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Beri Outlet in Crown Heights

Some of you may have seen the awning at the corner of Prospect Pl and Classon Avenue for a store calling itself Beri Outlet.  For those looking for clarification, the owners recently posted this entry on Brooklynian: My wife and I are opening beri outlet. beri outlet will be a sister store of redberi in Prospect Heights and blueberi in DUMBO. All sale items from redberi and blueberi will now be sold at beri outlet. In addition, we will carry vintage clothes, shoes and accessories. We hope that ...

Crown Heights Picture Blog: Wednesday, 29.04.09 רביעי

The Crown Heights Picture Blog updated their site today.  Click on the link below to see of their breathtaking images Crown Heights Picture Blog: Wednesday, 29.04.09 רביעי.

The Crown Heights CSA: Wednesday April 29

Come hang with Crown Heights CSA at Franklin Park from 7:30-9:30 - this will be a great chance to bond with your fellow CSA’ers and find out more what you’ll be doing during your volunteer shifts. And best of all — we’ll be making our official Crown Heights CSA tote bags, using DIY silk screens! If you didn’t already order one on your registration form, come with $10 so you can get something to hold all those veggies you’ll be picking up come June! All proceeds will go towards low-income sh...

Franklin Avenue Clean Up Day

On Sunday April 26 members of the Crow Hill Community Association and other community residents came out in force to help spruce up Franklin Avenue. Armed with planting supplies, two shopping carts filled with planters and plenty of garbage bags to pick up wayward refuse on the sidewalks, this band of gardeners replenished the block's plant beds. Joining in the activities were a group of young people with the Bed-Stuy based Project Regeneration.

What Does Crown Heights Need Most

Cornegy 2009 Blog: Improving Community Parks And Playgrounds

Brooklyn city council candidate Robert E. Cornegy Jr. has a poll on his blog this week asking Bed Stuy and Crown Heights residents for their thoughts on community parks and playgrounds.  Cornegy is looking for thoughts from community members on how to make parks and playgrounds safer and more user friendly from Brooklyn's 36th Council District.  If you get a moment, hop on over to his site and give the candidate an idea about what your looking for in our neighborhood parks and playgrounds. Corne...

Brooklyn Flea

Congratulations Weeksville Heritage Center

Weeksville Heritage Center was recently honored by the Upstate History Alliance/Museum Association of New York for their Green Weeksville program.   Green Weeksville, one of Weeksville Heritage Center’s signature programs, utilizes 19th Century agricultural history to contextualize environmental education for students and the greater community.  This interactive program engages an intergenerational audience as caretakers of their community through the natural environment. According to one of the...

Franklin Avenue Clean Up This Sunday

The Crow Hill Community Association is hosting a spring cleaning / planting on Franklin Ave this Sunday. Here are the details: Sunday, April 26, 10:30am-12pm We will meet at Eastern Pkwy by the train station and work up Franklin to Bergen. Please bring: 1 plant 1 garage bag your own plastic gloves. Also, Crow Hill has a new Facebook page here, which also has the event info.

Brooklyn Eagle: ‘Nature is Love’ Mural Painted by Crown Heights Youth

Read Full Article at the Brooklyn Eagle “It is through participation in these kinds of events that you’ll feel the immense impact that CITYarts has on communities and our youth,” says Executive and Artistic Director Tsipi Ben-Haim. “You’ll get the opportunity to talk to our fabulous Brazilian artist, Duda Penteado, who energized our many youth volunteers to engage in the creative process, from workshops to the painting of the wall. Projects like this don’t just happen — they require the particip...