Central Brooklyn
Taryn Hughes works as a mind-body therapist and and brings nearly 20 years of experience to her gender-specific work. After several years in Berlin, Germany, Hughes is bringing her practice to Ditmas Park with a new women’s group at Kettle & Thread, called Women Living Brightly. “I wanted to
Neighbors
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)Community Board 15 member Mitchell Shpelfogel, heir to a family real-estate fortune, is being sued by his former houseworker for unpaid wages, according to court documents posted online [http://www.scribd.com/doc/294291080/Mitchell-Shpelfogel]
fort greene
Photo by Lia Chang [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Henry_Hwang_photo_by_Lia_Chang2013.jpg] .Just over one month after being stabbed in the neck [/blog/2015/12/03/blood-splatter-victim-identified-playwright-david-henry-hwang-is-recuperating-after-seemingly-random-slashing/] in an apparently random attack [/blog/2015/12/01/blood-stained-sidewalk-at-south-portland-streets-and-lafayette-avenue-startles-residents/] just feet away from his Fort Greene
Animals
Neighbor William Levin removes a raccoon from inside his apartment wall. (Photo via YouTube [https://youtu.be/C0dWq8lRBfU])In the 1968 Beatles’ song “Rocky Raccoon [https://youtu.be/c5TDkfMXTwc],” Paul McCartney sings about “somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota.” While our neighborhood is nowhere near the Dakotas, our
Animals
Neighbor William Levin removes a raccoon from inside his apartment wall. (Photo via YouTube [https://youtu.be/C0dWq8lRBfU])In the 1968 Beatles’ song “Rocky Raccoon [https://youtu.be/c5TDkfMXTwc],” Paul McCartney sings about “somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota.” While our neighborhood is nowhere near the Dakotas, our
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Photo via mr_stephen_santos [https://www.instagram.com/p/BADHtkuQYph/?tagged=parkslope]It’s 2016, so that means it’s time for a new series. If you keep your ear(s) to the ground, you’ll hear some interesting things around the neighborhood. These snippets of conversation below are
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Photo via mr_stephen_santos [https://www.instagram.com/p/BADHtkuQYph/?tagged=parkslope]It’s 2016, so that means it’s time for a new series. If you keep your ear(s) to the ground, you’ll hear some interesting things around the neighborhood. These snippets of conversation below are
Business
Photo via Christy O’ShoneyThe new year has begun and many of us have made all sorts of resolutions to improve ourselves in 2016 — some of which might have already been broken. For those with creative resolutions or projects to work on in the new year, it can be hard
Arts & Culture
With help from residents, local artist Amanda Patenaude is crafting a community mosaic of broken glass salvaged from Fort Greene Park. (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)Glass is one of those materials that is endlessly changeable, able to be both beautiful and deadly, a masterpiece or mundane or
Kids & Family
Lezginka dancers from the Tovushi Kavkazi Jewish Youth Center performs at the 61st Precinct’s Night Out Against Crime. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Many Sheepshead Bay residents have run into children from the Tovushi Kavkazi Jewish Youth Center [/tag/tovushi-kavkazi-jewish-youth-center/]. Their dance troop, festooned in dazzling, colorful garmets, makes
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(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)We’ll admit it. There’s often a lot of gloom and doom on Sheepshead Bites. And if you regularly follow the site, you’re aware there have been quite a few horrible crimes [/brighton-beach-man-charged-with-murdering-natik-nisimov-on-ocean-parkway/], multimillion dollar scams [/three-managers-of-two-local-medical-centers-accused-of-running-61-million-fraud-scheme-as-part-of-largest-bust-in-history/] , and political scandals [/michael-grimm-inmate-83479-053-
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerAs 2015 comes to a close, we’ve been looking back and thinking about all of the amazing people in the neighborhood that make Ditmas Park such a wonderful place to live. Before 2016 starts off with a bang in both Prospect Park and Coney Island