News
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Events
Join Jessica Dalrymple for an ArtLab Gowanus project, Reimagining The Gowanus Landscape on Saturday, April 30. (Photo via Jessica M Dalrymple Art [https://www.facebook.com/234938243310039/photos/pcb.756063774530814/756063581197500/?type=3&theater] )Welcome to the weekend, which features many events: cherry blossoms, the borough’s best bookstores,
Bensonhurst
A sign was posted by Helen Figueroa at Franchezka Unisex Salon. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The salon owned by a Borough Park woman who died in a well-publicized apartment building explosion [http://nyti.ms/1Iv1WKe] in Borough Park last year will close after a memorial service for
Nonsponsored
Photo by Thom Widmann60 firefighters were called to 563 5th Avenue Thursday evening after the owner of Excelsior Bar [http://www.excelsiorbrooklyn.com/] (563 5th Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets) discovered smoke in their basement. The FDNY received the call at approximately 6:02pm on Thursday, April 28, and
Animals
Photo via Sean Casey Animal RescueLooking for a new companion? Prince loves to be social and he loves belly rubs. Sean Casey says [https://www.facebook.com/SeanCaseyAnimalRescue/photos/a.378832716482.159179.17669251482/10153654191901483/?type=3&theater] : > 5-year-old Prince needs a home! > Prince will need an experienced
Animals
Photo via Sean Casey Animal Rescue [https://www.facebook.com/SeanCaseyAnimalRescue/photos/a.378832716482.159179.17669251482/10153654191901483/?type=3&theater] Looking for a new companion? Prince loves to be social and he loves belly rubs. > Sean Casey says [https://www.facebook.com/SeanCaseyAnimalRescue/photos/a.378832716482.159179.17669251482/
Business
A sign was posted by Helen Figueroa at Franchezka Unisex Salon. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Franchezka Unisex Salon [http://www.yelp.com/biz/franchezka-unisex-brooklyn] (500 5th Avenue near 12th Street), which has been part of the neighborhood fabric for over 20 years, plans to close permanently after
Arts & Culture
Community Bookstore and Tiny the cat will be part of the Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl this Saturday, April 30. (Photo by Lauren Gann)Here’s a holiday to get Brooklyn book lovers to rejoice. On Saturday, April 30, Independent Bookstore Day [http://www.indiebookstoreday.com/] will be taking place throughout the
Nonsponsored
Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopWe don’t mean to pick on this gent outside of Fama Party Center (268 14th Street near 5th Avenue), but it was a painful sight watching him pop about 20 balloons. We couldn’t hear them from across the street, but perhaps those
Business
Brunswick Cafe at 240 Prospect Park West. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Brunswick Cafe [http://www.brunswickcafe.com/prospect-park-west/] owner Alex Hall has a string of successful cafe businesses throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. But this founder of a quintet of Australian-style coffee shops will be heading to the
Food & Drink
Photo via Fiat Café [https://www.facebook.com/FiatCafeNYC/photos/a.907735122598422.1073741828.140914499280492/928463830525551/?type=3&theater] Perhaps it was a coincidence. When I stopped into the newly opened Fiat Café [http://www.fiatcafenyc.com/] (80 6th Avenue at St. Marks Avenue), the sun was washing the front
Nonsponsored
Photo by Dianna D’AmicoNeighbor Dianna D’Amico shared this beauty beside her great grandparents’ grave in Green-Wood Cemetery. D’Amico tells us: > “Paul and Grace D’Amico are buried along the 5th Avenue side [of Green-Wood Cemetery] by the pond. There is a historic Native American headstone right