Community Board 2 Economic Development Committee
Image via MetroTech BID [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/about/metrotech-bid].The MetroTech Business Improvement District (BID) is hoping to expand its boundaries [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/about/metrotech-bid] from Downtown Brooklyn to include some cultural institutions in part of Fort Greene next Tuesday, May 5 will be your chance to learn more
Here’s your recap of what went down this week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill: FOOD * Bite Of The Day: Lunch specials at Black Forest Brooklyn [/blog/2015/04/22/bite-of-the-day-lunch-specials-at-black-forest-brooklyn/] * Five supermarkets within one mile [/blog/2015/04/22/5-grocery-stores-within-walking-distance-of-the-325-lafayette-avenue-key-food/] of the closing Lafayette Avenue Key Food. NEWS
Below you’ll find information on events through the weekend in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this weekend. Check back Monday to see what’s scheduled next week! FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Kids Explore: Trees [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/kids-explore-trees-clinton-hill-library-042415] When: Friday, April 24 at 4pm Where: Clinton Hill Library
City Parks Foundation
Photo by Justina Wong/City Parks Foundation.Senior fitness alert! Beginning this coming Monday, April 27, free yoga classes for older adults will be happening outside in South Oxford Park every Monday and Wednesday, for eight weeks. The CityParks Seniors Fitness program is open to all local residents aged 60
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Shakespeare’a birthday is also World Book Day. Celebrate by visiting your local bookseller! Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and we’ll post
fashion
Zoe, age five, loves pineapples.Spring flowers are popping up all over the place, but not just in local parks and gardens — they’re also making appearances on kids clothing! Shirts, sunglasses, hats, sneakers and more are showing signs of sunshine celebrations everywhere we turn, so we took the opportunity
Cherry Blossom Festival
Photo by Liz Ligon/BBG [http://www.bbg.org/visit/event/sakura_matsuri_2015].This Saturday and Sunday marks the unofficial — and belated — start to springtime in Brooklyn: the Sakura Matsui Cherry Blossom Festival [http://www.bbg.org/visit/event/sakura_matsuri_2015] at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [http://www.
Wallabout Film Festival
The seventh annual Wallabout Film Festival [http://www.wallabout.org] kicks off tonight at 8pm (doors open at 7pm) at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, so if you haven’t already purchased your tickets, now’s the time! The student film festival is produced and curated by Pratt Institute students,
Photo by Francisco Daum [https://instagram.com/p/1wjcODJo4H/?taken-by=cisc1970]. Nature, humankind, and civilization, together and beautiful! Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus]
It will be a while until we find out whether the ground floor of 325 Lafayette Avenue will contain a supermarket or not, but we do know that it will be demolished [/blog/2015/04/14/full-demolition-approved-for-lafayette-avenue-key-food-in-clinton-hill/] in a few months to make way for construction on an eight-story primarily
Earth Day
Today is Earth Day, but there are eco-friendly and -celebratory events going on around town all week and all month. From last weekend’s festival at Habana Outpost [/blog/2015/04/20/photos-seeds-bees-potatoes-and-more-at-habana-outposts-earth-day-expo/] and free tree giveaways [/blog/2015/03/11/welcome-spring-helping-trees-grow-brooklyn/] earlier this month, to Brooklyn Borough Hall’s
lunch specials
It’s been nearly a month since Black Forest Brooklyn launched their new Mittagstisch Lunch Specials menu and we’ve already forgotten what lunch was like without this fantastic, affordable option. As owners Ayana and Tobias explained in the March 29 announcement, Mittagstisch is “a German tradition, a quick and