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Benjamin Anderson Bashein (left), CEO of The Skatepark Project.Photo courtesy of The Skatepark Project

Neighbors of Mount Prospect Park continue to protest skateboard arena

March 8 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

Full slideshow below GRAND ARMY PLAZA — A second community meeting to discuss the proposed “Brooklyn Skate Garden” slated to be built in the middle of Mount Prospect Park took place on Thursday at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Grand Army Plaza branch. The meeting, hosted by Cultural Row Block Association, Eastern Parkway (CuRBA), brought out […]

Interior of Alta Calidad.Photo credit: Eater NY.

Chef Akhtar Nawab expands the dining experiences in Prospect Heights

January 31 | Alice Gilbert

Akhtar Nawab and I sat down amongst the nearly full tables at Alta Calidad at the apparently very happening hour of 2:00 p.m. on a Wednesday. A corner restaurant with ample natural light and a prime location right on Vanderbilt Avenue, it’s easy to see why this makes a good weekday lunch destination. The space […]

Tom Waits 1985. Photo: Sylvia Plachy

Photographs by Sylvia Plachy in BPL exhibit ‘It Happened in New York’

January 29 | Special from the Brooklyn Public Library

GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Brooklyn Public Library currently presents “It Happened in New York,” an exhibition of photographs by Sylvia Plachy. Between 1974 and 2004, Plachy was a staff photographer for the Village Voice. The exhibition is an ode to New York and Plachy’s immense power of observation. Plachy, who was also a contributing photographer […]