News
Photo via thatjewishmoment [https://www.instagram.com/p/BEgSlCOLkN5/?tagged=matzo&hl=en]After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites.
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1660 East 10th Street. (Source: Trulia [http://www.trulia.com/rental/3223664546-1660-E-10th-St-Brooklyn-NY-11223#photo-5] )Looking for a new place to call home? We’ve rounded up a bunch of intriguing Sheepshead Bay apartment listings — take a look at the details, and let us
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Image courtesy of Tony Giordano.Happy Earth Day! Did you know that on this day, 46 years ago, Sunset Park resident and community advocate Tony Giordano, along with friends and neighbors, organized “the first Earth Day event in Sunset Park.” “We were the Street People Coalition and the grown-ups
Events
Dale Williams’ exhibit Fear Not To Appear opens tonight at Gowanus Loft. (Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt Republic)Welcome to the weekend, which features many events: an open studio tour, celebrating and remembering Prince, food samplings in the park, and more. Fear Not To Appear — Paintings, Drawings, and Books, 1980-1997
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A John Travolta impersonator visited the BIG Oscars. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)A John Travolta impersonator brought down the house at the the Bay Improvement Group’s annual awards ceremony at il Fornetto Thursday night. The leisure suit-wearing performer, who strutted into the dining room to the 70s
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Still image of Alex Lichtenstein on CBS News/New York.The de Blasio administration has frozen two City Council grants intended for an Orthodox Jewish security patrol in Borough Park. Mayoral spokeswoman Karen Hinton announced this week that $35,000 intended for the Borough Park Shomrim would not be released
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Landlord still hasn’t fixed the water pressure in your apartment? Neighbors stomp upstairs like they are a herd of elephants? Check out these apartments and see if any catch your fancy! 31 Montgomery Place [http://streeteasy.com/building/31-montgomery-place-brooklyn/2flr] Available: Immediately Price: $1,975 monthly
Education
Image via Robert Couse Baker [https://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/7846338906].The need for more school seats in Sunset Park is great and shows no sign of abating, but virtually none of the projected 3,800 new seats [http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/school-construction-mayor-
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The Board of Elections has booted the official that it says is responsible for Tuesday’s disastrous Democratic primary [/blog/2016/04/19/entire-block-omitted-voter-rolls-says-poll-worker/]. Brooklyn Chief Clerk Diane Hasslet-Rudiano was suspended without pay by the the Commissioners’
Food & Drink
The very first scoop of Matzo Project/Ample Hills Creamery Buttercrunch White Chocolate Cinnamon with chunks of matzo. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The Passover holiday is a fusion of bitter and sweet, as the story goes. And if you want to celebrate the holiday in the sweetest
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Has your landlord still not fixed the water pressure in your apartment? Do your neighbors stomp upstairs like they are a herd of elephants? Check out these apartments and see if any catch your fancy! 80 Lafayette Ave. #2 [http://streeteasy.com/building/80-lafayette-avenue-brooklyn/2] Available: May