Central Brooklyn
Five Brooklyn nonprofits are each receiving a $100,000 windfall this week as they’ve been named the winners of Brooklyn Community Foundation’s annual Spark Prize. Since 2016, the Foundation has convened a committee of civic and philanthropic leaders [https://sparkprize.org/the-committee/] to select the top social justice
Arts & Culture
Park Slope Library interior with two-story iron bookshelves, wood details, and stained glass. (Photo: Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein)Walk into one of the four Brooklyn Public Library branches in Park Slope, Red Hook, Pacific, or Carroll Gardens – and you’ll be entering a well-used building that, in three out of the four
Boerum Hill
CARROLL GARDENS/PARK SLOPE – Brooklyn Community Board 6 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] elected Park Slope resident Peter Fleming as its new Chair at the start of its December board meeting. “One of the things that I think is really important about the community board is that
community
RED HOOK – You might have to watch your head as you walk down the steep cement stairs that lead into a basement stacked floor to ceiling with books, the headquarters of NYC Books Through Bars [https://booksthroughbarsnyc.org] located beneath Freebird Books [http://www.freebirdbooks.com] at 123 Columbia Street.
Nonsponsored
RED HOOK – Brooklyn Community Board 6 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] unanimously approved a proposal from the NYC Department of Transportation [https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] (DOT) during a general board meeting on Wednesday, December 12, to install pedestrian safety enhancements along
Announcements
RED HOOK – Notices have gone out to Red Hook residents that Universal Television will be shooting scenes for a new series, FBI [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7491982/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1], at the Brooklyn Port Authority Marine Terminal/Red Hook Container Terminal from 3:30pm on Friday, November
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Two teenagers have been arrested and charged after drawing swastikas on residences in Brooklyn Heights last week, police confirmed. Jarrick Wiltshire, 18, and Daul Moultrie, 17, both turned themselves in and were arrested after police circulated surveillance photos of the suspects following the incident, which took place on
Events
RED HOOK – The Red Hook community held the 5th annual Barnacle Parade on Monday, October 29 to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. 2018 Barnacle Parade, Red Hook (Photo: Nathan Haselby)The Barnacle Parade was launched by a group neighbors in 2013—the year after the superstorm brought a
Events
RED HOOK – The fifth annual Barnacle Parade [https://www.facebook.com/barnacleparade/] returns on Monday, October 29 to commemorate the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy flooding the streets of Red Hook. Despite the tragedy and destruction caused by the storm in 2012, the event is a fun, raucous, and very Red
Carroll Gardens
COLUMBIA STREET WATERFRONT DISTRICT – The PS 15 auditorium was packed Thursday evening for the Brooklyn Community Board 6 Landmarks & Land Use Committee [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/landmarks-land-use.page] meeting where a public hearing was held for 41 Summit Street. Rendering of 41 Summit Street via Sheldon
community
RED HOOK – On the corner of Columbia and Sigourney streets, directly across from Ikea, lies land filled with crisp produce sprouting from the soil. Hip-hop music plays faintly in the background as community volunteers push wheelbarrows and snip freshly grown okra at the stems. A small attentive crowd is gathered
Arts & Culture
RED HOOK – The Cave Theater Company [http://www.cavetheatre.org/] wasn’t planning a site-specific production of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead when they arranged to perform Tom Stoppard’s 1966 comedy at the Waterfront Museum [http://waterfrontmuseum.org/home] in Red Hook. But the venue, a rescued barge docked