community
FORT GREENE – After more than a year under construction, Fowler Square, the pedestrian plaza located at the intersection of Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue, reopened to the public in May with an enhanced infrastructure, traffic calming features, and lots of new amenities for visitors. Fowler Square, Fort Greene (Photo: Nathan
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Celebrities are coming and going in Brooklyn, including an Oscar-winner selling a brownstone in Fort Greene, another Oscar-winner returning to the borough with her actor husband, and a television star purchasing a new home in Bed-Stuy. FORT GREENE – Academy Award-winning actress, Holly Hunter [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/bio?
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Arts & Culture
FORT GREENE – The DanceAfrica 2018 Bazaar [https://www.bam.org/bazaar] transformed the streets surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] into a vibrant global marketplace over the three-day weekend, celebrating the diverse cultural heritage of Africa and its diaspora. DanceAfrica 2018 Bazaar (Photo: Nathan Haselby)DanceAfrica
Business
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) announced last Thursday that HITN, the largest Spanish-language public broadcasting network in the country, has signed a ten-year lease to expand its current space at Building 292. Rendering courtesy of HITNHITN currently occupies 21,000 square feet at the Brooklyn
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Majority Leader Cumbo visited Medgar Evers Prep yesterday to announce results and present oversized checks for winning projects (Via @NYC Council [https://twitter.com/NYCCouncil] Twitter)CROWN HEIGHTS – City Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo paid a visit to a Crown Heights high school to announce the winning projects from Participatory
Announcements
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN/FORT GREENE – Hill Country Hospitality [https://hillcountry.com/] announced last week a new concept for the Downtown Brooklyn space that previously housed Hill Country Barbecue Market. Hill Country Barbecue Market, Downtown Brooklyn via Google MapsHill Country Food Park, a 10,000-square-foot food venue, will open at 345 Adams
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Works created by the first graduating class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/schools/feirstein.php] will be screened for an invitation-only audience of industry professionals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] on
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The courtyard outside 101 North Portland Avenue, near where Colon was shot and killed (Screenshot via Google Maps)In 2014, Leonaldo Parrado was robbed by two men. Despite the fact they were wearing clown masks, Parrado thought he knew who one of them was. And he went looking for retribution.
community
FORT GREENE – The Fort Greene Park Conservancy [http://www.fortgreenepark.org/fort-greene-park/] (FGPC) will celebrate its 20th anniversary by hosting Monumental 2018: A Celebration Under the Stars—a night of food, community, and dancing in the park. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/events/288374565036326/]The outdoor event will celebrate
Big Story
FORT GREENE – An alleged victim of sexual assault says he received a photograph of his attacker’s dead body. The sender: the NYPD Special Victims Division detective responsible for his case. Motions filed in the murder trial of David Keegan Riotto Haigh [/he-killed-the-man-who-seduced-him-was-it-murder-or-self-defense/], who is accused of murder in the
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NYS Supreme Court (Photo by Liena Zagare/Bklyner)FORT GREENE – Last April, David Keegan Riotto Haigh drove from his sister’s house outside Reading, Pennsylvania, to visit a friend in New York City. There he would connect with James Koron Johnson, who went by his middle name, on a gay
Announcements
FORT GREENE – Congratulations to BRIC on taking home five trophies at the 61st Annual New York Emmy Awards last Saturday, April 14. BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The Brooklyn media organization was nominated for 11 awards [https://www.nyemmys.org/media/files/files/d89cab07/