At 6 p.m. on Monday, April 8th, author Veronica Chambers, best known for her 1997 memoir Mama’s Girl, will be speaking in the library at P.S. 15, Patrick F. Daly Magnet School for the Arts, located at 71 Sullivan Street. Hosted by Friends of P.S. 15, the event is free and open to the public. Chambers, born in Panama, was […]
Day: April 4, 2019
Urban Recovery: The Most Recent Neighbor in Red Hook
Urban Recovery (UR), which opened at 411 Van Brunt St. in January, is the only private residential treatment facility in New York City. The five-level building houses 36 inpatient beds (including six detox-specific), and provides private inpatient and residential treatment for a variety of conditions, with a primary emphasis on substance use disorders. We walked down the block to find […]
Tuffy Tiger’s Family Festival is Coming to Park Slope
Tuffy Tiger’s Family Festival is a free community event for the whole family that’s filled with music, games, arts, crafts and Tuffy Tiger. Now in its eighth year, it will be held along 4th Street at 5th Avenue (near Old Stone House), on April 27, 11 am-3 pm. Kids can watch performances by Tuffy Tiger himself, meet him throughout the day […]
National Journalist and Brooklyn Resident Trymaine Lee Runs in Local Half Marathon After Heart Attack at 38
Heart attack survivor Trymaine Lee, 40, is a Bed-Stuy resident and a primetime correspondent for MSNBC. He’s also a recent first-time marathon runner, having participated in last month’s Brooklyn Spring Half at Prospect Park. He uses the sport as a means to recuperate, be healthy and inspire other heart attack survivors. In July 2017, Lee unknowingly had a major heart […]
Yi Xin Tong Finds His Inner Animal
Gravesend-based Yi Xin Tong identifies as an artist first and as a fisherman second. But it’s a close second. Tong, who makes sculptural and video-based installations, has found that his hobby brings him to the outskirts of Brooklyn. In his opinion, Floyd Bennett Field, a former airport that juts into Jamaica Bay near Marine Park, has the best fishing in […]
Voting for Participatory Budgeting Started March 30
Voting for Cycle 8 of Participatory Budgeting New York City (PBNYC) will take place from Saturday, March 30, to Sunday, April 7. PBNYC is a program that encourages City Council Members set aside at least $1 million from their discretionary budgets to be spent on capital projects selected by residents of their districts through direct democracy. As of 2018-2019, 31 […]