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Park Slope > News Courier-Life Publications A starchitect no more.
Looking every bit as beautiful and glamorous as her superstar persona, pop diva Beyoncé, and her mother Tina Knowles came to DUMBO last week to helppeople addled by drug and alcohol addiction.
Featuring star power and street cred, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Barclays Center Arena - for better or worse - opened up a new era in the borough’s development. ADVERTISEMENT
Things are getting down and dirty between candidates David Greenfield and Joe Lazar in the imminent 44th District City Council race.
It may not have been “American Idol” or “America’s Got Talent,” but it was pretty close. Attention! Attention! Thousands of jobs are available right now. Jonathan Judge may have been tossed off the ballot in the upcoming 44th District City Council special election, but he’s not going down without a fight.
The Department of City Planning is embarking on a year-long, five-borough waterfront listening tour, an initiative aimed at crafting a long-term vision for over 500 miles of some of the city’s most coveted property.
Pricier parking meters might make it heaven for drivers searching for a parking spot — but if the city raises rates in Park Slope, it will be a living hell for local shopkeepers, merchants said this week.
The city this week approved the expansionist plans of a Park Slope private school, a controversial scheme that continues to vex some residents who fear the new building will catalyze the very dissolution of the district’s historic character.
Next week, Brooklyn parents will protest the city Department of Education’s (DOE) new bake sale rules — by making cupcakes.
As this paper went to press, two Brooklyn groundbreakings were scheduled to take place Thursday, March 11 relating to the 22-acre, Atlantic Yards project starting at the Flatbush/Atlantic Avenues intersection and moving southeast.
Brooklyn is known for many things. Now it’s known for harboring the state’s biggest tax debtor.
Community boards across the borough are crossing their fingers and hoping for the best this week now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced the members of the new Charter Revision Commission. A Park Slope dance troupe is one step closer to international acclaim.
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Panelists participating in the Park Slope Civic Council’s Future of Fourth Avenue forum at St. Thomas Aquinas Church earlier this week said all the right things about diversity, safety and accessibility, but residents weren’t buying any of it out without skepticism.
Six degrees of separation from polluting the Gowanus Canal doesn’t mean a company has necessarily escaped a hefty cleanup bill.
Last week’s anti-gay attack on Luquer Street has put a stain on Carroll Gardens, as well as the entire borough, residents and elected officials said last week as they encouraged the police to make a quick arrest.
After months of negotiations, the state on Wednesday handed the reins of Brooklyn Bridge Park over to the city, while remaining to ride shotgun.
If it were a book, Brooklyn Public Library head Dionne Mack-Harvin’s fall from grace would have been a tragedy in which the main character falls on her sword.
At the end of this month, a new Miss Norway will be crowned in Brooklyn. Bklyn’s not ‘Finest’-
Tucked away in the rows of brownstones in Park Slope is a library — the biggest of its kind — dedicated to documenting and sharing the lives of lesbians the world over. Cyclones ‘YOUniform’ tryouts
We had so much fun a few years ago with our first annual interfaith smackdown, that we invited Rev. Daniel Meeter of Old First Reformed Church and Rabbi Andy Bachman of Beth Elohim Synagogue in Park Slope to chew over the issues of the day facing the “faith-based” community. On the eve of their religions’ holiest periods, Meeter and Bachman checked in with our atheist editor, Gersh Kuntzman.
Impersonator Elliot Crown, wearing a three-foot long Marty Markowitz mask, stood in front of Freddy’s Bar and bellowed.
For the second time in as many months, cops collared a bevy of would-be Johns on the corner of Butler and Nevins streets in Boerum Hill on March 9. Sylvia Meyer has seen more than most...birthdays, that is.
The Spring Cycling Festival is coming to Brooklyn, March 19-21 at Ride Brooklyn, 468 Bergen Street in Fort Greene.
The 13th Annual Cinco de Mayo 5K Run is slated for May 2, 11 a.m. (rain or shine) in Prospect Park.
Charitable St. Francis Xavier School fifth and sixth graders have embraced and corresponded with the Ayeltige Primary School in Ghana so that they can enjoy a cultural exchange as well asdonate money and supplies to the West African Catholic institution.
