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Even though it still feels like July out there, Labor Day weekend is almost a full month behind us. The public pools and beaches are closed (ARGH!!!). Fall routines are starting to settle into place a bit. Maybe you have kids back (or starting) in school. Maybe things are getting
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PROSPECT PARK – On Friday, September 22, Prospect Park Alliance President Sue Donoghue and Council Member Brad Lander hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially reopen two newly restored ballfields [https://www.prospectpark.org/news-events/news/ballfields-6-7-reopen-after-restoration/] on Prospect Park’s Long Meadow. Left to right: Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher, Council
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KENSINGTON — This week Marshalls seized Kensington Fitness, a gym located at 202 Caton Avenue, for failing to pay rent. Many patrons were left wondering where to go now, and how to get their money back. Now, Kensington is not Park Slope, where there is a gym on almost every corner.
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Via Brooklyn CyclonesWhether you are a Jedi, Sith, Padawan, Stormtrooper or Droid may the force guide you to MCU Park as the Brooklyn Cyclones [http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?orgid=38130&agency=CYC_PLAGENCY&pid=8385785] celebrate Star Wars Night tomorrow, Saturday, August 26th [http://purchase.tickets.
Central Brooklyn
I don’t know about you, but I tend to walk away from my annual physical with a particularly insistent refrain echoing in my mind: “changes in diet and exercise.” I’ve always struggled with my weight and fitness, and what makes that struggle doubly frustrating is the fact that
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Attendees pose with a sign for Christopher Wallace Way (Paul Stremple for BKLYNER)The late Brooklyn rapper “The Notorious B.I.G.” was memorialized at a naming ceremony for the basketball courts at the Crispus Attucks Playground in Clinton Hill, which are now known as the “Christopher ‘Biggie’ Wallace Courts.
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Via Brooklyn Cyclones8 Ball jackets. Floral dresses. Junior Mints. Babka – chocolate or cinnamon. Black & white cookies. Anywhere else this hodgepodge of collectibles might seem a bit odd. But not here. Not on this day. Because it’s Salute to Seinfeld Night at MCU Park [http://brooklyncyclones.com/Seinfeld/] – home
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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
Bensonhurst
Filmmaker Jay Cusato in action, playing stickball in Coney Island. (Photo via Cusato)On Sunday in Coney Island, the gang is getting back to together for a fierce game that once determined everything to the kids on Brooklyn streets. July 9 has officially been dubbed Stickball Day in Brooklyn, and
Central Brooklyn
There are three things that signal the start to summer: 1) The first time you catch a whiff of the unmistakable smell of a backyard barbecue. 2) The first time you hear the Mister Softee jingle from a passing ice cream truck (and it’s stuck in your head for
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Photo provided by Crunch FlatbushI recently had a chance to talk with the Group Fitness Manager Josef Woodson of Crunch [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush] Fitness [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush] on Flatbush Avenue. Crunch Fitness [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush] has an impressive offering of over