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Dinaw Mengestu, esteemed author of “All Our Names,” will be featured at City Tech’s Annual Literary Arts Festival on March 26. Photo: © Mathieu Zazzo

City Tech’s Annual Literary Arts Festival features acclaimed novelist

New York City College of Technology (City Tech’s) 34th Annual Literary Arts Festival will take place on March 26, at the college’s Voorhees Theater, 186 Jay St., at 5:30 p.m. … Full Article

The parking lot in the foreground at 620 Fulton St. is the site of a health center and office building. Behind the parking lot, that's the Theatre for a New Audience in the center of the photo. The mural at left is on a wall of Mark Morris Dance Center. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

Brooklyn Cultural District building boom: The Hotel Trades Council's Health Center, 620 Fulton St.

Construction is percolating at development sites in a favorite arts-lovers' neighborhood, the Brooklyn Cultural District. This is the mini-neighborhood surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music that until recently was known as the BAM Cultural District. … Full Article

This building with the shrouds is the Ashland Place façade of the Marriott Autograph Collection Hotel site. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

Brooklyn Cultural District building boom: the Marriott Autograph Collection Hotel, 95 Rockwell Place

Construction is percolating at development sites in a favorite arts-lovers' neighborhood, the Brooklyn Cultural District. This is the mini-neighborhood surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music that until recently was known as the BAM Cultural District. … Full Article

Workers toil at the site of 286 Ashland Place. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

Brooklyn Cultural District building boom: Two Trees Management's 286 Ashland Place

Construction is percolating at development sites in a favorite arts-lovers' neighborhood, the Brooklyn Cultural District. This is the mini-neighborhood surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music that until recently was known as the BAM Cultural District. … Full Article

The Ashland is rising at 250 Ashland Place on the corner of Fulton Street. The Theatre for a New Audience is at left. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

Brooklyn Cultural District building boom: A tale of two apartment developments

Construction is percolating at development sites in a favorite arts-lovers' neighborhood, the Brooklyn Cultural District. This is the mini-neighborhood surrounding the Brooklyn Academy of Music that until recently was known as the BAM Cultural District. … Full Article

Welcome to the Brooklyn Cultural District. The Brooklyn Academy of Music, at right, flanks a construction site at 286 Ashland Place. The black building in the center of the photo is the Theatre for a New Audience. The white building, center left, is the Mark Morris Dance Center. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese

Building boom in the Brooklyn Cultural District

Every Day, It's A Gettin' Closer, Goin' Faster Than A Roller Coaster. Construction is picking up speed at development sites in the Brooklyn Cultural District. This calls to mind a favorite Buddy Holly song. But let us not digress. … Full Article

Claire Weisz of WXY Studio discussed recommendations for the Brooklyn Strand that were made following months of community meetings and neighborhood walkthroughs at a meeting Monday night. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese

Seven recommendations made at Brooklyn Strand meeting

Community members met at Brooklyn Law School on Monday night to discuss ideas for the Brooklyn Strand — a plan to connect and reinvigorate a swath of unconnected parks, plazas and underutilized sites running from Borough Hall to Brooklyn Bridge Park. … Full Article