Announcements
Making smoothies the Flatbush way at the Flatbush Frolic in 2014. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Are you ready for a party? The Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC) [http://www.fdconline.org] is holding its 41st annual Flatbush Frolic [http://www.fdconline.org/flatbush-frolic/] street fair this Sunday, September 25th, from 11am
Bensonhurst
Photo by mafioo [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKlWxAWDs2t/?tagged=coneyisland] Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week! Have an event? Post it on our community calendar [/calendar/]. Don Henley [http://www.ticketmaster.com/don-henley-brooklyn-new-york-09-21-2016/event/1D005081F44D2CFD?artistid=735267&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1&tm_link=venue_
Announcements
Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by our
Central Brooklyn
1917 photo of employees at the Defrancisci & Son Macaroni Machines factory at 219 Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg. Standing right to left: Joseph DeFrancisci, Ignazio DeFrancisci and Cosimo Alati, and five others. Sitting right to left: unknown, Dominic LoPardo and Joseph Bontempi (with hand under chin). (Image courtesy Brooklyn
Events
Photo by Ryan Vaarsi. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/77799978@N00/5744458710/in/photolist-9KBRry-eyD1Az-nVRjwq-81dnit-jq65vt-7GPusm-fjwbq-6v26yB-4ZLSQz-tcopFk-vU9GZA-d96Kfh-7Vga1-4XDZAc-73eBCG-6SMTax-5Bhjek-f8ZMmh-83Zwim-eWTqr-yemdGw-mYLFdE-8x4KRF-73beNH-6SRLAY-SbDKj-mwTgbz-4AD4vH-neqUmn-7dr62x-4SZ2er-73c2Gi-74XC95-EGqCgL-aeEoii-ndJbrn-73zALi-EYw6GU-dqHyED-9mnQMA-82pFb9-ibMgq-sbSXRt-7dr6pv-75AaE6-73KnsL-neHm19-EYw6MU-8PNVdo-3wFY3b] Stay busy this week with this list of things to do in southern B
Bensonhurst
Photo by iv_vidak [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKbntmPBinH/]The weekend is finally here, and we’d like to help you have a great one. If you have an event to share, please email us at editor@bensonhurstbean.com or post it on our community calendar [/calendar/]. The Coney
Central Brooklyn
Art installation at Prospect Park Boathouse by Nicholas Papadakis. (Courtesy of Nicholas Papadakis)Seeing a translucent boy hovering above the Prospect Park lake? Don’t worry, you’re not crazy it’s just Art Slope [http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/art-music/art-slope-will-turn-neighborhood-into-enormous-9-day-art-installation/] . Take a look at this art fest, plus 12
Events
Art Slope begins its 9-day festival with an opening night at ShapeShifter Lab at 8:30pm on Friday. (Work by Girl on Girl Collective, Courtesy of Art Slope)Could there actually be too much to do? Check out art everywhere, mixed-up trucks, Gypsy, and more. Roots Poetry Series When: Friday,
Events
1917 photo of employees at the Defrancisci & Son Macaroni Machines factory at 219 Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg. Standing right to left: Joseph DeFrancisci, Ignazio DeFrancisci and Cosimo Alati, and five others. Sitting right to left: unknown, Dominic LoPardo and Joseph Bontempi (with hand under chin). (Image courtesy Brooklyn
Events
Photo by Dina Rabiner / Park Slope StoopSunday, September 11 marked the third annual Wanderlust Festival in Prospect Park [http://wanderlust.com/108-events/brooklyn-ny/], a “field day for your mind, body and soul” combining yoga, a 5K run, dancing, outdoor activities like hooping and slack lining, and a marketplace full of
Events
Sunset Park’s Fifth Avenue Street Fair in 2012. (Photo via Sunset Park Business Improvement District Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/SunsetParkBID/photos/a.322586401128636.85527.165059886881289/409385955782013/?type=1&theater] .)Come on out this Sunday and celebrate with your neighbors! Sunset Park’s 5th Avenue Street Fair,
Destinations
Photo by Boss Tweed, Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bosstweed/8151017629/in/photolist-dqh6yH-axHh4e-hhK6kf-hnUUVq-By2Jrm-dsDim3-yY2zGy-yYPK4Z-JfRvRC-djoBDC-APh6zC-ztTwrs-CkQmHS-hhMpar-B6Dtq8-sgqjY-auoHkj-z156HF-pCR57Q-rKAxX-7uWR8e-aeZm6r-BqCwxG-hhLBCY-hhKnzD-zLk68v-BqYvSx-AjQNWP-hhKUtn-zYgmQw-duazFB-A2sFjw-dz9B2U-ydL87d-tmv1M-ujtUg-B66gHJ-hhKhuZ-hhKc9t-aDyXGy-ayr1Av-BqKAUH-Ayrvut-rEK98-7mdDsV-aEfaCz-J7MYND-hhKNvm-ASY8Hc-AuJsgu] .The glorious weekend is finally upon us, and we are all mapp