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Via inhabitots: Our recent visit to the newly re-opened Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, had us giddy and delighted as we explored the sprawling, environmentally friendly space. The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is New York’s first ‘green’...

via grand street news Yori Yanover wants to take you to some places to meet some people. The places range through Crown Heights, a Navajo reservation in the far West, the mean street of Scranton Pa., and our own Lower East Side. The people include a still-spry 130-year-old sage,...

Exhibit dates: Sept. 10 – Dec. 28, 2008 Brooklyn’s neighborhood storefronts have the city’s history etched in their facades. Each store is as unique as the customers they serve and are run by owners who share a commitment to provide a special service. Many shops are...

Via Newsday Whether it’s Bloomberg’s push for a healthier city, his campaign against smoking or innovations such as 311, New Yorkers are happy with what the mayor has done and wants him to keep it coming. “I think he’s done a good job, so why not?”...

Via Brownstoner The second annual Crown Heights North House Tour takes place this Saturday, October 4th, from 12-5. Sponsored by the Crown Heights North Association (CHNA), the tour begins at St. Gregory’s RC Church, on the corner of Brooklyn Ave and St Johns Place. (Closest...

(c) Laurie Cumbo Via the Daily News September 29, 2008 – February 1968 saw 1,300 African American Sanitation workers strike to demand their basic rights to organize a union, to gain a living wage, and to garner respect and dignity deserving of all working men and women....

The Culture Kitchen gives a roll call vote on how NY Congressional leaders voted on the buyout bailout: Did the New York delegation really understand that the hell is going on with the manufactured economic crisis? I can most certaily attest to the fact that my Congresswoman,...

Sometimes I wonder if we were not talking about hipsters, how well these comments would fly.  Nonethless, last week saw the arrival of one new blog hipster safari and I awoke this morning to a hipster safari-ish post on Georg Pederson’s blog.  Here’s an excerpt: Now...

via the NY Daily News The best news out of the study was that Brooklyn’s food and health services stand to gain 1,500 new jobs: That means doctors’ offices, clinics, cafeterias, restaurants and bars are all doing relatively well…”A lot of these restaurants...