MLK Day
Photo courtesy of BAM [http://www.bam.org/talks/2015/brooklyn-tribute-to-dr-martin-luther-king-2015]. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is this coming Monday, January 19, and Brooklyn organizations and leaders are honoring what would have been his 86th birthday (today, January 15) with a week-long celebration of speaking events, movie screenings, and other
art exhibit
Photo by Michael Miller [http://instagram.com/p/x111B7mqex/?modal=true].Things are looking up for the many local artists whose work is on display at the SONYA “Transitions” Exhibit [http://www.sonyaonline.org/news/transition-a-show-of-sonya-artists], on Thursday, January 15 at The Candy Factory gallery and event space (122 Washington
Photo courtesy of NYPD.This week saw an increase in reported rapes (one more), robberies (six more), and grand larcenies (two more). It also saw a decrease in burglaries and auto thefts (both down two). There was no change in the number of reported felony assaults and were no deaths.
baba cool
Photo courtesy of Cafe Paulette [http://www.cafepaulette.com].If there’s any upside to the freezing cold temps and icy winds we’ve been getting (besides the fun scarves and hats that are literally in season), it’s the fact that now we can warm up with some really
[/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-14-at-11.24.25-AM.png] The first Community Board 2 general meeting of the year is tonight — Wednesday, January 14 — at 6pm at Saint Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, in the seventh floor theater. On the agenda are committee reports about Land Use, Health and the Environment,
1327 surf avenue
Local bakery Piece Of Velvet [http://www.pieceofvelvet.com/] will soon get its own little slice of Coney Island with a new storefront “next to Rita’s Ice on the north side of [West] 15th Street and Surf Avenue,” revealed the folks over at The Coney Island Blog [http://www.
1327 surf ave
Coney Island will soon get its own little slice of Brooklyn cupcakery Piece Of Velvet [http://www.pieceofvelvet.com/], with a new storefront “next to Rita’s Ice on the north side of [West] 15th Street and Surf Avenue,” revealed the folks over at The Coney Island Blog [http://www.
Photo courtesy of NYPD.The police are hoping that a month-and-a-half delay will not stop the public from recognizing the man who allegedly punched an MTA subway conductor, unprovoked, at the DeKalb Avenue Q station in the early morning hours of Saturday, November 29. It was 6:25am when the
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Randy Asher
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_by_Beyond_My_Ken].The city Department of Education (DOE) is being hit with a lawsuit that accuses it — via its employees at Brooklyn Technical High School — of ignoring and abetting the sexual abuse of at least seven female
chef king phojanakong
Photo courtesy of umiNOM.Congratulations are in order for Chef King Phojanakong, who just won the latest round of Cutthroat Kitchen! Phojanakong, of 433 DeKalb Avenue’s umiNOM [http://www.uminom.com/], competed in the Food Network show’s latest installment, entitled “Tiki Torch-Ure [http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/cutthroat-kitchen/
Photo via NYCDOE.Just a reminder for parents planning to enroll their child in kindergarten for the September 2015 school year, TONIGHT — Tuesday, January 13 — is the Brooklyn info session: being held from 6-7:30pm at the Prospect Heights Educational Campus, located at 883 Classon Avenue. Kindergarten enrollment [/blog/2015/