Arts & Culture
From behind the Pavilion’s facade, the marquee is visibleFor years, the Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West was the cinema we loved to hate [/blog/art-music/sticky-shoes-so-long-neighbors-invited-to-give-pavilion-a-sendoff-on-november-1/] . Since the theater re-opened in 1996, neighbors watched its steady decline — sticky, gum-spackled floors, broken heaters in the winter, rats roaming the
Central Brooklyn
Lucio Schiavone. (Photo Credit: Virginia Freire)Prospect Park will lose a popular, long-time fixture when Lucio Schiavone retires as Carousel Manager in December after 26 years of service. On Saturday, November 5 at 11:45am the Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/] will commemorate Schiavone with a ceremony and
Feature
Katia Kelly’s blog Pardon Me For Asking has been documenting Carroll Gardens and Gowanus for over a decade. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)First, bookmark the blog Pardon Me For Asking [http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/]. There’s something rather meta-journalistic about Katia Kelly’s role as the
Arts & Culture
Ruth Franklin (Photo by Anthony Delmundo)Run — don’t walk — to get a copy of neighbor Ruth Franklin’s latest critically acclaimed biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. Franklin is an award-winning book critic, former editor at The New Republic, and author, whose new literary biography has been called
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Holidays
Cobble Hill. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Happy Halloween! Brooklynites take All Hallows’ Eve very seriously as seen in the many homes playfully adorned in fun and creepy Halloween decorations. Cobble Hill. (Photo by Nathan Haselby)From tasteful autumnal gourds to cutesy, child-friendly characters and giant inflatable creatures, from elaborately
Neighbors
Photo via Raisa Chernina.You might know her from food drives around the holidays or from celebrating grandmothers and police officers with grandiose pageants and parties. Raisa Chernina came to the United States from Belarus in 1979 with no English skills and zero expectations, and quickly adopted this country as
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Walker EsnerWith a controversial Presidential race dominating headlines, it can be hard to learn about local candidates who’s decisions directly affect our day-to-day lives. Here’s an opportunity to hear from a local candidate in their own words. Glenn Nocera, Republican District Leader of the 44th Assembly
Arts & Culture
Photos by Jonas Read [http://jonas-read.squarespace.com]Jonas Read has quickly grabbed everyone’s attention on the local Facebook pages. His ecstatic photographs — which feature scenes from Coney Island Avenue and the F train platform — will make you rethink the neighborhood entirely. Kensington-based photographer Jonas Read in action. (Photo
Health
The proposed location of the group home. Photo screenshot from Google Maps. Theresa Scavo, the Chairperson of Community Board 15, received a letter on October 3 from the Women’s League Community Residences (WLCR) [http://www.womensleague.org/] regarding a group home that they intend to install at 1730 East
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Photo screenshot from Brooklyn Daily Eagle archives. [https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52893011/?terms=bertha%2Bschalk]In July of 1948, Bertha Schalk was fed up with the city garbage trucks dumping trash into Mill Creek. The dumping caused a stench so bad that it drove Schalk to take to the
Central Brooklyn
Carly Miller, editor of Ditmas Park Corner, at work on Cortelyou Road. (Photo: Sarah Crean/DPC)We at Ditmas Park Corner depend on your support [/community-partners/]and the support of our advertisers to tell the stories nobody else tells about our neighborhood. We thought you’d like a look behind
Arts & Culture
Photo by Joseph De La Cruz.Deanna Maffeo was analyzing her own artwork in the Avant Garde [http://avantgardeles.com/], a hip art gallery in lower Manhattan, as visitors admired her oil paintings, pointing out the detail in her depiction of some retro video game cartridges. Maffeo has a child-like