Animals
Image via Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/163926860354248/photos/a.164058167007784.41892.163926860354248/980164795397113/?type=3&theater] .Who can resist a cute cat in a sink? Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition [http://bbawc.org](BBAWC) introduced us to Sybil: > Sybil was discovered abandoned in
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Image via Google Maps.Four townhouses with three apartments each are in the pipeline for 38-44 Lexington Avenue, between Grand and Classon Avenues. The site currently houses a two-story warehouse. The new buildings will all stand three stories tall. As first noted by [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/02/four-townhouses-coming-to-38-44-lexington-avenue-in-clinton-hill.
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New crocuses at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (Photo: Sarah Crean)BY SARAH CREAN It’s a bleak, raw day today but Spring is coming. On a visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [http://www.bbg.org] today, we were excited to see that lavender crocuses and snowdrops had made their
Events
Image via Rooftop Reds.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 CALENDAR [/calendar/] or by emailing editor@bklyner.com. Photo courtesy
Business
Image courtesy of Brooklyn Hospital Center.Brooklyn Hospital Center has found its new CEO/President after a year of searching. Gary Terrinoni took the helm this month, hired in part based on his track record helping to transform New Jersey’s Kennedy Health System from struggling to financial stability, in
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Fort Greene Park, Photo by Mitchell J. Silver.Fort Greene Park is one of the most photographed places in the neighborhood and borough, by both amateur and professional photographers. Among those shutterbugs is NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, a Fort Greene resident and Brooklyn native who is also an avid
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Image via Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.How will people get to the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s new food court [/blog/2016/02/01/coming-soon-russ-daughters-to-anchor-building-77s-brooklyn-navy-yard-food-court/] /community hub [/blog/2015/07/29/a-food-court-and-community-space-will-connect-fort-greene-to-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/] , supermarket [/blog/2015/05/13/wegmans-is-coming-to-admirals-row-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/], condo development [/blog/2015/10/30/over-half-of-phase-one-townhouses-and-co
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.“More elephants, less cancer!” — Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson The circus took on cancer today, replacing stress with smiles at Brooklyn Hospital Center, where members of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s circus presented a $10,000 check to the hospital for their pediatric cancer
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Oxtail stew over yellow rice and kidney beans, with a side of plantains. (Photo by Fort Greene Focus.)Lunch specials at Brooklyn restaurants are generally pretty hit or miss as far as great deals go — you want the best combination of quality/bang for your buck, and also, as New
Arts & Culture
Crime drama fans, check this out: Law & Order: SVU is filming today inside Putnam’s Pub & Cooker and Five Spot Soul Food on Myrtle Avenue, at Clinton and Washington Avenues. The filming is taking place all morning and most of the afternoon for an episode titled “Unholiest Alliance,
Business
Photo via Brooklyn Brewery [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.391731650841018.106982.155555111125341&type=3] .Brooklyn Brewery may be hopping southwards to the Brooklyn Navy Yard or Industry City! The news comes as these two locations, in Wallabout/Fort Greene/Clinton Hill and Sunset Park, respectively, are
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Image via NYPD.Have you seen Hilda Rivera? The 17-year-old has been missing since Monday afternoon, February 22, when she was last seen in the Lower East Side near Stanton and Forsyth Streets at around 2:30pm. She never came home to her family’s Adelphi Street apartment. Rivera stands