a piece of velvet
Perhaps it’s not such a concern in your version of an adult life, but we’ve found this issue with the majority of friends’ birthday parties in recent years: a distinct lack of cake. Plenty of booze, slightly too much spent on late cab rides home because this or
chef king phojanakong
Chef King Phojanakong seems like something of an equal opportunity NYC borough lover. In addition to Clinton Hill’s Umi Nom, he has Kuma Inn [http://www.kumainn.com] on Ludlow Street in Manhattan–and now, true to the county where he was born, he’s teaming with GrowNYC [http:
ps 11
Want to help support the hard working staff and over 800 students at Clinton Hill’s PS 11 Purvis J. Behan [http://www.ps11brooklyn.org/]? The school (419 Waverly Avenue between Greene and Gates Avenues) is wrapping up its 2014 benefit Readathon this Friday, November 14, and could use your
Fort Greene Park
If you regularly find yourself (and perhaps your very messy dog or child) struggling through the mud while trying to enter Fort Greene Park from Willoughby Avenue, rejoice! Work is underway to keep the park’s squishiest entrance sufficiently dry from here on out. Neighbor Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.
Photo by Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/15094845763]. Share 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, and we’ll post them on the site. Also, like us on Facebook
library
Love your library? Whether your go-to branch is Park Slope (431 6th Avenue), Pacific (25 4th Avenue), or the Central Library (10 Grand Army Plaza), you can help it win $20,000 in the second annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards [http://www.nyclibraryawards.org/]. To nominate a location, neighbors are
1664 W 13th st
Dyker Heights Library (Source: Google Maps)Love your local library? Bensonhurst has plenty to choose from. Whether your favorite branch is New Utrecht [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations] (1743 86th St.), Ulmer Park [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations] (2602 Bath Ave), Highlawn [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/highlawn] (1664 W
Sheepshead Bay Library
Love your library? Whether your go-to branch is Homecrest, Kings Highway or Brighton Beach, you can help it win $20,000 in the second annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards [http://www.nyclibraryawards.org/]. To nominate a location, neighbors are asked to fill out a short survey [https://www.surveymonkey.com/
134 vanderbilt avenue
Super scoopers New York YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/11/revealed-134-vanderbilt-avenue-fort-greene.html] have uncovered a proposed design for a new building coming to 134 Vanderbilt Avenue (at Myrtle Avenue), current site of a defunct Gulf gas station. DNAInfo [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140407/fort-greene/fort-greene-may-be-getting-its-first-karl-fischer-building] reported earlier this
donating
Been a while since you’ve cleared out your cupboards? Thanksgiving is on the way–along its necessary shopping list–so you’re going to need to clean those puppies out! Conveniently enough, this week or weekend is the perfect time to take an inventory of your soups, canned fruit
On this Veterans Day, we’d like to send our deepest thanks to all those who have served our country. Whether you’ve got the day off today or are already on the clock, here’s some information on what’s open, what’s closed, and more: Government Offices, Schools,
On this Veterans Day, we’d like to send our deepest thanks to all those who have served our country. Whether you’ve got the day off today or are already on the clock, here’s some information on what’s open, what’s closed, and more: Government Offices, Schools,