community
Voting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] begins this Saturday, March 25. Below is a list of the 12 project proposals on the ballot for Council Member Carlos Menchaca’s District 38 [http://council.nyc.gov/carlos-menchaca/pb/6/] (Red Hook, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace). With new online voting [http://council.nyc.
Announcements
New MTA photo shows a high-tech upgrade planned for the 53rd St. station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. (Courtesy: MTA Renderings)To all Sunset Parkers: your daily commute is set to change starting on Monday. And Bay Ridge — you’re next. Three subway stations on the R line will close for
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439 36th Street (Photo via Compass [https://www.compass.com/listing/439-36th-street-brooklyn-ny-11232/12c4305f7a13494a09da1ebe17f701bf15518ce5/] )A stylishly renovated 2,800-square-foot townhouse located at 439 36th Street [https://www.compass.com/listing/439-36th-street-brooklyn-ny-11232/12c4305f7a13494a09da1ebe17f701bf15518ce5/] (between 4th & 5th Avenues) in Sunset Park recently sold for $2.05 million—a record for the neighborhood.
library
(Rendering via Magnusson Architecture and Planning PC)Today, the Brooklyn Public Library announced the approval of a redevelopment plan for the Sunset Park branch, which includes adding 49 affordable apartments on-site. The new building will replace the current library at 5108 4th Avenue. The New York City Council voted unanimously
Central Brooklyn
St. Patrick’s Day is here, celebrating the canonization of the sainted starfish [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Star]… err, the patron saint of Ireland. The point is that there can be miracles [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaXY4IdZ40], and one of them is a good price on
Food & Drink
Lineup Brewing’s Katarina Martinez and MaisieKatarina Martinez has no problem keeping up with the boys. After years working in engineering at various tech start-ups, she’s embarked on another career in a male-dominated industry—beer brewing. “I’m the only sole female owner of a brewery and head brewer
Arts & Culture
Voglino and North Forty (Photo by Joe Goldman)Diego Voglino is a jazz drummer with more than 30 recording credits [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/diego-voglino-mn0000373176] as a composer, performer, and producer. But as he prepares for his next gig — at Skinny Dennis in Williamsburg with Hope DeBates and North
Education
The lobby of The Hamilton at 968 60th Street (Photo via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BP8JyWZDec0/?taken-by=thehamiltonbrooklyn])A new luxury rental building, The Hamilton [http://www.thehamiltonbrooklyn.com/], has opened at 6002 Fort Hamilton Parkway, a site formerly occupied by a roller rink [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/
Food & Drink
Photo by partiestogo via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BRmH8_AgNlH/?tagged=kissmeimirish]St. Patrick’s Day is Friday, March 17 and there will be celebrations all weekend. Enjoy some Irish music, Guinness, whiskey, doughnuts, and loads of corned beef & cabbage, then put on lots of green and
Central Brooklyn
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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
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