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UPDATE (3/26): The Make It In Brooklyn Smart Cities event has been rescheduled—it will now take place on Thursday, March 19th, from 6-8 pm. DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Interested in how tech could help build the city of the future? Tomorrow’s Make It In Brooklyn Smart Cities event at
Announcements
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/big-ideas/make-it-in-brooklyn/make-it-in-brooklyn-pitch-contests] presents The Make It In Brooklyn Smart Cities pitch content—giving startups working to create smarter cities the chance to win $5,000. Startup businesses developing innovations in urban technologies in an effort to create smarter cities are
Business
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – After receiving 238 submissions from locales across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Amazon announced on Thursday [https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17044620011] that it has narrowed down the list of contenders for its second North American headquarters (Amazon HQ2) to 20 finalists. Via brooklyntechtriangle.com [http:
Arts & Culture
The holidays are officially here! Though the weekend will be on the quieter side, there are a handful of cool events scheduled including boozy caroling and skating with Santa. Looking forward to Tuesday, there’s the second annual Kwanzaa Crawl celebrating black-owned businesses. Don’t forget to check out the
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Downtown Brooklyn was rife with wee superheroes, princesses, and a couple of Super Mario Brothers Saturday afternoon as it played host to two fun-filled, family-friendly Halloween events. First was BKLYN Boo! [https://citypointbrooklyn.com/bklyn-boo/] at City Point (445 Albee Square West), the first-ever Prospect Park Halloween afterparty
Arts & Culture
Meet Me Downtown is part of Culture Forward, and is on view this week at 80 Hanson Place (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)DOWNTOWN – The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Culture Forward [http://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/cultureforward] festival launched last night with an exhibition of street photographs that documented the rapidly changing face
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Head to City Point Tuesday evening and cheer on five female entrepreneurs as they compete in pitching their new businesses for a chance to win $5,000. A part of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/]‘s Make It In Brooklyn [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/big-ideas/make-it-in-brooklyn] series,
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Via downtownbrooklyn.com [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/encore-salsa-for-a-good-cause]DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com] will host a free outdoor Salsa party to support relief efforts in Puerto Rico tomorrow, October 4, from 5pm to 7pm at Willoughby Plaza. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership requests that attendees bring supplies
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Willoughby & Pearl Streets (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/] and NYC DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] are temporarily closing off two busy streets in Downtown Brooklyn and converting them into public playgrounds for two Wednesdays
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Via FacebookThe Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [https://www.facebook.com/events/743413372528022/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_upcoming_events_card%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A[]%7D]%22%
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Photo via Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/movies-metrotech][Updated: Wednesday, July 12 at 5:30pm] Unfortunately, due to the threat of rain, tonight’s movie has been canceled. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and Forest City Ratner Companies are hosting Movies@MetroTech, a series of free, summer movies at
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300 Ashland Public Plaza, courtesy of Two Trees ManagementLast Wednesday evening, June 28, Two Trees Management and the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership hosted a summer celebration to launch the new public plaza located at 300 Ashland, the new mixed-use development in Fort Greene which is being dubbed BAM South. Designed by
Arts & Culture
Brian Tolle’s Miss Brooklyn and Miss Manhattan (Photo by Nathan Haselby)When traveling on Flatbush Avenue, either to or from the Manhattan Bridge, have you ever looked up and noticed the two spinning ladies greeting passersby? These two grand dames are Miss Brooklyn and Miss Manhattan [https://www.nytimes.
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Photo courtesy of Bosc d’Anjou [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boscdanjou/6445274743].A new plan lays out a vision of how to keep Downtown Brooklyn’s place as an artistic hotbed amidst the massive change [/?s=development+watch] currently enveloping the area. Culture Forward [http://assets.downtownbrooklyn.com/documents/
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Council Member Laurie Cumbo spoke briefly about the new New York City budget. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)Community Board 2 [/?s=community+board+2]‘s most recent meeting was focused heavily on the future of Downtown Brooklyn given the massive development of its recent past. The meeting took
Business
Image via americanvirus/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanvirus/3688768361/].We truly live in a connected world, with friends, family, strangers, news, and more available at the touch of a finger to a phone screen. But for many low-income New Yorkers, particularly those who live in public housing, internet