intro 187-a
Councilmember Laurie Cumbo [http://council.nyc.gov/d35/html/members/home.shtml] secured increased accountability for New York’s students in foster care (and hit a huge milestone in her political career) earlier this week, when Intro 187-A became her first piece of legislation signed into law. The law requires
Were you near Dekalb and Adelphi recently when, passing by Brooklyn Public House [http://bkpublichouse.com], your eye caught someone worth a wave? Well, you got his attention. Via a Craigslist post [http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/mis/4689116527.html] titled “Smiled and Waved on Dekalb We should have spoke
http://youtu.be/_jg9bI8JJhQ Police are still looking for a man they say illegally entered at least one Fort Greene apartment this summer and made off with valuables. The NYPD says the suspect in the video above allegedly stole $380 in cash from an apartment on Fulton Street between 4:
Incredible clouds from earlier this week, snapped by Brien Foy [https://www.flickr.com/photos/brienfoy/15227468989]. 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
filming moratorium
We noticed signs posted near Fort Greene Park yesterday asking neighbors to move their cars off nearby blocks for continued filming [/?s=%22the+intern%22] of Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway’s The Intern [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361509/], which has moved north after the city issued a
crossfit outbreak
Get pumped, Clinton Hill CrossFitters! New gym CrossFit Outbreak [http://crossfitoutbreak.com] (10 Grand Avenue between Park and Flushing Avenues) is opening its doors to the public next week ahead of a grand opening on Saturday, October 18. The CFO crew has been busy since we first discovered them [/blog/
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
Were you waiting patiently at the Franklin, Classon, or Lafayette Avenue stop this morning, watching C trains go by on the express track? Did you get in late to work or class because of it? You could always ask the MTA to provide you with a delay verification [http://enterprise.
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food bank of new york
Hungry? So are approximately 2.6 million other people across NYC. To help change that, over 40 beloved NYC pie joints–including Clinton Hill’s own Emily [http://pizzalovesemily.com] and pop-up Margot [http://margotspizza.com]–are teaming up with the Food Bank for New York City [http://www.foodbanknyc.
Signs are posted on Classon Avenue between Lafayette and Dekalb Avenues ahead of filming for FOX’s The Following [http://www.fox.com/the-following/] tomorrow (Thursday, October 2). Neighbors are asked to move their vehicles off the west side of the block by 6pm tonight to facilitate shooting, which is
We noticed some of the window coverings had been removed at Sister’s, the eatery coming to the former Sister’s Hardware Store space at 900 Fulton Street (between Washington and Waverly Avenues), this morning. The lack of trash bags that had been covering the restaurant’s windows since the