Arts & Culture
Karisma Jay teaching at AdunDance studios in Prospect Lefferts Gardents (Photo courtesy of Abundance [https://www.facebook.com/abundancebk/])This Sunday at the Kings Theater, a cast of 120 local and Broadway performers will reinvent the classic musical Annie [http://anniethemusical.com], with a politically relevant twist — Annie grows up
News
60 Clarkson Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)(This story was updated with additional information from the City’s Department of Homeless Services, and more details about security concerns. 5/16/16 at 4:15pm) A young woman was fatally stabbed this weekend in a building which had become a notorious
Central Brooklyn
60 Clarkson Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)(This story was updated with additional information from the City’s Department of Homeless Services, and more details about security concerns. 5/16/16 at 4:15pm) A young woman was fatally stabbed this weekend in a building which had become a notorious
Announcements
Cortelyou Road. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)WNYC Studios [http://www.wnyc.org] and The Nation [http://www.thenation.com] are launching There Goes the Neighborhood, an eight-part weekly podcast series exploring the “remarkable and destabilizing phenomenon of gentrification.” The preview episode is available here [http://www.wnyc.org/story/there-goes-neighborhood-brooklyn-gentrification/
Business
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerGreenlight Bookstore [http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/], the favorite Fort Greene independent bookstore, announced back in November that they were planning to open a second location along Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens [/blog/business/greenlight-bookstore-is-opening-second-location-in-prospect-lefferts-gardens/] , where one of the owners, Rebecca Fitting, lives. Now they have
Central Brooklyn
Accounts on the Prospect Park Lefferts Gardens Facebook group about the alleged spitter. (Photo Credit: Sue Yellin)The community of Prospect Lefferts Gardens has been on alert for a man dubbed the “PLG Spitter.” In the last two months there have been several posts on the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Facebook
Business
Photo courtesy Little Mo WineNeighbor Mark Schwartz recently opened up a wine shop, called Little Mo Wine [http://www.littlemowine.com/], over on Nostrand Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, after learning all there was to know about wine while working in T. B. Ackerson WIne Merchants, formerly located on Cortelyou Road.
Business
Photo by José BayonaBookstores are not dead! Not only is Amazon.com opening a physical bookstore [http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-opens-first-bricks-and-mortar-bookstore-at-u-village/] in Washington state (oh, the irony), but independent booksellers like our very own Greenlight Bookstore are also thriving enough to expand –opening a second location, this time
Joseph Makhani
[/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Maple-Street-Community-Garden-1.jpg]Photo by Ali Jacobs When the landlords of a plot of land that is now the Maple Street Community Garden [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maple-Street-Community-Garden/161174647389369] in Prospect Lefferts Gardens showed up at the site on Tuesday, ready to raze the green space
100 parkside avenue
Tim Thomas from The Q at Parkside [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com], who’s always up on the latest at the south end of Prospect Park, has posted initial pricing for the apartments at 123 on the Park [/blog/real-estate/is-caledonian-hospital-finally-being-turned-into-rentals] (also known as the former Caledonian Hospital). Units at the
department of welfare
Source: papertiger.orgFamed Brooklyn author Sol Yurick passed away at the age of 87 this past Saturday according to the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/sol-yurick-author-warriors-dead-87-article-1.1235218] . Yurick is most famous for writing The Warriors, a 1965 novel – and, later, cult move – about a Brooklyn