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Arts & Culture

Brooklyn Designed And Printed T-Shirts Honor Prospect Park’s 150th Anniversary

Via Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/news-events/news/prospect-park-alliance-x-pratt-institute-x-bk-indu/] The Prospect Park Alliance and Brooklyn Industries have released limited edition t-shirts designed by Pratt Institute students to commemorate the Park’s 150th anniversary. The t-shirts feature original illustrations created by students of Pratt’s Graduate Communications Design Department.

Animals

Pet Events: Adoptapalooza And Brooklyn Bark Dog Wash Fundraiser

Prospect Park is going to be overrun with animals tomorrow. That’s when the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals is hosting the annual mega pet adoption event—Adoptapalooza! Looking for a new bff or fur-baby, head over to Prospect Park’s Bartel-Pritchard Square on Saturday, August 5, between

Arts & Culture

Weekend Art Events: August 4-6 (MCA Day, Hindu Lamp Ceremony & More)

MCA Day poster created by Shepard Fairey from a Glen Friedman photo via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/MCADAYNYC/photos/a.271047606325072.58374.269906879772478/1359373580825797/?type=3&theater] It’s August! Summer is flying by, so get out and enjoy it while there’s still time. Relive your youth

Food & Drink

The Bite: Hudson Jane’s Modern Twist On American Comfort Food

Hudson Jane, 360 Myrtle Avenue (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The sunlight flooded in through the massive windows of Hudson Jane last Sunday afternoon as the new all-day café/restaurant/wine bar was abuzz with brunch. I’d been looking forward [/new-eats-fort-greene-downtown-brooklyn/] to Hudson Jane’s opening [/whats-new-food-drink-fort-greene-dumbo/] for quite

Downtown Brooklyn

Two Women Caught On Video Shopping With Stolen Credit Card

The NYPD are asking the public’s assistance in identifying the two women seen in the above surveillance video shopping with a credit card they’d just stolen from a woman on the subway. At approximately 11:30am on Thursday, July 13, the 21-year-old victim exited the Willoughby Street and

Central Brooklyn

The Down Low: Falling Bulkhead, Missing Swan & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

DeKalb Ave Station (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Another Bulkhead Crumbles Into The Gowanus Canal [DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170802/gowanus/gowanus-canal-collapsed-bulkheads?utm_source=Park+Slope+

community

Gowanus Green Team: Preparing Young Apprentices For ‘Green Jobs’

Brad Lander and the Gowanus Green Team (Photo courtesy of the Office of Council Member Brad Lander)On Wednesday morning, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and Council Member Brad Lander launched the Gowanus Green Team, a training program that prepares young adults for “green jobs.” With $50,000 in funding provided

Central Brooklyn

Five New Lactation Pods Installed Across City For Nursing Moms

A lactation pod located at Citi Field via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFg-se_pICM/?taken-by=mamava_vt]Nursing mothers visiting the Brooklyn Children’s Museum (145 Brooklyn Avenue) in Crown Heights can now comfortably breastfeed their babies in the privacy of a lactation pod. The NYC Department of

Central Brooklyn

NYPD Checkpoints Will Screen J’Ouvert Festival Attendees

> Just some of the thousands of officers up tonight making a safe, celebratory #JOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/JOuvert?src=hash] in Brooklyn. #WeAreJOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreJOuvert?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/NotGDAMEMi [https://t.co/NotGDAMEMi] — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) September 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/

North Western Brooklyn

Missing Clinton Hill Woman Reportedly Jumped Off George Washington Bridge

Via NYPDThe body of a Clinton Hill woman who was reported missing last week was found floating in Spuyten Duyvil Creek near West 218 Street in Manhattan, the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/body-woman-found-creek-brooklyn-singer-article-1.3376110] reports. Twenty-four-year-old Lael Feldman was last seen [/help-police-find-missing-clinton-hill-woman/] at her

North Western Brooklyn

Intoxicated Driver Crashes Into Several Parked Cars On State Street

The intersection at State and Bond Streets in Boerum Hill Tuesday morning (photo sent in by a BKLYNER reader)Several cars parked along State Street between Hoyt and Bond in Boerum Hill were smashed into by an intoxicated driver yesterday morning. A witness tells BKLYNER that she was walking toward

North Western Brooklyn

Five Teens Kick, Threaten, And Rob Couple On C Train

The NYPD are asking the public’s assistance in identifying the group of teens seen in the above surveillance video in connection to a robbery that occurred on a C train at the Franklin Avenue subway station on the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. At approximately 4:50am on