Arts & Culture
Campaign poster featuring Staten Islander Katora Jones, on display with a Life Camp member. (Photo by George Goss/Fort Greene Focus)BY GEORGE GOSS Several New York City Council members and dozens of activists are seeking to raise awareness—and money—for a program to end gun violence through art,
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Wikimedia CommonsBY CHRISTINE BUSH Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez overturned a 2013 health code amendment on Thursday that required New York City children between the ages of 6 and 59 months to receive the flu vaccine before they could attend certain types of preschool or daycare programs. Five mothers
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Does this hard knock life have you feeling blue? Well, you can bet your bottom dollar that the sun will come out tomorrow, because we’re giving away 4 tickets to the December 19 performance of Annie [http://www.kingstheatre.com/shows/annie] – currently in production at Brooklyn’s majestic
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Kindergarten Teacher Frances Delgado (Christine Bush/City Kid Corner)BY CHRISTINE BUSH December is the season of giving, and nobody deserves a little love more than our New York City teachers. Let’s face it, they’re underpaid, spend countless hours working at both school and home to enrich the
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COMPILED BY MEGAN MCGIBNEY Rodney Ramjit and his son are looking forward to the holidays. (Photo by Megan McGibney/Fort Greene Focus.)“I’m going to spend money and go broke. I’ll be spending the holidays with family.” — Rodney Ramjit, 33, Fort Greene Jen Skoda is hoping to go
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Do you love local businesses? Do you love talking to people? Do you love helping people? Are you full of ideas? If you answered Yes! to the above, read on. You may be just whom we are looking for! Corner Media Group seeks to expand our Brooklyn Sales & Marketing
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Photo by Megan McGibney/Fort Greene Park.BY MEGAN MCGIBNEY The second annual Fort Greene Park holiday tree lighting festivities returned at dusk this Sunday, December 6, for an even larger celebration of community and fun. About 400 people, mostly young families, gathered at the corner of Washington and Myrtle
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BY MEGAN MCGIBNEY To be greeted by jewelry designer Izaskun Zabala is to experience warmth and openness. She greets you with a bright smile and a friendly hug, welcomes you into the two floor apartment unit she shares with a housemate on the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy, and
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Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Wallabout! We hear at Fort Greene Focus would like to thank all of our readers and our advertisers – without your support your favorite daily neighborhood news source would not exist. To each and every one of you – old neighbor, new
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Image via Seemann [http://mrg.bz/WuCam0].Thanksgiving is just a few days away — as you finalize plans for your holiday meal, we hope that you will also help us provide holiday meals for families in need in our area. [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/500-turkeys-for-500-families--502#/] For the third year
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Esther Ward and Michael Antonio Gaynor. (Photo by Megan McGibney/Fort Greene Focus) “There’s a lot I’m thankful for. Besides life itself, I’m thankful my parents left me their home” (It’s on Lafayette) – Esther Ward, 60, Fort Greene “I’m thankful for being me, for the
HAPPY VETERANS DAY! For all the work you’ve done and all the work you do For protecting our country and fighting for the red, white, and blue We would like to give to all veterans who come our way 20% off of your Atlas Steakhouse [http://www.atlassteak.com/