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Feeding the lions some lettuce with help from Louie Liu, head of BACOP, Capt. Quick and his kids, NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind, and Shomrim’s Jacob Daskal.With its petting zoo, the bubble bath wading pool, rides, games of chance, two goats, and a Chinese Lion Dance, the 66 Precinct’
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Kensington, Midwood and Boro Park: Mark your calendars — Tuesday, August 2 is the 66th Precinct’s National Night Out, [https://natw.org] an annual meet and greet fête with community members, cops and local officials. The event will be from 5pm to 8pm at the 66th Precinct station house, 5822
Arts & Culture
(Photo via East Fourth Street Garden / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152955168431626&set=g.246036418909475&type=1&theater] )Join dancers at the East Fourth Street Community Garden this Saturday July 16, for their second annual free garden performance. Four artists and dancers will be
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(Photo by Jole Carliner)Do you yearn for a lush window-sill herb garden, but lack a green thumb? Now you can boost your plant fertility skills at Dome Playground’s free gardening workshop this Wednesday, June 29, at 3:30pm — just in time for summer growing season Dome Playground’s
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66 Pct Community Council VP Felix Burgos talking to Commander Quick before the Community Council meeting. (Photo by Jole Carliner)The NYPD’s 66th Precinct monthly Community Council met last Thursday, June 16, at the Community Board 12 offices on 13th Avenue, to review crime statistics and honor precinct officers
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East Fourth Street Community Gardeners rehearsing their upcoming performance of “Scenes from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Summer Solstice celebration Monday, June 20 and Saturday, June 25. (Photo by Jole Carliner)Join local performers at the East 4th street community garden for an evening of family-friendly
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[/blog/news/art-basketball-workshops-dome-playground-sun-thursday/attachment/dome_calendar2016_onepage_web/] Upcycle your used plastic bottles and cardboard boxes into flower bouquets this Sunday May 22nd, from 11am to 2pm, during the Playground Art Workshop at Kensington’s Dome Playground. Dome Playground is located at 38th Street and Dahill Road. What is Upcycling?
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(Photo: Don Rodríguez Gómez Rosa)This Saturday, May 21, at 2pm, the East Fourth Street Community Garden is hosting its third annual FREE spring concert featuring the Ukuladies and Don Rodríguez Gómez Rosa. The garden is located on East Fourth Street, between Caton Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Come enjoy
Central Brooklyn
Setting up at the Church Avenue street fair yesterday.Undeterred by wind and a bit of rain, Kensington celebrated yesterday. The Bangladeshi-American Friendship Society and the NYPD 66 Precinct Community Council threw their second annual street fair on Church Avenue Sunday. The fair extended from Beverley Road to its grandstand
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Photo: Jole CarlinerNeed some earth to dig in for Earth Day? Join students from Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS), [http://www.bugsbrooklyn.org/] and parks gardening experts, in learning the ins and outs of planting a vertical garden at Dome Playground tomorrow. Activities will run from 11am until 2pm.
Bensonhurst
Capt. Kenneth Quick (center) with 66th Precinct Council President Mark Katz (left), and Community Board 12 District Manager Barry Spitzer (right) discussing business before the meeting. (Photo: Jole Carliner)A quick Happy New Year’s greeting to the Bangladeshi community, and then Captain Kenneth Quick got right to the point.
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Capt. Kenneth Quick (center) with 66th Precinct Council President Mark Katz (left), and Community Board 12 District Manager Barry Spitzer (right) discussing business before the meeting. (Photo: Jole Carliner)A quick Happy New Year’s greeting to the Bangladeshi community, and then Captain Kenneth Quick got right to the point.