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Street games in old Brooklyn. (Image via Brooklyn Historical Society.)In this rapidly changing Brooklyn we live in, it is more important than ever to record and document our own personal and familial oral histories, as much for us as for the neighborhoods we love and call home — sometimes for
Kids & Family
If TARDIS, hobbit, and Peter Parker are all a part of your children’s everyday vocabulary, you probably have a few fantasy and comic book fans. Congratulations! You’re doing this parenting thing right. Park Slope is known for its family-friendly activities, so it should come as no surprise
City Kid Corner
Riders enjoying the Cyclone roller coaster. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Elected officials gathered in Coney Island Saturday to christen the newly refurbished cyclone at the spring opening ceremony for Luna Park. The celebration had been postponed one week because weather reports predicted a Nor’easter [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerIt was a call for peace, from Coney Island Avenue to the streets of Lahore. Borough President Eric Adams, along with other elected officials and leaders of our local Pakistani community, held an interfaith candlelight vigil last night to honor the victims of Sunday’s terrorist attack
Business
Security video courtesy of Athena Mediterranean Cuisine.A burglar who doesn’t have the wherewithal to pull up his pants has struck twice this month at Athena Mediterranean Cuisine [http://athenacuisine.com/] (535 6th Avenue at 14th Street), causing stress to the owners and digging up uncomfortable memories of a
fort greene
Photo courtesy of Darold Burgess.Voter registration may be over for anyone seeking to vote in the April 19 presidential primary (FYI it’s not too late to register for the main thing, aka General Election in November), but Fort Greene community leaders definitely made the most of the time
Education
Photo courtesy of Paypaul via FlickrA Kingsborough Community College professor has filed a lawsuit accusing top administrators of creating an culture of “systemic anti-Semitism” in which Jewish faculty were openly harassed and discriminated against. The lawsuit [http://thelawfareproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lax_Complain_EDNY.pdf], first
Central Brooklyn
Magnolia X SoulangianaMagnolias Magnolias are officially magnificent. You can see them on just about every block, with spectacular specimens on Albemarle Road, Marlborough Road between Albemarle and Beverley, and East 17th Street between Dorchester and Foster. Magnolia Denudata (Yulan Magnolia)Magnolia X Soulangiana (Saucer Magnolia) about to burst open.There
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Image courtesy of Cushman & Wakefield.Brooklyn Hospital has been trying to sell their Maynard Building, at 240 Willoughby Street, for a couple of years now, with a 2014 request for proposals (RFPs) leading to the hospital board reviewing said RFPs around this time last year [/blog/2015/05/22/
library
Image via CUNY.It’s good news for the mixtape and podcasting fans. Bklyn Mixtape Podcasting Club is being funded at Central Library. The podcast is an oral history project that will teach adult participants how to collect, adapt, record, edit, and produce people’s stories as radio-style podcasts
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Bensonhurst
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