Business
Our very own Windsor Terrace Food Coop appeared on French TV last weekend. As first reported by Karma Brooklyn Blog [http://karmabrooklyn.blogspot.com/2016/04/these-supermarkets-defy-mass-market.html] , the Windsor Terrace and Park Slope Food Co-ops are both featured in a 16-minute segment [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOOwLMnDdKY]
Food & Drink
Image via Jen Wittlin and Sunset Park CSA [https://www.instagram.com/sunsetparkcsa/].Now is the time to sign up for a farm share so you can enjoy all of the wonderful produce grown in our region this summer. Here’s information on just two of the CSA’s (Community
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Church Avenue BIDCome on out this Sunday, May 1st, for the Annual Church Avenue Street Fair. The Fair will be happening from noon to 6pm on Church Avenue, between Coney Island Avenue and Rugby Road. Check out the great line-up — which includes a $1 Restaurant Hour; free raffle; rides;
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Flatbush HatzolahCouncil Member David Greenfield will be funding four projects in his district following the results of this year’s participatory budgeting (PB) process. Over 2,300 people in Greenfield’s district — which spans Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst — voted in the PB process in late March and early
Central Brooklyn
Headquarters of the 66th Precinct at 16th Avenue and 59th Street. (Photo: Google Maps)[This story was updated on 4/26/16 at 7pm.] A longtime community affairs detective at the 66th Precinct, who was named in a federal corruption investigation, is trying to retire, the New York Daily News
Central Brooklyn
Photo of the straightening of Church Avenue — east of Flatbush Avenue — from the September 10th, 1904 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. (Source: Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Collection)Our friends at the Brownstone Detectives did a wonderful post [http://www.brownstonedetectives.com/straightening-a-crooked-church-1904/] last year about the straightening of Church
Central Brooklyn
Council Members Jumaane Williams and Mathieu Eugene — with other Council Members, advocates and young people — at a rally this morning at City Hall. (Photo: office of Jumane Williams)In 2015, over 130,000 teenagers and young adults sought positions in the City’s summer jobs program but less than half
Central Brooklyn
Catch-basin in New York City. (Photo: NYC Department of Environmental Protection)We have all seen catch basins become clogged with garbage and debris during a rainstorm, flooding nearby areas and forming small ponds that get in the way of pedestrians, cyclists and cars. Borough President Eric Adams and New York
Announcements
Photo: Flatbush Farm CSANow is the time to sign up for a farm share so you can enjoy all of the wonderful produce grown in our region this summer. Here’s information on just two of the CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture) in our area. Flatbush Farm Share CSA Sign-ups
Central Brooklyn
Still from video showing the thief on his way to steal a package from a home on Buckingham Road on Friday, April 8th.A man linked to several thefts from the front porches of area homes has been arrested. The suspect, identified as Christian Sierra, who has confessed to at
Central Brooklyn
Mural honoring musical icon Prince, painted this week at a construction site at East 2nd Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. (Photo: Cindy VandenBosch)This week in Ditmas Park, while Bernie Sanders was able to win majorities in Kensington, sections of greater Ditmas Park, and Midwood, Hillary Clinton decisively won the
Central Brooklyn
Still image of Alex Lichtenstein as seen on CBS News/New York.The de Blasio administration has frozen two City Council grants intended for an Orthodox Jewish security patrol in Borough Park. Mayoral spokeswoman Karen Hinton announced this week that $35,000 intended for the Borough Park Shomrim would not