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The party will be back on the streets tonight with the return of the popular Vanderbilt Ave. Open Street!!
Will you be heading down to celebrate the end of the week?
#openstreets #party #friday #weekend
The party will be back on the streets this summer with the upcoming return of the popular Vanderbilt Ave. Open Street. Starting Friday, April 1, Vanderbilt Ave. will close to […]
Hear ye, hear ye: Bushwick’s reigning queen of soup, Sarah Khoshaba (aka Soup Queen BK), is opening her first brick-and-mortar location on Troutman Street.
The new location, named after Khoshaba’s dog Gunther, will operate out of the to-go window at Farewell, a popular Bushwick watering hole. Khoshaba started selling soups through her Instagram account during the start of the pandemic lockdowns when her nightlife job at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg came to an abrupt halt... And the rest is history!
#soup #restaurant #smallbusiness #brooklyn #food
The new location will operate out of the to-go window at Farewell, a popular Bushwick bar.
In a mark that summer is well on its way and darker days are behind us, Coney Island — Brooklyn’s beacon of wonder — is opening its gates to the public.
This Saturday, April 2, at 11:00am, Luna Park Brooklyn will reopen with the annual egg cream christening of the Coney Island Cyclone, which turns 95 this year. Then, the following Sunday, April 10, the doors to Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park will open with its decades-long tradition of the “Blessing of the Rides” ceremony.
#summer #brooklyn #amusementpark #rides #coneyisland #lunapark
In a mark that summer is well on its way and darker days are behind us, Coney Island — Brooklyn’s beacon of wonder — is opening its gates to the […]
Broadway Junction, the busy yet infamously underutilized area surrounding the Broadway Junction Subway station, may need to brace for a big change.
The area, which sits between several neighborhoods including East New York, Bed-Stuy and Brownsville, has become the center of a private developer’s new vision for East Brooklyn.
Totem Group, a Brooklyn-based real estate development firm, shared preliminary plans to build a large mixed-use building complex adjacent to the busy station at a virtual town hall held on March 22.
#development #housing #brooklyn #EastNewYork
Totem Group has introduced plans for the high-rise towers and has promised they would provide affordable and senior housing. However, not everyone in the community is buying it.
An 83-year-old parolee, who has twice been convicted for murder, has been charged with murdering a Brooklyn woman and dismembering her body, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced.
Harvey Marcelin, 83, is facing the charges after she was caught on video leaving her apartment with 68-year-old victim Susan Leyden’s leg and torso in a bag, which she left on the streets of East New York, and later Leyden’s head and other limbs were found in her apartment, Gonzalez said.
An 83-year-old parolee has been arraigned on first-degree murder and other charges in connection with the death of a Brooklyn woman
The beloved First Saturdays festival is returning to Brooklyn Museum this Saturday, April 2, for a night of joy, celebration and liberation.
It’s the first full-fledged First Saturdays program since March 2020, when the pandemic hit, and follows a ‘lite’ version of programming in 2021.
#festival #music #art #museum #brooklyn
Saturday, April 2, will mark the first full-fledged First Saturdays program at Brooklyn Museum since March 2020
Check out our exclusive interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of more than 30 books, Karen Hunter, who will be one of 50 esteemed featured guests at the 16th Annual National Black Writers Conference starting tomorrow! Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
https://bkreader.com/2022/03/28/karen-hunter-is-code-switching-for-no-one/
If taking a swig of whiskey before embarking on a twilight walk through a cemetery to the Catacombs for an acclaimed classical concert sounds up your alley, Green-Wood Cemetery is the place for you.
The cemetery has partnered with Death of Classical for the fourth time to produce the much-lauded The Angel’s Share classical concert series, taking place between May 27 and October 6.
#concert #classicalmusic #cemetery #brooklyn
Green-Wood Cemetery has partnered with Death of Classical for the fourth season of The Angel's Share, a much-lauded classical concert series
R train riders say they risk being stranded at stations in coming months if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA doesn’t implement public transport improvements while the line is facing service cuts.
