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Photo Courtesy of DSNYWhen we set our clocks forward and back each year, the FDNY tells us to check the batteries in our smoke alarms. This year, when we’re spring cleaning, the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) wants us to check that we have a refashionNYC [http://www1.nyc.gov/
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Photo Courtesy of Aviator Sports and Events CenterT.S. Eliot had his own reasons for calling April the cruelest month [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land], but if weather whiplash is any measure, it’s certainly been cruel to Brooklynites this year. With the temperature ranging from a high
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Malia Mills Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinFour years ago, fashion designer Malia Mills moved her studio from the garment center in Manhattan to Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. She’d been in Manhattan since beginning the business in her apartment in 1993 in between nights waitressing at the Odeon. The
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Courtesy of the Mayor’s Office of Media & EntertainmentNew Yorkers are notoriously hard to pin down — in every sense. We’re always moving. We’re always busy. Plus, our tastes vary widely and are not always obvious. That elderly woman on the train putting away her knitting and pulling
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via Crunch FlatbushRegular readers of this site have no doubt heard of Crunch Flatbush [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush]. Over the last year, you: * Learned about one of their inspiring members [/meet-deidre-ferrell-crunch-flatbush-member-extraordinaire/] * Got some advice for navigating the onset of cold weather [/fall-back-love-fitness-fall-crunch-flatbush/] and The [/taking-step-holidaysand-anotherand-another/] Holidays [/resolved-theres-no-year-like-year-get-moving/]
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Sam, Patricia, and Cocoa Photo credit: Avi GlicksteinSam Gerstenzang started Umbrella [https://www.askumbrella.com/], the service that provides everyday tasks for seniors, after an experience his grandmother had. To find out more, I sat down with Sam and his grandmother Patricia Ackerman at her apartment, a welcome respite from
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Photo Credit: BKLYNERMIDWOOD – The news of a Jewish-themed escape room opening in Midwood has been met with a good bit of snark [https://www.metro.us/things-to-do/new-york/family-friendly-jewish-escape-room-russian-pogrom-one-before-brooklyn] lately on social media. That’s not really surprising – for fairly obvious reasons if you know anything about modern Jewish history.
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Photo credit: Avi GlicksteinWhen it comes to the conversation over public education in this country, there’s probably no more contentious issue than charter schools. But Nissi Jonathan believes we’re not even having the conversation we should be having. “I don’t think we as a community, just across
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Photo credit: Crunch FlatbushWe recently got to know Deidre, one of Crunch Flatbush’s most committed members [/meet-deidre-ferrell-crunch-flatbush-member-extraordinaire/] who’s been able to attain her fitness goals by attending (in truth, being a fixture at) classes. That’s what works for her. But what works for one person might not
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Umbrella [https://www.askumbrella.com] helps seniors stay and live in their own homes by connecting them with community members to help with everyday tasks. Below, we ask three Handy Neighbors why they choose to work with Umbrella. Read our previous profile [/urban-shaman-learned-help-home-can-right-next-door/] of an Umbrella Member, urban shaman Mama
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Photo credit: Roll & HillManufacturing in America – we’re hearing a lot about it these days. How do we keep it from dying? [https://www.racked.com/2018/2/20/17029148/american-giant-manufacturing-supply-chain] Is it even dying? [http://observer.com/2018/01/manufacturing-is-still-the-backbone-of-a-healthy-economy/] But in certain pockets of Brooklyn, there’s
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Photo by Avi Glickstein/BKLYNERIn case you missed our post a few weeks ago, Feld Entertainment [https://www.feldentertainment.com/] and Marvel [https://marvel.com/] have partnered to bring 25 of your favorite superheroes and villains to life in Marvel Universe LIVE! [https://www.marveluniverselive.com/tickets/details/112281] at
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Later this month, Feld Entertainment [https://www.feldentertainment.com/] and Marvel [http://marvel.com/] are teaming up to bring your favorite superheroes to life in Marvel Universe LIVE! [https://www.marveluniverselive.com/tickets/details/112281] at Barclays Center, and BKLYNER [http://www.bklyner.com] recently got a sneak peek. Featuring
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Back in December, we shared some advice [/resolved-theres-no-year-like-year-get-moving/] about New Year’s resolutions from Crunch Flatbush [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush]’s Bob Wells. If you need a refresher, he’s not a fan and thinks the best time to start setting fitness goals is right now. So we
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Donna Henes“I’ve been here for 37 years,” Donna Henes says about her Prospect Heights apartment, “and one by one, every single thing is falling apart.” Henes (rather, Mama Donna Henes [http://donnahenes.net]) is an urban shaman who you may have seen cleansing Renee Graziano’s house on
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via Home Evolutions Corp.When I was maybe ten or eleven, space got a little tight in our house and my parents decided to renovate the garage to be, in part, a room for me. It was super exciting since I got to make what wound up being some distinctly