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.
environment
The empty lot that will become a “Gateway to Greenpoint” (Via Newtown Creek Alliance)GREENPOINT – As the Newtown Creek Alliance looks to develop an empty parcel of city land into an environmental “Gateway to Greenpoint,” they’re reaching out to the community to contribute their vision of the space. The
Bushwick
A picture of the girls from the fundraising page (Via GoFundMe [https://www.gofundme.com/support-renita-vincent-and-their-family?fbclid=IwAR0LdY0zGf420lFYjc2S8aEbeiJJvppSvXBr9VpDtbCdc4GBvFKgdKkArVg] )A fundraiser has been set up to help the family of the two girls who were killed in a Bushwick apartment fire [/two-girls-killed-in-fire-while-visiting-their-grandfather-in-bushwick/] over the weekend. Haley Harris, 8, and Payton Gomez,
Central Brooklyn
We are joining Brooklyn Community Foundation in its call to ask you all to give in your neighborhood, in our borough, and help raise $1 million today for these 138 local nonprofit organizations [https://www.brooklyngives.org/organizations?show_all=true] working tirelessly to make Brooklyn a better place for
Events
BROOKLYN – Is this the first time you’ll spend Thanksgiving dinner with your new mate’s family? Are you lucky enough to travel somewhere warmer than what’s expected to be the coldest Thanksgiving in a century [https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2018-11-18-thanksgiving-day-record-cold-northeast/] ? Well, not everyone is as fortunate.
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – Dozens of fourth graders at Success Academy Cobble Hill participated in the school’s first-ever Empty Bowls fundraiser to help feed hungry New Yorkers. Success Academy Cobble Hill Empty Bowls Event (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) Success Academy Cobble Hill Empty Bowls Event (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner) Success Academy
Bed Stuy
CLINTON HILL – Members of the Brooklyn Nets stopped by the Christopher “Biggie” Wallace Courts at Crispus Attucks Park in Clinton Hill yesterday to spread love, the Brooklyn (basketball) way. In the late afternoon, Nets players D’Angelo Russell and Rodions Kurucs showed up to give away free basketballs and t-shirts
brighton beach
Pat Singer (center) in her office at the Brighton Neighborhood Association in Brighton Beach. Photo Ben Masten/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – This is not a good year to be part of the political establishment. Officials at all levels of government have found themselves suddenly under scrutiny as the possibility of losing their
Announcements
Photo: Julieta CervantesBORO PARK – “This is a universal story of women’s empowerment that takes place in a very particular setting. We’re all fighting in some way in whatever communities we’re in,” filmmaker Paula Eiselt said. “This is a really powerful organization. They’re really breaking the ground
Announcements
Site of Solidarity Space, a new community center coming to Bay Ridge. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE – Former State Senate candidate Ross Barkan announced Wednesday that he’s turning his campaign office into a much-needed community center in Bay Ridge. Named Solidarity Space, it is located at 307 82nd
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBAY RIDGE – “Would you like a balloon? It’s from State Senator Marty Golden,” a man carrying a bundle of yellow balloons asked everyone who passed by the table that read “Re-Elect Marty Golden.” In a span of a few hours, Summer Stroll (which closed Third Avenue
Arts & Culture
SUNSET PARK – Before setting sail at the free community boating event [/free-community-boating-at-bush-terminal-park/] in Sunset Park tomorrow, head over to Bush Terminal Park early and help paint a new mural. The NYC Economic Development Corporation [https://www.nycedc.com/brooklyn] (NYC EDC) and Groundswell [https://www.groundswell.nyc/], a non-profit organization
Bushwick
Gotham Girls Roller Derby skaters are intertwined, and waiting for the referee’s whistle to start the jam. (Rosie Misdary/Bklyner)Fast. Empowering. Fun. This is how skaters describe roller derby. At the Gotham Girls Crashpad, the four home teams scrimmage in preparation for the big event of the season,
Bensonhurst
Donated goods from Brooklyn were sent to Chef Yolanda Yax, for classification, boxing, and shipping. /Courtesy by Yolanda YaxPara la versión en Español, por favor vaya al final de la nota. Bensonhurst/Sunset Park – First aid kits, diapers for children and adults, clothes, sanitary pads, baby wipes, non-perishable food and
Announcements
Photo: Zainab IqbalFLATBUSH – It’s early morning on a warm Thursday in May and there’s a line of over two dozen people in front of a small building on Coney Island Avenue between Avenues J and K. A woman wearing a green apron sits in front of the door
Bushwick
Volunteers worked to plant, build and paint the new community farm on Gates Avenue last Friday (Paul Stremple/BKLYnER)BUSHWICK – On a sunny Friday, volunteers were hard at work on the lawn outside the RiseBoro Youth Center on Gates Avenue, putting together a community garden in the heart of Bushwick