Announcements
Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke. Photo by Errol Anderson.Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke [https://clarke.house.gov/] and Facebook will be speaking with small businesses –especially those in the African-American community — on Monday morning. Congresswoman Clarke is to be the guest speaker at a free training sponsored by Facebook and
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerWe received an interesting email from a reader late last night. Something was keeping this resident awake. The reader reported that the City recently replaced the streetlights on East 17th Street (between Newkirk and Ditmas Avenue) with new LED lights. According to Community Board 14, new LED
City Kid Corner
Courtesy Matthew Bowden [http://www.freeimages.com/photo/another-brick-1510095] BY AMY RODRIGUEZ Over dinner, back before we had kids, a friend told me about a man who spent his entire career studying sea turtles. The group of us laughed, asking how a person could spend an entire career
Announcements
Waiting for food at Smorgasburg last summer in Prospect Park. (Photo: Shannon Geis)There’s more fun — and good eating — to be had in our beautiful backyard this Spring. Smorgasburg [http://www.smorgasburg.com/], the weekly food festival featuring 100 local and regional food vendors and cuisines from around the
Announcements
Bayfest 2015. (Photo: Sheepshead Bites)Do you like party planning? Would you like to celebrate your community? The organizers of Bayfest [http://bigbayfest.wix.com/bayfest-of-sheepshead-bay#!], the neighborhood’s waterfront block party that kicks off the start of summer, are looking for volunteers and sponsors to pledge
fort greene
Image via Google Maps.In more tall tower news [/blog/2016/02/18/brooklyns-tallest-tower-developers-request-demolition-of-part-of-dime-savings-bank/] , there is an effort to develop the current site of the one-story P.C. Richards & Son and Modell’s Sporting Goods at 590
Bensonhurst
Courtesy of Chris McCreight’s websiteBrooklyn activist and Bay Ridge Democrats [http://www.bayridgedemocrats.org/] cofounder Chris McCreight announced he is running for District Leader in the 46 th Assembly District last week. The September 13 election, will be the first for Male District Leader in the 46 th Assembly
Bensonhurst
Courtesy of Big Ang Raiola/ FacebookWe are sad to report that Angela “Big Ang” Raiola has died at 55, following a battle with throat and brain cancer. A message posted by Vinnie Medugno on Raiola’s official Twitter account [https://twitter.com/biggangVH1/status/700251536367165440] “on behalf of the family”
Kids & Family
“A little bit more speed and less scratching!” Flora Magid, coach for the Aviator Ice Dazzlers, is guiding her team during one of their last practices before heading to Hershey, Pennsylvania for the 2016 Synchro Invitational [http://www.centralpennfsc.org/rsi.html]. If you haven’t heard of synchronized skating
Business
Sir D’s Lounge opened today, February 18. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The wait is over for a business that many neighbors have kept their eye on for quite some time. Sir D’s Lounge [https://www.facebook.com/Sirdslounge/?fref=ts] (837 Union Street, near 7th
Announcements
Waiting for food at Smorgasburg last summer in Prospect Park. (Photo: Shannon Geis)There’s more fun — and good eating — to be had in our beautiful backyard this Spring. Smorgasburg [http://www.smorgasburg.com/], a weekly food festival featuring 100 local and regional food vendors and cuisines from around the
fort greene
Image via SHoP Architects.We’ve been discussing developer JDS Development’s plans to build Brooklyn’s tallest skyscraper at 340 Flatbush Avenue Extension ever since they bought the property and began filing plans and renderings a few months ago [/blog/2015/12/23/brooklyns-tallest-tower-is-a-go-