ample hills
Photo by Park Slope StoopThe summer heat is here and if you are looking for a sweet treat to help you cool down, have we got the roundup for you. Here are some of our favorite places to grab a cold snack in the 90 degree heat! Thai Ice Cream
brooklyn urban garden school
Image courtesy the Cortelyou GreenmarketThis Sunday, May 10, bring your mom, your friends, your neighbors — bring anyone you want! — and head over to the Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/brooklyn/cortelyou] for a celebration of Zakafest, a Haitian festival of agriculture and springtime. The greenmarket, located on Cortelyou
Bangla
A dance routine from the Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts. Photo courtesy Annie FerdousWhat do you have planned for Saturday night? How about watching some amazing dance and music performances by our incredibly talented neighbors? The Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts [https://www.facebook.com/groups/2223192714/?fref=ts] will
crafts
This Saturday, February 8 from 12-2pm, bring the kids to Culture [http://www.cultureny.com/] (331 5th Avenue), where Good Eggs [http://www.goodeggs.com/nyc] is hosting a free”crafternoon” party. Craft-loving kids of all ages and their parents are invited to make Valentines, and the best crafter will
Amy Aronoff
Most are now familiar with journalist Andrea Elliott [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/andrea_elliott/]’s story, which depicts the trials of 11-year-old Dasani, daughter of unemployed parents who are in and out of drug rehab programs. The homeless shelter where she lives is overrun with
Bite of the Week
Sure, there may be a fair bit of frozen yogurt fatigue [/blog/business/down-one-fro-yo-shop-forever-yogurt-gets-eviction-notice], and the weather might make some shy away from a chilly treat, but when the limited number of flavors change regularly at Culture [http://www.cultureny.com/] (331 Fifth Avenue), you may come across a new
cariBBeing
Last week we introduced you [/blog/art-music/learn-about-caribbeing-the-flatbush-film-festival] to neighbor Shelley Worrell’s non-profit arts organization caribBEING [http://caribbeing.com/] and the Flatbush Film Festival [http://www.caribbeing.com/flatbush-film-festival/]. We met Shelley over tea to learn more about her heritage, her life in Ditmas Park, and how she’s
culture
Endearing conversations and childish laughter are part of the background music in Park Slope, a town populated with happy families. Like little kangaroos, bunny-eared babies smile (or bawl) from Mommy’s front pouch, while teenagers converge at the local pizza joint to grab a slice and the latest gossip after
culture
photo credit: Zack Buchman via Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150262843176765&set=o.217396471634373&type=3&theater] It’s National Frozen Yogurt Day (I know, it wasn’t on my free ASPCA calendar, either), and to celebrate, Culture [http://www.cultureny.com/] is giving
culture
It might seem obvious to those of us that live in Brooklyn’s southern stretches, but research has confirmed it: New York is populated by more Russian Jews than any other place in the world. But putting a number on that population – here and in the country as a whole
B line
Lisanne Anderson, “knowledgeable of the city’s miscellanea as she is [/morning-mug-our-little-stonehenge/],” and frequent photo contributor to Sheepshead Bites, submitted this Technicolor gem of the fabled “Steps to Nowhere” outside the Neck Road and East 16 thStreet station. The “Steps to Nowhere,” while just that — a no longer operational facet
culture
Sheepshead Bay Road Holiday Season December 2009If your answer was “light” you were only partially right. If you said, “There are no holiday decorations hanging above”, you get first prize. The picture was taken during the height of the Christmas and Hannukah season (yesterday), but you would never know it