Announcements
BENSONHURST – Streets will be closed around Lenny’s Pizza (1969 86th Street) tomorrow,Tuesday, June 12for a ceremony at 1:00 pm celebrating actor John Travolta who made Bensonhurst, double-decker slice, and Lenny’s Pizza famous in the Saturday Night Fever:“Travolta changed the culture of Brooklyn and America forever
Central Brooklyn
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celebrity
John Travolta filming “The Life and Death of John Gotti” in Bath Beach (Photo via Gina Miraculous)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Portions of the Kosciuszko Bridge to be dynamited [Curbed [http://ny.curbed.
Arts & Culture
Fort Greene Park (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons/David Shankbone)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@
Bensonhurst
Since 1976, Del Rio Diner has been open at 166 Kings Highway 24 hours a day, every day — except New Year’s Eve. “New Year’s is amateur night,” explained Larry Georgeton, 66, co-owner of Del Rio and its spawn Vegas Diner (1619 86th Street). “We didn’t want the
gene hackman
Not too long ago, although it seems that way, in the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City subway system was a graffiti-covered, crime-ridden hell hole. Thanks to Giuliani-era policing tactics, new paint resistance metal surfaces and the all around economic explosion that transformed the city into a Disney safe
gabe kaplan
Robert Hegyes, the actor who played Juan Epstein on the seventies TV show Welcome Back Kotter, died last Thursday of cardiac arrest at his home in Metuchen, New Jersey. He was 60 years old. The hit show, which took place in Bensonhurst and starred comedian Gabe Kaplan, paved the way