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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
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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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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
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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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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
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
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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
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 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
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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
“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