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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Michelle Obama is coming to Brooklyn! The former First Lady will promote her new memoir, Becoming, with a ten-city book tour, making her only New York City appearance at the Barclays Center on Saturday, December 1. The event will feature conversations between Obama and a moderator (to be
Arts & Culture
The sun returns (hopefully) just in time for a weekend packed with fun things to check out, from music, poetry, performances, exhibits, books, food, and more! Don’t forget to celebrate the Brooklyn Army Terminal’s 100th anniversary [/bat-celebrates-centennial-with-a-block-party/] at a block party on Saturday featuring performances by Busta Rhymes,
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Election time is here! NYC Primaries will be held tomorrow, Thursday, September 13. Doors will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. If you are registered and eligible to vote, please do! * Find out where your polling site is with this locator [https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search]
Arts & Culture
GOWANUS – For a second year in a row, the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club [http://www.gowanuscanal.org] and the Gowanus Souvenir Shop [https://gowanussouvenir.com] hosted a poetry reading [https://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/bookend/watery-words-reading-niedecker-on-the-gowanus-at-dawn/] Wednesday morning on the Gowanus Canal as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival [/brooklyn-book-festival-sept-10-17/]. Gowanus
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BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK – The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is celebrating the third anniversary of its Environmental Education Center [https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/activities/classroom] this Sunday with a series of free environmentally-themed activities, including a guided nature walk. Brooklyn Bridge Park Environmental Education Center (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) The Environmental
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Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center. This photo was taken of metropolitan New York City (and other parts of New York as well as New Jersey) the morning of September 11, 2001. “Our
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SUNSET PARK – The NYC Economic Development Corporation [https://www.nycedc.com] invites all to celebrate the Brooklyn Army Terminal [https://www.bklynarmyterminal.com]‘s (BAT) 100th anniversary at the venue’s first-ever block party taking place this Saturday. Brooklyn Army Terminal (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The free outdoor event will feature
Arts & Culture
Book lovers will be thrilled next week when the 13th annual Brooklyn Book Festival [http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/](BKBF) returns with a litany of literary events across the city that lead up to the Festival Day & Literary Marketplace next Sunday (September 16) featuring more than 300 authors and 250
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CONEY ISLAND – Life can be complicated, getting your High School Equivalency Diploma (HSE/GED) should not be. However, there are more than 2.2 million adults in NYC today who lack a high school diploma, English language proficiency, or both, according to Ira Yankwitt, Executive Director of the Literacy Assistance
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Mathylde Frontus & Ethan Lustig-Elgrably. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)CONEY ISLAND – The community room in Trump Village was packed with residents of Assembly District 46, eager to hear the two Democratic candidates — Mathylde Frontus and Ethan Lustig-Elgrably– speak about their platforms and debate it out. The rather tense debate was
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FLATBUSH – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez will roll out the popular Begin Again program this month, where residents can address outstanding summonses for low-level offenses. For the fourth consecutive year, New York residents get the chance to clear their slates of outstanding summonses received before Aug 31, 2018. On Sept.
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PROSPECT PARK – Transportation Alternatives [https://support.transalt.org/event/2018-nyc-century/e178365] hosts the 29th annual NYC Century Bike Tour on Sunday, September 9, featuring five rides with distances ranging from 15 to 100 miles and starting locations at Central Park or Prospect Park (Prospect Park Southwest at Park Circle). NYC