Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership

Remembering Ahmad Samhan: Restaurateur, Father, Friend

Ahmad Samhan outside of his restaurant. Courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.Ahmad Samhan, a Brooklyn restaurateur, and father, died of a heart attack last Friday at the age of 51. Samhan was a man of faith. He was a man who loved music and singing. A man who shut

Business

90s Dance Party To Close Out Myrtle Avenue Summer Series

CLINTON HILL – The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [https://myrtleavenue.org] will close out this year’s Myrtle Avenue Summer Series with a 90s hip-hop dance party, street dance battle, and live art installation next Friday, August 23. Matthew Geller’s I Ought To at Myrtle Avenue Plaza (Photo: Nathan Haselby)

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Myrtle Ave BID Petitions Against B54 Bus Cuts, Rally On Thursday

CLINTON HILL/FORT GREENE/DOWNTOWN – Commuters who rely on the B54 bus are fighting against the MTA [https://new.mta.info]‘s plans to cut service on the line this fall. Via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn PartnershipThe B54 [https://bustime.mta.info/m/?q=B54] runs from Jay Street in Downtown

Announcements

Myrtle Avenue Summer Series: Outdoor Fun All Season Long

CLINTON HILL – Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/summer/] will present a packed schedule of outdoor programs this summer including lunchtime concerts, fitness classes, kids’ activities, and more. A live performance at Myrtle Avenue Plaza in 2018 (Photo: Samuel Stuart, courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)All of the

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Get Outside And Enjoy Spring With Myrtle Ave BKLYN

FORT GREENE/CLINTON HILL – The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org] is encouraging neighbors to get outside and enjoy the spring weather with free yoga classes, walking tours, and bicycling promotions. Sunset Stretch Yoga courtesy of Myrtle Ave BKLYNThe Sunset Stretch Series [https://www.facebook.com/events/2381097038787977/] kicked

Arts & Culture

Adorn Me: Artist Tanda Francis Unveils Monumental Sculpture At Fort Greene Park

FORT GREENE – Visitors entering Fort Greene Park at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Washington Park will be greeted by a trio of regal, large-scale African heads. The 8′ x 15′ concrete and steel sculpture, Adorn Me, created by Brooklyn-based artist, Tanda Francis, was officially unveiled at the park on

Arts & Culture

Myrtle Avenue Plaza Debuts This Thursday With Free Public Events All Summer

CLINTON HILL – After more than ten years in the making, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/plaza/] will debut the new $7 million, 25,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza between Hall Street and Emerson Place this Thursday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the launch of the free summer public program

Business

Myrtle Ave Businesses Declare ‘Hate Has No Business Here’

Hate Has No Business HereJust in time for the Fourth of July, businesses along Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are displaying messages on their storefronts declaring, “Hate Has No Business Here” to protest racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny. Created by Amanda Neville, the owner of Tipsy [https:

Announcements

Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership Awarded $100,000 Grant To Fund Outreach App

Myrtle Ave BKLYN via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/MyrtleAveBrooklyn/photos/a.204400030280.169441.156063095280/10154841330850281/?type=3&theater] The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/myrtle-avenue-wins-innovation-grant/] announced yesterday that it is among five community-based organizations to receive a $100,000 grant from the NYC Department of Small Business

community

Four-Block Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza Almost Complete

Photo by Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/myrtle-avenue-plaza-nearing-completion/?utm_source=Myrtle+Minutes+E-Newsletter&utm_campaign=f4f68ba3b6-Tree+Lighting+in+Fort+Greene+Park+%26+more&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_942e880905-f4f68ba3b6-74753449] Just in time for summer, the Myrtle Avenue Plaza [http://myrtleavenue.org/plaza/], a four-block long, 25,000-square-foot

community

Second Annual Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair Returns

Senior Resource Fair (Photo courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair [http://myrtleavenue.org/announcing-the-2nd-annual-senior-resource-fair/] returns tomorrow, March 29, from 11am to 2pm at Mercy Home [https://www.mercyhomeny.org/] at 273 Willoughby Avenue (at Classon Avenue). The free event, presented by the

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Six-Story Building To Replace New Sapolo Restaurant In Clinton Hill

The new rendering shows a six-story, mixed use building to rise on Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill. (Courtesy: Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/501myrtlerevealed/])A new rendering shows a six-story, 10-unit mix-use building set to rise over the former New Sapolo Restaurant on Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill.

