The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is currently working on a renovation of the Visitor Center as part of hundred-year-old garden renewal project. The new center, which measures 20,000 square feet, is shaped as a curved glass building partially embedded in the hillside at the northeast corner of the garden. A leaf-shaped “living roof”, measuring 10,000 square…
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Shark Burgers Hit Gowanus
For those of you hankering away for a shark burger – hanker no longer. Now, at the Island Burger in East Flatbush, you can get your fix for $9.50. Located at 915 Utica Avenue, the hotspot is hoping to help customers to imagine themselves on the beautiful beach, purchasing a shark sandwich from the grass…
Gowanus Locals Battle Arrival of ‘Whole Foods’
As a giant Whole Foods prepares to settle down in Gowanus, Brooklyn, a movement of artists and manufacturers rallies to defend the neighborhood, claiming that the all-organic store will inevitably destroy the industry in the region. Creativity in the neighborhood is indeed on the rise, and tens of dozens of people have been pushing a…
Landmarking Fight in Brooklyn Heating Up
Looks like Brooklyn will be able to preserve its skyscrapers after all. While the plan still needs to be approved by the full City Council, the landmarks subcommittee just voted 4-0 to approve of the preservation plan. Preserving Traditions As Councilman Steve Levin (D-downtown Brooklyn) explained the rationale behind the preservation. “There’s been a lot…
New York Projects Awarded $14.4 Million In Tax Credits
Earlier this week, New York allotted $14.4 million in low income housing tax credits to numerous inexpensive housing projects throughout the city, three of which are located in Brooklyn. Working alongside the Cuomo administration in Albany, New York City’s project will support 737 affordable homes. Work being done on these units is projected to create…
Greyhound Pup Gets Bone Graft Thanks to Anonymous Donors
Last Monday, Kasia Bednarka’s Italian greyhound Tali was attacked by a pit bull-mix in Prospect Park during their afternoon run. The dog pounced on the tiny pup, badly breaking its leg, before fleeing the scene with its owner. “His leg was just hanging there,” Kasia Bednarska said. “I understand they’re both animals, but you should…
Controversy Surrounding Gowanus-Sculptor Tom Otterness
It’s an interesting and complicated situation for Gowanus-based sculptor Tom Otterness. In 1977, he shot a short film in which he shot and killed a dog. Three decades later, he is still paying for this shocking action. In May, he made a very public apology, but it may not be enough. In his apology he…
The Green Pits of Gowanus
Environmental officials recently opened four “green” spaces on Dean Street near the Gowanus Canal in an effort to absorb water during heavy rainstorms. The rainwater usually results in the sewer systems overflowing into the waterway. The $16,000 drainage ditches, located in Park Slope near Fourth Avenue, are filled with mulch and shrubs capable of absorbing…
New Recording Studio, The End, in Brooklyn
Now it’s even easier to get your groove on in Brooklyn than ever before. That’s because The End, a brand-new recording studio and performance center, has recently opened next to the park grounds at Transmitter Park. Brian Binsack, Brian Crowe and Neal Sherlock have come together to enjoy this amazing location. The studio is located…
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Tyra Banks Wows at New York Public Library
If you were lucky, you could have caught a glimpse of Tyra Banks Sunday at the New York Public Library. Promoting her new fiction novel Modelland, Banks actually has the brains behind the looks. In addition to hosting her show “America’s Next Top Model,” Banks is attending Harvard Business School in her spare time. Modelland…
Brooklyn Independent Music Festival Coming
If you’re at all into music, then this is the weekend to be in Gowanus. This coming weekend, the first Brooklyn Independent Music Festival will take place at Littlefield on DeGraw Street in Gowanus. Organized by Bennett Miller of Bedford-Stuyvesant, it should be well worth your time. The First Annual Festival As Miller said, “Brooklyn…
New York Commemorates 9/11
Certainly, New York was the center of all of the commemorations yesterday for 9/11. In addition to memorial programs there were also many other ways that people came out to show their support and to remember. Virtually all of New York’s cinemas, museums, concert halls, galleries and theaters stopped their normal routines to remember. As…
Out and About in New York This Week
It’s time to get out and enjoy the fresh air this summer. Starting this past Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., New Yorkers have been given the opportunity to get up and go. Last Saturday, and for the next two weeks, the area from Park Avenue and its connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge…
Is Chicken Soup Really the Best Thing for a Cold?
I am sure you have heard from your mother or your grandmother that having a bowl of hot chicken soup will help cure every ailment of the common cold. But does this delicious bowl of yummy broth really help cure the cold? Around the 12th century the Jewish philosopher and physician Maimonides started prescribing a…