Nearly 2,000 little leaguers, their friends, families, local community leaders and elected officials will kick off the 2010 baseball season in Prospect Park with a parade through Park Slope and on into the park, April 10.
Kensington Stables rides again!
Internationally renowned architect Enrique Norten’s Carroll Street proposal was dealt a death blow on Friday when an obscure city board rejected his argument that he needed to expand the size of the Park Slope project to make it financially viable. It’s looking less likely that Boerum Hill’s hottest prostitution corner will become the site of a new charter school.
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Sunday’s skating in Wollman Rink in Prospect Park was bittersweet — not just because it was the last day of the season, but because there won’t be any ice time at all for the next two years.
Previous Park Slope HeadlinesMarch 13th, 2010 City to take waterfront plan from shore to shoreThe Department of City Planning is embarking on a year-long, five-borough waterfront listening tour, an initiative aimed at crafting a long-term vision for over 500 miles of some of the city’s most coveted property.March 10th, 2010 Bridging the divide between Park Slope and GhanaCharitable St. Francis Xavier School fifth and sixth graders have embraced and corresponded with the Ayeltige Primary School in Ghana so that they can enjoy a cultural exchange as well asdonate money and supplies to the West African Catholic institution.March 6th, 2010 A taste of SXSW, in BrooklynSouth by Southwest, the annual marathon indie music festival, has hundreds of bands, and even more music fans, flocking to Austin next week.Inaugural DIY Music Festival Rocks BrooklynLet the music industry have South By Southwest and the CMJ festival. Brooklyn has its own DIY Music Festival for Brooklynites by Brooklynites.Day-long horticulture conference at Brooklyn Botanic GardenThis year’s Making Brooklyn Bloom, “Soil in the City: Growing Healthy Neighborhoods from the Ground Up,” focuses on revitalizing our soil. Dr. Nina Bassuk, director of the Urban Horticulture Institute at Cornell University.Squadron says no to Senesh planAllowing a Carroll Gardens private school to expand into its courtyard would set a dangerous precedent and should be thwarted, a local lawmaker implored this week.Kickboxing legend Neglia’s 28th Ring of CombatBrooklyn kickboxing promoter and former world champion kickboxer Louis Neglia presented a rousing evening of Mixed Martial Arts during his Ring of Combat(ROC) XXVIII in Atlantic City’s Tropicana Resort and Casino.Melee Erupts at MTA Brooklyn HearingA hearing on proposed Metropolitan Transportation Authority service cuts devolved into chaos after a woman — who tried to speak without first being called to the microphone — was arrested.Parents to DOE: give us a sayAnother day, another town hall, another plea for the city Department of Education (DOE) to better involve parents in the school system.Parents fight school budget cutsBrooklyn parents came out in force last week to protest the state’s proposed $1 billion cut in school funding.WAH Center presents mixed-media works by ‘Creative Couples’The Williamsburg & Historical Center (WAH Center) presents “Creative Couples,” with works of six couples exemplifying the progress made since the beginnings of the women’s liberation movement.March 3rd, 2010 Civil rights veteran talks to St. Saviour studentsThe Honorable Judge Lewis Douglass, a lifelong advocate of civil rights who has a long standing history and involvement in the movement, celebrated Black History Month at Saint Saviour High School.Fixing school food the agenda of CEC 15 meetingThe District 15 Community Education Councilis co-sponsoring a forum featuring Janet Poppendieck, author of “Free For All: Fixing School Food in America,” March 18, 7-9 p.m. at MS 462 Secondary School for Law, 237 Seventh Avenue between Fourth & Fifth streets in Park Slope.March 2nd, 2010 Park Slope Schoolhouse begins construction on new child care centerConstruction on the ground and basement levels of 556 Fifth Avenue, which is being renovated to serve as the new facility for the Park Slope Schoolhouse Child Care Center, has begun. The center is currently located at 515 Sixth Street.March 1st, 2010 Park Slope Jewish Center exhibit celebrates past and presentThe Park Slope Jewish Center (PSJC) celebrates its history with the exhibit, “Building on a Strong Foundation,” opening Saturday, March 6, 8-10pm, with food, drink, music and reminiscing. |
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