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Photo via Marya Lawrence Hart [https://www.facebook.com/events/933067606734681/] Get ready for some incredible music this weekend! Tonight, Friday, August 7, you can check out Marya Lawrence-Hart singing with The Pursuit of Happiness [https://www.facebook.com/events/933067606734681/] at Church Bar [https://www.facebook.com/churchcafewinebar?fref=
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Photo via the Department of Sanitation [http://www1.nyc.gov/events/nyc-safe-disposal-event---brooklyn/11851/1]This Sunday, August 9, from 10am-4pm, you can get rid of your harmful household products at an event being held by the Department of Sanitation [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/recycling-and-garbage/residents/safe-disposal-events.page] at
kiddie science
Photo courtesy of Miss CarmenSave the dates, parents! Miss Carmen of Kiddie Science [https://www.kiddiescience.org/] is coming back to the Cortelyou Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/cortelyou] (1305 Cortelyou Road, at Argyle Road) on Wednesday, August 12 and Monday, August 17, the Cortelyou Library Friends [https://www.
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Flooding on Caton and Coney Island Avenues. Photo by Ditmas Park CornerFollowing numerous complaints about flooding in our neighborhood, Councilman Mathieu Eugene [http://council.nyc.gov/d40/html/members/home.shtml] said yesterday that he will meet with the city Department of Environmental Protection on Wednesday, August 12 to discuss
The TuneYards will play at Celebrate Brooklyn on Saturday. Photo by Holly Andres/courtesy of Celebrate BrooklynHappy Friday, everyone! This weekend, you can celebrate a Bangladeshi mela on McDonald Avenue, go to a free concert at Church Bar and EzraGuitar, and lots more. If you have an upcoming event you’
dry cleaners
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Coffee Mob
Photo courtesy of Celebrate BrooklynHappy Thursday, everyone! This weekend, you can see neighbor Nicolette Dixon’s play [/blog/events/see-neighbor-nicolette-dixons-show-exploring-gender-sexuality-and-polyamory-love-circus-this-friday-august-7] at one of the best LGBTQ theater festivals in New York, go to a fee concert at EzraGuitar [/blog/events/attend-a-free-whispers-of-the-evening-concert-at-ezraguitar-this-saturday-august-8] and lots more! If you have events you’d
Brooklyn South
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerA year-long investigation into drugs and violence in our neighborhood resulted in a major raid yesterday, August 5, in which police arrested 15 people for narcotics trafficking, as well as one teenager for the murder on Newkirk Avenue and E. 17th Street [/blog/crime/teenager-arrested-charged-with-murder-of-adetunji-ajakaye-at-newkirk-avenue-e-17th-street-nypd] last
2268 Church Avenue
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help finding a man who started a fire that damaged Strictly Vegetarian [http://www.yelp.com/biz/strictly-vegetarian-restaurant-brooklyn] (2268 Church Avenue) — a restaurant that was also recently held up at gunpoint [/blog/crime/70th-precinct-issues-wanted-posters-for-newkirk-avenue-arson-church-avenue-armed-robbery] . The individual, who was captured on the above
Barney Lehrer
Get ready, vino lovers of Kensington: tonight, you’ll have a chance to check out a new citywide wine tasting series that is launching right here in our neighborhood! Barney Lehrer, who lives in Kensington, is starting the series at 7pm tonight, Thursday, August 6. You’ll need to RSVP
Jim Caviezel
The CBS show “Person of Interest,” [http://www.cbs.com/shows/person_of_interest/] a science fiction crime drama that stars Jim Caviezel [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001029/] and Michael Emerson [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256237/], will return [/blog/art-music/cbs-person-interest-film-argyle-friday-move-cars-thursday-night] to film in our neighborhood on Friday,
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerAfter months of renovation work [/blog/business/key-food-foster-avenue-undergoing-renovations-expected-reopen-month] , the Key Food [http://www.yelp.com/biz/key-food-brooklyn-5] at 1407 Foster Avenue, between Rugby and Marlborough Roads, is expected to hold its grand reopening tomorrow, Friday, August 7. According to fliers posted outside of the store, the