Events
Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/]. ONGOING Book Sale Donation Collection When: Through Friday, April 8 Where: Clinton Hill Library
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Image via NYPD.Surveillance video shows the horrifying moment that a man, clad in black, shoots a 15-year-old in both legs outside the Farragut Houses last Friday, April 1. It was 5:07pm at Sands Street and Navy Street — still daylight hours and right outside the gate to the Brooklyn
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Image via New York Daily News [http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/donald-trump-loving-nyc-sanitation-workers-fight-driver-article-1.2568005] .The two Sanitation Department workers who were caught on video blocking traffic and then threatening a complaining driver with deportation and Donald Trump [/blog/2016/03/18/city-sanitation-workers-face-scrutiny-trash-talk-deportation-threats-clinton-hill/] are back on the job after a five-day suspension.
Police & Fire
Image via Google Maps.It was a tragic end to one 63-year-old Greenwood Heights man’s life as he was first carjacked and then fatally slammed by his own car as the thieves attempted to make a getaway. Police are now searching for two suspects — whose descriptions have not yet
Events
WINE TASTINGS: here’s a list of seven [/blog/2015/10/14/seven-places-to-enjoy-wine-tastings-in-fort-greene-clinton-hill/] weekly options! Myrtle Avenue’s KIDS GUIDE [http://myrtleavenue.org/kids-guide-to-myrtle-avenue/] also has great listings. Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/] or by emailing editor@bklyner.com. Photo via Brooklyn Museum collection [http:
Animals
Image courtesy of Who’s Your Doggy [https://www.facebook.com/doggybk/photos/a.10150759423254570.428162.243671709569/10154084813819570/?type=3&theater] .Oh hey – it’s CK! CK — short for Clark Kent — makes his debut on “Adoptable Animal Of The Week” and made sure we got his good side for
history
Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Public LibraryIn our rapidly changing borough, it is more important that ever to preserve and document the stories of the people who call Brooklyn home. The Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] (BPL) has been doing just that through their Our Streets, Our Stories initiative
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The Chicken BLT wrap comes with French Fries or a salad, but we paid extra for the sweet potato fries. (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)Simple ingredients, prepared well, at affordable prices, with a smile. That’s what you are pretty much guaranteed during every trip to Clinton
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Street games in old Brooklyn. (Image via Brooklyn Historical Society.)In this rapidly changing Brooklyn we live in, it is more important than ever to record and document our own personal and familial oral histories, as much for us as for the neighborhoods we love and call home — sometimes for
Business
Image via americanvirus/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanvirus/3688768361/].We truly live in a connected world, with friends, family, strangers, news, and more available at the touch of a finger to a phone screen. But for many low-income New Yorkers, particularly those who live in public housing, internet
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Street games in old Brooklyn. (Image via Brooklyn Historical Society.)In this rapidly changing Brooklyn we live in, it is more important than ever to record and document our own personal and familial oral histories, as much for us as for the neighborhoods we love and call home — sometimes for
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Photo courtesy of Darold Burgess.Voter registration may be over for anyone seeking to vote in the April 19 presidential primary (FYI it’s not too late to register for the main thing, aka General Election in November), but Fort Greene community leaders definitely made the most of the time