For two months starting Monday March 28, the R train will be out of service overnight and on the weekends while the line undergoes improvements.
#subway #brooklyn #rtrain #bus #publictransport
The R train will be going out of service at night and on weekends for two months as it undergoes improvements
Nicole “Soul” Creary has had a long career in social work and education, but over the years she noticed something was missing from efforts to help young people overcome obstacles in their lives: their own perspectives.
In 2007, Creary, who has a master’s degree in public administration and another in social work, built Soul2Soulz to address that issue, centering the voices of the 12-24-year-olds she serves in every aspect of the organization’s programming.
#youthwork #selfconfidence #socialwork #education #youth
Nicole “Soul” Creary founded Soul2Soulz to engage, enlighten, energize and empower youth to live up to their full potential
Back in 2020, Tim Zhou could only run two miles before he felt tired.
But today, the 21-year-old is set to run 55 miles around Prospect Park — that’s 18 laps of the park, or just over two marathons.
While the distance makes many people’s feet ache just reading it, it’s not the physical impact Zhou is worried about — it’s him seeing the same scenery over and over.
#running #brooklyn #longdistance #prospectpark
Tim Zhou, who lives in Downtown Brooklyn, went from getting tired after running two miles, to now training for a 100 mile race in May.
River Birch, Hornbeam, Redbud, and Persimmon are just some of the types of trees New Yorkers can add to their backyard or block thanks to a free native tree giveaway.
New York Restoration Project will be giving away 2,000 trees across the five boroughs in April and May to help the city increase its environmental resilience by providing shade, creating wildlife habitat, reducing temperatures, improving air quality and mitigating storm water run-off.
#trees #giveaway #climatechange #garden
New York Restoration Project will hold four Brooklyn tree giveaways with local partners
Janet Elise Johnson, an author and professor of political science, attributed the invasion of Ukraine to four factors: Putin’s own personality, internal regime dynamics, performance anxiety over declining economic improvement and Putin’s neo-colonial desire to remake Russia’s former empire.
#russia #ukraine #war #brooklyn
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, Brooklyn College professors held a panel to discuss the historical context of the war.
Meagan King first saw Alvin Ailey dancers in YouTube video at middle school, and immediately she knew she wanted to be one of them. So when she was announced as a new company member, it was like a dream being fulfilled.
“To finally realize it for myself and step into that power and ignite this new journey is super special for me."
King will be one of 12 dancers taking to the stage as part of the Ailey II dance company — and one of three that hail from Brooklyn — when the company returns to the stage March 23 for a two-week season.
#dance #brooklyn #dancers #art
Meagan King, Nicholas Begun and Amar Smalls will be performing as part of the iconic Alvin Ailey’s Ailey II dance company
The owner of a Nassau County construction company has been charged with manslaughter after a wall he built in Bushwick collapsed on 5-year-old Alysson Pinto-Chaumana, killing her.
Pinto-Chaumana was with her mother and several friends visiting a friend at the three-story building in Bushwick. The group was outside waiting near the front door on an enclosed patio next to a heavy stone wall that fenced in the patio. Suddenly, the pillars and a horizontal plate fell inward onto Alysson, crushing her skull.
#Arrest #Crime #building #wall #collapse #bushwick #brooklyn
The owner of a Nassau County construction company has been indicted on manslaughter and other charges after a wall he built in Bushwick collapsed on a child, killing her.
It’s Thursday after school at P.S. 130K in Brooklyn, and while the energy levels of most adults are depleted by now, a group of 15 girls from 3rd to 5th grade are just warming up with a vigorous round of Would You Rather.
“Would you rather only be able to whisper, or only be able to shout?” Girls On the Run: NYC Coach Theresa Bulman asks the kids.
