The “Brooklyn College Target” is open at Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues. “The store first welcomed customers on Tuesday, March 4th. Though the signs on the door have said ‘Opens March 9th’ for about two weeks, it turns out that date is the official ‘Grand Opening’. The store opened with a ‘soft opening’ five days early.” […]

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A nice group showed up for the Greening Flatbush event yesterday. “It was the inaugural event for the Gardening Committee of Sustainable Flatbush, and we’re all pretty pleased with ourselves.” There was News 12 coverage and a full photoset is here.–Flatbush Gardener

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Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is coming to Flatbush. “Shayna Lewis, last year’s market manager at the Cortelyou Rd. farmers’ market, is working with one of the farmers from that market, Jorge Carmona from Amantai Farm, to start a CSA in the neighborhood. They’ve already got 20 members signed up and their goal is 40. […]

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Sustainable Flatbush is sponsoring a “Greening Flatbush” event on Sunday, February 24. Here’s something from the release we got about it from Chris Kreussling, who is also the person behind the Flatbush Gardener blog: On Sunday, February 24, residents and other members of the greater Flatbush community can learn what they can do to beautify […]

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How one feels about the way the Target on Flatbush Avenue looks probably depends on how one feels about Atlantic Center-type buildings versus wanting to have a Target nearby. In any case there are many photos which one can use to draw conclusions in case one hasn’t seen it.–Fading Ad Blog

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There was another meeting in Flatbush last night as part of the Imagining Flatbush 2030 effort to create a neighborhood-based framework for future planning. The Municipal Art Society has produced this video from an earlier session. It starts out with Mayor Bloomberg talking about the PlaNYC 2030 effort and moves on to discussions in Flatbush, […]

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We’re looking forward to interesting things from The Real Flatbush, a new blog that bills itself as being for “non-pretentious people who live in Flatbush.” There’s this post, for intance, on hook up spots in the neighborhood: This being a neighborhood blog, I’ve decided to chronicle the best pick up spots on Flatbush. My favorites […]

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[Photo courtesy of thesearepowers/flickr] If you’re vegetarian and you live in Brooklyn, there’s a chance you’ve had a veggie patty or something else at Veggie Castle on Church Avenue in Flatbush. Well, the NY Press reports that the veggie spot in a former White Castle is “closing by Christmas,” which means that today could be […]

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Vox Pop, the cool establishment on Cortelyou Road in Flatbush is having an interesting sounding event tonight. Here’s the description, from their calendar: with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Vox Pop will publish “What I Love about Ditmas Park/Flatbush” right here on the spot, this will be a Do It Yourself Media Holiday Party Event […]

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How about a treasure trove of old photos of Flatbush? “Icluded in the set of photos are pictures of The Junction (circa 1960), fraternity parties at Brooklyn College (early 60s), inside Ebbets Field (circa 1930), Cortelyou Road (1960), and the old Rialto Theater (1950s).”–Brooklyn Junction

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Beverly Square West, Flatbush, Brookly[Photo courtesy of Flatbush Gardener/flickr & Flatbush Gardener]For a full photoset of the lights of Beverly Square West, click here.

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The “future visioning” effort for Flatbush called Imagine Flatbush 2030 is coming up on Wednesday, December 12 at 6:30 at the Brooklyn College Student Center. The effort is a joint venture of the Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC) and the Municipal Art Society. Sustainable Flatbush describes it as: a community visioning and dialogue process — designed […]

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