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Faigy Roth at Bklyner (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)MIDWOOD — Faigy Roth never felt at home growing up in a conservative ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. She liked wearing her mid-calf-length skirts a bit higher and she was into showing off her neckline and collarbone too. She had a cell phone in a
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The Kings Highway Library. (Photo: Google Maps)Attention bookworms! The Kings Highway Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/kings-highway] will be closed for one week while the branch get upgraded, energy-efficient LED lighting. The library will shut down at the end of the day on Friday, April 15, and reopen
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Looking for birds in Marine Park. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Volunteer to help cleanup Marine Park. Then you can enjoy your hard work during a free exercise class at the park. There are also movie screenings, a circus show, a jazz
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Photo by Vladimir KorostyshevskiyLots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Visit Community Board 15 to speak out about issues important to your neighborhood. You can also explore centuries of black history at a poetry reading led by middle schoolers. And there’s Motown karaoke, a photography class, movie screening,
Bensonhurst
(Photo: Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) [https://www.facebook.com/NYCACC/photos/pb.125204517523362.-2207520000.1455573941./1030169630360175/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Check out the play Men Are Dogs by Brooklyn native Joseph Simonelli. There’s also a pet adoption center,
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(Photo: Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) [https://www.facebook.com/NYCACC/photos/pb.125204517523362.-2207520000.1455573941./1030169630360175/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Check out the play Men Are Dogs by Brooklyn native Joseph Simonelli. There’s also a pet adoption center,
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(Photo: yewenyi [https://www.flickr.com/photos/yewenyi/2256618233/]/ Flickr)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Check out the Lunar New Year festivities at David A. Boody Junior High School. The Parks Department is also taking ideas for how to improve locals parks and some of the rangers
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Paper lanterns. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Check out the Lunar New Year party at the library. There’s also a foreign film screening, poetry jams, open runs and much more! Send us your own event listing by posting it for free
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(Photo: chelleny [https://www.instagram.com/p/BA7Oyl_Li6k/] / Instagram)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Get your sci-fi fix at a free screening of The Martian. There’s also a television production class, an emergency preparedness class, lots of options for exercise and much more. Send us
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(Photo: Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) [https://www.facebook.com/NYCACC/photos/pb.125204517523362.-2207520000.1453099082./1010499222327216/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Check out the Animal Care Centers of NYC’s mobile pet adoption center in Sheepshead Bay. There are also
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77th Street Station: BMT Fourth Avenue Line, January 14, 1916. (Photo: New York Transit Museum [https://www.facebook.com/nytransitmuseum/photos/a.10151190426178843.464189.89895068842/10151190426338843/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Celebrate (or grieve) the R train’s 100 birthday at The
Bensonhurst
(Photo: Friends of the Sheepshead Bay Library [https://www.facebook.com/sheepsheadbaylibrary/photos/a.843632762372394.1073741889.630539527015053/843632612372409/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Looking for something to do with the whole family this week? There are a lot of great kid-friendly events coming up in Brooklyn, and we’ve selected
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(Photo: Friends of the Sheepshead Bay Library [https://www.facebook.com/sheepsheadbaylibrary/photos/a.843632762372394.1073741889.630539527015053/843632612372409/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Looking for something to do with the whole family this week? There are a lot of great kid-friendly events coming up in Brooklyn, and we’ve selected
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(Photo: Enrico Strocchi [https://www.flickr.com/photos/strocchi/1348020612/] / Flickr)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Sit down with for a friendly chess match, jam out with some fellow poetry enthusiasts or enjoy a free screening of “Next Year Jerusalem.” There’s also a health insurance navigator
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Photo by lunaparknyc [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunaparknyc/7820360738/] Looking for something to do with the whole family this week? There are a lot of great kid-friendly events coming up in Brooklyn, and we’ve selected some of our favorites. See the full details below! For more things to
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The 2015 Polar Bear Plunge. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Ring in the New Year by watching the ball drop on the Parachute Jump in Coney Island. Then take a brisk dip with the Polar Bear’s the next day and finish the