Image via the NYPD [www.nyc.gov/nypd].Reported crimes ticked up this week compared to last week [/blog/2015/03/17/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-drop-grand-larcenies-many-crimes/] , but in most categories, not by much. Robberies went from 2 to 3 cases, felony assaults from 0 to 1, and grand larcenies from 2 to 3.
Photo by plherrin on Instagram [https://instagram.com/p/0eIMXJxZXY/?taken-by=plherrin].Happy Spring, everyone! 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
Here’s this week’s roundup of neighborhood events taking place through Friday morning. We’ll have your weekend schedule guide on Friday and as always, let us know if there’s anything we’re missing by emailing editor@bklyner.com! MONDAY, MARCH 23 Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation meeting
It's Happening TV
Photos by Josh Goleman.Have you ever wanted to sit in the studio audience at a live-taping of a comedy show? Well now’s your chance. Email itshappeningshow@gmail.com by this Wednesday, March 25 and you can be on-set at this Friday, March 27’s taping of the “It’
Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson
Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson wants residents of the 88th Precinct and all of Brooklyn to know that his office is serious about preventing, not just prosecuting, crimes. That is why he has created a Crime Strategies Unit [http://brooklynda.org/crime-strategies/] — to “track these young men [who are at
Here’s your recap of what went down this week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill: * Is the MTA fare hike fair? Take our poll [/blog/2015/03/20/poll-mta-fare-hike-fair/]. * Real estate prices tick up in Fort Greene and down in Clinton Hill [/blog/2015/03/17/clinton-hill-rents-tick-fort-greene-rents-continue-upwards/] , say reports.
257 washington avenues
Image courtesy of Heather Field Vatury.Do you remember the sound of birds singing amidst red berries in the tree next to St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at 257 Washington Avenue, between DeKalb and Willoughby Avenues? Yes? Well, that memory is all you’re going to have left of
Free fermenting workshops come to the Brooklyn Free School this Sunday, March 22. (Photo courtesy of Zachary Schulman [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1694252764134938&set=gm.673191682790416&type=1&theater] .)Below you’ll find information on events through the weekend in Fort Greene and Clinton
Photo by dianasaur25 [https://instagram.com/p/0JBqmtwZGj/?taken-by=dianasaur25]. A star is born. 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
Claimstat
Photo courtesy of NYC Parks Department [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/taaffe-playground/].Brooklyn parks collectively earned the dubious honor of having the most playground injury complaints — 209 — made against them over the past decade, according to a recent Claimstat report [http://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/ClaimStat_Playground_February_
Junior's
Lamb Chops with Chakalaka and Pap, from Madiba [https://www.facebook.com/madibarestaurant/photos/a.411713408890752.92108.151115824950513/411725212222905/?type=3&theater] .If you had to list the restaurants that are the heart and soul of the neighborhood, the places that we just couldn’t do without, the places
Andrew Jordan
Photo via BRIC Arts Media [https://instagram.com/p/0YZYR9PuJP/?taken-by=bricartsmedia].If only we all could move like that. Click through to watch the full cartoon-inspired dance graphic, courtesy of Brooklyn-based choreographer Cori Olinghouse and Andrew Jordan. Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them