Arts & Culture
Kings Theatre reopening. (Photo by Anna Gustafston/corner media)When the Kings Theater opened in 1929, there was a full orchestra on hand to supply the soundtrack for the silent movie “Evangeline,” starring the glamorous Dolores del Rio. On April 8, a little more than two years after a $95
Central Brooklyn
2193 Bedford Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)On Saturday, a 26-year-old man was fatally shot on Bedford Avenue after a love-triangle fight, said cops. Cops found Luis Gonzalez collapsed with a gunshot wound to his torso at the Shell gas station on Bedford Avenue near the corner of Church Avenue,
Central Brooklyn
Photo by BKLYNERFlames and smoke ripped through a Flatbush apartment building last night, trapping people on the third floor, according to officials. The fire sparked on the third floor at 554 East 26th Street between Flatbush Avenue and Farragut Road just before 9:15pm on Thursday, March 30, said FDNY.
Central Brooklyn
Eva Lewandowski L, Anne Schoeneborn, L2 and volunteers test driving the new bee suits! (Photo via Nathan Thompson)The explosive growth in non-commercial beekeeping has generated excitement throughout New York City, especially since beekeeping became legal here in 2010. But it’s a challenge to find trained beekeepers and appropriate
Central Brooklyn
Parents checking out a project board at the District 45 PB Project Expo, Flatbush YMCA. (Photo by Carly Miller)Voting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] begins this Saturday, March 25, and we stopped by the Project Expo for Flatbush and Midwood to give District 45 residents a peek at the projects
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Participatory Budgeting Project)It’s that time of year again — where democracy gets hyper-local, giving neighbors a chance create projects and then vote on how public money is spent in their council district. Participatory budgeting [http://council.nyc.gov/html/pb/home.shtml], a city program that allows
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Central Brooklyn
Video via NYPDSurveillance video via NYPD [Update 3/21: Police have arrested two 21-year-old men in connection with this assault, who have been charged with gang assault, robbery, and menacing.] A man was critically injured after being pummeled and then robbed at a fried chicken joint on Ocean Avenue after
Arts & Culture
(Image via laolunyc [https://www.instagram.com/laolunyc/?hl=en]/instagram) Instagram celebrity Laolu Senbanjo [http://www.laolu.nyc], a Nigerian-born artist based in Ditmas Park, was making his mark all over NYC before getting the gig to body paint for Beyoncé’s Lemonade [http://www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/
Arts & Culture
Shona sculpture is both quintessentially modern art, the product of a 20th-century renaissance, and a vehicle for celebration of traditional African culture. For 25 years, the annual CAMBA show and sale of these stone carvings from Zimbabwe has been a singular opportunity for New Yorkers to acquire these works and
Central Brooklyn
Courtesy of Crunch Fitness FlatbushThe grand opening of the newest Crunch Fitness [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush]on Flatbush Avenue is just around the corner. Crunch Fitness [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush] is a welcoming environment where people of any shape or size are accepted and encouraged on
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPDNaomi Barker, 14, was reported missing earlier this week [/help-cops-find-missing-14-year-old-flatbush-girl/] and was last seen on February 25 at 8:45am near East 29th street and Glenwood Road, according to NYPD. Thankfully, she returned home on her own today in safe condition, said police. Barker’s temporary disappearance caused
Announcements
The heart of Flatbush is soon-to-be the new home of a new Crunch Fitness [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush] where ‘no judgment’ is the heart of their manifesto. The 18,600-square foot health club strives to be a place for anyone, promising a positive, inclusive, and fun environment for