compost
Photo via bkgreenmarkets [https://instagram.com/p/9mc9fPgy5r/?taken-by=bkgreenmarkets].Compost or eat your leftover Halloween pumpkins! 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
calendar
Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this weekend. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! For family-friendly and kids events, see this week’s (through October 27) Kid Calendar [/blog/2015/10/20/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-october-27-live-owls-at-clinton-hill-library-musical-symphony-story-time-and-little-shop-of-horrors-in-the-park/] . Submit your event
Junior's Cheesecake
Image via Junior’s.It’s Junior’s Restaurant’s 65th anniversary and they’re celebrating by declaring “let them eat [cheese]cake!” Slices of their famous cheesecake will be 65 cents tomorrow (Tuesday, November 3) and can be purchased a la carte (on its own) by take-out customers only.
Education
Photo courtesy of Pratt Institute.Halloween costumes are often a work of art, so this year’s costume design contest was a natural fit for Pratt Institute and NYC vintage boutique Screaming Mimi’s, who teamed up to offer a winning fashion design student a window display in Manhattan. The
Christian and Katie Williams
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.And the winner is… “Animal Control!” The trio, made up of Christian and Katie Williams and 10-month-old Charlotte the French bulldog, were the first place winners of this year’s Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest — hosted each year by Fort Greene PUPS [http://www.fortgreenepups.
flatbush avenue
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.A 17-year-old resident of Ingersoll Houses was arrested on Friday, October 30 and charged with murder, attempted murder, and criminal possession of a weapon — all in the second degree — in the shooting death of 16-year-old Armani Hankins [/blog/2015/10/27/17-year-old-killed-by-bullet-to-the-head-in-rush-hour-shootout-at-flatbush-and-dekalb-avenues/] last Monday, October
icymi
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Missed this week’s neighborhood news? We’ve got you covered. KID CALENDAR: Through November 3 [/blog/2015/10/27/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-november-3-bamboo-halloween-dance-party-charlie-brown-pumpkin/] And don’t forget to list local events in our Brooklyn-wide Calendar [http://Http://www.bklyner.com/calendar]! TOP NEWS * A shooting outside Applebee’
Real Estate
Image via Dunn Development.Two months after the first 10 Navy Green townhouses hit the market [/blog/2015/09/01/the-first-navy-green-townhouses-hit-the-market-at-1-9m-and-2-1m/] , sales have been “going great,” with two-thirds of them already in contract (6 out of 9, with one being withheld because it’s the model home used for open
88th precinct
Image via NYPD.The driver of a red or burgundy Volkswagen Passat who hit-and-ran an on-duty traffic agent on Washington Avenue is being sought by police, who today released the following images from a nearby surveillance camera. It was around 10:42pm last Friday, October 23 when the 30-year-old male
assaults
Image via NYPD.Compared to this time last month [/blog/2015/10/06/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-september-21-27/]and two weeks ago [/blog/2015/10/20/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-october-5-11/], overall crime went up, as did crime in most individual major categories. On the brighter side, there were no murders, rapes, sex crimes, or shootings this week,
Candido Brown
Photo courtesy of Del Scorcho [https://www.flickr.com/photos/delscorchosauce/136584515].The latest controversy to enter the discourse over New York City’s charter schools comes courtesy of the New York Times, which ran a story [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/nyregion/at-a-success-academy-charter-school-singling-out-pupils-who-have-got-to-go.html?_r=2&
breast cancer awareness
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The pink ribbons were tied around the tree trunks by residents along Washington Park, opposite Fort Greene Park. 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