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This is the perfect weekend to spend exploring Brooklyn! With great weather and even greater events, there’s something going on this weekend that the entire family can enjoy. Catch a special screening of Paris to Pittsburgh presented by National Geographic as part of Endangered Species Day or stop by
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Several events are planned across the borough in the coming weeks to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth (May 31, 1819). Walt Whitman (Photographer George C. Cox, 1887) via Wikimedia CommonsWhitman lived in Brooklyn for 28 years, working as a printer, teacher, journalist, and an editor for
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Model in Simone Imaani design (Photo: Gregg Richards/Brooklyn Library)PROSPECT PARK – The BKLYN Fashion Academy [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bklyn-fashion-academy] (BFA) held its second runway show in the Grand Lobby of the Brooklyn Public Library on Friday. BFA designers showcased their Fall/Winter mini-capsule collections, interpreting the history and
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Lose yourself in one of the many arts-related events happening throughout Brooklyn this weekend. Gallery Players will be showing a new take on a classic fairy tale in Once Upon a Mattress while The Bed Stuy Art Stroll will explore arts, hip-hop, and murals during their self-guided tour. There are
Bed Stuy
Brooklyn Tea at 524 Nostrand Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant (Photo: compliments of Brooklyn Tea’s website)BEDFORD STUYVESANT — These two entrepreneurs are “serving tea” in Brooklyn, but not the gossipy kind. Amid a high-caffeinated corridor in Bedford Stuyvesant, steps away from the busiest train station in the borough, owners Ali
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Don’t let the recent chilly weather keep you from exploring this weekend! Spend time relaxing while listening to jazz music with Out of the Collective, immerse yourself in a participatory performance, The Eye of the Beholder, at the BRIC House, check out art exhibits across the borough and check
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – One Clinton [https://www.oneclintonbk.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw5OV8Pbj3wIVmY3ICh3zUw00EAAYASAAEgIxn_D_BwE] , the 38-story tower replacing the Brooklyn Heights Library at 280 Cadman Plaza West and Clinton Street, recently launched sales for some of the development’s 134 luxury condos. 280 Cadman Plaza West rendering [http://280cadman.com] via Marvel
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – After launching a contest last fall [/name-the-brooklyn-public-library-eagle/] to name the cast-copper eagle sitting above the entrance of the Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/] has announced the winning moniker. Brooklyn Historical Society gifted the cast-copper eagle, Ingersoll, to Brooklyn Public Library (Photo: Nathan Haselby)Ingersoll
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Park Slope Library interior with two-story iron bookshelves, wood details, and stained glass. (Photo: Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein)Walk into one of the four Brooklyn Public Library branches in Park Slope, Red Hook, Pacific, or Carroll Gardens – and you’ll be entering a well-used building that, in three out of the four
Greenpoint
A pedestrian inspects the stop work order posted to the Greenpoint Library construction site (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – After delays pushing back the completion date of the Greenpoint Library by half a year, progress was being made on the site—until it was hit with a stop work order on
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PARK SLOPE/SUNSET PARK – Photographer Larry Racioppo [http://larryracioppo.com/index.html] loves his native Brooklyn and has made it his life’s work for nearly 50 years to document the borough’s transforming neighborhoods as well as his family and friends who have called it home. Brooklyn Before, Photographs,
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Back in October, the Brooklyn Public Library launched a contest [/name-the-brooklyn-public-library-eagle/] to name the grandiose cast-copper eagle sculpture [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/02/23/eagle-above-our-doorway] perched above the lobby of the Central Library branch at 10 Grand Army Plaza. Brooklyn Historical Society gifted this cast-copper eagle