Announcements
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK – Marking its 20th anniversary hosting free programs at Brooklyn Bridge Park, on Monday the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy announced its Spring/Summer 2019 schedule [https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/press/2019-season-announcement]. Brooklyn Bridge Park, Movies with a View (Photo: Etienne Frossard)The Conservancy launched the Movies With A
Arts & Culture
Nerdy Burlesque at the Nerdlesque Festival in Coney Island was a great attraction with talent from throughout the country. Paris Original of Seattle WA shows her personality in a Disney kind of way. Todd Maisel/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – Burlesque can be creative, sexually expressive and at times, gender fluid. In some
Announcements
Coney Island opensCONEY ISLAND – Yes, the Luna Park and the Cyclone opened last week to huge crowds, but this past Sunday was the traditional Brooklyn egg cream christening of the famed roller coaster, the bottle of chocolaty goodness broken by the Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, community leaders, and Luna
Business
More than 50 Park Slope restaurants and bars convened on April 10th at the Grand Prospect Hall for the legendary food-and-drink festival A TASTE OF FIFTH.PARK SLOPE – If you ever wished to be able to walk up and down Fifth Avenue in Park Slope and sample the food of
Arts & Culture
The temperature’s starting to heat up and so are the events around Brooklyn! Celebrate Record Store Day with live musical performances at Rough Trade NYC or spend the day outside ringing in the Bengali New Year at Avenue C Plaza. Plus, this is the last weekend to check out
Big Story
Photo: Todd MaiselSUNSET PARK – A week after the Sunset Park fire that displaced over 100 residents, the community is still standing together. On April 3, a six-alarm fire ripped through 702 44th Street [/sunset-park-6-alarm-fire-injures-19-more-than-100-homeless/]. Twenty-three people were injured, over 100 were displaced, and about a dozen cats and dogs died.
Arts & Culture
DOWNTOWN/CONEY ISLAND – The New York Preservation Archive Project [http://www.nypap.org/] is hosting its third annual Preservation Film Festival [http://www.nypap.org/nypap-presents-the-2019-preservation-film-festival/] April 2nd to May 3rd, screening contemporary documentaries and historic classics across the five boroughs. The selected films address current themes such as climate
Arts & Culture
Nicco Soffiato, Zach Swanson and Deric Dickens at Erv’s in PLG during a band night. (Photo courtesy of Nicco Soffiato)PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — There’s a burgeoning new music corridor growing and it’s in Central Brooklyn. PLG, a commercial/residential-mix, which sits just East of Prospect Park, is turning
Announcements
The historic Cyclone roller coaster in Coney Island opened Saturday for the season. Todd Maisel/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – The official opening of the Coney Island Cyclone Roller Coaster will occur on Sunday, April 14 with elected officials and local leaders breaking a bottle of Brooklyn egg-cream on the front car. But
Carroll Gardens
More than 50 Park Slope restaurants and watering holes will convene April 10th at the Grand Prospect Hall for the legendary food-and-drink festival A TASTE OF FIFTH [https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4095710]. The list of neighborhood hot spots participating runs the gamut from 12 new establishments (including Dram Shop,
Arts & Culture
FORT GREENE – This weekend the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] (BAM) will present the 15th annual celebration of spoken word and hip hop with Word. Sound. Power [https://www.bam.org/literary/2019/word-sound-power]. BAM’s springtime performance will take place on Friday, April 5 and Saturday,
community
PARK SLOPE – Excitement about new possibilities in District 39 [https://council.nyc.gov/district-39/] ran high at the Participatory Budgeting [https://pbnyc39.com/] Project Expo at the Park Slope Library on Tuesday night. “I think there’s a strong argument to be made that this ballot has more good things