Arts & Culture
“Crosecitree,” mixed media artwork by Ditmas Park resident Kathy Levine.The environment where an artist creates their work can show up in unexpected ways. If you peer out the second floor window of the farmhouse in the Berkshires where Herman Melville lived while he wrote Moby Dick, you can see
Arts & Culture
Jonna Twigg opened her DIY and custom bookbinding shop in her home neighborhood of Fort Greene. (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)They say never judge a book by its cover, but now you totally can — especially if you made the cover yourself at Twigg’s Bindery [http://www.
Neighbors
Photo via NYPDPolice have successfully located a 75-year-old neighbor who disappeared from her Park Slope home [/blog/neighbors/police-seek-missing-senior-with-dementia-last-seen-on-10th-street/] on Sunday, February 28. Cops say Lidiya F. Piddubna — who lives at 555 10th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues) — was located on Monday, February 29. Piddubna suffers from dementia, so
Arts & Culture
Photo courtesy of Kelly AndersonKelly Anderson’s acclaimed 2012 film “My Brooklyn” [http://www.mybrooklynmovie.com/] follows her journey as a “Brooklyn gentrifier” trying to understand the forces reshaping the various neighborhoods she has lived in since 1988. The filmmaker collaborated with Allison Dean, a journalist and urban planner, on
Announcements
Cover of “The Only Living Boy,” a children’s book series by David Gallaher. Author, and Ditmas Park resident, David Gallaher will be hosting a free comics-making workshop for children [https://www.facebook.com/events/255000874830990/] tomorrow evening. Gallaher, author of the children’s book series “The Only Living Boy,
Central Brooklyn
Performers and family members at Saturday’s Park Slope Food Coop Kids Variety Night Show, which was dedicated to Ikhari Hinds-Lewis.Young people throughout our area came together this weekend for a beloved 16-year-old neighbor who was very seriously injured a few weeks ago. The Park Slope Food Coop dedicated
Neighbors
Left-Right: Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, Senator Kevin S. Parker, BP Eric Adams, Senator Jesse Hamilton, NYPD 78th Precinct Commanding Officer Frank DiGiacomo. In background, hidden, Community Activist Tony Herbert. (Courtesy of the Office of BP Adams)Standing across the street from 551 9th Street, where Elizabeth Gioino, the 91-year-old
Central Brooklyn
Danna Jellinek Ozeri. (Courtesy of Nurit Ozeri)“Come up! Come up!,” says Nurit Ozeri, welcoming me into her Ocean Parkway home. She bolts up the stairs to the second floor and swings open the door — which has a small “Shalom Y’all” sign at eye level. This welcoming moment connects
Announcements
Photo: Q GardensSpring is almost here and it’s time to starting planting. Why not meet more of your neighbors and join one of our area’s newest community gardens [/blog/garden/q-gardens-launches-fundraiser-for-community-driven-mosaic] ? Q Gardens [https://www.facebook.com/Qgardenscommunity/?fref=photo] will be hosting its first meeting of 2016
Arts & Culture
Image via Google Maps.Apple Art Supplies and it’s owner, Sam Lee, are the subject of their very own profile in the [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/nyregion/apple-art-supplies-in-brooklyn-is-hub-for-matte-knives-and-gossip.html?_r=1&referer=https://www.google.com/] New York Times [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/
Business
Co-founders Abigail Palanca (left) and Teresa Lagerman of Founders Workspace. (Photo credit: Scott Salembier)Freelancers rejoice. A co-working space is scheduled to open in Windsor Terrace in mid-April at 553 Prospect Avenue on the corner of 10th Avenue, at last putting to use a storefront that once housed a fire-extinguisher
Neighbors
The dedicated team from the Sean Casey Animal Rescue. Source: KARMABrooklyn Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will honor an emergency room doctor in East Flatbush dedicated to ending gang violence and two animal lovers who rescued a malnourished dog in Prospect Park that was left chained to a tree with