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Senior Resource Fair (Photo courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair [http://myrtleavenue.org/announcing-the-2nd-annual-senior-resource-fair/] returns tomorrow, March 29, from 11am to 2pm at Mercy Home [https://www.mercyhomeny.org/] at 273 Willoughby Avenue (at Classon Avenue). The free event, presented by the
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Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)It’s the first official weekend of spring! Get yourself out and dance away your winter blues, catch a performance, check out an exhibition or reading, or craft with some special kids. S.A.D. Party 2017: Drink. Dance. Resist [http:
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Photo via Global Futures GroupAs we all know, Brooklyn, and New York City for that matter, is growing and changing in ways that those who were here before us would never have imagined. Gentrification is causing new tensions. New technologies are bringing jobs to some and displacing others. Bike and
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Harlem Globetrotters players Hoops Green and Buckets Blakes at The Children’s Health Center of The Brooklyn Hospital Center (Photo by Dina Rabiner)Two players for the Harlem Globetrotters paid a surprise visit to the young patients at The Children’s Health Center at The Brooklyn Hospital Center on Thursday.
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In a society with countless choices, and even more opinions, there is one thing that we can all get on board with…pizza is the greatest food of all time! Photo via Brooklyn CyclonesOn Friday, August 4th the Brooklyn Cyclones [http://brooklyncyclones.com], Short Season Affiliate of the New York
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> Beautiful spring day in #GreenWood today prepping for @creativetimenyc & #SophieCalle. So happy that project was announced today! @fifteenfrancs @katie.hollander ❤#hereliessecrets #perrotin @galerieperrotin [https://www.instagram.com/p/BR6L6pWAAK1/] A post shared by DONALD RYAN (@dnryan) on Mar 21, 2017 at 10:50am PDT Creative Time [http://creativetime.
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Bigger than ever, A Taste of Fifth [http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2875655]spotlights Park Slope 5th Avenue’s best and tastiest food and drink from 45+ destination restaurants and legendary watering holes that line the Avenue. Come hungry to fully enjoy the annual festival of fine food and complimentary
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A member of the Knights of Columbus at the Park Slope St. Patrick’s Day Parade (Photo by Nathan Haselby)A festive sea of green filled the streets of Park Slope Sunday afternoon for the 42nd Annual Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day Parade. There were shamrocks, wee colleens dressed in
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(Photo via bookprint [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ5ksyul86W/?tagged=onebookny] /instagram)You’ve seen the celebrity-dotted subway ads, voting kiosks, and videos. You read, you voted, and now the results are in. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah was announced this morning as the winner of an inaugural literary contest
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Crowd at “Not One More” Rally (Photo by Nathan Haselby)Hundreds gathered in the cold Monday night in front of the Barclays Center to honor six black trans women killed in the first two months of 2017. Organized by the Trans Women of Color Collective [http://www.twocc.us/], in
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some local Jewish organizations got a jump on it this past Sunday with a raucous carnival and protest parade. The event, hosted by The Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee [http://spectaclecommittee.org/], Jews for Racial & Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/], the Workmen’s Circle [https://circle.org/], and Kolot Chayeinu/Voices
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“In 1987, Congress declared March as National Women’s History Month to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. By the early months of 2017, the women of New York continue to make so many historic strides,” NYC Council Member Laurie A. Cumbo (35th District)