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Weekend Traffic Alert: Bridge and Street Closures, Oct. 4 - 5

Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge will be closed to Manhattan-bound traffic on Saturday from 12:01 am to 7 am . Motorists should consider the Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, or Hugh L.

A 21st Century Urban Rhapsody in Reconstructive, Funky Design

A table created by students participating in the exhibit "Funk, God, Jazz and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn" Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn , presented by Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center, launched on September 2
Artists, Poets and Musicians Remember the Sights and Sounds of 1963

Artists, Poets and Musicians Remember the Sights and Sounds of 1963

It's back again for a second year: " Soundtrack '63 ," a live music and multimedia millennial retrospective of the Civil Rights Movement.

Behind These Prison Walls: One Man's Fight Against Youth Incarceration

Lorenzo Steele, at the Bed-Stuy Boxing Gym where he volunteers regularly For the past ten years, Long Island resident Lorenzo Steele has been speaking to middle school children in Central Brooklyn about the perils of prison life through a program ent

Register Now For PACC's Rolling Up the Gates Storefront Stroll!

Brooklyn storefronts Are you an aspiring business owner? Are you a property owner with vacant space? Are you an existing business owner and want to expand? Are you an organization with resources for effectively running a business? Join PACC for anoth

Media is Theater

I was looking for a topic to write about for this week's column and I stumbled upon a paper I wrote when I was studying at Pratt Institute some eight years ago.

MTA Subway Cameras Planned for 2015

Photo: NY Daily News As part of its upcoming capital plan, the MTA announced on Wednesday it will buy 940 new subway cars for its lettered lines and install cameras beginning in 2015, the Post reports.
Real-Talk: Community Divided Over Possible Rezoning of Crown Heights

Real-Talk: Community Divided Over Possible Rezoning of Crown Heights

Emotions ran high and tempers flared at the Community Board 9 meeting in Crown Heights last Tuesday over a resolution to request a review of the neighborhood's current zoning, reported DNAinfo .

Cumbe Dance Studio Looking for New Home, Building to be Replaced by High-Rise Condos

Jimena Martinez, co-director of Cumbe Center for African and Disapora Dance Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance is scrambling to find a new home. Cumbe, located at 558 Fulton Street in Fort Greene, opened in January 2012.

Two People Shot During Attempted Armed Robbery of Bed-Stuy Fly Clothing Store

Bed-Stuy Fly clothing store, located at 287 Ralph Avenue Police in the 81st Precinct are looking for two men who attempted an armed robbery of a store last Friday on Ralph Avenue in Bed-Stuy.