Announcements
KENSINGTON/WINDSOR TERRACE – Rounding out the East Fourth Street Garden’s phenomenal 2017 concert season, please join us Saturday, September 30, at 2PM when it hosts the Brooklyn Bluegrass Collective, featuring Christian Apuzzo on guitar, Grant Ziolkowski on mandolin, and Ellery Marshall on banjo. Members of the BkBC have individually
Arts & Culture
September has come and gone and it’s starting to feel more like autumn. There’s lots happening this weekend to get you out of the house to enjoy the pleasant weather. Celebrate Icelandic culture or Latino Heritage. Dance to tunes spun by Questlove and donate to Hurricane Irma and
community
Clinton is greeted by the co-owners of Greenlight Books, Rebecca Fitting (l) and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo (r). (Ben Foldy/BKLYNER)FORT GREENE – When Hillary Clinton signed copies of her new book at Greenlight Books in Fort Greene on Tuesday night, it was an emotional chance for many parents and children
Central Brooklyn
By Liz Cohen, Current School Parent Via Golda Och Academy1. Top-notch academics combined with Jewish culture, identity, and Hebrew GOA [http://www.goldaochacademy.org] offers everything we wanted in a secular school – thoughtful teachers, amazing technology and science offerings, challenging curricula – as well as everything we wanted in a Jewish
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Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/DUMBOBID/photos/a.551127124934745.1073741825.124869040893891/1389862564394526/?type=3&theater] DUMBO – It’s going to rain elephants in DUMBO tomorrow! The DUMBO Improvement District is hosting a new, annual block party on Washington Street on Thursday, September 28 from 5pm to 8pm. There
Central Brooklyn
DITMAS PARK – Neighborhood parents are not happy with how long it is taking NYC Parks Department to fix the play equipment at the Cortelyou road Tot Lot. The small playground aimed at toddlers is located across the PS139 in Ditmas Park, and serves a large and diverse community, which — like
Arts & Culture
(Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Yesterday’s smoldering heat was not enough to stop the oldest and biggest festival in Brooklyn– The Atlantic Antic. At just 12:30pm, Atlantic Avenue was filled with vendors and festival-goers making the most of their Sunday. The Atlantic Antic is a popular street event
Arts & Culture
The 43rd annual Atlantic Antic, the oldest and biggest street festival in Brooklyn, takes over the western end of Atlantic Avenue on Sunday. There are also lots of musical events happening this weekend including the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival, MoCADA’s Soul of BK Festival 2017, and day two of
Downtown Brooklyn
Willoughby & Pearl Streets (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/] and NYC DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] are temporarily closing off two busy streets in Downtown Brooklyn and converting them into public playgrounds for two Wednesdays
Central Brooklyn
Bountiful baskets (Photo Esther Shittu / BKLYNER)Last Saturday’s GreenThumb Harvest Fair [http://www.greenthumbnyc.org/]gathered community gardeners from across the city at the Brooklyn Bears Pacific Garden [https://brooklynbears.wordpress.com/] for a chance to celebrate the end of the growing season, connect with each other, and – of
Business
Cakes at Cuccio’s (Photo Inna Adams / BKLYNER)Walk down Avenue X in the early morning and you’ll surely feel it. Not the warmth of the dawning sun or the quiet of a neighborhood yet to rise for the day, but the enticing smell of fresh baked goods coming
Announcements
Historic Erasmus Hall in Flatbush.Welcome to the school year! If you have kids looking at starting Middle School and High School next year, you are probably bracing yourself for the circles of hell you’ll travel through until March. This too, shall pass, but it will be easier if