Arts & Culture
Mourners waving their phones. (Courtesy Spike Lee/Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BEfGaa3yqgj/].)Last night, Fort Greene partied like it was 1999, but under the most 2016 of circumstances. Thursday afternoon, Spike Lee sent out word [/blog/2016/04/21/spike-lee-hold-prince-tribute-tonight-40-acres/] via his Instagram that he was going to
Announcements
Source: Flickr/jpotischCouncilman David G. Greenfield, Community Board 12 and 14, and the Sanitation Department have collaborated to create a more robust garbage collection schedule in anticipation of the eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins Friday, April 22 [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/04/avoid-40-years-desert-brooklyn-seder-guide/#.VxesrpMrLiw] . The modified garbage
Animals
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerTwo additional projects chosen by our community via Participatory Budgeting (PB) have received the green light. The office of Council Member Mathieu Eugene has announced that out of the eleven projects on the PB ballot for the 40th District, nine now have funding to go forward — the
Announcements
Flatbush Tenant Coalition housing justice march in 2014. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)The Flatbush Tenant Coalition (FTC) [https://flatbushtenantcoalition.wordpress.com] is hosting a town hall meeting tonight to “bring awareness about the rampant and destructive proliferation of predatory equity in the Flatbush community.” This meeting is for tenants living
Announcements
Flatbush Tenant Coalition housing justice march in 2014. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)The Flatbush Tenant Coalition (FTC) [https://flatbushtenantcoalition.wordpress.com] is hosting a town hall meeting tonight to “bring awareness about the rampant and destructive proliferation of predatory equity in the Flatbush community.” This meeting is for tenants living
Arts & Culture
Photo by Carmen Molina TamacasIt’s 7:30pm. A radio transmitter blares the nightly news in Spanish: There’s an election revolt in Perú, a sexual abuse scandal in Uruguay, the massacre of 17 miners in Venezuela, an earthquake in Ecuador, and a petition for El Salvador’s government to
Arts & Culture
> ? Mural in progress at Laundercenter in Windsor Terrace! One of my favorite signs in the neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/xC9GYdjVFk [https://t.co/xC9GYdjVFk] — Leslie Albrecht (@ReporterLeslie) April 21, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ReporterLeslie/status/723169258247741440] Better weather means brighter colors for the neighborhood. The Laundercenter [https://www.yelp.
Business
Lark Cafe, Ditmas Park / Photo by Ditmas Park CornerEarly this morning, Kari Browne, proprietor of LARK Cafe [/business-overview/lark-brooklyn-ny-11218/26741320-31b6-4085-bf2b-ea7fd8d24ccd/] in Ditmas Park and ELK Cafe [/business-overview/elk-cafe-brooklyn-ny-11218/706c55af-5fca-4e04-80a9-084df870ee72/] in Windsor Terrace, posted to Facebook to inform her clients that while she’d like to continue running the much loved
Bensonhurst
Red Cross volunteers aid victims of Ecuador’s May 16 earthquake (Image via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/26409477582/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz4Wq-afHwkp-afLhJG-afLhFb-7GzET3-9pyEbn-c8mauu-7GvPrK-7GQxtS-7K5Whx-7GLAFD-7GQxDh-Gkwc6Q-7GLB6z-FqUqWh-7GLApg-99LuME-wPg5eC-FsqpVU-GeHtAo-FXLcf5-FsqpTj-FXLcn9-FXLcjo-GeHtBA-GeHtH7-GnSBCH-FsAX8c-FXLcmY-qdV8fs-GkzDJ3-GnSBEM-FsqpXN-FsAX4p-FXLcjd/] ). [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/25896906034/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz
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Happy 100th birthday, Isabel Espinal! (Photo courtesy of Maritza Peralta)Happy 100th birthday, Isabel Espinal! In the annals of reasons to hold a massive family reunion of hundreds of people from across the country, a 100th birthday party for the family matriarch is one of the best. And that is
Central Brooklyn
(A traditional Seder courtesy Wikimedia Commons)Brooklyn’s matzoh bakeries are working overtime in preparation for Passover, producing only the finest shmura matzoh [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/dining/passover-matzo.html?_r=0], which celebrates the liberation of the Jewish people from bondage under the Egyptian pharaoh. What
Kids & Family
Image via 72nd Precinct [https://twitter.com/NYPD72Pct/status/722113688241627136].It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Michael Moussa, a young teen who has worked with the 72nd Precinct’s NYPD Explorer Program, passed away this Sunday, April 17, after a fight with a thalassemia,