Downtown Brooklyn
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
Events
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Downtown Brooklyn
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
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
The guitar club at MS 577 Conselyea Preparatory School in Williamsburg, with Borough President Eric Adams. (Photo by Kathryn Kirk/Brooklyn BP’s Office) Students from across Brooklyn have been tapped to perform as part of the summertime lineup of the 2015 School Lunchtime Concert Series that kicked off yesterday
370 jay street
While this isn’t strictly in our coverage area, we just can’t deny how cool it is–at 11am this Wednesday, October 1, a time capsule buried in Downtown Brooklyn will be unearthed in front of a live audience [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/family-community/time-capsule-unveiling]. Renovations at 370 Jay
churches united for fair housing
Earlier this afternoon, Brooklyn politicians and representatives of affordable housing groups, development companies, and Community Board 2 convened at Borough Hall to make an announcement low, middle, and moderate income Brooklyn families may find exciting: they’ll be offering five affordable housing workshops in the coming months to help demystify