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Caribbean Life
Resources for immigrants
Caribbean Life
Newcomers to our country, city, and borough — and even those immigrants who have lived and worked here for a few years — may not be knowledgeable about all of the rights, opportunities, services and assistance that may be available to them, or where ...
Patch.com
Saheed Vassell's Parents Bury Their Son, Demand Cops Be ... - Patch
Patch.com
Saheed Vassell's Parents Bury Their Son - Prospect Heights-Crown Heights, NY - Said Saheed Vassell's parents, "He should still be with us instead of having his life stolen by NYPD officers who killed him."
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Walentas buys Gowanus site, but councilman vows fight if developer seeks residential rezoning
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
It's tool time! Two Trees Management just bought the Lowe's hardware store in Gowanus – but the neighborhood's councilman is already saying he'll fight any expansion of residential development to the relatively untouched Park Slope side of the ...
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Patch.com
Earth Day And Taco Showdown | Brooklyn Weekend Events
Patch.com
BROOKLYN, NY — This week you can celebrate Earth Day around Brooklyn, find out who makes the best tacos or catch a show of only dad jokes. Here's Patch's roundup of events happening around Brooklyn. 'Dazed & Confused' Film Screening. Neighborhood ...
Brooklyn Reader
Street Art Takes Over the Walls of Underhill Ave in Prospect Heights
Brooklyn Reader
On Saturday, art curator Jeff Beler was back in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Prospect Heights for the sixth installment of his bi-annual, day-long painting event called “Underhill Walls,” in which some of the most celebrated muralists across the Tri ...
Patch.com
$100K Income Needed For 'Affordable' Prospect Lefferts Apartments
Patch.com
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — All it takes to snag an affordable apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a $100,000 annual income, city records show. A handful of affordable apartments at 212 Linden Boulevard are up for grabs on the NYC ...
Brownstoner
The Insider: London-Bred Designer Gives Classic Prospect Heights Brownstone a Dose of British Chic
Brownstoner
Ask interior designer Louisa G. Roeder to describe her style, and she'll probably reel off something like “Eclectic, layered, high-low, from family heirlooms to West Elm.” In sum: “Anything goes, as long as I like it.” Decorating Victorian row houses ...
Stereogum
Flatbush Zombies Aren't Who You Think They Are
Stereogum
The trio has had to fight the dismissive “drug-rap” label throughout its career, regardless of whether there are actual drug references in their songs. Another category they've been lumped into that they've never quite understood is the 2011-14 New ...
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Grub Street
The Absolute Best Restaurants in Prospect Heights
Grub Street
In recent years, the dining scene in Prospect Heights has emerged as one of the city's most enviable, a mix of high-end and highly affordable, of resolutely modern and old-school. The range is impressive, from great jerk chicken and shrimp tacos to ...
New York Times
New York Today: A Look Back at a Grittier City
New York Times
Good morning on this, like, raw-to-righteous Wednesday. New York City was sexier, edgier and more vibrant back in its bad old days. At least that's what everyone who lived here before us says. But when longtime residents wax poetic about that ...
BKLYNER
DUMBO Remains Priciest Neighborhood In Brooklyn
BKLYNER
DUMBO is the only Brooklyn neighborhood to crack the list's top ten—in at #5 with a median sale price of $1.97M and 15 transactions in Q1 of 2018, a 13% year-over-year decrease for the posh nabe. Greenpoint made a strong showing, climbing up 39 spots ...
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Patch.com
Cherry Blossom Festival: Here's Your Guide To Sakura Matsuri 2018
Patch.com
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — As cherry blossom season blooms the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is preparing for Sakura Matsuri, the annual festival that celebrates Japanese culture and budding pink flowers. The two-day festival is slated for the ...
BKLYNER
32 Black-Owned Coffee Shops In Brooklyn – Updated
BKLYNER
Bittersweet and Sit & Wonder– Bittersweet -180 Dekalb Ave, between Carlton and Washington Park, Fort Greene. Sit & Wonder – 688 Washington Ave, between St Marks and Prospect Place, Prospect Heights. Same owners. BKLYN Blend – 194 Tompkins Ave, Bed-Stuy ...
Patch.com
Don't Call 911, Group Protesting Cop Shooting Urges Brooklynites
Patch.com
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Local activists want you to stop calling 911 and call them instead. When friends and neighbors rallied earlier this month to honor the memory of Saheed Vassell — the bipolar man shot dead by police officers who mistakenly ...
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BKLYNER
Students From Two Brooklyn Schools Will Have Artwork Exhibited In Group Show At The Guggenheim
BKLYNER
Students from PS 8 (The Robert Fulton School, 37 Hicks Street) in Brooklyn Heights and PS 9 (Teunis G. Bergen School, 80 Underhill Avenue) in Prospect Heights will have their art exhibited as part of the Guggenheim Museum's A Year With Children 2018 ...
Next City
The Life and Death of a Dangerous Woman
Next City
Residents of Brooklyn displaced for the Atlantic Yards and Barclay's Center project may recognize similarities. As would residents of New Orleans' public housing projects that were torn down after Hurricane Katrina to enable the construction of and ...
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Brooklyn Paper
Council okays use of eminent domain to seize Gowanus plots as part of canal cleanup
Brooklyn Paper
This land ain't their land — for long. The city moved one step closer to bulldozing the ancient Gowanus Station building after Council on Wednesday approved use of eminent domain to seize its Butler Street lot and neighboring land to make way for two ...
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Patch.com
Famed Gay-Rights Lawyer Sets Himself Afire To Protest Environment
Patch.com
PROSPECT PARK, NY — David Buckel, a nationally known activist for gay rights and environmental preservation, doused himself with gasoline and set himself afire Saturday in a wide-open section of Prospect Park West, dying in a "protest suicide" to draw ...
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