Downtown Brooklyn
Brooklyn Book Festival 2019 poster by Raúl Colón [https://brooklynbookfestival.org/news/2019-poster-debut/]Today is #NationalReadABookDay [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NationalReadABookDay&src=trend_click&pt=1170015567258050560%2C1169989775677374464] and aside from curling up with a good book, there’s no better way to celebrate than to prepare for
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/] announced its lineup of community events for the Fall 2019 season. The “Downtown Brooklyn Presents” series features weekly lunchtime jazz concerts, lots of dancing, fitness classes, art and literary festivals, and more. Via downtownbrooklyn.com [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/]The free outdoor events
Downtown Brooklyn
Brooklyn Book Festival 2019 poster by Raúl Colón [https://brooklynbookfestival.org/news/2019-poster-debut/]The 14th edition of the Brooklyn Book Festival returns in September for a full week of literary events across the city featuring Children’s Day for young readers and Festival Day with hundreds of authors and booksellers
Animals
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Last Three, the 17-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicting the last three northern white rhinos in the world stacked atop one another has been relocated from Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn. The Last Three by Gillie and Marc Schattner, MetroTech Commons (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Originally installed at Astor Place
Announcements
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – For more than two decades, BAM has livened up lunchtime each summer with its popular R&B Festival concert series at MetroTech Commons. Via downtownbrooklyn.com [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/bam-r-b-festival] This year’s series of ten free afternoon shows kicks off on June 7 at 12pm,
Arts & Culture
DOWNTOWN – Sunday, March 11 marks the final day of Spencer Finch’s Lost Man Creek [/4000-trees-grow-in-brooklyn-spencer-finchs-public-art-installation-lost-man-creek/] , a living public art installation which debuted at MetroTech Commons in October 2016. In honor of the closing, Finch and the Public Art Fund [https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6126_spencer_finch_lost_
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Photo via Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/movies-metrotech][Updated: Wednesday, July 12 at 5:30pm] Unfortunately, due to the threat of rain, tonight’s movie has been canceled. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and Forest City Ratner Companies are hosting Movies@MetroTech, a series of free, summer movies at
Arts & Culture
The Good Dishes by Cecile Chong and sixth graders from Middle School 821, Sunset Park Prep, 2016 (permanent marker on paper plates) on view at The Old Stone House (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Father’s Day is Sunday! Show dad some love and spend some quality time with him
Arts & Culture
Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNERBrooklyn-based Artist Spencer Finch’s Lost Man Creek [https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6126_spencer_finch_lost_man_creek] is a re-creation of a 790-acre section of California’s Redwood National Park installed in Downtown Brooklyn. Working with the Save the Redwoods League [https://www.
fort greene
(Courtesy: mhlfrs / Instagram) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJVO8LChs22/?tagged=brooklynbridge]After a busy week, take the time to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. Bomb threat in Sunset
News
(Courtesy: mhlfrs / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJVO8LChs22/?tagged=brooklynbridge])After a busy week, take the time to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. Nick’s Lobster House
Arts & Culture
Full-scale Redwood trees. Photo Courtesy of Facebook/Redwood National and State Parks. [https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodNPS/photos/a.195972830413040.51547.152578104752513/1254298041247175/?type=3&theater] A tiny Redwood forest will soon be planted in Downtown Brooklyn, bringing a scaled-down version of the historical west coast national park to
Events
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.‘Tis the season for holiday tree lightings and all the festivities that come along with it! First up is tonight’s tree lighting at MetroTech Commons, in front of 2 MetroTech Center, at 5pm, where not only will there be a 54-foot-high, 7,000-pound Norway
lunitas
Welcome back to the week’s beginning. To help get you through it, peruse our selection of events for kids, educational happenings, and more. Song Crafters with Dara When: Monday, August 18, 3:30pm Where: Lunitas [http://lunitasbk.com] (1039A Fulton Street between Downing and Irving) What: Budding musicians can