Credit: BedStuyBlog.com This just in: The Inner City Little League will hold registration for the 2011 season on Friday, December 3rd, 3:30-8:00 p.m., at the Herbert Von King Community Center, 670 Lafayette Avenue (Marcy & Tompkins). The league features T-ball through Pony...

Photo: Abeni Garrett – copyright 2010 – ALL Rights Reserved Last night I had the pleasure to attend The Brooklyn Museum Presents JAY-Z In Conversation With Charlie Rose. It was an intimate, one-on-one, in-depth conversation with Charlie Rose trying his best to...

Kings County Cinema will be partnering with several great local orgs this week to present a night of films and discussion about gun violence in our streets… tonight, November 18th at LaunchPad. We are joining with Save Our Streets, a project of the Crown Heights Community...

Looks like the, pawn shop’s, Crow Hill Jewelry’s mural is almost complete. It’s an illustration of a baby, with a large gold chain and dollar symbol pendant around his neck, sitting atop a wad of Benjamins ($100 bills) and jewelry as he grasps another wad...

Soprano Gretchen Farrar Sat, Nov 20, 7:00pm; FREE — Soprano Gretchen Farrar and salsa expert (and filmmaker) Michelle Chai perform as part of the New York Foundation for the Arts’ “NYFA Boot Camp Arts Festival” (Nov 4 – 20), a showcase of work by 38 visual artists,...

UPDATE: From the Dept. Of Building’s website, it seems that the Notice Of Inspection is based on this complaint: Re: THE PAWN SHOP BROKER BUSINESS THAT IS OPENING IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE AT THIS LOCATION BECAUSE OF ZONING.THE PAWN SHOP IS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE LAUNDROMAT...

Last week we mentioned the fundraising campaign to support Medgar Evers Preparatory School’s efforts to participate in the national marching band competition. We are happy to report that the band was able to participate this past weekend. Below is a clip of their performance AKPC_IDS...

Sadly, there were two shootings this past week in the 77th Precinct. One occurred on November 5th, at Troy Avenue and St.Johns Place, and one occurred on November 7th, in Brower Park. With these two shootings we’ve now experienced 66 shootings in our neighborhood since...

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We  have probably walked down about 70% of the blocks in Crown Heights.  However, for some reason we never had an occasion to venture down Rogers Avenue south until last week when we went to snap some photos of the new bookshop on Rogers.   What a great treat.  Block-by-block...