inclusionary housing
Image via the city Department of City Planning.The city is proposing a series of rezoning efforts across the city, including two which affect our community. One would focus on ‘mandatory inclusionary housing” while the other focuses on “zoning for quality and affordability.” To find out what exactly these two
15 lafayette avenue
Image courtesy of Jonathan Rose Companies.Construction has finally broken ground at 15 Lafayette Avenue, aka BAM North, where a 12-story, 109-unit building with 40 percent affordable/below-market-rate housing is planned, with an estimated open date next year in 2016. The housing price breakdown comes out to 20 percent of
Lourdamma Udumala
Photo via the NYPD.Help find a missing Fort Greene senior who hasn’t been seen since noon yesterday, Thursday, September 24. Lourdamma Udumala, 83, was last seen at the intersection of Fulton Street and Greene Avenue, just steps away from her home, wearing a multi-colored tee shirt and black
fort greene park conservancy
Photo via Fort Greene Park Conservancy.If you’d like to join your neighbors for one of the next park cleanups this autumn, sign up now. There will be two volunteer days this October: Saturday, October 3, and Saturday, October 17. September cleanups have already yielded “serious dents in the
garbage can covers
Image via bigbabygenius [https://instagram.com/p/76XqLqCBZu/?taken-by=bigbabygenius].Make sure to look at the real world, too, not to get lost in the world of light and shadow. Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/
For family-friendly and kids events, see this week’s (through September 29) Kid Calendar [/blog/2015/09/22/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-september-29-atlantic-antic-bookmaking-origami-and-more/] . Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/] or by emailing editor@bklyner.com. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Free Beats with DJ Dundee When: Friday, September 25 at 4-6:30pm
phillip kellogg
“Preliminary work” on the Putnam Triangle Plaza project will get underway soon, but a start date has not yet been confirmed by the city. As explained by Phillip Kellogg, executive director of the Fulton Area Business (FAB) Alliance, the upcoming work is the ‘Geotechnical Investigation’ part of the Plaza project
Adam Schmidt
Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Public Library.Just in time for back-to-school season, this September 1 saw the arrival of a brand new full-time children’s librarian, Adam Schmidt, to the Walt Whitman Library (93 Saint Edwards Street), which library-goers have long said is a much-needed resource for neighborhood kids. His
clouds
Photo by nykkifoster [https://instagram.com/p/7-cu8MhK0a/?taken-by=nykkifoster]. Sunrise over Clinton Hill. 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
Brooklyn Voices literary series
The Brooklyn Voices literary reading series [http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/brooklynvoices]is back and has quite the lineup this year: featuring the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jonathan Franzen, Patti Smith, Kristin Hersh, and “Welcome To Night Vale” authors Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. The series kicks off this Saturday, September
Image courtesy of the Brooklyn Paranormal Society.Considering Fort Greene Park’s history as the resting place for 11,500 Revolutionary War soldiers — beneath the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument and crypt — it’s a wonder no one has reported ghost sightings before. Perhaps it’s negated by all the joyful
Fort Greene t-shirt
Image via Fort Greene Tennis Association.At this past weekend’s tennis tournament [/blog/2015/09/18/cheer-the-fort-greene-tennis-teams-in-this-weekends-tournaments/] in Fort Greene Park, you may have felt a surge of neighborhood pride and wanted a way to show it off. Now you can. Wear your Fort Greene and tennis pride on