On the corner of Rogers Ave and Park Place in Crown Heights (“western” crown heights as the new comers say, because obviously a neighborhood of two miles requires geographic annotations) there is a small lot that had been neglected by the owner. Concerned citizens long ago transformed the lot into a community open, garden. The […]
5 thrilling ways to enjoy the spooky season (hold the pumpkin spice)
Photo: Black Lagoon/ Joanna Lin The spooky season is upon us. Take a walk through Ditmas Park or Clinton Hill and you’ll see skeletons climbing buildings, massive tarantulas building webs, and a dizzying array of colored pumpkins. New Yorkers take the holiday of Halloween more seriously than you would expect. The Village Halloween parade attracts […]
Cops seek suspect in Brooklyn school bus shooting
Security footage of the suspect cops say shot a man inside an unoccupied school bus in Kensington Thursday afternoon. NYPD Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the man they say shot a man inside an […]
“A Gambler’s Anatomy” A Novel by Jonathan Lethem – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie Bruno Alexander, the central character of Jonathan Lethem’s novel “A Gambler’s Anatomy” is a professional gambler – backgammon is his game of choice – who grew up in California but now travels the world. His shadowy controller, Edgar Falk, arranges games with wealthy men who feel they’ve learned enough to play Bruno […]
AfroPunkFest 2014 & Spike Lee MJ Party
(above: Alice Smith mid set on Saturday Aug 23, 2014 at Afro Punk Festival, Commodore Barry Park, Bklyn) AfroPunk 2014 music art food culture ere in Downtown/Fort Greene Brooklyn and i’m here. 5:15p Alice Smith at the Green Stage literally brought the sun out with her voice and energy. Amazing set, Alice gave that no […]
City Council passes bill aimed at implementing universal child care in next 5 years
In five years, no New York City parent will have to pay for child care. That’s the aim of a bill the City Council passed Wednesday establishing a “Child Care Advisory Board” advisory board tasked with making city-subsidized child care a reality in that timeframe. The legislation – Int. 486 – would also require the […]
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and our Energy Future” by Gretchen Bakke Ph.D. – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie It’s a truism that the United States, like the rest of the developed world, is dependent on electricity to power our homes, our transportation systems, and our communications. In “The Grid” Gretchen Bakke, a cultural anthropologist, examines our electric grid, exploring how it developed and the cultural factors that maintain it (or, […]
AFROPUNK IS WHATS UP EDITION
So yesterday was a lot. I’m still recovering from the greatest weekend in Brooklyn this summer of 2014. The Afro Punk Festival had been on my calendar since I was forced to miss it last year, and then outta the blue Spike Lee, 40Acres, DjSpinna and the New York Knick City Dancers (?!) decided to […]
Brooklyn man shot dead during street festival: reports
File photo/Lloyd Mitchell Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Brooklyn detectives are looking for the suspect who shot and killed a man during a festival on Friday night. Police said the homicide happened at about 10:38 p.m. on Oct. 7 […]
The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown” by Gerri Hirshey – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie For women of my generation, Helen Gurley Brown, the editor-in-chief-forever of Cosmopolitan was close to a joke. Sure, she’d written a book, “Sex and the Single Girl,” that our mothers may have kept on their shelves, but she wasn’t serious, like Betty Friedan or Kate Millett or the authors of “Our Bodies, […]
West Indian Parade 2014 Edition
I was in the parade which feels like many more than ten days ago. Not in the parade in the teen aged sense of the days when I’d hope the barricade and join the mostly other non participant paraders, but in a more age mature stroll with my niece and nephew down the parkway lanes, […]
Bichotte Hermelyn re-elected chair of Brooklyn Dems
Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn narrowly won a new term Monday night following the second of two hours-long, chaotic meetings where party leadership clashed with self-proclaimed reformers vying to reshape the county organization. Bichotte Hermelyn claimed her second term as Chair of the Kings County Democratic Party – often referred to as County […]
“What Belongs To You” A novel by Garth Greenwell – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie All relationships with friends, family, lovers, carry the risk of betrayal, but must all relationships require betrayals? Is a man responsible for another person, someone he’s loved? Had sex with? Even though the other person is an independent actor, one who’s made his own choices? Garth Greenwell wrestles with these questions in […]
