Food & Drink
How new can an old reliable be? (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)Everyone has an under-the-radar favorite restaurant. It’s usually a nondescript storefront with not too many seats and a steady delivery business, right? Kitchen Grill Indian Restaurant [http://www.kitchengrillindian.com/] (914a Fulton Street between Washington Avenue
Destinations
Photo by Martin SeckThis century-old Brooklyn treasure is the perfect fall weather birthday party destination. Located in Prospect Park’s Children’s Corner, the Prospect Park Carousel is one of its most treasured and beloved family destinations, and the perfect location for children’s birthday parties this fall. A Historic
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Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are home to quite a bit of culture, including BAM [/?s=bam] and Pratt [/?s=pratt]. You could live here and absorb it all. But then… sometimes, don’t you want to embrace the entropy that makes the universe sing? It goes “dada [https://en.
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Summer Cucumber Salad made with Salt and Pepper cucumbers, red onion, garlic, fennel, and olive oil.Cucumbers are a perfect snack for a hot New York City day. They are packed with beneficial nutrients that our bodies crave. Cucumbers are made of about 90% water so they’ll help keep
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Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership & Madison Realty Capital.Some of the units in an imposing eight-story mixed-use development under construction in Clinton Hill are to be “affordable”. Twenty-eight (one-fifth) of the apartments in the building under construction at 504 Myrtle Avenue (between Ryerson Street and Grand Avenue) will
Food & Drink
The Academy Restaurant (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)I know from diners; I am of New Jersey. Fort Greene is home to a damn good diner. The Academy Restaurant [/?s=academy+restaurant](69 Lafayette Avenue between South Elliot Place and Fort Greene Place) is a consummate diner, the sort
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Photo via e.ann.s [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKUMkEzB0rrGRKm9BYJDdzW0BaGEqwm8IwBXfs0/?tagged=ivoted&hl=en] The election results are in for the primary elections which took place on Tuesday, September 13. All races in our immediate neighborhood involved Democratic candidates. Republicans in our area are running uncontested, so they
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(Mosquito — identified as an “ochlerotatus notoscriptus.”) Photo:JJ Harrison [http://jjharrison89@facebook.com]via Wikimedia Commons.The City’s Health Department confirmed today that a Brooklyn man has been diagnosed with the year’s first human case of West Nile virus. The man, who has developed encephalitis [http://www.mayoclinic.
Education
Brooklyn School For Career Development at 502 Clermont Avenue in Clinton Hill. (Photo via Google Maps)A student who brought a loaded gun to his Clinton Hill school last week will face criminal charges, the NYPD confirmed today. A 15-year-old boy, who was arrested when school safety agents found a
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Does anybody have a theme? Improv. Ok, and now a location? Fort Greene and Clinton Hill? Oh, they’re the best. And now, does anyone have an activity? Hunting for the best real estate bargains. Got it. Do you wanna dance on this ceiling? (Courtesy Street Easy/Matthew Fischer of
Business
Europe’s largest business incubator is headed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to open its first U.S. flagship and is expected to create 500 jobs for New Yorkers, the city announced Wednesday. The Netherlands-based B. Amsterdam [http://b-buildingbusiness.com/amsterdam/home/] would grant New York entrepreneurs looking to expand
Arts & Culture
(Courtesy: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/7488701704/in/photolist-cpKy7C-mXEwG9-fr7WZ-aFxKme-gVo4MU-dCaifZ-8hwxkh-kAoV6H-8svPsD-ftTdFM-7vkab8-f7znz-bkWF4r-9bKBwQ-6Hf8g7-8hwxeu-bDx9b2-pVZiby-4F7atP-8AzhB4-asdxZx-HbzHM-8hwxhd-6z2eiq-dwBx7C-asfWX5-8J3Zsq-DcLD7b-bDx9bg-asgaNY-9KWoJK-7zBkMv-83zxqq-asdx84-frbku-xdX6u-asdmtR-asg9Yb-asdggR-dq1s4F-6Wzo2q-e9vUfD-zoFqD-5eAmgo-5evX1c-e9vUpR-XhqEQ-c2bF27-hw8xD-asdyh4] )Do you have what it takes to have