads, in 2017 "cut its staff from six full-time reporters to two-and-a-half, primarily because ad revenue had fallen"[1] and also sought "paying subscribers, even though the site remains free."