Events
Bigger than ever, A Taste of Fifth [http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2875655]spotlights Park Slope 5th Avenue’s best and tastiest food and drink from 45+ destination restaurants and legendary watering holes that line the Avenue. Come hungry to fully enjoy the annual festival of fine food and complimentary
News
Crown Heights residents protesting the opening of the 1173 Bergen Street senior men’s homeless shelter at a town hall meeting last week (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)[UPDATED March 21, 8:20pm] The 1173 Bergen Street shelter will not open tomorrow, March 22, as scheduled. Jennifer Cato emailed the
Central Brooklyn
Parents checking out a project board at the District 45 PB Project Expo, Flatbush YMCA. (Photo by Carly Miller)Voting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] begins this Saturday, March 25, and we stopped by the Project Expo for Flatbush and Midwood to give District 45
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439 36th Street (Photo via Compass [https://www.compass.com/listing/439-36th-street-brooklyn-ny-11232/12c4305f7a13494a09da1ebe17f701bf15518ce5/] )A stylishly renovated 2,800-square-foot townhouse located at 439 36th Street [https://www.compass.com/listing/439-36th-street-brooklyn-ny-11232/12c4305f7a13494a09da1ebe17f701bf15518ce5/] (between 4th & 5th Avenues) in Sunset
Animals
R.I.P. Ziggy (Photo by Laura Stephen via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210420591729079&set=a.1438366997147.2058727.1172171601&type=3&theater] )Bed-Stuy resident Laura Stephen took her six-year-old pit bull mix Ziggy out for a walk Sunday night but
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Image by Lightstone Group via City Realty [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/gowanus/363-bond-street/87272]Applications are now available for 54 affordable units at the new 363 Bond Street Apartments overlooking the Gowanus Canal Superfund site. Located in the up-and-coming Gowanus neighborhood, the 12-story building
News
384 11th Street, Park Slope (Photo by Christopher Bride via Property Shark [https://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Photos/view.html?photo=3-01023-0033.aTDLldQT&type=uploaded&rand=697] )Mayor Bill de Blasio is seeking a new tenant for his one-bedroom rental at 384 11th Street in
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250 Avenue Z and West 15th Street. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Density is rising in southern Brooklyn, with new apartments jockeying for space on vacant or low-rise home sites. Gravesend Potential apartments or condos could replace a gated cluster of small homes in Gravesend, according to YIMBY. A Brooklyn-
Health
Activists in Bay Ridge want to de-politicize the Affordable Care Act battlefield and put a human face to the struggle to pay for coverage in southern Brooklyn and Staten Island. In a new video [https://vimeo.com/208978875] made by Courtney Scott and Rebecca Brodsky, constituents from U.S.
Arts & Culture
Brooklyn War Memorial at Cadman Plaza Park (Photo by Nathan Haselby)Located across from the Federal Courthouse in Cadman Plaza Park, the Brooklyn War Memorial was erected in 1951 to honor more than 300,000 Brooklynites who served in World War II. In need of repairs, the Memorial has been
celebrity
> Tonight I spent a long time admiring/trying to understand this 3D CLOUD-SLASH-MIRROR in my new lobby ??#adamfrankinc #300AshlandPartner [https://www.instagram.com/p/BRme0ePhBqk/] A post shared by Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle) on Mar 13, 2017 at 7:10pm PDT With all the towers rising in Downtown
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Participatory Budgeting Project)It’s that time of year again — where democracy gets hyper-local, giving neighbors a chance create projects and then vote on how public money is spent in their council district. Participatory budgeting [http://council.nyc.gov/html/pb/home.shtml], a city program that