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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Rescheduled due to rain Tuesday evening, Forest City New York will host its 28th annual Light Up the Holidays @MetroTech [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/light-up-the-holidays-metrotech] event today, featuring Brooklyn’s tallest Christmas tree. The event kicks off at 4pm at MetroTech Commons, between Jay Street and Flatbush Avenue,
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Tis the season—there are lots of holiday fairs, markets, and pop-ups to shop this weekend for all your gifting needs. There are also two interactive, immersive art events, a photography exhibit, DUMBO’s First Thursday gallery walk, and an anti-Santa Con pub crawl in Gowanus. Find out what else
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Saturday Night Fever is coming back to Brooklyn for one night only—on a Wednesday! To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic disco flick, the original 2001 Space Odyssey Nightclub is coming back to life in a Southern Brooklyn Chinese restaurant. The Bamboo Garden, which sits at 64th Street
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Photo: Zainab IqbalKENSINGTON – A pushing, shouting match broke out after four men came from inside the locked Church Avenue mosque and cut the poster put up by the community for the press conference last Friday at 2 pm. A press conference was held outside Masjid Nur al Islam [https://www.
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Fort Greene Park tree lighting (Photo courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)The holiday season is upon us. Holiday shopping has officially begun and festive decorations are popping up everywhere. There are a few events to check out this weekend to find gifts crafted by local artists and makers as
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Ezra Gale has spent the past several years auditioning to replace James Brown as the hardest working man in show business, serving as founder, bandleader, and sideman in a series of genre-splitting projects (start with Afrobeat, jazz, classic country, dub reggae, and you’re just scratching the surface). Somehow along
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT PARK – Early this coming Saturday, over 6,000 runners of all ages will fill Prospect Park with the sounds holidays – from jingle bells attached to their sneakers. After crossing the finish line, all runners will get to enjoy hot chocolate and holiday-themed bagels. The registration is sold out, but
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All events are free and open to the public, and we will update as more events and details are announced. Mark your calendars and bring the kids! (Dyker Heights lights go up the weekend after Thanksgiving.) Christmas, as usual, falls on December 25th. Kwanzaa follows Christmas and takes place December
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Need something to do to get your mind off Black Friday and/or your Thanksgiving hangover? Check out our list of weekend events to snap you out of your food coma and maybe help with your holiday shopping. Brooklyn Flea + Smorgasburg return to Industry City this weekend and the Obscura
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BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL – Theatre of the Oppressed NYC [http://www.tonyc.nyc/] will present Apartment Complex, a play that addresses the struggles many New Yorkers face in finding and securing safe and affordable housing. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/theatreoftheoppressednyc/]Created and performed by members of the Housing Works
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE – Congressman Dan Donovan of 11th Congressional District (CD11) held Coffee Talk – a town hall meeting this past Saturday afternoon at Fort Hamilton High School’s cafeteria in Bay Ridge. The meeting with his Brooklyn constituents, over coffee and munchkins from Dunkin Doughnuts, was full of tense moments and
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Cold weather is definitely here, but there’s still plenty activities to get you outside this weekend! Bundle up, brave the elements and enjoy all Brooklyn has to offer! Chow down on Thai ice cream or check out the world of podcasting, or revel in Verdi’s classic “La Traviata”