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Participants at the Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival stop in Portland wore special headsets to experience an alternate virtual reality. Photo by Kristal Passy

Virtual reality film festival coming to DUMBO

Roughly two dozen virtual reality films will be unveiled in DUMBO on Oct. 6 from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival. … Full Article
 
The Brooklyn Strand plan would link green spaces together from Borough Hall to Downtown Brooklyn to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Courtesy of WXY Studio

Brooklyn Strand workshop coming up Monday

Community Board 2 and the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership are hosting a presentation and workshop on the Brooklyn Strand proposal this Monday, September 21, at 6 p.m. at the Willoughby Senior Center, 105 North Portland Avenue, between Park and Myrtle avenues. … Full Article
 
The ambulance crew takes Rebecca Giordano and baby Isaiah to the hospital. Photo courtesy of Renee Giordano

Sunset Park woman gives birth on her stoop

Rebecca Giordano gave birth to a “step” son on Sept. 9. Little Isaiah Jones, the second child of Rebecca and her husband Chris Jones, was born on the stoop in front of the couple’s Sunset Park house – on the third step to be exact. … Full Article
 
To find 1339 Bergen St. in this row of historic Crown Heights North homes, look for its boarded-up windows.

BKLYN's fascinating fixer-uppers: Crown Heights North rowhouses in need of some TLC

In manicured, marvelous Brooklyn, fixer-upper buildings really stand out. Some are splendid despite their disrepair. The messiness adds to their allure. Some are just a mess. … Full Article
 
Here we are at the Gowanus Whole Foods. We can hear aisles and aisles of produce calling our name. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

Bonus photos: The Gowanus Whole Foods is always and forever an eater's wonderland

What's the point of food if you don't take photos of it? America is a nation of eaters who turn every meal into an Instagram image, to which we say Bravo! Food is fun to photograph in grocery aisles as well, of course. … Full Article
 
Don't be shy — shed that shroud and show your face, O Coignet Building. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

Forget food! Landlord wants 'Whole' truth about Whole Foods' landmark renovation

Attention Whole Foods: The Coignet Building's owner has a message for you. It's about that renovation you've been doing of the lonely little landmark tucked between two wings of your supermarket on the corner of Third Avenue and Third Street in Gowanus. … Full Article
 
Mimi Fontana’s Manhattan Tribal Belly Dancers are returning for the sixth year to entertain and teach at the Cranberry Street Fair in Brooklyn Heights this Saturday. Photo by Mary Frost

Cranberry Street Fair to return to Brooklyn Heights for 44th year

Brooklyn Heights will again be dancing in the street for the 44th annual Cranberry Street Fair this Saturday, Sept. 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. … Full Article
 
In DOE’s draft proposal, children in DUMBO, Vinegar Hill and part of Downtown Brooklyn would move to P.S. 307 in Vinegar Hill. The new dividing line runs along Old Fulton Street. Source: NYC Department of Education.

Town halls planned on Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO school rezoning

The New York City Department of Education (DOE) wants to get public input on their draft proposal regarding the rezoning of P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights and P.S. 307 in Vinegar Hill. To that end, DOE and District 13 Community Education Council (CEC) have scheduled two town halls. … Full Article
 
Following the resignation of long-time leader Roy Sloane after dozens of members threatened to depose him, last Thursday a large crowd gathered in Cobble Hill to vote on a new line up of officers for the Cobble Hill Association's (CHA) executive board. Shown from left: CHA Second Vice President Daniel Arbeeny, President Laurel Burr and Treasurer Ezana Bocresian.

New board voted in at Cobble Hill Association after leadership brouhaha

Following the resignation of long-time leader Roy Sloane after two dozen members threatened to depose him, last Thursday a large crowd gathered in Cobble Hill to vote on a new line up of officers for the Cobble Hill Association's (CHA) executive board. … Full Article
 
NYCHA hopes to lease land in parking lots at Wyckoff Gardens housing project in Boerum Hill to a developer. Photo data copyright Google Maps

NYCHA moves to lease land at Wyckoff Gardens housing project in Brooklyn to a developer

As part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s NextGen Neighborhoods plan to dig the city’s public housing projects out of a $2.5 billion hole, NYCHA (NYC Housing Authority) Chair Shola Olatoye said on Thursday that the city hopes to lease what it calls underutilized land at the Wyckoff Gardens housing develo … Full Article
 

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