Next Saturday (11/22) from noon-3pm, Sustainable Flatbush and Freecycle™ New York City will be at the PS 217 playground (1100 Newkirk Avenue at Coney Island Avenue) to sponsor Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, a big ole swamp meet! Bring your reusable clothes, knick knacks, appliances… anything you got but want to get rid of for someone [...]

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Ah, Chinese food. The quintessential cuisine for any New Yorker with an empty fridge. If you google for a Chinese restaurant in New York City, you get over 13,000 restaurants from which to chose. How many of those places you think cater to vegetarians? Vegans? Sure, there are some in Manhattan… but in Brooklyn… not [...]

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You can’t say it any better than that. It looks like Flashbush has itself a new sweet spot. Salud Organic Juice Bar is open for business at 1308 Avenue H. And this isn’t just one of those juice chains who’s name shall remain anonymous. We’re talking healthy options in a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere where you [...]

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This is something you don’t hear very often, but there’s a sense that the city’s rezoning proposal for Flatbush “gets it right.” During a recent meeting the Department of City Planning “received accolades from board members and area residents for reworking the plan to take into account neighborhood concerns.” Here’s the low down from on [...]

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Meet Brooklyn’s newest community garden. It’s the Flatbush CommUNITY Garden. “Brooklyn’s newest community garden broke ground at the beginning of July. We planted for the first time two weeks ago. Planning for the garden began at least as early as the Winter of 2007, when I first became involved. The Flatbush CommUNITY Garden is a [...]

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If you answered “a Robert Scarano-designed condo” you win the prize, even though, to us, it sounds like the name of a scary bug. Alvora is in Prospect Park South and one of the buyers there has started a new blog called 34 Crooke Avenue to write about the building, neighborhood and other subjects.–Curbed

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A new food pantry opened in Flatbush yesterdeay. Called the Client Choice Food Pantry, it’s located at 2241 Church Avenue. There’s actually a special food distribution for clients today from 9:30am-1:00pm. The regular schedule for the pantry will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30am-1:00pm. It’s operated by CAMBA. Per an email:
According to the Food [...]

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There’s a document shredding opportunity coming up in Flatbush after Labor Day called Shredzilla, but it’ll cost you $10 per big box of documents you want to shred. Here’s the info:
Flatbush Development Corp presents Shredzilla! Join us at PS 139 in Brooklyn on September 6th from 9am-2pm to feed your confidential papers and records into [...]

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We got an email from Paul Krik, the director of the film Able Danger, which is a 9/11 conspiracy flick. What’s interesting about it is that it takes place in Flatbush and features a cafe based on Vox Pop. Here’s what he wrote:
Able Danger was shot in entirely in victorian flatbush by a local [...]

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God bless this Big Ass fan. A Kentucky company with a wicked name - Big Ass Fans - is putting one of its industrial-sized machines in an unlikely place: a Brooklyn Catholic church. The nearly century-old Our Lady of Refuge Church in Flatbush, where the congregation dwindles every summer because of scorching heat, plans to [...]

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There’s a Neighborhood Solar Forum for single family homes coming up on July 16 that’s sponsored by Sustainable Flatbush. Per an email:
Wondering if you can convert your house to solar? Come to the…Neighborhood Solar Forum for single family homes sponsored by Sustainable Flatbush…Peter Landy will speak about his experience converting his house to solar [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Sustainable Flatbush/GL Flickr Pool]
Here’s a chalk drawing expressing love for Brooklyn…uh “Brookln” put into our GL Photo Pool by Sustainable Flatbush.

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Check out the rundown of Saturday’s Newkirk Avenue Block Party. “In addition to a full schedule of live music (courtesy of Make Music New York, and coordinated by Mannix Gordon), we had Solar One, Brooklyn Compost Project, Alive Structures, and Transportation Alternatives represented; plus a paper casting workshop by Flatbush artist Kathy Levine, and the [...]

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“Once a year the burghers of Brooklyn in the Prospect Park South, Ditmas Park, Fiske Terrace, Midwood Park, and Beverl(e)y Squares East and West neighborhoods open their doors to allow the hoi-polloi to see what residential architecture looked like when houses were built when aesthetic principles, not economic ones, were paramount.” Check out the photos.–Forgotten [...]

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There is some very tough chalk writing in the Hot Spot Tot playground in Flatbush. For instance, it says “You can play. No taking crap. No peeing. You can smack people with the swing…You can show your ass and your pennise and (? something)”–Flatbush Pigeon

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The Flatbush Food Co-op is now open in a new space that is triple the size of its original retail store across the street on Cortelyou Road. The ribbon was cut on the new space at 1415 Cortelyou Road yesterday on a day during which many celebrations were planned.–Green Brooklyn

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Check out the bees of Flatbush. They are hard at work and they are covered in pollen, which we understand is not a very good word for some readers right now, but they’re pretty cool.–Fading Ad Blog

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If you’re into old signs on buildings, this post with photos on “signs & vines” on a Flatbush building is a must click. “This sign, formerly on Nostrand Avenue & Glenwood Road- near Brooklyn College- illustrated the effects of nature on a fading ad, which made it a dynamic reminder of the passing of time- [...]

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Among the many actions taken by the Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday was a vote to create a Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District. The new district will be bounded by Foster Avenue on the north, Avenue H on the south, Ocean Avenue on the east and the subway line carrying the Q and other trains on [...]

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The decision on whether to landmark Victorian Flatbush’s Midwood Park and Fiske Terrace is slated to be announced this week. The outlook is pretty good.–NYT

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The status of the rehab of the Loew’s Kings Theater in Flatbush has been a mystery for a while, but today’s Post seems to confirm a report that appeared on Brooklyn Junction back in January that there is significant progress in finding a developer. In January, Brooklyn Junction noted that a “major” operator was interested [...]

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The “Brooklyn College Target” is open at Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues. “The store first welcomed customers on Tuesday, March 4th. Though the signs on the door have said ‘Opens March 9th’ for about two weeks, it turns out that date is the official ‘Grand Opening’. The store opened with a ’soft opening’ five days early.” [...]

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A nice group showed up for the Greening Flatbush event yesterday. “It was the inaugural event for the Gardening Committee of Sustainable Flatbush, and we’re all pretty pleased with ourselves.” There was News 12 coverage and a full photoset is here.–Flatbush Gardener

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Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is coming to Flatbush. “Shayna Lewis, last year’s market manager at the Cortelyou Rd. farmers’ market, is working with one of the farmers from that market, Jorge Carmona from Amantai Farm, to start a CSA in the neighborhood. They’ve already got 20 members signed up and their goal is 40. [...]

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Sustainable Flatbush is sponsoring a “Greening Flatbush” event on Sunday, February 24. Here’s something from the release we got about it from Chris Kreussling, who is also the person behind the Flatbush Gardener blog:
On Sunday, February 24, residents and other members of the greater Flatbush community can learn what they can do to beautify and [...]

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