How Hungryroot Helps New York’s Busy Creatives Eat Healthy
Surviving in New York isn’t easy, especially if you have a career in the arts. Emily Cordes, a 32-year-old resident of Ditmas Park and an actress, can attest to this. Along with auditioning and...
Spend Your Summer in Brooklyn with FIT
The Fashion Institute of Technology is perhaps best known as a school for aspiring fashion creatives and entrepreneurs, with a campus located in the heart of Manhattan’s fashion district. But FIT offers so much...
Cartoonist George Booth: A Real New Yorker
CROWN HEIGHTS — Martinsville, Missouri is a long way from Crown Heights, but that’s where cartoonist George Booth first began drawing. Since then, the 92-year-old artist has traveled from Korea to Chicago practicing his...
Crown Heights Jewish Women Should Be Able To Vote In CH Jewish Elections-But They...
By Andrea Karshan, a Jewish woman currently living in Crown Heights
In Chabad Crown Heights, the Jewish community is holding elections, and women aren’t allowed to vote.
Elections are being held in June in Chabad Crown Heights...
Crown Heights Stabbing Ends In Death
CROWN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for a suspect in connection to a stabbing that occurred Sunday morning within the confines of the 77th precinct.
On April 28, just before 2:00 am, officers responded to a...
Court Halts Franklin Avenue Rezoning Project
CROWN HEIGHTS — A Brooklyn judge temporarily blocked two 17-story towers slated for the corner of Franklin Avenue and Montgomery Street, a development project activists say would block sunlight to the neighboring greenhouses at the...
Shirley Chisholm Statue At Prospect Park Revealed
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN — The city, on Wednesday, announced the winning duo to create the Shirley Chisholm monument slated for the Parkside Avenue entrance of Prospect Park.
Artists Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous proposed "Our Destiny,...
Cherry Blossom Festival 2019: April 27 & 28
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — April and warm weather usually mark the arrival of Sakura Matsuri, the borough's annual Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This year is no different.
The weekend-long festival runs from April...
Crown Heights Blotter: Popular Jerk Chicken Restaurant Robbed At Gunpoint, Sexual Assault
CROWN HEIGHTS — The restaurant that brings you the best sidewalk BBQ in Crown Heights was robbed earlier this month and police are looking for the two suspects.
On April 11, around 2:30 am (kitchen closes...
Lottery Launches For 50+ Affordable Units In Crown Heights
CROWN HEIGHTS - More than 50 apartments in Crown Heights hit the affordable housing market this week as 409 Eastern Parkway (at Bedford Avenue) nears completion.
The corner building spans more than 197,000 sq. ft.with...
St. John’s Recreational Center Re-Opens End Of April
CROWN HEIGHTS - After three years of renovation and a yearlong closure, the St. Johns Recreational Center in Crown Heights reopens the end of April.
The center, located at 1251 Prospect Place (between Troy and...
Passover and Good Friday Celebrated With Burning of Chametz And Carrying of Crosses
Friday marked the beginning of Passover in the Jewish faith and Good Friday for Christians worldwide, meaning thousands of people in Brooklyn participated in special religious rituals to mark the holy days.
In the Orthodox...
Crown Heights Organization Introduces ‘Seder To Go’ For Passsover
CROWN HEIGHTS — More than a million Jewish New Yorkers will observe Passover this Friday. Finalizing a menu and meal prep remains a top priority of the annual holiday. But for the sick-and-shut-in, navigating the...
“Affordable Housing” is a Trojan Horse for High End Housing – OPINION
By Alan P. Berger, Vice-President, Human Scale NYC
Language is important. When you see vague words like "gourmet" or "luxury" over a store, what comes to mind? If you're like most people you run the other way...
18-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Crown Heights
CROWN HEIGHTS — A man was fatally shot early Tuesday evening on St. Johns Place in Crown Heights, police said.
Police responded to a 9-1-1 call at 1483 St. John's Pl. between Utica and Rochester Avenues...