Central Brooklyn
One of my favorite rituals is taking advantage of the back to school sales. The downside to living in the same place year after year is that you cannot really remake your home without some serious effort. So why not just get a whole new place? In a whole new
Nonsponsored
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fort greene
Is there something strange in your neighborhood? Who ya gonna call? The brokers on these listings! (Courtesy Zillow/Robert Kotler of BK Chevrolet Inc. [http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/Fort-Greene-Brooklyn-New-York-NY/house,condo,apartment_duplex,mobile,townhouse_type/2106186064_zpid/273766_rid/7_days/featured_sort/40.691991,-73.
Central Brooklyn
Shahid Khan (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)Shahid Khan has become an important local community leader in the past few years. Earlier this year, he opened the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors/] . He helps run the Startalk Urdu language program [/blog/education/65-students-graduated-from-summer-urdu-program-on-friday/] for local students, and
Central Brooklyn
Shahid Khan (Photo by Shannon Geis/KensingtonBK)Shahid Khan has become an important local community leader in the past few years. Earlier this year, he opened the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors/] . He helps run the Startalk Urdu language program [/blog/education/65-students-graduated-from-summer-urdu-program-on-friday/] for local students, and recently started
Adult literacy
Council member Mathieu Eugene at the ribbon cutting for BRICK’s Female Literacy Center. (Photo via BRICK)The Brooklyn Rebuild Immigrant Community and Knowledge (BRICK) has opened a Female Literacy Center at the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors] (920 Foster Avenue near East 10th Street) in response to the
BID
Brooklyn Grange [http://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com] transformed the 65,000-square-foot roof of Building 3 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard into the city’s largest rooftop farm last year. Beyond the Fence recently caught up with Anastasia Cole Plakias – Brooklyn Grange co-founder, writer and host of the monthly Heritage Radio Network
art deco
We were recently on Avenue U near West 8th Street when we saw something that made us smile. Some great examples of turn of the 20th Century architecture – a few of which actually appeared well maintained – called out to our senses like some sort of oasis in the Fedders Desert