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Weekend Crime Blotter: A Serial Sprayer on Brownsville Buses, Shots Fired in a Crown Heights Robbery & More

CROWN HEIGHTS – After a fight at the Farmer’s Market in Crown Heights last week, police are on the lookout for two men who assaulted an employee. The incident occurred on Friday, August 24, around 11:00 pm, police said, at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Avenue. Two

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Farmers Market Returns to McGolrick Park This Weekend

Greenpoint’s McGolrick Park will once again host a farmer’s market in the park proper, starting this weekend (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – The McGolrick Park farmers market will return to park grounds this weekend after being briefly sidelined by construction. Community opposition to the move was instrumental in reversing

Bushwick

A Community Garden Grows in Bushwick

Volunteers worked to plant, build and paint the new community farm on Gates Avenue last Friday (Paul Stremple/BKLYnER)BUSHWICK – On a sunny Friday, volunteers were hard at work on the lawn outside the RiseBoro Youth Center on Gates Avenue, putting together a community garden in the heart of Bushwick

Bushwick

Bushwick Farm Stand Provides Fresh Produce and Job Skills to Locals

Bushwick neighbors check out local produce at the GrowNYC Youthstand (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – An urban farm stand has popped up in Bushwick for the fall, bringing local produce to community members and jobs to local youth. On the corner of Wilson and Halsey, at Irving Square Park, Bushwick residents

Food & Drink

Recipe of The Week – Raw Corn Salsa

You’ll want to bookmark this crisp, tangy Raw Corn Salsa for Labor Day or your next BBQ. Whichever comes first! Photo by Christine, Mid-life Croissant Food BlogYes, Virginia, you can eat corn raw. When it’s perfectly in season (aka NOW) and those kernels are all fresh and plump

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Greenmarket Recipe Series: Spring Eggs With Spinach (VIDEO)

This week in collaboration with Brooklyn Mama’s Kitchen and your local Greenmarket, we bring you a lovely recipe that’s perfect for weekend brunch with friends. The recipe below will feed 4-6, in the video we adjusted it to make enough for two. So pick up some spinach and

Food & Drink

Seasonal Recipe: Shaved Asparagus Salad (VIDEO)

This week’s recipe is for Shaved Asparagus Salad. While asparagus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus]in Brooklyn is available almost year round, it is in season locally only in Spring and early summer. This very quick and refreshing recipe will to get you through the heat wave we’

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Greenmarket Recipe Series: Rhubarb Compote (VIDEO)

Fresh produce is prized in Brooklyn — and to help you get the most out of your fruits and veggies, we’ve partnered with local chefs to bring you simple recipes from fresh, in-season ingredients you can pick up each week. This weekend it’s Rhubarb, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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Greenmarket Recipe: Rhubarb Compote (VIDEO)

We love our farmers’ markets [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket], and to help you get the most from your neighborhood market we’ve partnered with local chefs to bring you simple recipes from fresh, in-season ingredients you can pick up each week. This weekend, it’s rhubarb, [https://en.wikipedia.

Food & Drink

Greenmarket Recipes: Rhubarb Compote (VIDEO)

We love our farmers’ markets [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket], and to help you get the most from your neighborhood market we’ve partnered with local chefs to bring you simple recipes from fresh, in-season ingredients you can pick up each week. This weekend it’s Rhubarb, [https://en.wikipedia.

Bensonhurst

Greenmarket Recipe: Rhubarb Compote (VIDEO)

We love our farmers’ markets [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket], and to help you get the most from your neighborhood market we’ve partnered with local chefs to bring you simple recipes from fresh, in-season ingredients you can pick up each week. This weekend it’s Rhubarb, [https://en.wikipedia.

Arts & Culture

Memorial Day Weekend Roundup: DanceAfrica Festival, Free Movies, And Ceremonies.

Photo by bkgreenmarkets [http://instagram.com/p/pgfFy1gy02].This weekend marks the DanceAfrica Festival. WINE TASTINGS: here’s a list of seven [/blog/2015/10/14/seven-places-to-enjoy-wine-tastings-in-fort-greene-clinton-hill/] weekly options! Myrtle Avenue’s KIDS GUIDE [http://myrtleavenue.org/kids-guide-to-myrtle-avenue/] also has great listings. Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE

Food & Drink

Greenmarket Recipes: Rhubarb Compote (VIDEO)

We love our farmers’ markets [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket], and to help you get the most from your neighborhood market we’ve partnered with local chefs to bring you simple recipes from fresh, in-season ingredients you can pick up each week. This weekend it’s Rhubarb, [https://en.wikipedia.

