This coming weekend, from Friday May 17 to Sunday May 19, the amazing GoogaMooga Food and Music Festival returns to Prospect Park for its second fabulous year. Promising to deal with all the issues that made last year’s GoogaMooga a bit less than perfect, Jonathan Mayers, co-founder of the event’s producer Superfly Presents,...
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Three strange lights seeming to fly in formation over Brooklyn on December 3rd was captured in an amateur video taken in Prospect Heights. The mysterious lights were seen a bit after sunset and caused speculation online that this “sighting” is part of a pattern of supposed “UFO” sightings over major cities...
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has promised to create a matching grant fund to aid small businesses seriously damaged by the raging winds of Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged the eastern seaboard at the end of October. Bloomberg has pledged at least $5.5 million to the fund, explaining that small businesses are a critical...
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The New York City Department of Education announced that 12 more schools are ready to reopen in their regular locations after having been in temporary quarters since Hurricane Sandy damaged the buildings, making them unsuitable for use by students. The 12 schools are housed in 10 buildings, five from Brooklyn and seven from Queens....
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The good citizens of New York came out on Saturday in droves to help some of the hardest hit areas in Brooklyn and Staten Island in the aftermath of the wrath of Hurricane Sandy. The city sent volunteers to Brighton Beach and Coney Island in Brooklyn; Far Rockaway in Queens; and Midland Beach in Staten Island. One man was generous...
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