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 […]
Brooklyn Born: TOMORROW PUBLIC TALK ABOUT GENTRIFICATION IN CROWN HEIGHTS
TOMORROW – 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 […]
The 20 best cheap things to do this weekend, superb owl edition
See Bri Blvck at the Brooklyn Museum (#9). Photo via. 1. Get another chance this week to clean out your closet at Swapping is the New Shopping and let go of what you don’t need, bring it to swap and take home new (to you) treasures. (Friday, Daya Yoga Studio, FREE) 2. Anything can happen at They […]
What happened to Stevie Bates? Police look for answers in disappearance of Occupy Wall Street protester found dead in Queens
The last eyes to see Stevie Bates, 20, alive were those of security cameras at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in April 2012. More than a decade later, the former Occupy Wall Street protester was officially declared dead after being positively identified through an examination of skeletal remains recovered from a construction site in Queens […]
Two Memoirs – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra BowieThis post reviews two different memoirs by women from very different parts of the country and very different backgrounds. The books share common themes of family and money. “The Latter Days” a Memoir by Judith FreemanJudy Freeman grew up in Ogden, Utah, one of eight children of a hard-working Mormon couple, cocooned in […]
A Successful talk about renters rights in the wake of Gentrification
Before the event (I’ll post a better photo later) Last night’s talk about Gentrification was better than I’d hoped. The organizer of the meeting Neta Alexander screened two films “Rent Freeze” which documented the struggle to install a five year rent rate freeze for all stabilized and rent controlled apartments in New York City. And […]
The 10 best cheap things to do this week, knock off edition
Don’t balk at Aya Safiya (#1). Photo via. 1. Don’t balk at Balkan Mondays featuring Aya Safiya, an accomplished singer, songwriter and violinist who interprets traditional songs from the Mediterranean, followed by a Balkan Jam. (Monday, Sisters Bklyn, $10 suggested) 2. See it all at Adventures with Goals, a candy-colored psychedelic variety show filled with death-defying circus […]
Where to make lazy summer vibes last and new bars and restaurants to look forward to this fall
A Negroni pairs well with the sunset at Time Out New York Market. Photo: Kara Zuaro Technically, the autumnal equinox doesn’t arrive until September 22, so we still have a chance to wring out the last, loveliest drops of summer here in Brooklyn. It’s prime time to gather up your favorite friends who’ve been scattered […]
City Council puts $1M behind strengthening abortion access
In the women-majority City Council’s latest effort to support those seeking an abortion following the June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, several council members announced Tuesday they are allocating $1 million to support abortion access in the city. Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and several of her colleagues took to the City Hall […]
“One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter” Essays by Scaachi Koul – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie Scaachi Koul, a writer for BuzzFeed, grew up in Calgary, the daughter of Indian immigrants. (Here’s her take on how to pronounce her first name; her last name has to be “cool” because she is. Or else she’s badass. Take your pick.) In “One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of […]
CrowHill Comm Assoc Meeting tonight 11/18
The meeting will be held at the Gospel Tabernacle Church 725 Franklin Ave Between Park Pl and Sterling Pl in Crown Heights to discuss local issues, all are welcomed especially Crown Heights residents. This is the tentative agenda: Opening statement from CHCA Vice President Paul Carson Report on Halloween Parade by CHCA President Frank Esquilin Status […]
The 20 best cheap things to do this weekend, shop sexy edition
Get a photo for your Valentine (#14). 1. Don’t be choco-late for the Cacao Ceremony, and use sacred cacao medicine to work with the heart’s wisdom and to enhance your heart to be more open and receptive. (Friday, Abracadabra Magic Deli, $25 suggested) 2. Reopen your mouth for Project Parlor Vol. 2: The Revenge, the bar is back and […]
Hochul has huge fundraising, spending edge over Zeldin
Zeldin trails Hochul in fundraising and spending With two months to go until the Nov. 8 general election, Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul has a clear fundraising and spending advantage over her opponent Long Island GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin in the race to be New York’s next top executive. Zeldin has doubled down on his allegiance […]
“A Word for Love” A Novel by Emily Robbins – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie Bea, the narrator of Emily Robbins’ lovely and moving novel “A Word for Love,” has come to a foreign city – it’s never identified but must be Damascus – to study at the university. There’s an Arabic text about love, too, kept at the National Library, that she would like to read. […]
FUN, FREE, FAMILY Event by FES this Sat, Marcy Playground
Just found out about a fun, free community event in Brooklyn THIS Saturday, 12/6 in support of #DontStealPossible — a movement created to raise awareness of the NYC education crisis and the 143,000 students stuck in failing NYC schools. In celebration of this one-of-a-kind campaign, there will be a #DontStealPossible neighborhood block party on Saturday, […]
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