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A Red-Tailed Hawk in the Prospect Park drone incident. (Photo by Rob Bate)The Brooklyn Bird Club [http://www.brooklynbirdclub.org/] was founded in 1909, with a mission to encourage and promote birdwatching and conservation in Brooklyn and beyond. The club is extremely active, with regularly scheduled walks in the
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Photo via Fort Greene Park [https://www.instagram.com/p/-euxiyjnyc/?taken-by=fortgreenepark].“We had an amazing day of service and volunteering with students from the Academy of Arts and Letters this morning! Over 70 new friends and their parents learned about composting, mulching, and stewardship, and raked up a
Animals
Two baby red pandas made their debut at the Prospect Park Zoo [http://prospectparkzoo.com/] on Monday, according to DNAinfo [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151123/prospect-lefferts-gardens/video-baby-red-pandas-join-prospect-park-zoo] . The cubs were born at the zoo this summer as part of the “Species Survival Plan,” a cooperative breeding program designed to
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Photo by Park Slope StoopThe expanded organic waste recycling program began in our area this past Monday, and will happen on your regular garbage days. You’ll now be able to leave organic materials such as food waste, food-soiled paper, and yard waste at the curb, and the Department of
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Photo via Local Roots CSALooking for an affordable way to stock up on vegetables? Local Roots NYC [http://localrootsnyc.org/] is offering a new CSA for the Ditmas Park/Flatbush area for $16 a week. We talked to Khadija Khansia from Local Roots to find out more about the program.
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Photo courtesy Friends of the EndIf you’ve walked past the dead end where the subway tracks cut through Albemarle Road recently, you’ve probably noticed how much nicer it’s looking these days — which is thanks to a new group of neighbors who just formed the “Friends of the
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Volunteers carry the compost bin during the Q Gardens inaugural cleanup day. Photo by Nathan ThompsonThis Saturday, April 11, everyone’s invited to grab their kitchen scraps and head on over to the newly debuted [/blog/garden/years-organizing-neighborhood-volunteers-debut-q-gardens-inaugural-cleanup] Q Gardens (located behind the Church Avenue B/Q subway station on
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Photo by Kristine ScheinerNeighbor Kristine Scheiner (who you may remember from her fantastic post about cicadas [/blog/garden/urban-entomology-the-cicadas-are-coming]) recently went on a bald-faced hornets’ nest safari in our neighborhood, walking from around Beverley and East 18th Street to Brooklyn College to investigate what she discovered is an extraordinary abundance
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After two years of organizing [/?s=windsor+terrace+food+co-op], the Windsor Terrace Food Coop [http://www.windsorterracefoodcoop.com/] Board of Directors announced today it has begun negotiations on a potential site for the coop at Caton Avenue, just west of Coney Island Avenue. The spot is one block west
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The Flatbush Reformed Church [https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushReformedChurch] is holding a bake sale tonight, from 6-8pm, and all proceeds from the event will go to benefit the Flatbush Farm Share [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flatbush-Farm-Share-CSA/207117135971996] – a local CSA that aims to “make local, organic produce available to
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Do you know the wonders of tatsoi? If you’re not familiar with the mustardy, leafy green, you can pick some up on Thursday from the PS 295 Farmers Market [https://www.facebook.com/PS295FarmersMarket], and give it a try at home! It’s back this week for the first
Ditmas Park
For-profit clothing donation bins [/blog/tag/clothing-bins] have been an ongoing problem in Ditmas Park and nearby neighborhoods for a while now, and it seems like we’ve gotten a new rash of them over the past several weeks. This bin on Westminster and Foster, like others before it [/blog/