Announcements
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — April and warm weather usually mark the arrival of Sakura Matsuri, the borough’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This year is no different. Kaoru Tani of the Yoshi Amao and Samurai Sword Soul poses by bloomed cherry blossom. (Photo Kadia Goba/Bklyner)The
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Carroll Street near 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) * Earlier this month a judge ruled in favor of the NYC Parks Department when Friends of Fort Greene Park requested—via the Freedom of Information Law—a report regarding the redesign of the park that includes the removal of 58 trees
Big Story
Candidates, organizers, and moderator Kadia Goba. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) MIDWOOD – About 150 residents of Community District 45 came to hear what seven of eight candidates running for Public Advocate Jumaane Williams’ old council member seat had to say, at a forum hosted by the Pakistani American Youth Society (PAYS)
affordable housing
CROWN HEIGHTS – More than 50 apartments in Crown Heights hit the affordable housing market this week as 409 Eastern Parkway (at Bedford Avenue) nears completion. Renderings of 409 Eastern Parkway at Bedford Avenue Credit: CRAFT CGThe corner building spans more than 197,000 sq. ft.with 11 stories and 186
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Council Member Brad Lander announced the winners of this year’s District 39 Participatory Budgeting (PBNYC) projects [https://pbnyc39.com/2019-capital-projects/] last week. The seven capital projects and ten expense projects on the ballot were presented at a Project Expo held at the Park Slope Library in early
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BROOKLYN — Here’s the skinny on what some of your state and city lawmakers are up to. State Sen. Parker wants to make Good Friday a national holiday a state holiday. The proposed legislation [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s4430] would designate a legal holiday for public schools
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People leaving Easter Service. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE – Hundreds of people attended Easter service at the Old First Reformed Church on Sunday. It was their first time being back after the sanctuary closed in 2011 for massive repairs. “This morning, we remember the people of Sri Lanka; the
Announcements
CROWN HEIGHTS – After three years of renovation and a yearlong closure, the St. Johns Recreational Center [https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/recreationcenters/B245] in Crown Heights reopens the end of April. St. John’s Recreational Center Photo: Kadia Goba/BklynerThe center, located at 1251 Prospect Place (between Troy and Schenectady
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – Bicycle riders from throughout the city share the same concerns for riding safely on city streets, so this fifth annual “Bike to Work” ride that started at the still under construction Zion Triangle in Brownsville on this Earth Day on Monday, focused on getting to work by bike in
Arts & Culture
PARK SLOPE – Thursday, April 18, was National Poem in Your Pocket Day [https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day], but one group of seventh graders took their poems out of their pockets and onto the streets. Class 705 at M.S. 51 filled a block with colorful chalk illustrations of verse
Central Brooklyn
(L-R) Farah Louis, Adina Sash, and Monique Chandler-WatermanEAST FLATBUSH/MIDWOOD — Three people in the race to fill the 45the council seat received matching funds on Thursday, as the 7-person race pushes on. Candidates qualify for payments under the city’s matching funds program if they raise at least $5,000
Borough Park
Burning of chametz in Boro Park. Todd Maisel/BklynerFriday marked the beginning of Passover in the Jewish faith and Good Friday for Christians worldwide, meaning thousands of people in Brooklyn participated in special religious rituals to mark the holy days. In the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, Jewish residents burned bread and