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Innovative Brooklyn Coffee Company Gets $25M Funding, Its Secret? Tiny Spaces

The Brooklyn-born coffee company Blank Street is growing rapidly, with plans to have 100 locations in NYC by the end of 2022

Oct 14, 2021 12:30 PM Read more >

BK Queer Flea Market Moves in to Bushwick for All of October

BK Queer Flea is setting up its market in a new Bushwick studio space for all of October, starting this weekend. Featuring vendors, live performances and more.

Oct 14, 2021 11:00 AM Read more >

BP Eric Adams Supports Open Space Memorial for Flatbush Burial Ground

The City released plans to convert the ancient burial ground into affordable apartments in 2020, and those plans were met with immediate community backlash.

Oct 14, 2021 9:25 AM Read more >

Honk for Pumpkin! East New York Great Grandma Is Turning 105

Family members of Kathleen "Pumpkin" Dowling are asking people in East New York to honk, shout or leave flowers at her housing complex Thursday to show love on her 105th birthday

Oct 13, 2021 9:23 PM Read more >

Nominate Your Favorite Brooklyn Teacher to Win $25K

The FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence is open for nominations and includes a range of prizes for local teachers

Oct 13, 2021 4:42 PM Read more >

Nonprofit Gets $1.4M Grant to Support Mental Health Services for Brooklyn Seniors

Institute for Community Living was awarded the grant by the federal government to support services for mental health and substance abuse for Brooklyn seniors

Oct 13, 2021 1:29 PM Read more >

Brownsville Youth Practice Haitian Principle 'Kombit' to Build Community Through Farming

Grow Brownsville, an initiative paying teens to enhance local agriculture, is hosting a Haitian "farming party" this Saturday.

Oct 13, 2021 9:50 AM Read more >

BK Residents Hit Hard By Ida Could Get Flood Insurance if City Program Is Adopted

After flood-hit New Yorkers were forced to turn to the generosity of strangers for financial assistance this September, the City has announced a pilot program to get flood insurance for vulnerable homes

Oct 12, 2021 8:22 PM Read more >

Brooklyn Public Library Opens First New Branch in 40 Years

The Adams Street Library in DUMBO is the first new Brooklyn library opened since 1983

Oct 12, 2021 3:41 PM Read more >

Kids and Their Computers: Several Hours a Day of Screen Time is OK, Study Suggests

Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.

Oct 12, 2021 1:28 PM Read more >