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Jun
19
200 Volunteers Clean Up Trash-Ridden Bensonhurst Streets

200 Volunteers Clean Up Trash-Ridden Bensonhurst Streets

Photo via Assemblyman William Colton’s office.On Saturday, more than 200 young volunteers worked to clean up Bensonhurst. The
2 min read
Jun
02
Help Community Journalism Group Raise Money To Continue Vibrant Storytelling

Help Community Journalism Group Raise Money To Continue Vibrant Storytelling

There is a group of investigative journalists (editors, reports, producers), volunteers, and interns who report on Central Brooklyn— and only
2 min read
Jul
06
Beat The Heat At Your Neighborhood Cooling Center

Beat The Heat At Your Neighborhood Cooling Center

(Image by Axel Taferner / Flickr [http://(www.n0t.net/])A heat wave is expected to grip New York City this
3 min read
Nov
30
New Neighborhood Maps Have Popped Up Near Subway Stations

New Neighborhood Maps Have Popped Up Near Subway Stations

Photo by amberala [https://www.instagram.com/amberala/]If you’ve ridden the subway to or from the neighborhood in
1 min read
Dec
13
How Would You Describe Park Slope To Someone Who’s Never Been Here Before?

How Would You Describe Park Slope To Someone Who’s Never Been Here Before?

That’s the question at the heart of the first video in a new series on neighborhoods from Curbed [http:
1 min read
Oct
15
Experience 60s South Slope In New Novel, Brownstone Dreams

Experience 60s South Slope In New Novel, Brownstone Dreams

South Slope as we know it today is nothing like the stickball and gang-filled streets of the 1960s, according to
1 min read
Aug
02
Where Is It?

Where Is It?

Where in South Slope was this photo taken? Here’s a hint: The building was constructed [/blog/history/new-map-plots-construction-dates-of-brooklyn-buildings] in
Jun
06
Photo Flashback: 6th Avenue And 21st Street

Photo Flashback: 6th Avenue And 21st Street

Tommy Alioto’s family owned the building that is now occupied by Toby’s Public House [http://www.tobyspublichouse.com/
1 min read
Mar
26
Neighborhood Improvements Go Beyond Participatory Budgeting

Neighborhood Improvements Go Beyond Participatory Budgeting

As we get ready to vote on the projects that are in the running for funding [/blog/politics/expo-offers-first-look-at-participatory-budgeting-projects] through
1 min read
Dec
11

How Would You Describe Kensington?

Every once in a while someone writes up Kensington, and the summary of the neighborhood often misses all those things
1 min read