Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Prospect Farm)With the Department of Sanitation’s organics curbside collections expanding [/curbside-composting-coming-brooklyn-neighborhoods/] to Fort Greene, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Kensington, and more — many lucky Brooklynites don’t have to travel to compost this summer. (See if your neighborhood and building will get the brown compost bin
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by francescapitzalis9 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLG4UpJhUhE/?tagged=grapestomp] / instagram)The weekend is here, and we’d love to help you have a great one just blocks from your home. Whether you’re looking to take historic house tours, get your feet dirty at a grape stomp, or
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via barchordbrooklyn [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKReox8Bwnc7R0JoETQg89sm3qF8YjuVkrdCng0/?taken-by=barchordbrooklyn] / instagram)Since it looks like hurricane Matthew won’t be making an appearance this weekend, get out and enjoy the autumn days with great events just blocks from your home. Whether you’re looking to rock a half-marathon, buy
Central Brooklyn
(Photo courtesy Prospect_ Park / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKq4GSQDffa/])October has arrived, and we’d like to help you welcome the autumn season with great events just blocks from your home. Whether you’re looking to roller-skate to David Bowie tunes, catch some southern soul music, or find
Central Brooklyn
(Photo courtesy Friends of Greenwood Playground / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/223014854379847/photos/a.224896474191685.73559.223014854379847/1401616413186346/?type=3&theater] )The weekend is finally here, and we’d like to help you have a great one blocks from your home. Whether you’re looking to roller-skate to Prince
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Prospect Farm [https://prospectfarm.org/composting/])There are many reasons to compost this summer. For one, it reduces a tremendous amount of reusable waste. Compostable trash items — like food scraps — make up almost one-third [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/zerowaste/residents/food-scraps-and-yard-waste.shtml] of New York City’
Cortelyou Greenmarket
Photo via Melissa Baldwin [https://www.flickr.com/photos/19melissa68/5256622292] We know we are excited to get together with family next week, eat until it hurts, and be completely useless for at least six hours after, how about you? To try and make the meal a little easier on
Coffee Mob
Photo courtesy of Celebrate BrooklynHappy Thursday, everyone! This weekend, you can see neighbor Nicolette Dixon’s play [/blog/events/see-neighbor-nicolette-dixons-show-exploring-gender-sexuality-and-polyamory-love-circus-this-friday-august-7] at one of the best LGBTQ theater festivals in New York, go to a fee concert at EzraGuitar [/blog/events/attend-a-free-whispers-of-the-evening-concert-at-ezraguitar-this-saturday-august-8] and lots more! If you have events you’d
bashi channel
The bao at Bashi Channel (1120 Cortelyou Road), which will celebrate its grand opening Saturday.Get ready to be on the go during this gorgeous weekend, neighbors! You can go to a free spring concert in PS 217’s garden tonight [/blog/events/ps-217-announces-its-full-2015-spring-concert-series-lineup], take a free tour of the
1118 Cortelyou Road
Photo courtesy the Flatbush Farm ShareWe’re fortunate to live in a neighborhood where we can find fresh produce grown locally (such as at our weekly Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/brooklyn/cortelyou]), and, with the arrival of longer, warmer days, we’ll soon be seeing a whole
Cortelyou Greenmarket
Photo via The Blue Dahlia [https://www.facebook.com/136078126469513/photos/a.136078356469490.34251.136078126469513/344023575674966/?type=1&theater] Hooray! It’s almost Friday! Get your weekend off to an early start with some tarot readings at Sycamore’s Star Sign party [http://www.sycamorebrooklyn.com/special-events/] tonight, go
apple pie
This Sunday, the Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/brooklyn/cortelyou] will be hosting its annual apple pie bake-off! Come to the market information tent at 11:30am to taste your neighbors’ pies featuring local apples – and vote for your favorite (while pies last!). The winning baker will get
Cortelyou Greenmarket
Hope you all got to try some drool-worthy peaches at the Cortelyou greenmarket on Sunday (when we got to welcome Kernan Farms [/blog/greenmarket/welcome-kernan-farms-to-the-cortelyou-greenmarket-this-sunday] to our neighborhood), as photographed by brooklynwonder [http://instagram.com/p/rhOMBrmkTY/?modal=true]. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas
Cortelyou Greenmarket
At tomorrow’s Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/cortelyougreenmarket], be sure to stock up on warm weather foods as the next couple of days are supposed to be in the high 70’s–and of course, you can pick up something yummy for mom. Plus: • Bring food scraps to
Cortelyou Greenmarket
Tomorrow’s Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/cortelyougreenmarket] will feature the delicious produce, bread, wine, and more that you’re used to, plus yummy cow and goat cheese, fresh milk, and mushrooms from recently-returned vendors Madura Mushrooms [http://www.realtimefarms.com/farm/5058326/madura-farm] and Goodale Dairy [http://www.
green
In addition to picking up the regular goodies at tomorrow’s Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/cortelyougreenmarket], you can sign up for their Winter Warriors program. Just check in at the info tent, pick up a program card, attend 10 weeks worth of Greenmarkets, and receive some sweet coupons