Events
Head to Morbid Anatomy Museum Tuesday night for Mystery Diagnosis Live! (Photo courtesy Morbid Anatomy Museum)October is here, and so are weekday events. Check out a live mystery diagnosis, puns galore, Mott the Hoople mania, and more! Shofar in the Park [http://www.chabadparkslope.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/
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Photo via Flickr/Cindy Stuntz.Here’s our list of great things to do in and around the neighborhood this weekend: Friends Group Books, Crafts & Jewelry Sale [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/friends-group-book-craft-sheepshead-bay-library-100116] When: Saturday, October 1. 10:15am-4:45pm Where: Sheepshead Bay Library, 2636 E.14th St What:
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
Events
Head to St. John’s Episcopal Church for Concerts on the Slope on Sunday, October 2. (Photo via Concerts on the Slope [https://www.facebook.com/ConcertsOnTheSlope/photos/a.593148497456034.1073741827.216959101741644/593148464122704/?type=1&theater] / Facebook.)Welcome to ROCKTOBER! Weekend events include classical tunes, sublime comedy, and stunning
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Photo via the Ragamuffin Parade’s official websiteHave a great weekend and take advantage of all your neighborhood has to offer at one of these local events. If you have an event to share, please email us at editor@bensonhurstbean.com or post it on our community calendar [/calendar/]. Movies
Central Brooklyn
Cop-of-the-month recipients with NCO officers. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The 70th Precinct continues to experience an ongoing drop in overall crime, but a surge in reported rapes and vehicle collisions for 2016, according to Deputy Inspector James R. Palumbo. For the year to date, there has been a 10.
Business
City Point played host to Make It In Brooklyn. (Courtesy Park Slope Stoop/Donny Levit)This year’s Make It In Brooklyn [/blog/announcements/what-it-takes-to-make-it-in-brooklyn-sponsored/] was marked by a self-aware and, at times, self-effacing attitude towards the borough’s emergence as an economic and cultural powerhouse. Fittingly, this year’s
Central Brooklyn
Calvin Brown with his daughter, Jamaica. (Photo: Corner Media)Yesterday, thousands of children, parents, teachers and school administrators gathered in Prospect Park, calling on the De Blasio administration to allow for the creation of more charter schools in New York City. Students from all five boroughs traveled to Prospect Park
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Photo via the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant AffairsMayor de Blasio’s IDNYC initiative [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/about/about.page] — which allows New York City residents 14-years and older to sign up for a government-issued identification card, independent of immigration status, enabling cardholders access to city
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Photo via gelafayee [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIm3x02BCwz/?tagged=shofar&hl=en] / instagramThe ancient sounds of the shofar will be coming to the Prospect Park next Monday, and all of you are invited to hear it. Rabbi Menashe Wolf and Chabad of Park Slope [http://www.chabadparkslope.com/
Arts & Culture
Mexican folkloric dance group performs at National Night Out. (Photo: Elizabeth Elizalde / Sunset Park Voice)Fearless Juan, or Juan Sin Miedo, is a story full of chills, ghosts, monsters, spells, and a friendly character that is always afraid. That’s how the Sunset Park Library describes a book that will
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At the co-naming ceremony for “Salvatore (Sal) D’Amato Place”. Photo via Council Member Gentile’s officeThis past weekend saw the co-naming of two neighborhood streets after three gone but not forgotten area residents. The corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues — now also known as “Nathan and Ida Handwerker Way”