Announcements
Flatbush Frolic (Photo Liena Zagare)This weekend in Brooklyn: Let’s start with the fun. There is the Sunset Park 5th Avenue Fair, and Flatbush Frolic, and Myrtle Avenue Fair, and The Great Irish Fair … and a good amount of construction as well.There are tons of events for the
Announcements
Tomorrow, September 14th, Mayor Bill De Blasio will hold a town hall meeting at PS 811K, located at 2525 Haring Street [https://www.google.com/maps/place/2525+Haring+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11235/@40.5911934,-73.9409077,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c244807d091de5:0xcb8fe534937f4090!8m2!3d40.5911934!4d-73.938719]
Arts & Culture
Gabriel Rivera’s work displayed on his 9th Street stoop (courtesy of the artist) PARK SLOPE – Park Slope artist Gabriel Rivera [https://www.facebook.com/CosmicCollision/] will present an art exhibition on his 9th Street stoop this weekend (September 16-17) to commemorate Mexican Independence Day [https://www.cntraveler.com/story/
Announcements
Polling booths at Agudath Senior Center. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal)In a nutshell – Voter turnout was abysmal, polling stations were poorly sited, and the results favored incumbents. According to NYC Board of Elections [https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_apr17.pdf], as of April 2017, there were exactly
Central Brooklyn
Hankering for a cool new spot to eat in Prospect Heights or Prospect Lefferts Gardens? Here’s a few relatively new restaurants—around long enough to both iron out opening issues and for the “if you’re not first you’re last” foodies to have come and gone—that are
celebrity
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Brooklyn may be losing one former-Bostonian-turned-Hollywood-actor [/emily-blunt-and-john-krasinski-list-park-slope-townhouse-for-8m/], but may soon gain another. Remember the Brooklyn Heights penthouse asking for $16.645 million [/brooklyn-heights-penthouse-break-record-boroughs-expensive-home-sale/]? The Wall Street Journal [https://www.wsj.com/articles/matt-damon-is-in-contract-to-buy-brooklyn-heights-penthouse-1505249552] reported on Tuesday that actor Matt Damon is in
Central Brooklyn
Bicyclists in Prospect ParkPROSPECT PARK – Yesterday, Prospect Park opened its streets back up to cars after a summer ban on motor vehicles [/cars-banned-prospect-park-2-month-summer-trial-officials-say/] that lasted two months. The ban, which started July 17, closed a window in which cars were allowed to use the East Drive on weekdays between 7:
Downtown Brooklyn
Via NYC DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/atlantic-ave-flatbush-ave-study-2016.pdf] FORT GREENE – The intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues is a major hub consisting of two highly trafficked two-way roads. Vehicular, foot, and bicycle traffic will only increase with all the new commercial and residential developments rising
Announcements
There will be a neighborhood-led clean-up in “Little Pakistan” (Coney Island and Foster Avenues) this Sunday, September 17, from 5 to 8pm. It is organized by the Pakistani American Youth Organization [https://www.facebook.com/payousaa/] (PAYO) in partnership with the Department of Sanitation in an effort to keep the
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Last Friday, September 8, NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver and City Council Member Laurie Cumbo hosted a groundbreaking ceremony at Stroud Playground, kicking off the $5 million transformation the park will undergo as a part of the Community Parks Initiative. Stroud Playground Groundbreaking (Photo by: Daniel Avila,
Announcements
Sharifa Hodges, founder of Seneca Village Montessori (by Megan McGibney/BKLYNER) “I’m so excited!” Sharifa Hodges exclaims as she gives a tour of the site of her upcoming pre school, Seneca Village Montessori [http://www.senecavillagemontessori.com/about-us.html] in Crown Heights. “There will be three classrooms,” Hodges says
Central Brooklyn
Leaders of the march led chants of “Whose city? Our city!” and “Brooklyn’s not for sale!” (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)About 200 community organizers and protesters marched through rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods this Saturday in a rally opposing gentrification, racism and police violence organized by the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN)