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Rendering of 2000 Gallon Planted Dumpster. (Courtesy of M18)The 4th of July will feature red, white, and blue as it does every year. The Gowanus neighborhood will be particularly bursting with blue during Independence Day. Blue dumpsters, that is. Gowanus Canal Conservancy [http://gowanuscanalconservancy.org/ee/] (GCC) and Alloy
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Photo via Putnam’s Pub and Cooker [https://www.facebook.com/PutnamsPub/photos/a.575152522573301.1073741829.132875773467647/978401142248435/?type=1&theater] .Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your
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The plaque at P.S. 10 in Caleb’s Garden. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The P.S. 10 community honored the memory of student Caleb Sande [/blog/tag/caleb-sande/] this morning with a memorial plaque that was unveiled in an area now named Caleb’s Garden. Caleb
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Photo by Leon LipkovichNew York City’s $82.1 billion budget — agreed to earlier this month by the mayor and city council — contains a lot of goodies for Sheepshead Bay and surrounding neighborhoods. City Councilman Chaim Deutsch explained he secured funding in the budget for local parks, public schools, youth
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Proposal for the Berkeley Carroll School rooftop expansion at 181 Lincoln Place. (Image via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/06/berkeley-carroll-school-to-get-addition-181-lincoln-place-park-slope.html] )The Berkeley Carroll School [https://www.berkeleycarroll.org/] wants to raise the roof, and they now have approval to do so. Last week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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P.S. 277 4th grader Angelina Vilar, center, holding up her award. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Two elementary schooler’s at P.S. 277 in Gerritsen Beach were honored Monday for their essays about the inspiring women in their lives. Angelina Vilar, 9, and Layla Avery, 10, were handed
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The old 68th precinct. (Source: wikimedia commons)Sunset Park might lose a piece of its history to make room for school children. As we reported [/education/historic-sunset-park-castle-eyed-department-education/] last week, the castle built in 1886 that once housed NYPD precincts, is being considered by the Department of Education [DOE] as a
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Mohammad Mahab and Moinul Alam (aka Bappy), co-founders of the Bangladeshi American Center Of North America (BACONA) and Bound for Success Tutoring Center. From the outside, the four-story brick monolith on Beverley road at East 5th street looks like every other apartment complex on the block. But venturing inside the
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Courtesy of Bee TutoredNavigating the high school process is challenging, particularly here in New York City. Bee Tutored, [http://www.beetutored.com] a local boutique tutoring company, believes the initial process of applying to schools should begin the summer before a student’s 8th grade year. The Fall semester can
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Photo via Putnam’s Pub and Cooker [https://www.facebook.com/PutnamsPub/photos/a.575152522573301.1073741829.132875773467647/978401142248435/?type=1&theater] .Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your
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Midwood High School, 2839 Bedford Avenue (Photo by evalamming / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGFnUNxsD7v/?taken-at=274150484])The Department of Education has dropped misconduct charges against an English teacher at Midwood High School, who was suspended in March for re-selling books to students [/blog/education/midwood-high-school-teacher-disciplined/]. Todd Friedman, an
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Wendy Xiao [left] and Susann Friedrich, Co-founders of CoHatchery. (Photo courtesy of CoHatchery)A summer program will soon begin that gives adults their workspace and the kids their playspace. And while the deal sounds much better for the kids, their parents get the peace of mind that the youngins’ are