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$5 Million Awarded To Fort Greene Park For Improvements

The northern perimeter of Fort Greene Park (Courtesy Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)Fort Greene Park has won $5 million earmarked for capital improvements thanks to overwhelming public support received during the New York City Parks Department Parks Without Borders [https://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/planning/parks-without-borders] initiative. The announcement was

Business

Comptroller Stringer Visits Myrtle Avenue Businesses To Address Bureaucratic Barriers To Success

Photo courtesy of Comptroller Scott Stringer’s OfficeComptroller Scott M. Stringer was in Fort Greene with the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/], advocates, and small business owners Friday, to visit small businesses — including Brewklyn Grind [/blog/2014/09/16/now-open-brewklyn-grind-roasters/], Pushkin Creperie Bakery [http://www.yelp.com/biz/

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Sign Up For A $10 Box Of Farm-Fresh Produce This February And March

Do you love grocery shopping for fresh produce at the Fort Greene Greenmarket, but wish that you could afford to do it more often (or at all, if you’re on an even tighter budget)? Then sign up for this winter/spring season’s batch of two farm fresh boxes,

Arts & Culture

February Marks The Return Of Black ArtStory Month; Here’s Your Schedule

“I Am A Man” — Image by Steven MosleyNext Monday marks the start of February (can you believe it? It still feels like the new year just begun!) and with it, here in Fort Greene-Clinton Hill, the start of Black ArtStory Month [http://www.myrtleavenue.org/blackartstory]! This fourth annual art-history-social

Business

Coming Soon: Crepe House At 475A Myrtle Avenue In Clinton Hill

Photo by Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.myrtleavenue.org]. Crepe-tastic news! A new crepe place is coming and it is making its menu intentions clear with its name: Crepe House. Located at 475A Myrtle Avenue, between Washington Avenue and Hall Street, the new restaurant will open in February and

Business

Donate To Support Myrtle Avenue Programming Going Into The New Year

This past year, have you enjoyed participating in the Wallabout History Walking Tours [http://bit.ly/FREELocalTours] this past year? Or seeing local seniors be able to take fitness classes [http://bit.ly/InvestinLocalSeniors] designed for them? Do you want to partake of the Farragut Fresh Pantry [http://bit.ly/

Events

Live Reindeer, Santa, Singing, And Hot Cocoa At This Week’s Tree Lightings In MetroTech And Fort Greene Park

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

Animals

Photo Finish: Keep Your Eye On The Small Business Saturday Prize

Photo via DC Optics [https://www.instagram.com/p/-egVg3JMUm/?taken-by=dcoptics]. Ollie, looking snazzy while planning his shopping spree on Myrtle Avenue. Pick up your Shopping and Dining Guide at various businesses on the block! Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our

City Harvest

Fort Greene-Farragut Fresh Pantry Launches, Bringing Fresh Produce To NYCHA Residents

Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.NYCHA residents from Farragut, Ingersoll and Whitman Houses now have a free monthly market of their own, courtesy of a partnership between City Harvest [http://www.cityharvest.org/] and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (MARP) [http://www.myrtleavenue.org]. Dubbed Fresh Pantry [http://www.

MARP

Share Your Opinion On School, Transportation, Safety, And Other Issues On Myrtle Avenue

Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.Us Fort Greene and Clinton Hill residents are nothing if not opinionated, especially when it comes to issues that affect our homes, local haunts, and families, so let’s put that neighborhood expertise to good use by filling out this 2015 Resident Survey [https:

MARP

Behind The New Myrtle Avenue Business Banners

A few weeks ago, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.myrtleavenue.org] (MARP) unfurled their new banners — a new design for a new season of shopping and community on the commercial corridor, which stretches from the Fort Greene/Downtown Brooklyn border at Flatbush Avenue Extension through to the Clinton

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Chipotle Will Join Starbucks In Former Home Improvement Space At 394 Myrtle Avenue

Get ready for more burritos-to-go: Chipotle [http://www.chipotle.com] is coming to Myrtle Avenue. The international Mexican-inspired fast-food chain will move into [http://www.myrtleavenue.org/chipotle/] a retail space at 394 Myrtle Avenue — sharing the former Home And U spot with fellow retail juggernaut Starbucks [/blog/2015/03/

Bedford Library

Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Events: Through Thursday, February 5

Here’s this week’s roundup of neighborhood events taking place through Thursday. We’ll have your weekend schedule guide on Friday and as always, let us know if there’s anything we’re missing by emailing editor@bklyner.com! ONGOING Open (C)all: The Artists Studio [http://bricartsmedia.org/