brownsville
Cynthia Nixon by Kadia Goba/BKLYNERBROWNSVILLE – A day after officially announcing her New York State gubernatorial run, Cynthia Nixon [http://cynthiafornewyork.com/] delivered a fiery speech in front of almost 100 local residents and reporters in Brownsville yesterday. Following months of a rumored gubernatorial run, Nixon, best known for her
Borough Park
The second storm in a week hit Brooklyn last night, leaving some snow (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * The Business of Brooklyn: 20 Products Born in BK [https://thebridgebk.com/business-brooklyn-amazing-history-20-artifacts/] [The Bridge BK] * Caribbean-American Eatery “Sally Roots” Named Brunch in Bushwick [http://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/food-and-drink/5260-best-of-bushwick-brunch-winner] [Buchwick Daily] * Animated
Borough Park
Balloons for sale in Brooklyn (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * Remembering the Great Blizzard of 1888 [https://www.brownstoner.com/history/blizzard-1888-new-york-brooklyn-snow-storm-history-environmental-subway/] [Brownstoner] * NYPD Files Show Officers Kept Jobs After Serious Offenses [https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious?s=mobile_app&utm_term=.fwwzdaBnKe#.xlBQM2jYBb] [BuzzFeed News] * Are “Star Maps” Brooklyn’
celebrity
Intersection of Atlantic & Washington Avenues via Google MapsPROSPECT HEIGHTS – Actress Amber Tamblyn [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848554/?ref_=nv_sr_1] took to Twitter on Sunday to ask her followers for help in tracking down the driver of a grey van who she says tried to hit her
Borough Park
All smiles on the L train (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) * Baby Birthday Bashes Barging in on Brooklyn Bar Scene [https://nypost.com/2018/02/27/baby-birthday-parties-have-infested-brooklyns-bar-scene/] [NY Post] * Janice McDonnell Paints the Brooklyn Waterfront, Red Hook to Navy Yard [https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/brooklyn-artist-janice-mcdonnell-red-hook-gowanus-waterfront-paintings/] [Brownstoner] * Enjoy Coffee and a Bike
Borough Park
Spring is coming. * A beautiful story from Borough Park – Searching for the Woman Who Saved My Immigrant Family from Homelessness [http://narrative.ly/searching-woman-saved-immigrant-family-homelessness/] – thirty years later (by Shaheen Pasha on [http://narrative.ly/author/shaheen-pasha/]Narratively). * Fifteen years ago a college student was found shot five times in Prospect
bath beach
Vic Damone in 1959, By Columbia Records – Public Domain [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16814650]BATH BEACH/BENSONHURST – Singer Vic Damone, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/obituaries/vic-damone-singer-dies.html] aka Vito Farinola of Bensonhurst, died last Sunday in Miami Beach at age 89, various news
Carroll Gardens
CARROLL GARDENS – One of the actresses from Girls is selling her spacious and eclectic Clinton Street home in Carroll Gardens. 408 Clinton Street, Carroll Gardens (Photo by Kate Leonova via Property Shark) Jemima Kirke and her husband moved to 408 Clinton Street in 2013 to raise their two children, the
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CLINTON HILL – In Patti Smith’s 2010 bestselling, award-winning memoir, Just Kids, the punk icon documented her time living in a “seedy” Clinton Hill apartment with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. 160 Hall Street, Clinton Hill (Photo: Christopher Bride via Property Shark)The two struggling artists moved into the second floor
Arts & Culture
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – A 1982 painting by Brooklyn-born artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, is making its museum debut right here in the artist’s hometown. Untitled, 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat, American, 1960-1988, acrylic, spray paint and oilstick on canvas, 72 1/8 x 68 1/8 in., on view at the Brooklyn Museum
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COBBLE HILL – Cobble Hill may have lost one creative couple, but it’s rumored that another talented pair is taking its place. Photo: Christopher Bride via Property SharkActors Daniel Craig [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185819/?ref_=nv_sr_1] and Rachel Weisz [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001838/?ref_
Announcements
Saturday Night Fever is coming back to Brooklyn for one night only—on a Wednesday! To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic disco flick, the original 2001 Space Odyssey Nightclub is coming back to life in a Southern Brooklyn Chinese restaurant. The Bamboo Garden, which sits at 64th Street