So generally, our motto over here at NP is celebrate the positive … but sometimes … sometimes you gotta point out the bad apples, and hope they will try to change. So we received an email from a tipster about Chris’ Restaurant, which has recently opened in a new location on the corner...

While Crown Heights’ track record for recycling may be one of the worst in Brooklyn, one local organization is working to change that – and is providing community teenagers with jobs to boot. Project Re-Generation‘s (an organization near and dear to this blogger) Foot Soldier program...

Great post by the folks over at Brooklyn Exposed about the multitude of food options that you can enjoy during the West Indian Day Parade on Monday.    Beyond the well known jerk chicken and beef patty, the post provides info about some less well known dishes and desserts such as griot and tamarind...

Dig in, there’s plenty of shrimp and lemongrass linguini and tzatziki with lamb kebabs for everyone.  Brooklyn’s finest CSA is sharing its fresh bounty and I am here to give you tasty ideas for your harvest. I have combined fruits, vegetables and herbs to create lemongrass shrimp linguini,...

Lot’s of new dining/restaurant activity going on around Crown Heights.  We recently reported about the new steakhouse, coffee shop, and sandwich shop going up on Nostrand.  Even Super Wings and Joey’s have expanded their menu options.  Not to mention that the Franklin Avenue area will...

Good news all you artist types out there.  The Crow Hill Community Association, which is coordinating the painting mural painting project on the construction fence at Eastern Parkway & Franklin, is still looking for artists to contribute to the mural. To submit to the Mural Project you will need: A...

For almost two years we’ve been promoting Crown Heights’ immense potential and doing our best to show you why we think Crown Heights is the best neighborhood to live in.  Now, our colleagues at Next American City have partnered with IBM and challenged residents to give their reasons for...

Always nice to see pretty things like this in the hood.   We’ve passed by this bed of sunflowers growing from the concrete sidewalk on Sterling Place between Bedford and Franklin countless times.  We finally decided to snap a shot. Given the number of sunflower seeds that are eaten and randomly...

In response to a shooting that recently took place on New York Avenue near St. Johns Place, Crown Heights Mediation Center’s Save Our Streets Program has organized  another community response, which take place on Wednesday, August 18th, at 6:30 on the corner of New York Avenue and St. John’s...

We’ve been hinting at it for a while, but now, we’re talking about it officially … Destination Nostrand!  Yes folks, we are going to take on Nostrand Avenue and transform a gnarly, overgrown vacant lot into a Caribbean-away-from the Caribbean oasis for local residents and beyond. Drawing on...