Pam was a staff reporter at Bklyner, covering North-Western parts of Brooklyn between 2016 and 2019. She also writes about art at arthag.typepad.com.
Arts & Culture
Beastie Boys’ Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz (with paper) speaks at protest in Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights. To his left is Public Advocate Letitia James. To his right is NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER) Hundreds of neighbors and Beastie Boys fans united to “stand up against
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City Point, Downtown Brooklyn. October 2016. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER) It’s impossible to avoid all the development going on in Downtown Brooklyn with all the construction cranes hovering high above the area adding countless, modern, glass and steel towers to the skyline. According to DNAinfo [https://www.dnainfo.
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Electric Lotus Tattoo Owner Jae Connor. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)When Jae Connor was a child, he was fascinated by a skull tattoo on his father’s forearm. “I must have asked him about that tattoo 100,000 times,” he says about the eye-patch-wearing skull surrounded by flames and
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Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNERDisappointed by last week’s election results, Brooklyn writer Fiona Maazel [http://www.fionamaazel.com/] reacted by organizing a rally. Posting the event on her Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/events/1602788343357488/], she wrote, “I am going to Grand Army Plaza with my two-year-old daughter
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Members in the studio. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Bklyn Clay [http://www.bklynclay.com/] (673 5th Avenue at 20th Street) is a new community art space and ceramics studio for potters, artists, hobbyists, and production clayworkers, offering classes for all ages and levels, 24/7 access for members, workshops
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Lucky Rubber Ducky is the newly expanded section of Tarzian West at 194 7th Avenue. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Neighborhood-favorite Tarzian West [http://www.tarzianwest.com/] (194 7th Avenue at 2nd Street) has expanded, offering shoppers even more covetable, well-designed houseware products and gift items. The new shop, called
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Politicians and advocates at 7th Avenue and 9th Street. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Advocates, elected officials, and senior neighbors gathered on the northeast corner of 7th Avenue and 9th Street Wednesday morning to announce the launch of a campaign to install a much-needed and long-awaited elevator for the 7th
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Lucio Schiavone. (Photo Credit: Virginia Freire)Prospect Park will lose a popular, long-time fixture when Lucio Schiavone retires as Carousel Manager in December after 26 years of service. On Saturday, November 5 at 11:45am the Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/] will commemorate Schiavone with a ceremony and
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Lucio Schiavone. (Photo Credit: Virginia Freire)Prospect Park will lose a popular, long-time fixture when Lucio Schiavone retires as Carousel Manager in December after 26 years of service. On Saturday, November 5 at 11:45am the Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/] will commemorate Schiavone with a ceremony and
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Holidays
Cobble Hill. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Happy Halloween! Brooklynites take All Hallows’ Eve very seriously as seen in the many homes playfully adorned in fun and creepy Halloween decorations. Cobble Hill. (Photo by Nathan Haselby)From tasteful autumnal gourds to cutesy, child-friendly characters and giant inflatable creatures, from elaborately
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[L-R] Avraham Schick, Executive Director, Jonathan Cohen, Manager, Special Projects, Kirk Chisholm, Clinical Director of NYCATS. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)The Youth/Human Services/Education Committee [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/youth.page] of Community Board 6 held a meeting Wednesday evening to review a proposal by
Arts & Culture
Valerie Gladstone’s Art Dolls 1. (Photo Credit: Nathan Haselby)The 20th Annual Gowanus Open Studios took place over the weekend [/blog/art-music/meet-amazing-artists-aplenty-this-weekend-at-gowanus-open-studios-2/] (October 15-16) with over 350 artists welcoming more than 5,000 visitors into their workspaces. Organized by Arts Gowanus [http://artsgowanus.org/], a not-for-profit organization that