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Thriving Crown Heights Community Hub ‘LaunchPad’ Introduces Neighbors

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LaunchPad is an arts-based community center in Crown Heights. Started by Mike Kunitzky last winter, the space transforms depending on what neighborhood groups want to use it for. “I wanted a place where people could exchange ideas and make things happen,” says Kunitzky, a constantly smiling 35-year-old. “There’s potential for magic in those unexpected talents and interactions.”

December 17, 2010 Art n' About, Boroughing, Culture, Multi/Media, Photo, The People
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Go Greenlight Go! Bookstore Celebrates First Anniversary

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On the eve of Greenlight Bookstore’s one year anniversary – actually next month – Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting, the Fort Greene duo who founded the shop, are also set to ring in their first year at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On Friday from 7:30-9PM they’ll host one of the festival’s bookend events, The Brooklyn Indie Party, featuring locals like Melville House and Akashic’s own Johnny Temple, the night’s resident DJ along with music writer Dave Tompkins. We caught up with Jessica to talk birthdays and books.

September 10, 2010 Read Features
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Book Fest Brass: Johnny Temple On The Balance Between Art and Commerce

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This year’s Brooklyn Book Festival on September 12 is bigger than ever with two days of “Bookend” events and all-star authors like Salman Rushdie, Naomi Klein, and Gary Shteyngart. We caught up with Johnny Temple, president of the Brooklyn Literary Council, to talk about Akashic Books, how music and literature connect, and who he’s most excited to see at the festival.

September 8, 2010 Classic, Read Features
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Artisan Boutique Brooklyn Collective Finds There’s No Place Like Home

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Welcome to the new home of Brooklyn Collective, an artisan gallery and boutique in the Columbia Street Waterfront District that exhibits and sells handcrafted jewelry, clothing, art, and housewares. For the first time since its inception six years ago, the Collective has a space all its own.

August 18, 2010 Art n' About, Classic, Fashion
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Elastic City Art Walks Unveil A Multi-Sensory City Landscape

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Todd Shalom wants you to walk down Carroll Street with your eyes closed. He wants you to write poems in the sand at Brighton Beach. He wants to stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge with you, marveling at the worn planks and angled wires. He wants you to experience this great city in a whole new way. Living in New York City, it’s easy to take our everyday surroundings — the size of a city block, the copious amounts of public art, the glean of the skyscrapers — for granted, which is why Shalom, a Brooklyn artist, founded Elastic City.

August 11, 2010 Art n' About, Classic
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Home/Made is a Tasty Outdoor Treat in Red Hook

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For brunch this weekend, hop on your bike and head to Home/Made in Red Hook. With long wooden tables, benches topped with pastel colored pillows, potted plants abound, and just-picked-fresh food, dining in the back garden feels like a picnic at a country cottage.

August 6, 2010 Classic, Restaurants
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Kensington and Windsor Terrace Offer a Wide Variety of Culture for a Great Price

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In a city that has everything, it can be options overload when trying to decide what to do or where to eat. But if you choose the right neighborhood, like Kensington and Windsor Terrace, you’ll find a nice variety of eateries and entertainment that doesn’t overwhelm. Quiet, but far from sleepy, these diverse neighborhoods show that sometimes less really is more.

August 6, 2010 Things to Do
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Greenpoint is a Small Polish Town Infiltrated with Hipsters

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Greenpoint feels a bit like a small town trapped in a different era, but in that warm and welcoming everybody-knows-each-other, life-is-fine-and-dandy kind of way. Though the neighborhood has seen an influx of younger residents over the last decade bringing with them new restaurants and bars, at Brooklyn’s northern most point, the new and the old fit together, creating a friendly, vibrant community.

July 30, 2010 Food, Restaurants, Things to Do
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Art World Networking in the Digital Age

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For decades, artist registries (think a library containing only encyclopedias filled with slides of artwork) have existed as neutral playing fields where artists can catalog and display their work for curators and gallerists. Now, slide registries are quickly vanishing and sleek, easy-to-use digital databases are becoming the norm, with emerging artists reaping the benefits.

July 30, 2010 Art n' About, Classic, The Art
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The Reverse Bridge and Tunnel: Where to Eat, Shop and Party in Bay Ridge

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The best thing about hanging out in Bay Ridge is simple: water. With a winding harbor-front esplanade and a huge, uncrowded pier offering panoramic bay views, the neighborhood has some of the most peaceful waterfront property in the whole city. A diverse mix of blue-collar immigrants bring the perfect variety of eateries, bars, and old-school Brooklyn that make Bay Ridge totally worth a ride on your bike or even the R train. Plus, for the best in bridge and tunnel nightlife, here’s our guide to going straight to the source.

July 23, 2010 Bars, Food, Restaurants, Things to Do
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Painting Like Pollock on the Coney Island Boardwalk

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A lot has gone down on the boardwalk in Coney Island, that’s for sure, but how about a woman painting circles with her wheelchair or a guy diving onto a slip-n-slide full of paint? This past weekend those were just two of the unique ways Brooklynites helped create ten large scale abstract paintings as part of an interactive performance art event featuring local artist Paul Campbell and his counterpart from Singapore, artist Shih Yun Yeo.