Brooklyn Heights Public Library Slated for Redevelopment/Partial Sale
Architect’s rendering of the proposed new library with residential rental units above. I just noticed the news that the Brooklyn Public Library is selling the land of it’s current Brooklyn Heights branch for $52 Million to developer Hudson Companies who will build a new library and market rate apartments on that space. The new library […]
Adams admin confirms Bronx tent shelter won’t comply with city’s ‘right to shelter’ laws in City Council hearing
A new Bronx tent shelter facility the city is constructing to house some of the thousands of migrants who’ve come here in recent months won’t comply with the city’s “right to shelter” law, officials from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration confirmed Friday in a City Council oversight hearing. The hearing was called by the council’s Committee […]
My Life on and Off the Canvas” by Eric Fischl – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie Memoirs can be tricky to write: assuming one’s history has been public or interesting, there’s the problem of finding a voice, not too shallow, not too knowing. Then there’s the equally imposing problem of violating the privacy of everyone else in your life without alienating them. Eric Fischl and his co-writer Michael […]
Brooklyn Born: A PUBLIC TALK ON GENTRIFICATION in CROWN HTS
THIS SATURDAY 9/27 7:30pm a public talk about Gentrification – Rent Controls & Resistance will take place at the FiveMyles Gallery at 558 St. Johns Place in Crown Heights. Everyone is invited to come down and join in. Two short films on the topic as it relates to Brooklyn will be shown, come down and […]
The best cheap things to do this weekend, brr-lesque edition
See Brooklyn’s award-winning drag & burlesque collective (#13). Photo via. 1. Enchant your evening with Salón Zilla, a magical art mixer with an artist market woven in with sex-positive standup, sketch comedy, and readings. (Friday, New Women Space, $10) 2. Support your local subway vendor at ¡Churro! A Benefit Comedy Show raising funds for the Street Vendor Project […]
Brooklyn Children’s Museum inaugurates newly-renovated auditorium • Brooklyn Paper
The smallest Brooklynites are in for a big treat, with the opening of a newly renovated auditorium at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Public officials and museum honchos cut the ribbon on the new 3,200-square-foot auditorium at the Crown Heights institution on Saturday. The $7.8 million renovation, which began in September of 2020, included the installation […]
Exhibit “Deconstruction of the Third Avenue El” at Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery – Brooklyn Bugle
An exhibit of photographs by Sid Kaplan, who teaches at the School of Visual Arts, documenting the dismantling of the Third Avenue El, opens March 24th at the Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery Annex.The exhibit runs through July 9. The Gallery Annex is located in the shuttle passage, adjacent to the Station Master’s Office. The […]
Smorgasburg & Bklyn Flea, coming to Crown Heights
(Above) “BERG’N” the newest eating, hanging, drinking spot to land in Brooklyn and most audaciously, in Crown Heights. Soon to be sharing Winter customers with the Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg Whoa. I like food. And much in the same way I like to have my good t-shirts dry-cleaned for reasons of practicality and pampering, I […]
The 10 best cheap things to do this week, swap edition
Learn directing secrets from Scott Lazer (#4). 1. Expect it to be mobbed at The Sopranos: The Musical, a special lost episode of the HBO classic show The Sopranos put on by a local high school’s drama department. (Monday, Union Hall, $10) 2. Out with the old and in with the new (to you) at Thrift On! […]
Talking with Mayor Adams’ Chief of Staff Frank Carone
Sitting in his large city hall office at a long table stacked with daily work papers, Mayor Eric Adams’ Chief of Staff Frank Carone continues his daily whirlwind grind as he finishes his final three months before moving on to run the mayor’s re-election campaign. Mayor Eric Adams’ Chief of Staff Frank Carone. Carone is […]
“News of the World” A Novel by Paulette Jiles – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie They pop up in old stories, every once in a while, a child with blue eyes living among Native Americans, a survivor taken along after a raid, and there are historical records European children raised among Native Americans. A few of those children returned to their families. In her elegiac and poignant […]
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