essay contest
Image via Urban Omnibus [http://urbanomnibus.net/2015/09/call-for-entries-as-seen-on/?utm_source=Events+October+5+-+October+25+%28plus+writing+contest%21%29+&utm_campaign=Events&utm_medium=email] .Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are not short on writers, so if this essay contest sounds like something you’
New York Writers Coalition
Photo courtesy of JessicaGale [http://mrg.bz/ZpzAEc].Jump start your creative writing juices this month with a free writing workshop led by the team over at New York Writers Coalition [http://nywriterscoalition.org/] in their 80 Hanson Place offices. Upcoming dates are listed below and are first-come, first-served, so
Brooklyn Arts Council
Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and Ella J. Weiss, president of Brooklyn Arts Council, hold up a symbolic big check representing the $45,000 in Destination: Brooklyn mini-grants to 30 local cultural organizations seeking to advance tourism in the borough; the funding will support the promotion of local arts
Akashic Books
A diverse group of writers, from award-winning poets to budding 10-year-old storytellers, will read their work at the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival [http://nywriterscoalition.org/programs/fort-greene-park-summer-literary-festival/] on Saturday, August 23. A project of the New York Writers Coalition (NYWC), this year marks the 10th anniversary of the
1 Lexington Avenue
This postcard, circa 1907, shows the only public library in Brooklyn at the time. (Image courtesy ofthe Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php])Oil tycoon and philanthropist Charles Pratt founded the Pratt Institute in 1887 several blocks away from his Clinton Hill home. Although Pratt never had the
David Stark
Choice Greene is undergoing renovations for the next three months. (Photo by Emily Field)Choice Greene is getting a new look this spring and cutting back on its selection of products.The Clinton Hill gourmet grocery at 214 Greene and its sister cafe, Choice Market, are undergoing renovations to expand
Brooklyn Doodles Playgroup
Artist Alexander Gruss has spent the past 25 years designing religious furnishings for synagogues and private collections. Gruss said he’s ready for something new. (Photo courtesy of Alexander Gruss)Resident muralist, cartoonist and jewelry maker, Alexander Gruss, wants to bring other artists’ work into his studio. Located on Lexington
assembled painting
New York Writers Coalition facilitators and students respond to respond to pictorial prompts during the coalition’s summer youth workshop in Fort Greene Park on Saturday, Aug. 3. (Photo by Philippe Theise)For young writers such as Najaya Royal, 16, who rose early to commute from East New York to
Alex Gruss
[SlideDeck2 id=881 ress=1] If you were passing by the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BLDG 92 [http://bldg92.org] on Flushing Avenue yesterday, you may have noticed a familiar-looking structure occupying the eastern end of its yard. That elongated structure was a scale wooden model of the Brooklyn Bridge.