camps
Oh, to breathe the fresh summer air! Brooklyn, though urban, has an abundant number of outdoor sports and nature-focused camps. Check out some favorites below. Outdoor Nature Camps Get back to nature with these three camps that encourage playing in the dirt. Photo courtesy of Trail Blazers.Trail Blazers [http:
Food & Drink
Photo via Putnam’s Pub & Cooker via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQBq67AgQIy/?taken-by=putnamspub]After a Valentine’s Day fire gutted Clinton Hill’s beloved Putnam’s Pub & Cooker [http://putnamspub.com/] (419 Myrtle Avenue), the bar is hoping to re-open on Tuesday, March 14, just
North Western Brooklyn
Photo by nadream70 via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BREeOLVD2xa/?taken-at=229160794]A 20-year-old Brooklyn man killed himself early this morning at the Smith-Ninth Street subway station, police say. The New York Post [http://nypost.com/2017/03/08/man-decapitates-himself-on-subway-tracks/] reports, Rubin Antonio Rodriguez set his head down on
Arts & Culture
Trestle Art Space lobby (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Gowanus loses another arts venue [/gowanus-artists-advocates-councilmember-lander-protest-mass-eviction-parkslopestoop/] . A fixture in Gowanus for several years, Trestle Gallery relocated its main exhibition space in January from 168 7th Street in Gowanus to 850 3rd Avenue in Sunset Park (between 30 & 31 Streets). Now
News
88 Prospect Park West (Image via Google Maps)NYC Council Member Brad Lander (39th District) posted a message to his Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/brad.lander.7] yesterday urging Brooklynites to help Park Slope families displaced by a fire last Saturday (March 4) evening. “This past weekend, a
Central Brooklyn
If you are curious which neighborhoods paid the most in parking tickets, RentHop just released a report and data visualization [https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/nyc-parking-tickets-down-2016-manhattan-averages-10-tickets-per-household] based on Open NYC Data, comparing the tickets issued and paid by neighborhood over the last two fiscal years. Revenue from all tickets
Events
Crowd at “Not One More” Rally (Photo by Nathan Haselby)Hundreds gathered in the cold Monday night in front of the Barclays Center to honor six black trans women killed in the first two months of 2017. Organized by the Trans Women of Color Collective [http://www.twocc.us/], in
North Western Brooklyn
Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for suspects who stole keys and crept into a Clinton Hill apartment in the middle of the night and robbed two men at knifepoint. Seeing two men stumbling toward their apartment, one of them carrying the other, the female suspect offered to help the 28-year-old
Nonsponsored
300 Ashland (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)With all the rental towers rising in Downtown Brooklyn, developers are reportedly having difficulty renting out all their luxury apartment units. Curbed New York [http://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/6/14828646/downtown-brooklyns-rental-oversupply] broke down some of the new developments Downtown. At 55
camps
Photo provided by ConstructionKidsConstructionKids’ Week Long Summer Camps [http://constructionkids.com/summer-camp-2017/] are known for the dynamic projects that campers build. We teach safe, appropriate tool usage, along with drawing, painting, and creative play. We aim to foster each child’s confidence in their skills at designing, making, repairing, and
Announcements
Sheepshead Bay Councilman Chaim Deutsch [http://council.nyc.gov/district-48/] has made it easier for all drivers involved in a car collission to get the accident reports necessary to file insurance claims. While previously the only way to get an accident report was to turn up at the precinct in
Central Brooklyn
New York and North Carolina are the remaining two states to prosecute [https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/03/the-17-year-old-adults#.u2iVYIzpw] 16- and 17-year-old criminal offenders as adults, regardless of the level of the offense. The cut-off age for Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin is 17.