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! For family-friendly and kids events, see this week’s (through December 22) Kid Calendar [/blog/2015/12/15/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-december-22/]. Submit your event listing [/calendar/
Business
Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus.Say hello to Fort Greene’s newest restaurant: The Quarter [http://www.instagram.com/thequarterbk]! Located at 87 Lafayette Avenue — formerly home to Stonehome Wine Bar — the eatery opened on December 12, specializes in what co-owner Jason Avery describes as “new American global
Events
Photo via Brooklyn Bears [https://brooklynbears.wordpress.com/rockwell/].Happy Winter Solstice [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/151221-winter-solstice-explained-pagans/] , everyone! What is the winter solstice? It’s the day — TODAY — that is the shortest day of the year — and the longest night of the year, also known as the start
Education
Photo courtesy of Del Scorcho [https://www.flickr.com/photos/delscorchosauce/136584515].Almost everyone in New York City has an opinion about charter schools and, specifically, the proliferation of Success Academy schools. Now, the parent and community leaders of Community Education Council [School] District 13 [http://cec13.org/] have voiced
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Photo by sowrasyed [http://websta.me/p/1100616259654038247_408378243]Below you’ll find Fort Greene and Clinton Hill subway changes this week on the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, B, C, D, G, N, Q, and R lines in Brooklyn, plus the Franklin Avenue shuttle. Check back later this week
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Image via Google Maps.Missed this week’s neighborhood news? We’ve got you covered. FYI: * KID CALENDAR: Through December 22 [/blog/2015/12/15/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-december-22/]. * We’re hiring salespeople [/blog/2015/11/30/things-to-do-this-week-through-december-4/]! * Where to donate to Toys For Tots [/blog/2015/12/04/where-to-drop-off-your-toys-for-tots-donation-this-holiday-season/] ! And don’t
Animals
Photo by Chris Cobb.Errant rat traps laced with rat poison are being left out in the open sidewalk and catching not rats, but birds, squirrels, and even pets, say residents from across Brooklyn, including Fort Greene. Here, along South Oxford Street and around Cuyler Gore Park on Fulton Street,
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Images via NYPD.The two women pictured here in surveillance photos from the Nostrand Avenue A/C station are wanted by police for assaulting an MTA worker at around 8:56am on Monday, November 9 — last month — with a purse and fists. The 48-year-old employee was cleaning the northbound side
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Image via NYC Economic Development Corporation.Good news: the Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights — just south of the border with Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy — will be transformed into affordable housing, community and office space, a multi-sport recreational facility, and commercial space that will be open to the public. This
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Image via NYPD.The second week in December saw a slight increase in crime compared to the week before [/blog/2015/12/11/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-30-december-9/] (16 versus 12 incidents [/blog/2015/12/11/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-30-december-9/] ), although felony assaults, housing crimes, and petit larceny went down. Shootings jumped up to 2 victims in
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1930s era Walt Whitman Library, then known as the City Park branch. (Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.instagram.com/myrtleavebklyn].) The Walt Whitman Library branch has been serving our community and schoolkids for over a century — originally referred to as the City Park branch, until 1943 — and
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Image via NYPD.This man is wanted for punching a random women on the Manhattan-bound A train as it sat at the Jay Street station a few days before Thanksgiving, and now police are hoping that someone will recognize him so he can be stopped before hurting someone else. Image