Events
The electric cars that will be racing in this weekend’s FIA Formula E Championship at Red Hook’s Brooklyn Cruise Terminal were unveiled this morning [https://patch.com/new-york/gowanus/watch-formula-e-racing-comes-red-hook]. The FIA Formula E Championship [http://www.fiaformulae.com/en] is the world’s first fully-electric, single-seater racing
Central Brooklyn
Get ready for steamy air, unforgiving heat, and scattered thunderstorms through tomorrow evening. The National Weather Service [http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=okx&wwa=heat%20advisory] has issued a Heat Advisory for New York City until 6pm on Thursday, July 13. A Heat Advisory is issued
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Downtown Brooklyn
Photo via Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/movies-metrotech][Updated: Wednesday, July 12 at 5:30pm] Unfortunately, due to the threat of rain, tonight’s movie has been canceled. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and Forest City Ratner Companies are hosting Movies@MetroTech, a series of free, summer movies at
Central Brooklyn
MTA riders experienced another nightmare commute Tuesday evening when signal problems at DeKalb Avenue once again [/signal-problems-dekalb-affecting-b-d-n-q-r-trains/] caused major backups, service changes, and headaches. At least one MTA train was stuck on the Manhattan Bridge for approximately half an hour yesterday evening, July 11, NBC New York [http://www.nbcnewyork.
Announcements
452 Lafayette Avenue via Google MapsThe affordable housing lottery launched yesterday, July 10, for two new rental units available at 452 Lafayette Avenue (at Franklin Avenue) on the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. The newly constructed five-story building is smoke-free and offers a roof terrace and a laundry room.
Central Brooklyn
Photo provided by Crunch FitnessDo you have some specific fitness/health goals you have been thinking of working towards? Today is the day to get started! Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today? If you are like me, you may be wondering exactly how you can tackle
Arts & Culture
Carriages at Grand Army Plaza, 1900 (Courtesy of Prospect Park Alliance)In honor of Prospect Park’s 150th Anniversary [/prospect-park-turns-150/], the Prospect Park Alliance is joining forces with the Brooklyn Historical Society to present The Means of a Ready Escape: Brooklyn’s Prospect Park [http://brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/current.html]
Business
Image via TF Cornerstone [https://tfc.com/retail/33-bond-street]The owners behind Chelsea Piers, the mega sports/entertainment/events complex overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan’s westside, plan to develop a 52,000-square-foot fitness facility at the base of the new luxury rental tower, 33 Bond Street [https://tfc.
Food & Drink
The Malai pop-up outpost at Gotham Market at The Ashland (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Gotham Market at The Ashland [/grand-opening-gotham-market-ashland/] (590 Fulton Street at Ashland Place) welcomed Malai Ice Cream Monday evening, the second vendor for the food hall’s rotating pop-up space. Founded in 2015 by NYU Stern
Central Brooklyn
Fireworks in Coney Island (Photo by reader Warren Tang)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -23 Incredible Vintage Pictures Of Summertime At Coney Island [BuzzFeed [https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/incredible-pictures-from-the-glory-days-of-coney-island?utm_term=.qqkaERWR3o#.gsy39ozov6]
Arts & Culture
Movie Marquee Poems (Photo courtesy of Nitehawk)Over the 4th of July weekend, Park Slope’s former Pavilion Theater (188 Prospect Park West) began showcasing short poems on its marquee. For the next few months, Movie Marquee Poems will exhibit a series of film-inspired poems on the old movie theater’
community
The five-story, four-ton platform and statue of Saint Paolino at the 130th Giglio Feast in Williamsburg (Photo by Paul Stremple)A feast, a statue, and over one hundred years of tradition brought crowds out to the streets of Williamsburg on Sunday, July 9 to see the first lift of an