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...

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...

Some may have noticed that Essentials Organic, which was a relatively new restaurant located on the corner of Sterling Place and Nostrand Avenue, has gone out of business.   They seemed to struggle with their menu, and unfortunately never seemed to have any products.  Well,...

Update 8/20/10: Sadly, folks, we just received word that this event has been cancelled.  :-( Bodega – a very familiar concept to the average Brooklynite – you know, the tiny, 24-hour, indie-stores usually located on corners, stocked full of 50-cent bags of Doritos...

UPDATE: Your intrepid scribbler messed up the name of the pet food. He stands corrected. Everything you ever wanted to know about pet food…  And then some. We finally have a pet store in our neighborhood, Paws And The City – which we had previously blogged about....

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...

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...

Greetings, Seasonal Eaters. Brooklyn’s finest CSA is sharing its fresh bounty and I am here to give you tasty ideas for your harvest. I have combined the fruits, vegetables and herbs to create a sausage and leek frittata, refreshing cabbage salad, basil-dusted corn and fruit...

The Breukelen Coffee House presents a new art opening: A Tree Grows In Breukelen August, Friday the 13th, 8pm. There’s a grand revealing in the back at 8pm of the ALL NEW extension of the coffee house, and the brand new stage for a grand future music venue! NO...

Speaking of the borders of Crown Heights – we recently came across this short video by Rapid Realty (located on Franklin Avenue) about the neighborhood.  In it, they discuss the neighborhood’s border “controversy”.   Overall, we thought the vid...