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A collection of 20 issues

Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill & Sunset Park Take Home The Gold For ‘Greenest Block In Brooklyn’

Stuyvesant Avenue between Bainbridge and Chauncey Streets. (Photo via Brooklyn Botanic Gardens [https://www.bbg.org/community/greenestblock])Congratulations to gardeners who won formidable accolades in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn [https://www.bbg.org/community/greenestblock]awards — including first place winners in Bed-Stuy, Boerum

Get Tickets For The BIG Oscars Party!

(Photo: Sheepshead Bites)The Bay Improvement Group is throwing their annual awards gala, the BIG Oscars, at Il Fornetto next week. The yearly waterfront party includes a four-course meal, music, dancing, a raffle, and cash bar. Tickets are $60 at the door, but you can shave ten bucks off the

10 Neighbors Who Did Wonderful Things This Year

(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)We’ll admit it. There’s often a lot of gloom and doom on Sheepshead Bites. And if you regularly follow the site, you’re aware there have been quite a few horrible crimes [/brighton-beach-man-charged-with-murdering-natik-nisimov-on-ocean-parkway/], multimillion dollar scams [/three-managers-of-two-local-medical-centers-accused-of-running-61-million-fraud-scheme-as-part-of-largest-bust-in-history/] , and political scandals [/michael-grimm-inmate-83479-053-

Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel Extension Wins Brooklyn Building Award

The Green-Wood Cemetery chapel extension. (Photo courtesy Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce)Congratulations to Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/], one of the places honored this year in the 2015 Brooklyn Building Awards [http://www.ibrooklyn.com/CWT/EXTERNAL/WCPAGES/GO_BROOKLYN/BUILDING_BROOKLYN_AWARDS%E2%84%A2_-_2015.ASPX]

Congressman Jeffries & Mathylde Frontus Honored For Efforts To Revitalize Coney Island

Photo courtesy of Coney Island HospitalCongressman Hakeem Jeffries and Dr. Mathylde Frontus [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2013/12/shawn-white-shooting/] were honored for their contributions to Coney Island and neighboring communities as part of Black History Month at Coney Island Hospital [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/coneyisland/html/home/home.

Prospect Park’s LeFrak Center At Lakeside Lands Major Architectural Award

The Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Center at Lakeside [http://www.lakesideprospectpark.com/] in Prospect Park was just awarded with the highest honor in the field of architecture, with the facility that opened last year after an extensive, and much-celebrated, renovation project edging out hundreds of other candidates for the

Help Your Favorite Local Library Win $20,000!

Love your library? Whether your go-to branch is Park Slope (431 6th Avenue), Pacific (25 4th Avenue), or the Central Library (10 Grand Army Plaza), you can help it win $20,000 in the second annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards [http://www.nyclibraryawards.org/]. To nominate a location, neighbors are

The Gallery Players Nominated For Awards Celebrating Great Off-Off-Broadway Work

A reminder that we’ve got some great theater right in our backyard? The Gallery Players [http://galleryplayers.com/], which has been bringing plays and musicals to Brooklyn since 1967 (and to its current home at 199 14th Street since 1989), was recently nominated [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/

Kingsborough’s Radio Station WKRB Named Nation’s Best Community College Station

Location of greatness: Kingsborough’s radio station, WKRB. (Source: WKRB) Kingsborough Community College’s radio station, WKRB, received the honor of being named the best community college radio station in the nation. The announcement was made during the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System [http://www.collegebroadcasters.us/content/index.html]‘s 74th

PowerUP Your New Business Ideas With Brooklyn Public Library

Got a great idea for a business, but need a little guidance — and perhaps a little money to fund it? You may want to check out the Brooklyn Public Library’s PowerUP! Business Plan Competition [http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/locations/business/powerup/], which is currently accepting entries. If you live