Central Brooklyn

Greenmarket Recipe Of The Week: Rhubarb Compote (VIDEO)

We love our farmers’ markets [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket], and to help you get the most from your neighborhood market we’ve partnered with local chefs to bring you simple recipes from fresh, in-season ingredients you can pick up each week. This weekend it’s Rhubarb, [https://en.wikipedia.

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Photo Of The Day: Farmers’ Market

Photo by brooklynwonder [https://instagram.com/brooklynwonder/]Yum! We love all the great veggies available at the farmers’ market! Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and we’ll post

Brooklyn Hospital Center

Welcome Farmer’s Market Fridays At Brooklyn Hospital Center

Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.Hello, Friday farmer’s markets! The Brooklyn Hospital Center [http://www.tbh.org/]has launched a new farmer’s market series on three Friday mornings and afternoons this summer, beginning today and then every two weeks after that through August. From 9am to 3pm

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Show Off Your Best Apple Pie At The Windsor Terrace Greenmarket This Sunday, October 19

Think you’ve got the right ingredients to claim victory in the best kind of competition there is – one that includes mouth-watering baked goods? This Sunday, October 19, the Windsor Terrace Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/brooklyn/windsor] (11th Avenue, between Sherman and Windsor Place) will hold its apple

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Peach Party!

Hope you all got to try some drool-worthy peaches at the Cortelyou greenmarket on Sunday (when we got to welcome Kernan Farms [/blog/greenmarket/welcome-kernan-farms-to-the-cortelyou-greenmarket-this-sunday] to our neighborhood), as photographed by brooklynwonder [http://instagram.com/p/rhOMBrmkTY/?modal=true]. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas

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Stock Up On Fresh Fruit & Veg At The PS 295 Farmers Market

Green trees and warm weather can only mean one thing: the return of the amazingly successful PS 295 Farmers Market [https://www.facebook.com/PS295FarmersMarket], opening for the first time this season on Thursday, May 29. The market [/blog/education/how-students-volunteers-and-a-whole-lot-of-herbs-helped-create-the-ps-295-farmers-market] , run by the teachers, parents, and students of PS

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Live At The North End Of The Area? Help The Family Who’s Organizing A Farmers Market Near You

Many Ditmas Parkers are lucky to shop at and enjoy the fabulous Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/cortelyougreenmarket] every Sunday between Argyle and Rugby Roads. Some neighbors are closer to the Flatbush-Nostrand Junction market [/blog/greenmarket/flatbush-junction-hosts-farmers-market-tomorrow], which District 45 Councilmember Jumaane Williams [http://council.nyc.gov/d45/html/

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PS 295 Pulling Out All The Stops For Last Market Of The Season

We knew it was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to report that the final PS 295 Farmers Market [/blog/education/how-students-volunteers-and-a-whole-lot-of-herbs-helped-create-the-ps-295-farmers-market] of the season is this Thursday. The school has a great day planned, though, with Chef Sia Pickett of Just Foods [http://www.justfood.org/

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Beets, Radish And More At This Week’s P.S. 295 Market

Balance all of Thursday’s Halloween candy with some root veg from the P.S. 295 Farmers Market [/blog/education/how-students-volunteers-and-a-whole-lot-of-herbs-helped-create-the-ps-295-farmers-market] . Don’t stop at the radish, though. Here’s a full breakdown of this week’s goodies: Apples Kale Tatsoi (bok choy) Mustard greens Lettuce Escarole Broccoli rabe Cauliflower

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Cherry Tomatos Steal The Show At PS 295 Market Thursday

The PS 295 [http://www.ps295.org/] Farmers Market (19th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue) is back on Thursday from 2:30pm to 4:30pm, and according to their Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/PS295FarmersMarket?ref=br_tf], Sungold cherry tomatoes are in the spotlight. Don’t stop

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Pick Up Fresh Goodies At PS 295 Farmers Market Thursday

Did you know that PS 295 [http://www.ps295.org/category/pta/] (330 18th Street) was rocking an after school farmers market? If you’re in the neighborhood, definitely try and stop by on Thursday from 2:30pm to 4:30pm, because their list of fresh goodies sounds amazing: Kale

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Youthmarket To Pack Up For the Winter

Destiny Martin stands today in the chilly air at a Youthmarket tent situated adjacent to the Kensington branch of the Brooklyn Public Library along Fort Hamilton Parkway. There is a steady flow of Kensingtonians approaching the tented booth to pick out a a wide assortment regionally grown of apples, kale,