Mil’s Trills [http://www.ameliarobinson.co.uk/mils_trills.html]plays music for all ages at Lark on Sunday. Tonight 7/12 • Take a bat walk on Prospect Park’s Twilight Tour [http://www.prospectpark.org/calendar/event/twilight], 6:30pm. • Willy Gantrim [http://www.willygantrim.com/] plays The
This Saturday, July 14 from 12-6pm, Sycamore [http://sycamorebrooklyn.com/index.php/bar-posts/] welcomes back Barrier Brewing Company [http://www.barrierbrewing.com/Site/HOME.html] from a two-month hiatus (an expansion that made the brewery brewery about five times as large [http://liherald.com/stories/Going-big-but-staying-small,41203] as its previous
food trucks
We noticed this taco truck parked in front of Greenfield Pharmacy on Cortelyou at East 16th Street yesterday. Are they there often? And has anyone tried them? In case anyone is worried, it’s not the same one from Church Ave and E 17th–that’s Tacos El Dorado. Though
Alternate headline: MetroPCS Kills Dreams of Restaurant with Outdoor Seating. As you probably already know from Kate Noyes’ comment on the story about two vacancies on Newkirk Plaza [/blog/business/business-dreaming-on-newkirk-plaza], a MetroPCS will be opening in that prime space where Liberty Tax used to be, where there is a
Adrienne Kapstein
If you’re free tomorrow afternoon, there’s a free performance from students of Movement Theater Studio NYC’s [http://www.movementtheaterstudio.com/] Summer Physical Theater Intensive at Brooklyn College. MTS is a program with a focus on ensemble-based, visual theater that is co-directed by local husband and wife team
Above is the most recent CompStat report from the 70th Precinct, which covers the week of 6/25-7/1/12, and below is a roundup of some recent crimes around the neighborhood: • Picket Fence was burglarized [/blog/crime/picket-fence-was-burglarized-police-seek-suspect] early on Monday, July 9, after a man broke in through
DSNY
Taking care of your street tree bed just got a little easier, thanks to the Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse, and Recycling. You can now order free compost or mulch to improve the soil in street tree beds [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/html/compost/
Untitled [http://www.flickr.com/photos/21746262@N00/7537774062/] by amberc [http://www.flickr.com/photos/21746262@N00/], on Flickr. Have you seen this amazing garden on the corner of East 17th and Dorchester? Every year it’s great, but this year looks like something extra special, with corn already
Solo
Neighbor Jennie has been in touch with Sean Casey, who wants the kittens that were spotted in the old Solo space [/blog/animals/solo-kittens] left undisturbed until they are bigger, or until they can be caught with the mother, who was also spotted at the space. The realtor is not
In case you, like neighbor Alice [http://alicesoloway.com/], have been wondering what’s going on above several storefronts on Newkirk Ave between East 16th and East 17th Streets, here’s the deal. It seems C-Town, which owns that row of buildings as well, is updating them, hoping to make
Department of Parks and Recreation
Turns out one of the troubling trees we noted yesterday in a roundup of potentially dangerous trees [/blog/green/dear-city-weve-got-some-tree-that-need-pruning] that need attention from the city doesn’t need attention, according to the city. Neighbor Robert Pandolfo reported the dead tree on Argyle between Albemarle and Beverley to 311, and
Some neighbors painted this fire hydrant (and accompanying guard posts) on Rugby Road, which makes me think that William Bredbeck’s dream [http://sssnole.tumblr.com/post/22075074331] of a neighborhood filled with fire hydrants painted like interesting characters could just be up to individuals…