hops hill
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Local beer bar, Hops Hill (886 Fulton Street), is hosting a Tap Takeover tonight at 6pm, with Gowanus’ Other Half Brewing and Park Slope’s Three’s Brewing introducing some limited and new releases for Fort Greene-Clinton Hill drinkers to test. Although not for Oktoberfest,
back-to-school
Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus.“My Dad Is My MVP; School Is The Place To Be!” This was the chant that echoed up and down Myrtle Avenue between Flatbush and Clermont Avenues this morning (Tuesday, September 22) as dozens of grade schoolers and middle schoolers marched together with
Calvin Clinkscales
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.It has been less than three days since Herbert Brown, 76, Calvin “LL” Clinkscales, 43, and Lacount “Kojak” Simmons were killed outside their own apartment buildings [/blog/2015/09/21/three-men-shot-and-killed-at-ingersoll-houses-this-weekend/] in a courtyard of the Ingersoll Houses and their family, friends, and neighbors can
35th Council District
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The 35th Council District has $1 million to spend on capital improvement projects and residents have A LOT of ideas for what those projects should be. For the 35 or so Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Prospect Heights residents who came out to the brainstorming
Image via NYPD.Compared to the first week of September [/blog/2015/09/15/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-august-31-to-september-6/] , reported crime fell in the following categories: * rapes (from 1 to 0) * housing (from 3 to 2) * misdemeanor assault (from 7 to 1) * misdemeanor sex crimes (from 1 to 0) Meanwhile, crime rose in these
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Photo via Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office.The wake and funeral for Carey Gabay, the Clinton Hill resident and former lawyer/aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, will be this Friday and Saturday, September 25-26 at the Emmanuel Baptist Church at 279 Lafayette Avenue, where he worshipped with his family. “Carey
Photo by aforty1 [https://instagram.com/p/7489VYLjSz/?taken-by=aforty1].“Rise and shine, Brooklyn.” 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
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 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
Department of Health
Image via NYC Department of Health [http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/home/home.shtml]Park Slope residents, take note: the city will be spraying mosquito-targeting pesticides tonight in an effort to curb the spread of West Nile Virus [http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/environmental/wnv-home.shtml]
Ashland Place
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.We caught a glimpse of some bank robbers today who looked suspiciously like Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin — at least from behind, as their faces were covered with latex masks resembling generic creepy old men. The trio were on site at One Hanson
pesticide spraying
Image via NYC Department of Health.Fort Greene residents, take note: the city will be spraying mosquito-targeting pesticides tonight in an effort to curb the spread of West Nile Virus [http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/environmental/wnv-home.shtml]. The spraying will take place from 8:30pm tonight to
Kevin Colon
An arrest has been made in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Kevin Colon [/blog/2015/02/19/investigation-launched-murder-20-year-old-man-whitman-houses/] , who died earlier this year on February 19 of a gunshot wound to the stomach near his apartment on North Portland Street at the Walt Whitman Houses. Leonaldo Parrado, 21, of Brownsville,