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The weather has finally turned warm, and that means rhubarb. (Photo Liga Bite) Here’s a recap of what went down this week. Follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/ftgfocus], like us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FortGreeneFocus], and check out our Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and
Announcements
Mariya Yudkevich and Lenny Markh are getting married this weekend. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Every great couple has a great story about how they met. Lenny Markh and Mariya Yudkevich — who tie the knot Sunday — have one of those stories. And Sheepshead Bites is happy to take credit as
Central Brooklyn
(all photos by Carly Miller)When I first moved to Kensington, I was overwhelmed by the array of Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi groceries on Church ave and McDonald. After gaping at the racks of neon spices (mango powder? Kalonji?), I’d leave the store empty handed. That’s why I was
Bensonhurst
Photo courtesy of RMHCRonald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) presented Stuyvesant High School senior Winton Yee, 18, with a $16,000 college scholarship last Friday at an awards ceremony at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. He was one of six recipients of the 2016 RMHC/ASIA (Asian Students Increasing Achievement)
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Megan with a baby’s client in Fort Greene. (Courtesy Megan Davidson.)Doulas are having a moment. Take it from Megan Davidson [http://www.brooklyn-doula.com/BrooklynDoula.html], a labor and post-partum doula and long-time Clinton Hill resident. “I didn’t hear about doulas until I’d already had a
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Wyatt Cenac (Courtesy Flickr/David Shankbone. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/shankbone/5034678673/in/photolist-8EU3yH-dXvQi2-j4YHh1-8tVgPp-8tYmkC-9q5NjL-8EXfhj-6xoKjD-7VJRVh-7PQJoW-dXBGDd-dXBCa3-dXBus7-9q5Nfo-dXBA4h-dzycEY-8jgomb-dXBF3J-dXw272-dXBvA1-7J4KSR-eDzDR2-7J8E8Y-7J8Gbd-9C1b3N-7yx2uz-9q5N3Q-dXBz9m-7yAQdY-9q5Naq-7J4KKe-7VFBNc-9q2LbR-6WduMX-dXvKcD-7VJRwj-7VJSUh-7J8FM1-7yAQ7S-dXvNNH-duHyuN-dXBFUE-7VJSH3-dXDbzC-dXBETE-dXBCM1-8tVg1P-8tVgWX-8tYmYY-8tVhdM] )As the name implies, Fort Greene was
Arts & Culture
Thingtide Show and Tale founder Martie McNabb gives an introduction to Brooklyn Battles at the Old Stone House in Prospect Heights. (Credit: Elizabeth Elizalde) Personal historian Martie McNabb has always been interested in people’s lives and how they chose to live them. It inspired her to start an archival
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Yafa Deli has some great fried chicken. (Courtesy Justin Fox/Fort Greene Focus. Here’s a recap of what went down this week. Follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/ftgfocus], like us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FortGreeneFocus], and check out our Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and
Central Brooklyn
Co-owners Stuart and Sharlene Wellington at Hinterlands. Third co-owner Matt Kuhn not pictured. (photo via Hinterlands Bar / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/hinterlandsbar/photos/a.915537555188233.1073741827.915533068522015/1081484178593569/?type=3&theater] )Stuart Wellington, co-owner of the much-awaited Hinterlands bar — set to open on Church Avenue this summer [/business/
Arts & Culture
The author (courtesy Daniel Elder.)We’re trying something a little different here: this is a great piece of short non-fiction that we think is worth reading. Author Daniel Elder grew up in Jackson Heights, but it was in Clinton Hill where he matured into the person he is today.
Education
Photo by Sigrid Estrada (Courtesy Pratt Institute)Thomas F. Schutte, Ph.D — the seemingly ageless leader of Pratt Institute — will be stepping down as president at the Clinton Hill art, architecture and design school following the 2016-17 academic year. Schutte, whose 1993 arrival in Clinton Hill signaled a profound shift
Central Brooklyn
Staff and residents celebrated today at the new computer lab at the Kensington Family Shelter. (Photo via Council Member Brad Lander’s office [https://twitter.com/bradlander/status/732954261320007680].)A new computer lab was inaugurated today at the Kensington Family Shelter — with the goal of helping homeless families “bridge the