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Crown Heights North House Tour

Via Brownstoner The second annual Crown Heights North House Tour takes place this Saturday, October 4th, from 12-5. Sponsored by the Crown Heights North Association (CHNA), the tour begins at St. Gregory’s RC Church, on the corner of Brooklyn Ave and St Johns Place. (Closest subway, 3 train to Nostrand or Kingston) Advance sale tickets available from Barbara’s Flowers on Nostrand /Bergen, Brownstone Books, on Lewis Ave, in Bed Stuy, Prudential Douglas Elliman on 7th Ave in Park Slope, and online...

I Am A MAN

Via the Daily News September 29, 2008 - February 1968 saw 1,300 African American Sanitation workers strike to demand their basic rights to organize a union, to gain a living wage, and to garner respect and dignity deserving of all working men and women. The Civil Rights Leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., eventually came to Memphis to support the strikers and was subsequently assassinated. From those dramatic events, one phrase emerged that continues to inspire community activists forty years ...

How did our New York Congresspeople Vote on the bailout?

The Culture Kitchen gives a roll call vote on how NY Congressional leaders voted on the buyout bailout: Did the New York delegation really understand that the hell is going on with the manufactured economic crisis? I can most certaily attest to the fact that my Congresswoman, Carolyn Maloney, did nothing all of last week or during the weekend to let me know she was on the ball with this crisis.  Jump Here

Hipsters Are All The Rage

Sometimes I wonder if we were not talking about hipsters, how well these comments would fly.  Nonethless, last week saw the arrival of one new blog hipster safari and I awoke this morning to a hipster safari-ish post on Georg Pederson's blog.  Here's an excerpt: Now we’re seeing tight-pantsed, scruffy white kids all the time: on Nostrand, on the subway, in the markets.  Just today Jason saw not one, but two separate bearded hipsters in the Keyfood rocking out on their iPods. Jump Here

Businesses Thriving in Brooklyn

via the NY Daily News The best news out of the study was that Brooklyn's food and health services stand to gain 1,500 new jobs: That means doctors' offices, clinics, cafeterias, restaurants and bars are all doing relatively well..."A lot of these restaurants are serving new areas that have not been served before," Hum said. "New bars are being opened up in Crown Heights."  Jump Here

Apple Store Comes to Brooklyn?

via curbed Today, Gothamist drops a bomb, which if it pans out to be true, would be the biggest news to hit the Burg since all those towers started going up on Kent Avenue: the Salvation Army store is being bought by Apple. Jump Here

“I Am A Man” Exhibit Opens at MoCADA

Courtesy of Hello Babar: Last night, journalist and aspiring politician Kevin Powell and MoCADA founder/executive director Laurie Cumbo revisited Withers' subject, Black men asserting their full membership in manhood with its all its rights, privileges and baggage, in their "I Am A Man" exhibit. Jump Here

Great Day in Brooklyn

Everyday Brooklyn presents A Great Day in Brooklyn Photography Exhibition - Fort Greene Park :::MoCADA::: museum Corridor Space 80 Hanson Place // Fort Greene, Brooklyn 718 230 0492 OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, September 27th 3pm to 6pm Exhibition: September 27, 2008 through October 15, 2008 Curator: Stephanie Baptist :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: Can't wait to see YOU again !!! Thanks again for your time and support. NOTE: We have changed our organizational name from A Grea...

Trader Joe’s Opens Today

After months years of waiting, Trader Joe's finally opens today at 130 Court Street (Court and Atltantic).  The store opens at 9am.

Medgar Evers College junior raises money to help beating victim

via the NY Daily News Keston Boyce was so moved by the image of a brutally beaten elderly Brooklyn woman, he led a door-to-door effort to raise the $900 stolen from her during the attack.  Jump here