July 21, 2010 Art n' About, Classic, Photo
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Rep. Ed Towns Calls Hearing On Census Fraud, Is Willing To Count Brooklynites Himself

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Two Census Bureau managers from a Brooklyn field office may face criminal charges for faking more than 4000 surveys. In a hearing Monday morning, the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce stated that he believes the managers violated a federal law that makes it a felony to falsify census records.

July 20, 2010 City Politics, Classic, State Politics
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Greenpoint Food Market 1.0 Shutters, Matures

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The Greenpoint Food Market offered a low-cost, low-key environment for home cooks and amateur chefs to share their homemade products, but not anymore. Founder Joann Kim announced Wednesday that the market has shut down, hopefully only until the fall.

July 16, 2010 City Politics, Classic, Food
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Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Offer Multicultural Brownstone Charm

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The neighborhood of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill is many, many things, but it doesn’t matter how you describe it; the area is a blooming hybrid of everything we love about Brooklyn. The only thing that matters is how fast you can get there.

July 16, 2010 Food, Restaurants, Things to Do
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Hakeem Jeffries Takes Complaints, Chit Chats on the Corner

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Crumbling sidewalks, car thefts, and the loss of vital bus lines are just a few of the complaints that Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries heard from Prospect Heights residents Tuesday evening during his “Summer at the Subway” evening office hours.

July 15, 2010 City Politics, Classic, State Politics
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A Beginner’s Guide to Williamsburg

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From free shows to outdoor movies and old-school Italian trattorias to the borough’s hottest gay bar, it’s options overload when it comes to hanging out in Williamsburg.

July 9, 2010 Things to Do
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It’s Kosher! A Day in the Life of Crown Heights

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This vibrant and diverse community has just about anything you could want on a summer stroll. From great – and cheap! – food to spacious gardens, the city’s second largest museum, an abundance of specialty stores catering to Jewish and Caribbean residents, and vibrant nightlife, Crown Heights makes for a great day trip on the fly.

July 1, 2010 Things to Do
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Join Hands Across the Sand in Coney Island

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This Saturday, June 26, 2010, people across the nation will gather in beaches, parks, and cities to join hands as part of the largest protest ever against off-shore drilling.

June 25, 2010 City Politics
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Guaranteed Goodness in Gowanus

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While a polluted canal might be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Gowanus, there’s a lot more to the neighborhood than toxic water. Click through to read why a day in Gowanus will be a lovely summer Saturday.

June 25, 2010 Things to Do
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Urban-Planner-Turned-Artist Alex White Mazzarella Evokes City Life In His Work

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Brooklyn’s atmosphere constantly inspires artist Alex White Mazzarella. “The people here, the mixing of cultures here, and the energy that exists here are much deeper inspirations than the physical coolness of other cities I’ve been to,” he says.

June 23, 2010 Classic, Featured Artists
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Film ‘Imaginary Mothers’ Reunites Birth Mothers With Adopted Kids

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In her upcoming documentary Imaginary Mothers, local filmmaker Jacqueline Arias examines the often unregulated adoption industry through the perspective of the natural mothers. Join her this Friday at Littlefield to view the latest footage.

June 21, 2010 Classic, Film
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Stop Talking About Bushwick, Just Go There

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Bushwick is one of those New York neighborhoods that everyone always talks about, but doesn’t always go to. This weekend, spend a day exploring this local blend of artsy-hipster, Latino immigrants, and industrial warehouses.

June 18, 2010 Things to Do
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Filmmaker Cameron Yates Premieres ‘The Canal Street Madam’ at BAM

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Local filmmaker Cameron Yates talks about his first feature-length documentary, The Canal Street Madam, which premieres in New York this Friday.

June 16, 2010 Classic, Film
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Take a Walk and Grab a Bite in Ditmas Park

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You may not know where to find Ditmas Park on a map, but we assure you that the small neighborhood in Flatbush is an ideal place to spend a summer Saturday in Brooklyn.

June 11, 2010 Things to Do
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Building Brooklyn: Habitat for Humanity Gets a Helping Hand

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On a nondescript block of Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which was an empty lot less than a year ago, sits Habitat for Humanity’s current $6.8 million construction project of four row houses in Bed-Stuy, which received a $50,000 donation from Absolut Vodka. Read about Habitat’s work in Brooklyn here.

June 10, 2010 Classic, Real Estate
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Red Hook Beautifully Blends Modernity and Tradition

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Take a stay-cation in Red Hook. Once the city’s busiest shipping port, Red Hook feels like a small town with a shipping port and boasts great food, free art, and waterfront access, making it the perfect place to get away within the city.

June 4, 2010 Things to Do
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Book It! Get Ready for the Biggest Brooklyn Book Festival

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The 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival will take place on Sunday, September 12. Big-name authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Harding, Dennis Lehane and Jonathan Lethem will read and take part in panel discussions. This year, the festival has expanded and will include new, special events. Click through for details.

June 3, 2010 Read Features
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Where To Go For Sun and Surf if You Live in Brooklyn

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Break out the sunblock and bathing suits, summer is here! But before you book a ferry to Fire Island or hop on the train to the Hamptons, why not take a trip to a sandy shore a little closer to home? Click through for a round-up of the best spots to eat, drink, and hang out near Brooklyn’s beaches.

June 3, 2010 Classic, Things to Do
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BTB in Forbes

Get tips on surviving the working world in [insert your cultural field here] and how to spin it off into your own thing. Read the Forbes interview on entrepreneurship and new media with founding editor Nicole Brydson.

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