In case anyone is looking for something seasonal to do with the kids this weekend, the Winter Festival at Greenwood Playground will be happening on Saturday, December 8 from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM. There will be story telling, crafts tables, face painting, “special snowman craft” instruction from the Brooklyn Museum and more, including hot […]

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That big forum about water quality and other issues concerning the Gowanus Canal is coming up this week. It will be held on Thursday (12/6). Called “The Future of the Gowanus Canal: A Community Forum on Environmental Quality,” it will include New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis. Representatives from the NYC […]

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Brooklyn Menorah, courtesy Triborough/flickr. Tomorrow, of course, is the first day of Chanukah and the lighting of Brooklyn’s “official Menorah” will be taking place in downtown Brooklyn on the corner of Montague and Court Streets. The event starts at 5:00 PM and there will be performance by the Children’s Choir. The times for Menorah lightings, […]

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The official lighting of the greatly diminished Grand Army Plaza display (which is what is left of last year’s wonderful Prospect Park in Lights decorations) is happening tonight. The festivities start at 5:30 PM. Per the official release: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg invites you to celebrate the holiday season in Brooklyn and to turn on […]

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We got an email yesterday about a fun sounding holiday event at an historic church in Red Hook. It’s a “Traditional Christmas Concert” on Sunday (12/9) at 3:00 PM at Visitation Church, which is located at Verona and Richards Street in Red Hook. The email says: “There will be lots of great traditional Christmas songs […]

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The Brooklyn Historical Society is having its first “Children’s Book Day” today (12/1) from Noon-4PM. The event is free and features performances, readings, discussions and workshops aimed at children aged 1-12 and their parents. Per the Historical Society website’s events page: Readings include: Dr. Lorenzo Pace, author of “Janlani and the Lock,” presents the amazing, […]

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On Saturday, PS 154 at 1625 11th Avenue in Windsor Terrace invites everyone to their Winter Festival. There’s breakfast with Santa from 8AM-10AM, plus pics with Santa and gifts. The cost is $15 for one child, $25 for two children and $35 for three. Two adults per family are free. Then, there’s the Joyous Annual […]

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There are a couple of more holiday events to report: 1) Dumbo Tree Lighting. The DUMBO Improvement District is having the second annual tree lighting in Dumbo on Thursday, November 29, at 6:30 pm. It will take place at the Pearl Street Triangle (the space on Pearl Street between Front and Water streets that has […]

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There will be a “First Annual” Brooklyn Artisan Holiday Gift Fair on Saturday, December 1 from 11 am – 6 pm at the Fifth Avenue Committee at the FAC Center 621 DeGraw Street, which is located betwen Third and Fourth Avenue. The email for the event says, in part: ENJOY live music by internationally acclaimed […]

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We got an email from Lara Wechsler, who does the Park Slope Street Photography blog, about a exhibition of her Coney Island photos at the 440 Gallery in Park Slope. It will run from November 29 through January 6 and feature “present day scenes from Brooklyn’s fading fantasy emporium.” The opening reception is Thursday (11/29) […]

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Yes, friends, the Prospect Park Track Club’s Turkey Trot 5M is upon us tomorrow morning. It takes place at 9:00AM on Thanksgiving. The race starts at starts and ends near the Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park. Same day registration is at the Wollman Skating Rink from 7:30 to 8:30 AM. The race begins at 9 […]

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PortSide New York’s headquarters, the Mary A. Whalen is moving to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The retired tanker, which is being converted for a variety of uses, will be docked at GMD Shipyard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. True to form, PortSide–which hosted a Puccini opera aboard the Whalen at the Red Hook Container Port–will […]

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The Green-wood Historic Fund is presenting Unexpected New York, which is about “87 New York City places you thought you knew. 87 surprising but true stories you’ve never heard before.” The event takes place tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 at 1:00 PM at the Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery. The speaker and reader will be […]

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It almost hurts to type “Holiday Craft Fair” as we’re still getting over the end of summer, yet there it is. The Brooklyn Friends School is having its Annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday, December 1st from 10AM to 5PM at 375 Pearl Street in Downtown Brooklyn near the Marriott. It will feature ceramics, sweaters, […]

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The Learning About Multimedia Project (the LAMP) will be running a “Town Hall” discussion on Thursday, November 29th, at 7 PM at the Park Slope YMCA, about how people use media, how they shape us and how parents, educators and children need to think about them. LAMP has run a series of workshops at the […]

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Here’s an opportunity to swap or (better yet) donate some clothing and books this weekend. There’s a children’s clothing Swap at the Park Slope Food Coop (782 Union Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues) on Saturday, November 17. Clothing can be dropped off for swapping from 10:30AM-1:30PM. Clothing that is left at the end of […]

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The Brooklyn Reading Works series at the Old Stone House is having another enjoyable and fun event at the Old Stone House in JJ Byrne Park in Park Slope on November 15. This month’s tasty libation is Poetry Punch with Lynn Chandok, Cheryl B, Zeadryn Meade, Michele Madigan Somerville and Marietta Abrams. All are accomplished […]

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If you want to help out people trying to help out Newtown Creek, then you might consider a benefit raffle tonight (11/8) at the Diamond bar in Greenpoint for the Newtown Creek Alliance. First Prize is 2 tickets to see Van Halen at Madison Square Garden on November 13. Second Prize is a $50 bar […]

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Our friends at Brownstoner are launching Brooklyn Flea and it promises to be Brooklyn’s biggest and best flea market in the spring in a 40,000 square foot schoolyard in Fort Greene. The new website says: “The Bishop Loughlin school yard is located on Lafayette Avenue between Clermont and Vanderbilt Avenues, positioning the flea market just […]

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The Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition Shelter is having a fundraiser at The Gutter, the bar/bowling alley at 200 North 14th Street in Williamsburg. Doors open at 6:30. All proceeds, of course, go to benefit BARC. For more information, click here.

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The photo above and the one below are from an exhibition called “Goodbye Coney Island?” at the Brooklyn Museum. It consists of more than fifty photos from the museum’s collection and “traces traces the evolution of this fabled part of New York over the past 125 years. Coney Island has undergone many transformations since it […]

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We checked out the 2007 New York City Marathon yesterday from vantage points on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. We have some pics below. If you don’t like the browser/slideshow embed, you can go directly to our 70+ photo flickr set by clicking here.

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A little Brookvid video we made of the 2007 New York City Marathon as it went through Park Slope on Fourth Avenue and through Greenpoint and Williamsburg. You can access it directly by clicking here.

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Perhaps you recall the day this summer the “submarine” was stopped in off Red Hook near the Queen Mary, spawning speculation (briefly) about terrorist plots and (then) a lot of jokes. Well, Duke Riley, the artist who launched the submarine, has a show at Magnan Projects, which is located at 317 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan. […]

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Here’s an interesting concept: An audio walking tour of downtown Brooklyn called Anyplace Brooklyn that will be offered every Saturday in November (starting today) from Noon-2PM. The one hour tours start every five minutes. What’s cool about them? For starters, you can download the audio portion in advance to your MP3 player. (It’s also availableon […]

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