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Green-Wood’s First Ever Hanami Festival Showcases Springtime Cherry-Blossoms

Event-goers gaze at the blooming Japanese Cherry Blossom trees. April 19, 2021. Bklyner/Cai PigliucciThe cherry blossoms are in full-bloom, drawing New York’s nature lovers to parks all over the city to admire the delicate, ephemeral blossoms. Many of the city’s cherry blossom viewing festivals, including the reigning

Green-Wood Cemetery’s Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda Offers Beauty and Hope for Troubled Times

The Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda in Green-Wood’s historic chapel. Cheyenne Ligon/BklynerBrooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is celebrating the centuries-old Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos this year with a large-scale community ofrenda, or altar, dedicated to New York’s victims of COVID-19. Visitors to the altar, which

City Of Water Day – Celebrating Island Living Across NYC

This Saturday, September 12, we celebrate our waterfront. The event is organized by Waterfront Alliance [https://waterfrontalliance.org/who-we-are/about-us/] who has been working for 13 years to connect communities to and advocate for resilient, revitalized, and accessible coastline for all. Out of the 500 some miles of waterfront across

Labor Day Weekend NYC-cation: NYC Open, Bike Tours, Hikes, And More To Do Across The City

Few of us have ever fully explored NYC, and with all the travel restrictions in place this may just be the best time to discover something new. The US Open Tennis Championships are currently taking place in Flushing Meadows, Queens, but you can also playing tennis in the Bronx, take

DanceAfrica is Back For Its 43rd Year – And It’s All Virtual

Dancers of Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn performing at the DanceAfrica 2006 dress rehearsal. Courtesy of Jack Vartoogian/FrontRowPhotos. BAM’s beloved DanceAfrica [https://www.bam.org/danceafrica2020] – a typically weekend-long festival celebrating dance traditions from Africa and the African diaspora – is back for its 43rd year. Instead of

Rule of Thirds: New Greenpoint Restaurant Honors Japanese Cooking Philosophy

Rule of Thirds interior. Courtesy of Gary Landsman.GREENPOINT — At Rule of Thirds [https://www.thirdsbk.com/] in Greenpoint, which opened February 22, very little goes to waste. The restaurant, a collaboration between the team from Sunday Hospitality [https://www.sundayhg.com/] and Okonomi [http://www.okonomibk.com/]’s JT

Beyond the Plastic Bag Ban: Where to Shop Zero-Waste in Brooklyn

Reusable shopping tote with produce. Photo by Sylvie Tittel [https://unsplash.com/@misssinterpreted?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash. [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/zero-waste?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] This weekend, the plastic bag ban [https://nyassembly.

Brooklyn in Top 5 of Tripadvisor’s Trending Destinations in the US

Brooklyn Bridge, Dumbo. Photo byMiltiadis Fragkidis [https://unsplash.com/@_miltiadis_?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] via Unsplash. [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/brooklyn?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Tripadvisor, the popular travel platform [https://www.tripadvisor.com/] where

Brooklyn Chefs and Bakers Make it to the James Beard Awards Semifinals

Yesterday, The James Beard Foundation, a nonprofit organization who honors chefs and other culinary leaders in America’s food culture, announced their 2020 Restaurant and Chef Award semifinalists. [https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/the-2020-james-beard-award-semifinalists?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=2020-02-26] The 2020 James Beard Awards

Modern Colombian Food At Palenque in East Williamsburg

Quinoa-based Arepa with Gallo (chicken). Rommel Ojeda/Bklyner.EAST WILLIAMSBURG— At the corner of Graham Avenue and Powers Street an empty storefront that was vacant for the past two years is now the home of Palenque: a modern, inviting coffee shop catering to the palates of Brooklynites who seek to