Central Brooklyn
Sakura Matsuri, better known as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Cherry Blossom Festival [/preview-brooklyn-botanic-gardens-cherry-blossom-festival-2017/], is taking place up north this weekend. However, seeing some green without spending too much of it should be a year-round activity. The best place to do that? Southern Brooklyn. (Courtesy Zillow/Ari Weber of Street
Arts & Culture
Cherry Blossoms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)It’s the last weekend of April! Where has the month gone? There’s lots going on this weekend—Cinco de Mayo skeletons, cherry blossoms, acrobats, fundraisers, and more! BRIC OPEN Festival [https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-open-festival] When:
Announcements
(Photo by Corner Media)If you live in City Council District 40 (Ditmas Park, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Prospect Lefferts Gardens), get excited — the results for Participatory Budgeting cycle six are in! Councilmember Mathieu Eugene announced the winning projects for Participatory Budgeting [http://pbnyc.org/], where voters chose how to
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Photo via coneyislandfunGet out and explore your favorite boro this weekend with our event guide from Ditmas Park to Marine Park. If you have an event to share, email us at For a list of arts events in the Park Slope area, see our northern BK weekend guide here [/weekend-art-events-april-28-30-cherry-blossoms-save-sunnys/
Announcements
Council Member David Greenfield answering hard-hitting questions at the Brooklyn School of Inquiry on Avenue P, April 27. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)If you live in City Council District 44 (Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Midwood, and Ocean Parkway), get excited — the results for Participatory Budgeting cycle six are in! Councilmember
Central Brooklyn
Friend’s Field, April 27, 2017 (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)[Update: April 27, 2017, 11:15am—Police have told BKLYNER that the body was found near the park’s baseball field.] Early this morning, cops found a dead body on a bench at Friend’s Field in Midwood. Though
Central Brooklyn
The New York City Police Department will be actively enforcing the law when it comes to school buses starting today, reads the email from the 70th Precinct in Flatbush. Well, to be exact, enforcing it on those who fail to stop when the bus turns on red flashing lights, as
Central Brooklyn
Around 3:30pm on an overcast Wednesday afternoon, NYC Parks Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Martin Maher, Deputy Borough President Diana Reyna and City Council Member Laurie Cumbo, cut the ribbon on the fully renovated Jackie Robinson Playground in Crown Heights. NYC Parks Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Martin Maher speaking at Jackie Robinson
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Photo by Enlightenment Wines via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BPvuh-Igdyp/?taken-by=enlightenmentwines]The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -A Curious Raccoon Visits PS 58 [PMFA [http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/2017/04/well-hello-raccoon-having-fun-with.html]
Central Brooklyn
This coming weekend, the Flatbush Food Coop [http://flatbushfood.coop/] (1415 Cortelyou Road between Rugby and Marlborough Roads) will be hosting its fourth annual Flatbush Green Weekend — which translates to two days chock full of free eco-friendly events that are open to everyone. Here’s what’s on the schedule
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by BKLYNER)We’re excited to announce a new Thai home-cooking restaurant will be opening next week on Cortelyou Road, employees told BKLYNER. Corthaiyou will unveil its new menu and interior at 1310 Cortelyou Road in the former home of Asya, which shuttered last summer [/asya-indian-restaurant-closes-doors-cortelyou-road-ditmas-park/], and Picket Fence
Business
Park Manor, 570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)The Park Manor Home for Adults, an assisted living facility on Coney Island Avenue appears to be shuttered. Several neighbors reached out to us, noticing the padlock-and-gates down for several days at a time. They also reported not having