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Brooklyn Arts for Kids participants restore the Community mural. Courtesy of Brooklyn Arts for Kids.At Brooklyn Arts for Kids [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9MbJICfyJ0oJ:www.brooklynartsforkids.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us] , a visual and performing arts program for
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Volunteers working on the octopus mural at P.S. 54 in 2019. Courtesy of Lauren Cawdrey.Two years ago, on a whim, Bed-Stuy resident Lauren Cawdrey decided to buy Willoughby General [https://www.willoughbygeneral.com/], a small storefront near the Myrtle – Willoughby subway station. The space had been left suddenly
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Portrait of Mayo Orozco by artist Nadia Westcott. Courtesy of Joe Matunis.Two new murals in Williamsburg – one at the event space 74Wythe [https://www.74wythe.com/], the other right inside the South 4th Street entrance to Domino Park – pay tribute to the people holding New York together. Just inside
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Community mural painting project in 2018. Courtesy of SARF.SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG – This week you can try your hand at painting a street mural in East Williamsburg. Ten years ago, a mural reflecting the local farmers market was painted on the wall at 46 Graham Ave. Over the years it became
Crown Heights
A Crown Heights mural on mental health awareness on Troy Avenue and Park Place outside of MS354, The School of Integrated Learning.CROWN HEIGHTS – The New York City Mural Arts Project [https://www.muralartsproject.cityofnewyork.us/] made its mark on Brooklyn this year with a four-story mural on mental health
Events
Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.It was a night of music, joy, remembrance, and pride. The Sheepshead Bay community congregated in front of the 9/11 mural in Bill Brown Park, also known as Bedford Park, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks that shook our city
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(Courtesy:Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/7488701704/in/photolist-cpKy7C-mXEwG9-fr7WZ-aFxKme-gVo4MU-dCaifZ-8hwxkh-kAoV6H-8svPsD-ftTdFM-7vkab8-f7znz-bkWF4r-9bKBwQ-6Hf8g7-8hwxeu-bDx9b2-pVZiby-4F7atP-8AzhB4-asdxZx-HbzHM-8hwxhd-6z2eiq-dwBx7C-asfWX5-8J3Zsq-DcLD7b-bDx9bg-asgaNY-9KWoJK-7zBkMv-83zxqq-asdx84-frbku-xdX6u-asdmtR-asg9Yb-asdggR-dq1s4F-6Wzo2q-e9vUfD-zoFqD-5eAmgo-5evX1c-e9vUpR-XhqEQ-c2bF27-hw8xD-asdyh4] )Do you have what it takes to have
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> ? Mural in progress at Laundercenter in Windsor Terrace! One of my favorite signs in the neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/xC9GYdjVFk [https://t.co/xC9GYdjVFk] — Leslie Albrecht (@ReporterLeslie) April 21, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ReporterLeslie/status/723169258247741440] Better weather means brighter colors for the neighborhood. The Laundercenter [https://www.yelp.
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Lou HowortNeighbor Lou Howort sent this in to us. “A question well worth asking..and answering,” he says. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and we’ll
Brooklyn Recycle Project
Photo by Juan Carlos Pinto [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153336308406749&set=p.10153336308406749&type=1&theater] After urging from the community, Tribeca Pediatrics [https://www.tribecapediatrics.com/] says it will keep the mosaic mural on Cortelyou Road [/blog/art-music/installing-a-mosaic-on-johns] near Rugby Road. Tribeca
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Students painting mural at 138 5th Avenue (Photo via Groundswell)If you’ve walked along 5th Avenue past the Key Foods parking lot between Sterling and St. John’s Place, you might have noticed students on scaffolding painting the wall. The college students have been working all summer to paint
1103 Cortelyou Road
Photo via Bar Chord [https://www.facebook.com/BarChord/photos/a.143262649164577.32453.142374215920087/461469530677219/?type=1&theater] Artist and neighbor Juan Carlos Pinto [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Juan-Carlos-Pinto-Artworks/185023554861846] — who’s well-known for his area installations like the enormous pixelated portraits at the corner of Cortelyou and