laurie cumbo
Councilmember Laurie Cumbo [http://council.nyc.gov/d35/html/members/home.shtml] joined fellow elected officials and activists earlier this week to announce nearly $6 million in funding allocated to anti-domestic violence programs by the New York City Council, and to encourage those affected by domestic violence to seek help.
1801 ave y
A classroom at PS 254 (Source: Schools.nyc.gov)Congratulations are in order! Sheepshead Bay’s PS 254 Dag Hammarskjold Elementary School is one of only 337 schools in the country and two schools in Brooklyn to have received a 2014 Blue Ribbon School [http://www2.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/
Brooklyn Music School
Want to get Halloween started early with a fiendishly good time? Join the Brooklyn Music School [http://www.brooklynmusicschool.org] (126 Saint Felix Street between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place) on Sunday, October 26 for their second annual Musical Haunted House! The 2-4pm event will include A Knife at the
360 myrtle avenue
Update: Chad Purkey of the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership says 360 won’t be a restaurant–at least, not for neighbors. Instead, it’s being used as a ” faux French boulangerie” for a movie filming in the space through November, which is also really cool but not quite as tasty.
Below you’ll find weekend subway service changes in Brooklyn for the A, C, G, B, Q, D, N, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines, plus the Franklin Avenue shuttle and some notes on changes in other boroughs. Check back Monday to see what’s happening next week. Changes
http://youtu.be/ZNy-m2B6naY Police are searching for three men they say robbed another man at knifepoint last Friday, October 3. Cops say the three suspects, shown in the video above, entered an automotive shop on Atlantic Avenue near Classon Avenue around 3:35am on Friday, brandishing a knife and
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the intern
More signs are posted and some parking spaces already reserved for continued filming of The Intern [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361509/], starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, tomorrow near Fort Greene Park. We spotted notices posted on the same blocks as last week [http:///blog/2014/10/02/
business insider
In what will come as no surprise to the chic men of Clinton Hill, Business Insider [http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-new-small-businesses-in-brooklyn-2014-9] has named Leisure Life NYC [http://www.leisurelifenyc.com] (559 Myrtle Avenue between Emerson and Classon Avenues) one of the 25 coolest new business in Brooklyn. In a recent
marcel hamer
A video has surfaced that is alleged to have captured use of excessive force by an 88th Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_088.shtml] officer on a teenager in Clinton Hill. Marcel Hamer, 17, says he was walking home from school in June when the
We’re so excited for this year’s festivities around Fort Greene and Clinton Hill–aren’t you? Photo via fortgreenefocus [http://instagram.com/p/t0nBfqN615/?modal=true]. Let us know if you’re planning any spooky events for the holiday, and we’ll feature them in a roundup–and
forums
Civilian-police relations are no new concern in New York City, but the topic does seem to have been placed under an increasing number of media magnifying glasses lately. The deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown; a report of police telling black teenagers to get out of Park Slope [http: