Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Crown Heights neighbors are standing up against the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page], New York City Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/index.page], and the Institute for Community Living (ICL) [http://www.
Arts & Culture
February is Black History Month and there are a variety of events happening all around Brooklyn to celebrate—from art exhibitions, dramatic readings, musical performances, history tours, and movie screenings. Check out our list of events across the borough and find out how you can celebrate, commemorate, and learn about
Arts & Culture
Art by Derrick Cross at SNAPFORT GREENE/CLINTON HILL – Sometimes you need to go back in order to move forward.That is the theme of this year’s Black Artstory Month, which will be taking place along Myrtle Avenue, between Washington Park and Classon Avenues. Since 2012, the annual art
Bed Stuy
Mama Fox, located at 327 Stuyvesant Avenue, celebrated its soft opening Wednesday night.Photo: Greg Lewis/BKLYNER.BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – A long-vacant space that years ago welcomed the likes of Shirley Chisholm and Miles Davis will soon get new life when Mama Fox [http://www.mamafoxbk.com/], a bar and restaurant serving
Bensonhurst
1980s tax photoBENSONHURST/GRAVESEND – A neighbor asked the other day to look into what has been going on at the McDonald’s on Bay Parkway and 67th street. So we did. For a little while now it has been covered in scaffolding, with a permit allowing work outside regular hours
Bay Ridge
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-09611.jpg]Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, January 15, and various local organizations are celebrating what would have been the iconic civil rights leader’s 89th birthday with events featuring readings, talks, musical performances, movie screenings, and more.
clinton hill
WALLABOUT – The Walt Whitman Initiative [https://www.facebook.com/WaltWhitmanInitiative/] is urging the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] to reconsider its decision not to designate 99 Ryerson Street [https://www.google.com/maps/place/99+Ryerson+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11205/@40.6957269,
Big Story
(left to right) Dr. Andrew Moshman, Dr. Howard Moshman, Dr. Stanley Moshman (Photo by Margaret Wheeler-Frothingham)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – I wanted to make life easier and find a new dentist, but mom balked: “You can’t give up the Moshmans, just because you moved to Midwood.” I’ve been making this
Arts & Culture
Tom Finkelpearl, co-chair of the Mayoral Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers opened the discussion (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BOROUGH HALL – Politicians, teachers, art historians, feminists, futurists and more turned out to speak on the role of public monuments in New York City. The Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art,
Explore
(via Tacos El Bronco Facebook page)Things have changed a bit since that day in July [/hook-red-hook-reachnow/] you grabbed a ReachNow [https://reachnow.com/en/brooklyn-ny/] car from one of our neighborhood side streets and spent the day exploring Red Hook. You’ve gotten a little busier. The days have
Announcements
Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/events/1533826343351657/]PARK SLOPE – Need to do some holiday shopping? Want to check out the historic Montauk Club? You’re in luck! The Montauk Club Vintage Holiday Market is happening this Sunday, November 12 from 10:30am to 4pm in the venue’s grand
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community
RED HOOK – Despite the driving rain on Sunday, hundreds of locals turned out for Red Hook’s fourth annual Barnacle Parade [https://www.facebook.com/barnacleparade/], a fun community event that commemorates the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy hitting the waterfront neighborhood and celebrates its resilient, tenacious residents. Barnacle Parade 2017,