Maria is a writer from Brooklyn, NY. She has written for the Michigan Daily and currently attends the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Arts & Culture
PARK SLOPE – Thursday, April 18, was National Poem in Your Pocket Day [https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day], but one group of seventh graders took their poems out of their pockets and onto the streets. Class 705 at M.S. 51 filled a block with colorful chalk illustrations of verse
community
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Helen Keller Services [https://www.helenkeller.org/hks/about-hks] for the Blind held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday morning to celebrate the opening of a new 44,000 square-foot headquarters at 180 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. After 65 years at 57 Willoughby and a $500,000 grant from
community
PARK SLOPE – On Saturday, schools across Brooklyn’s District 15 [https://insideschools.org/districts/15] opened up their gardens to the public for a celebration of experiential learning, food justice and creativity for the first annual Brooklyn School Gardens Crawl [https://gardentrain.wixsite.com/gardentrain/programs]. Kickoff event for the