CARROL GARDEN RESIDENT LISA M. CIRANDO and Brooklyn Heights resident JEANNE KANE ZAYKOWSKI, as event co-chairs, invite you to the Center for Family Life 2008 Annual Awards on May 14. The evening will celebrate 25 years of the Center’s “Life Lines” Community Arts Project in Sunset Park, which provides free after-school arts activities such as..
PARK SLOPE RESIDENT JESSE ADELMAN, who has served as Prospect Park Alliance director of new media for nearly a year, was the catalyst behind the park’s more engaging and attractive new web site that launched in April. Following the requests of hundreds of poll-takers for an interactive online map, the Alliance collaborated with Raven Creative,..
AFTER GREENPOINT LIBRARIANS MARIA FALGOUST and SARAH MURPHY met at Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information, they co-founded Desk Set, a casual literary group that meets periodically to socialize, sip Dewey Decimal-themed cocktails (613.96C would be… The Joy of Sex) and support good causes. The friends, who currently work at The Browning..
Of the nearly 90 entries to the 42nd annual Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, 23 are the work of Brooklyn artists, and two of those have won, reported The Brooklyn Paper. Brooklyn Heights resident DOAN HOANG won “Best Feature Documentary” for her personal film “Oh, Saigon,” which follows her family members as they are..
For its 125th anniversary, the BROOKLYN BRIDGE will be feted in high style by several local artists inspired by her gothic arches and majestic span. TABLA RASA GALLERY’S exhibition “Bridge as Icon” will showcase the work of Fort Greene resident Ramona Candy, Stephen Basso of Bensonhurst, Park Slopers Gregory Frux, Nick Savides, Lucille Nurkse, Simon..
THE CHEYENNE DINER, one of the last original railcar-style diners in Manhattan, has closed its doors at 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue to make way for a nine-story residential and commercial development, reported AmNewYork’s Urbanite. Instead of being slated for demolition, however, the neon-lit, chrome trimmed diner will be starting a new chapter in Red..
We will wait for the news conference on Monday to see exactly what happens to Ms. Joy Chatel’s home on Duffield Street, which some claim has strong connections to the Underground Railroad; but clearly, with today’s announcement, something is happening and the city is trying to balance the forces of growth and preservation. I won’t..
If owning a car in New York is considered a luxury then the trials of parking make us think, “maybe that word doesn’t mean what we think it means.” For a lot of people in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Downtown, where the parking situation is the favorite subject to gripe about, there may be..
With all this talk about putting tolls on bridges and streets for the privilege of driving into certain parts of Manhattan, and how it’s fair or not fair depending on where you live, and where in New York City you need to drive, we thought we’d remind everyone that intra-New York City congestion pricing already..
With blue electricians tape, two pieces of paper are taped to the lampposts announcing “Public Notice: Asbestos Abatement” (Although with this afternoon’s rain, they may not still be readable). In a neighborhood teeming with strollers, moms-to-be, elderly folks, and lawyers (!), we are pressed to wonder, if anything, what this means. The “work areas” list..