On Saturday June 11th, the St. Marks Avenue Independent Block Association is hosting its 2nd Annual Summer Street Festival.  The festival will run from 10am – 3pm along St. Marks Avenue between Brooklyn & New York.  In what is quickly growing into an area tradition, The St. Marks Avenue...

We’re blogged quite a few times about Bob & Betty’s Food Market – formerly Fisher’s Supermarket pending Grand Opening. Well, as of this Friday, they’re finally OPEN!!!!! What are your thoughts and comments on the renovations, food selection, prices etc.? AKPC_IDS...

If we were to tell you that Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights boasts more art galleries than nearby artist centric Williamburg, would you believe us?  Probably not.  But what if you were to think of all of the hair salons along Nostrand Avenue not as parlors of beauty, but rather as parlors of art. ...

Crown Heights – Brownstones East Of Nostrand Ave. cica 2010 – Abeni Garrett Curbed recently wrote an article about the Prospect Heights Condo Boom Swallowing Up Crown Heights and it’s in article renaming parts of “desirable” Crown Heights as “ProCro”. And...

  Brooklyn’s Renaissance continues as Daddy’s Basement begins hosting an Open Mic.  Hosted by noted poet & educator Chris Slaughter.  Friday’s open mic is another step toward making Daddy’s Basement a go-to destination for arts & culture in Brooklyn. Doors...

Photo Credit – Lady Miss Kier – All Right Reserved This past Saturday, my good friend Lady Miss Kier invited me to the Shanghai Mermaid Party! Shanghai Mermaid is a highly secretive, very underground, prohibition era themed, rotating Burlesque extravaganza – evoking the 1920′s...

Brooklyn Unplugged at Franklin Park 45 Shootout presents… Brooklyn Unplugged. Franklin Park is bringing more incredible entertainment to Crown Heights.  Tuesday March 15th is the launch of the first installment of Brooklyn Unplugged, an acoustic music showcase organized by well known crowd pleasers,...

For those who didn’t catch it, the ever popular Franklin Park Reading Series was mentioned in the NY Times last week as one of the go-to reading series in the city.  The brainchild of Ms. Penina Roth (<– check out a cool interview of Penina that was also linked in the NYT article), the...

Crown Heights multi-media artist Raafi Rivero recently directed a new music video for artist Side Hustle.  Rivero’s cinematography deftly captures the aura of this romance that is revived by a chance second meeting.  Along with film-making and photography, Rivero is also one of the principles...

Celebrate Black History with the Brooklyn Photo Salon! TIME: Sunday, 2/20/2011, 5 – 9.00 pm COST:  Free (donations always welcome & accepted) LOCATION: LAUNCHPAD 721 Franklin Avenue (between Park & Sterling) Presenting Photographers: Adger Cowans http://www.kamoinge.com/adgarcowans.htm Delphine...