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 July 14) Kid Calendar [/blog/2015/07/07/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-july-14-music-in-the-grove-summer-science-club-legos-and-spoon-dolls/] . Submit your event
Photo by Francisco Daum.It was a busy weekend for crime in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, with shootings and a fireworks attack lighting up the streets in the worst way. First, an early Saturday morning shooting in Crown Heights left a Clinton Hill man, 42-year-old Keith Jeffery, dead of
Disarm NYPD
The planned flag burning of both American and Confederate flags [/blog/2015/06/30/planned-flag-burning-in-fort-greene-park-is-meant-to-criticize-racism-say-organizers/] at Fort Greene Park on Wednesday night, July 1, did, in fact, happen, although not where protest organizers had said it would happen and not without angry and impassioned counterprotests from flag-waving New Yorkers who
All eyes ahead! Sidewalk stanchion on Myrtle Avenue. Happy Keep on sharing photos with us ateditor@bklyner.com, add them to ourFlickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them#ftgfocusonInstagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and we’ll post them on the site. Also, like us onFacebook [https:
Below you’ll find information on events through the weekend in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this weekend. Check back Monday for next week’s events! For family-friendly and kids events, see this week’s (through July 7) Kid Calendar [/blog/2015/06/30/things-to-do-with-the-kids-from-june-30-july-7-rolie-polie-guacamole-saturday-night-fever-and-toilet-paper-roll-rockets/] . Also, here is the 2015
325 Lafayette Avenue
The death knell is near, folks: the Key Food at 325 Lafayette Avenue is closing as of next week in order to allow for construction to begin [/blog/2015/04/14/full-demolition-approved-for-lafayette-avenue-key-food-in-clinton-hill/] on the planned eight-story, 113-unit, mixed-income residential building [/blog/2015/04/14/full-demolition-approved-for-lafayette-avenue-key-food-in-clinton-hill/] with a 15,000-square-foot ground
BAM Senior Cinema
Photo via BAM.It’s the summer of free movies for local seniors now that the BAM Senior Cinema [http://Http://www.bam.org/programs/2015/senior-cinema] program has confirmed and released its upcoming screening schedule, which includes classics such as “To Sir With Love,” “Moonstruck,” “The Warriors,” and “The
Reaching for the stars. Keep on sharing photos with us ateditor@bklyner.com, add them to ourFlickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them#ftgfocusonInstagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and we’ll post them on the site. Also, like us onFacebook [https://www.facebook.com/FortGreeneFocus], or
Move With Grace
Myrtle Avenue and the 35th Council District is officially an age-friendly neighborhood [http://www.agefriendlyneighborhoods.nyc]! This means that local businesses and community groups have banded together to offer everything from shopping discounts and senior-friendly exercise classes to food and prescription delivery services and more visible signage on doors and
Image via The Runner.No celebration of the birth of our nation is complete without ice cream, happy hours, and lots and lots of food. That’s why The Runner [http://www.therunnerbk.com] (458 Myrtle Avenue) is launching a brand new sidewalk ice cream stand this Friday, July 3
Myrtle and Gold
Almost three weeks into the launch of their lunch menu, Myrtle + Gold [http://www.myrtlegold.com/] is doing brisk business with their lively yet comforting menu of Sriracha Honey Chicken Wings, BLTA and Grilled Cheese sandwiches, Single and Double Stack Burgers, Steak Frites, and more. Dubbed “elevated comfort food,” the
551 Waverly Avenue
Image via HTO Architect.The former site of Beigel Bakery will soon be transformed [/blog/2014/11/13/beigels-bakery-will-become-five-story-apartment-retail-building/] into an eight-story residential building with a wide strip of ground floor retail along Atlantic Avenue, according to new renderings from designer HTO Architect, which is working with developer Madison Realty