The exercise is just the beginning of a 75-minute session packed with physical activities and thought-provoking exercises to grow girls’ social and emotional awareness.
#running #girls #brooklyn #social #emotional #learning
Girls on the Run NYC combines fitness activities with life skills lessons, building up to girls doing a 5km run and a community project.
Emelyn Stuart got into the film industry 12 years ago when someone handed her their film script to read.
Fast forward to 2022, the Bay Ridge local owns Stuart Cinema & Cafe, has produced a number of independent films and television shows, founded The Oktober Film Festival to support upcoming filmmakers of color, and provided for her Greenpoint community through the pandemic.
“I’m one of the few Black businesses in the area, and they have always rallied around me. When I built this place I knew I wanted to serve, not just my people, but I wanted to serve this community and the people here — and we’ve done that.”
On top of all the work Stuart does at the cinema, she mentors aspiring, local entrepreneurs around opening their own small businesses.
“I may be the first Black Latina woman to own a movie theater,” Stuart said, “but I know I won’t be the last.”
#smallbusiness #cinema #film #filmmaker #Brooklyn
The Greenpoint movie theater owner and film producer who leverages her business for indie filmmakers and community aid.
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music has opened applications for Black women and Black non-binary jazz musicians for a yearlong fellowship, midway through the inaugural year of the program.
The Jazz Leaders Fellowship provides support to emerging jazz musicians through a $12,500 award, teaching and performance opportunities, access to BKCM’s rehearsal spaces, participation in BKCM’s Jazz Program advisory panel, and more.
#fellowship #jazz #brooklyn #music
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music has opened applications for Black women and Black non-binary jazz musicians for a yearlong fellowship, midway through the inaugural year of the program. The Jazz […]
Nilsa Figueroa says food insecurity is an issue that affects many families at Bushwick's P.S. 150K. Many parents lost jobs during the pandemic, and others are working multiple jobs to get by.
“We have families that are in temporary shelters, temporary housing; families that are doubled up in one apartment. The rising prices of food now, it’s really difficult to get nutritious food."
That's why Figueroa gets tears in her eyes when she talks about how much a fortnightly distribution of fresh fruit and veggies at the school, that comes by way of City Harvest and Brighter Bites, helps the families.
#food #foodinsecurity #brooklyn #family #pandemic #recipes
Bushwick’s P.S. 150K works with City Harvest and Brighter Bites to bring free food, and recipes for how to use it, to families and the neighborhood at large
The Ukrainian city Aleksandr Krapivkin grew up, Kharkiv, in is now in ruins.
“That’s my city being bombed. If I can’t fight on the ground, I have to do everything in my power to fight back from here," he told BK Reader.
Krapivkin is one of a roster of speakers and performers booked to appear at a fundraiser for Ukraine this Sunday, March 20, at Bushwick queer club 3 Dollar Bill, hosted by the queer collective WE Together.
The fundraiser brings together diverse performers from the post-Soviet region, including a Ukrainian folk artist, Russian drag artists, and other musicians and activists, in order to raise awareness about the need to help the queer community in Ukraine.
#ukraine #russia #fundraiser #brooklyn #gaybar
All event proceeds will go to aid organizations supporting Ukraine, with two non-profits focused on helping those in the LGBTQ community.
Renderings have been released of a new seven-story apartment building being built on Bushwick’s Weirfield Street. The building, which is near the corner of Weirfield St. and Broadway, will include ten apartments, lower-level commercial space and a community facility.
#development #brooklyn #apartment
A new building permit was filed earlier this year, and renderings have been released for the new development
A Flatbush man has pleaded guilty to stabbing a police officer in the neck and taking the injured officer’s gun to shoot two other officers, while firing at many more, in a “terrorist inspired” attack. He is set to be sentenced to 30 years in prison.
#crime #brooklyn #nypd
The man allegedly stabbed a police officer in the neck and took the injured officer’s gun to shoot his partner in the hand and to fire at other officers
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