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Section of Preliminary FEMA Flood Map showing Sunset Park coastline. (Courtesy: FEMA)As the southern East Coast braces for the arrival of Hurricane Matthew, we thought it would be useful to return to the topic of climate resiliency in our part of Brooklyn. In January, 2015, the Federal Emergency Management
Arts & Culture
(Photo via joshwickline [https://www.instagram.com/p/6xgxmeMQhm/?taken-at=6206034] / instagram)This Saturday, the annual ‘Art and Craft in the Garden’ exhibit will be hosted at the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church [https://sites.google.com/site/flatbushtompkins/], located at East 19th Street and Dorchester Road, featuring more than
Bensonhurst
Photo by magliarosanyc [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLOfd6IjUAD/]The South BK Beat is our new round-up of news you may have missed in South Brooklyn this week: Gravesend apartment complex allegedly dumped 200K gallons of sewage daily in Coney Island Creek [http://gothamist.com/2016/10/04/brooklyn_
Nonsponsored
A Citi Bike station is now located on 5th Avenue and 3rd Street outside of J.J. Byrne Playground and the Old Stone House. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The Transportation/Public Safety Committee [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/transportation.page] of Community Board 6 [http:
Central Brooklyn
(Photo from a 2015 tour by Leila Sales [http://leilasales.com])Are there buildings in (and around) Ditmas Park that you have always wanted to visit? This year’s Open House New York Weekend [http://www.ohny.org/] is October 15 and 16 and will feature hundreds of buildings and
Bensonhurst
Ask not what your cannoli can do for you, but what you can do for your cannoliIn Brooklyn, real estate prices will rise and fall, the F train will go in and out of service, and the price of pizza will inch ever upwards, but as sure as the Cyclone
Announcements
Photo via Army Corps of Engineers.Last night, residents of the Brooklyn community gathered together at the behest of Council member Chaim Deutsch and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries to go over a tentative plan to mitigate damages from another possible super storm – an event that has a yearly 1 percent probability,
Central Brooklyn
Hydro-Estimator, Central America Oct 4, 2016. (Photo via NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research)Local politicians are announcing relief efforts for Haiti, which faces a humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, starting here in Flatbush — a longtime epicenter of the Haitian-American community. Hurricane Matthew touched
Education
Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/01/common-
Announcements
Photo via WikipediaThe weather is growing crisp and the leaves are beginning to change meaning it’s prime time to get a flu vaccine. The government recommends the vaccine for everyone six months and older, and it constitutes the best protection against the flu. Quick and safe, the vaccine is
Education
Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/01/common-
Police & Fire
FBI vehicles outside 2101 Avenue Z. Photo by Diana Saez Rivera.The FBI appeared to raid the building at 2101 Avenue Z on the corner of East 21 Street this morning, according to a reader of ours, Diana Saez Rivera. Rivera saw the FBI peering into the apartment windows of