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 – 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,...

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...

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...

Hey NP friends, if you are tired of the anonymity of lurking the blogs,  and want to meet some of your fellow Crown Heightsters you can, of course, try the old fashioned method of going next door and asking to borrow some sugar, but another route to sociability would be to hit up a local happy hour/...

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...

Recently, the Washington City Paper published an article entitled “Confessions of a Black Gentrifier”, exploring the roles of black gentrifiers in changing racial and socio-economic landscape of Washington DC.  Though the treatment of this topic in the Washington City Paper city is, to...