Occupy Wall Street's 1st Brooklyn General Assembly - Franklin Ave Occupy Wall Street – which began on Oct. 17, 2011,  is a self – pro-claimed - “leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions”. Agree with their stance or not,...

Join us Saturday, June 25th at 11:00 am for our soft launch of our new pilot program, Destination Nostrand, intended to beautify, promote, enliven, and enhance Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.  We’re taking a multi-pronged approach to showcasing the best of what is + the best of...

Nostrand Park is seeking the assistance of a couple of talented artists, calligraphers, and/or graphic designers to volunteer their skills in helping us create vibrant window displays along Nostrand Avenue. If you haven’t seen the media coverage, basically, on Saturday, June 25th, Nostrand Park...

We are excited to see so much love and attention being showered on Crown Heights, of late. In addition to our excited DESTINATION NOSTRAND project, we received word that the new Kingston Avenue Merchant’s Association is working to spruce up Kingston Avenue: On Friday, June 17th 2011 and Saturday,...

Nostrand Park – in collaboration with VAMOS Architects, Masai Marketing, NYC Dept of Small Business Services, and desigNYC – is excited to announce the launch of its new pilot program, Destination Nostrand, intended to beautify, promote, enliven, and enhance Nostrand Avenue: If you are...

All those with the urge to start a food business – here’s your chance! As some of you may have read a few months ago if you are on our e-blast list, or if you follow the I Love Franklin Ave blog, NYC Economic Development Corporation is looking to have a food incubator hosted in Crown Heights. Well,...

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 reported earlier that legendary singer – performer, Lady Miss Kier – of Deee-Lite – Grooves in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and we posted her HOT,  new DJ Video. Now on Saturday, May 28th, the legendary singer will be a Guest Deee-Jay @ BANZAI at The Red Lotus Room – 893 Bergen...

Photo – Abeni Garrett – All Rights Reserved – copyright 2011 Fisher’s Supermarket – which is scheduled to reopen this Friday – has been renamed Bob & Betty’s Food Market – in honor of owner Tony Fisher’s parents – the original owners. The...

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...