Business
Image via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsanctuaryrestaurants.org&t=Sanctuary%20Restaurants] Local restaurant owners have joined forces with the national Sanctuary Restaurants movement in its mission to provide support and resources to restaurants, their workers and their customers. Two aid groups, ROC
Kids & Family
(Photo via Save Sunflower website [https://sites.google.com/view/savesunflower/who-to-call?authuser=0])The abrupt closure of a beloved Windsor Terrace daycare facility has left 30 families without childcare, 10 workers without employment, and both collectively owed more than $100,000 by its owners. On Friday, January 20, parents
Nonsponsored
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News
Mayor de Blasio made his Vision Zero budget announcement at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, which will be among DOT’s targets for major safety improvements in 2017. (Photo via NYC DOT / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BPtHpTLj2sI/?tagged=visionzero])On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
community
Hot on the heels of President Trump’s signing executive orders [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/refugees-immigrants-wall-trump.html] to expand efforts to deport immigrants living in the country illegally, bar refugees from entering the United States, and build a wall along Mexico’s border, community leaders,
Food & Drink
Pork & Leek dumpling from Kai Feng Fu. (Photo by Joanna E/yelp)This Saturday is the Chinese Lunar New Year, and while you’re out celebrating be sure to try one (or several) of our favorite dumpling offerings from sit-down Dim Sum to cheap-and-delicious snacks, in neighbors ranging from
Business
Bar Granger, Gotham Market at The Ashland (Photo via Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Fort Greene’s Gotham Market [http://www.gothammarketashland.com/food-drink/] was packed with festive foodies celebrating the grand opening of the new food hall Wednesday night. Located on the ground floor of The Ashland (590 Fulton Street at
Business
Image via doverbrooklyn.com [http://www.doverbrooklyn.com/]As Pardon Me For Asking’s [http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/] Katia Kelly has been diligently reporting, there have recently been several stores opening and closing in and around Carroll Gardens. The neighborhood has had to say a fond farewell to quite a
Arts & Culture
Image via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sunnysredhook/photos/a.285948621570455.1073741828.282871245211526/478055812359734/?type=3&theater] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Quirky Red Hook Bar Sunny’s is Saved Again. [New York Times
camps
(Photo via Marks JCH)Are you ready to check off “Summer Camp” from your To Do list? We’ve compiled seven of our favorite summer camps from across the borough that are now taking summer reservations. Many have open houses this upcoming weekend as well as discounts for signing up
Police & Fire
Police are looking for one elderly man that attacked another on Monday outside a Senior Center at 966 Fulton Street. CBS2’s Valerie Castro spoke with the daughter of 83-year-old Ernest McCaine [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/01/24/clinton-hill-brooklyn-elderly-attack/], who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Mr McCaine was struck in
Business
Image of Pintchik Hardware via Google MapsMichael Pintchik, the owner of Pintchik Hardware at 478 Bergen Street in Park Slope, has big designs for the neighborhood. While Pintchik’s family owned 13 paint stores across the city for over 100 years, he has pared down to just one shop but