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The Kingsborough Musical Society Chorus [http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/organizations/14202], Kingsborough College Chorus and The Brooklyn Community Wind Ensemble & Concert Band will collaborate for an eclectic tour de force of musical selections when they bring you this year’s highly-anticipated spring concert on May 15 at 2:00
Edward R. Murrow High School's founding principal, Saul Bruckner, will have a street renamed in his memory. Source: Cac.ophony.org/There has never been a question in anyone’s mind that Edward R. Murrow High School — a consistently high-achieving academic institution and producer of notable alumni such
beer saloon
Yes, boys and girls, it is that time of year again — for the wildly popular Sheepshead Bay tradition in which we get to guzzle copious amounts of beer ( mmmmm…beer), cram our cakeholes with juicy roast beef sandwiches, and bet on the ponies — all for a good cause. The St.
birthday
Buzya Kimelfeld is awarded a plaque by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes (left) upon her 103rd birthday, accompanied by her son (second from right) and Rabbi Moshe Wiener, executive director, Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island.Happy birthday, bubele. Buzya Kimelfeld, the beloved 103-year-old resident of the Jewish
Department of Environmental Protection
Source: DEPI confess, come Saturday I shall be refreshing the North Shore edition of SI Live, waiting in curious anticipation to see how the impending weekend rain barrel distribution [http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2011/05/rain_barrel_give-away_at_csi.html] at the College of Staten Island
east 27th st
Tappen's Hotel, Emmons Avenue and East 27th Street. Source: Forgotten New York Remember last month, when The Village Voice’s Robert Sietsema compiled a round-up in which Sheepshead Bay nabbed the top three slots [/sheepshead-bays-got-the-best-deceased-restaurants/] out of five for “Five Dead and Gone Classic Brooklyn Restaurants [http://blogs.
disabled
Source: Golden's officeFinally, some good news out of Albany. With property taxes in New York among the highest in the nation (and crammed all together here in the Big Apple, it’s not like we exactly get a decent bang for our buck), most of us are struggling
Kings Highway
If the mountain won’t come to Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’s office on Sheepshead Bay Road, then the assemblyman and his mobile community office will go to the mountain. Well… substitute the mountain with the Kings Highway branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 2115 Ocean Avenue, and a staff member
after school programs
The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) After School Program at P.S. 153 in Homecrest is putting on a “Spring Showcase” that they hope will make you feel like jumping out of your seat and dancing, to celebrate the love of spring. The show, May 6 at 4 p.m. inside
community college
If you’re one of those quirky, quasi-artistic types who opted to doodle in class rather than pay attention to what the teacher was saying, or perhaps you dropped out of school before getting your degree, because your head was always in the clouds, but you’ve matured (and focused)
Health Star Pharmacy (Source: Google Maps)Apothecaries, beware. A brazen, firearm-brandishing drugstore cowboy has been making the rounds through nearly half a dozen of Southern Brooklyn’s mom-and-pop pharmacies since March 3, demanding potent painkillers, including the highly addictive OxyContin, from terrified apothecaries, The New York Times is reporting [http:
art club
I think Sheepshead Bites’ Robert Fernandez [/author/rfernandez/] said it most eloquently, in response to some Brooklynites’ claims that our end of the borough is tantamount to a cultural wasteland [/ballet-in-brooklyn/]: “Frankly, they’re wrong.” Not only will the Brooklyn Streetcar Artists’ Group [/brooklyn-streetcar-artists-group/] (BSAG) be holding a fine art