Arts & Culture
Image via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sunnysredhook/photos/a.285948621570455.1073741828.282871245211526/478055812359734/?type=3&theater] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Quirky Red Hook Bar Sunny’s is Saved Again. [New York Times
News
Tyheim Smith. (Photo via Brooklyn DA’s office)An 18-year-old Red Hook teenager was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for his part in the fatal shooting of a man during a botched robbery attempt in Williamsburg, announced Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. On April 27, 2015,
fort greene
Image via Emily [https://www.facebook.com/pizzalovesemily/?fref=ts]. Unfortunately, Emily’s [http://www.pizzalovesemily.com] (919 Fulton Street) second pizza joint won’t be a few doors down on Fulton Street [/blog/2015/11/05/its-pizza-squared-with-a-second-location-for-emily-coming-soon/] after all. Instead of Clinton Hill, Emmy Squared [https://www.facebook.com/
Business
The Zig Zag Records sign now lives in a Williamsburg warehouse. (Photo: Corey Kanterman [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153792626488330&set=gm.10153668708590801&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Somehow Brooklyn’s cultural treasures always seem to find their way to Williamsburg — that hipster mecca where vintage
acrobatics
Photo via LAVA Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/LAVA.Brooklyn/photos/a.10150960464705141.461317.54284900140/10150960470515141/?type=3&theater] Raising kids is like being the ringleader of a very small, very loud circus. Some days your little one is like the lion, other days, the clown. And if you’
annabelle cazel
Remember that time when Brooklyn Industries used devastated Sandy communities as the backdrop for an ad shoot? Très cool. (Source: BrooklynIndustries.com) Sheepshead Bay is very expensive. You don’t want to move here. People get stabbed all the time, bicyclists are run off the road and we don’t
Williamsburg
Navy Greene has completed its first phase of development. (Photo by Mark Fahey) By Mark Fahey Developers, community leaders and residents met just south of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Fort Greene this month to celebrate the completion of the first phase of a mixed-use housing block that supporters say
borough park measles
A Microscopic Look at the Measles Virus (Source: Center For Disease Control via Wikimedia Commons)The rare outbreak of measles that struck Borough Park’s ultra-Orthodox community has been halted. The Jewish Daily Forward is reporting [http://forward.com/articles/180965/new-york-measles-outbreak-halted-among-orthodox/] that officials at the city’s Department of
disease
A Microscopic Look at the Measles Virus (Source: Center For Disease Control via Wikimedia Commons)The New York City Department of Health is warning of a growing measles outbreak centered in ultra-orthodox communities in Borough Park. DNAinfo is reporting [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130514/borough-park/measles-outbreak-hits-borough-park-williamsburg-officials-say] that 21 outbreaks
die hipster
Like, yaaaah! Look at us! We’re hipsters… we’re better than you. Source: Look A Beauty BlogI always thought it was so trite to begin a post, essay, or any piece of writing with the definition of a word but, as an homage to the anonymous everyman who spoke
dohmh
(source: wikipedia.org)Cases of the infectious disease Shigellosis, or Shigella, have increased by as much as 11-fold in the Orthodox Jewish communities of Borough Park and Williamsburg, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). There are typically 200-300 cases of the diarrheal disease
concert
Hangar B at Floyd Bennett FieldI am of the mind that the hipster ethos, particularly with regard to music and fashion, is simply too avant-garde for me to figure out, particularly as it relates to a concert series in our area… but I shall take a crack at it, for