We’re seriously behind the curve on this, but our friends at Racked posted an item earlier this week detailing an awful story of a woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at the Target at the Atlantic Terminal Mall. Racked writes that she was “hauled handcuffed out of the store, thrown in the […]

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“Despite concern from some parents, Brooklyn’s controversial Arabic-themed school will move into a Fort Greene elementary school next year, officials said. Public School 287 parents were told at a meeting yesterday that the Khalil Gibran International Academy will move into the school building next year after growing too large for its current Boerum Hill location. […]

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We’re slightly behind the curve about Brooklyn Flea this week, but given all the press big and cool new flea market coming to Fort Greene from our friends at Brownstoner has gotten the last few days, (New York Magazine hit it on Monday; the Daily News wrote it up at length yesterday.) one would have […]

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Check out one of the coolest neighborhood features we’ve seen in a long time for coffee drinkers: a guide to prices at Fort Greene cafes. “In what we hope will become a semi-regular feature here, we present our first Fort Greene Guide, a view of the cafes in the hood and their prices. We focused […]

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Photographer Nate Kensinger, whose work we love and whose forays into places that are hard to access have brought us great visual joy, sent us some photos of a condo in Fort Greene called the Verdi on Adelphi. It has been featured many times by our friends at Brownstoner, who have not minced words about […]

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“A cop-bashing art exhibit at a taxpayer-funded museum in Brooklyn portrays the city’s Finest as trigger-happy racists who have put bull’s-eyes on the backs of black New Yorkers. Police abuse victims, including African immigrant Amadou Diallo, are depicted as shooting targets in the ‘The Blue Wall of Violence’ exhibit at The Museum of Contemporary African […]

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The newest venue for music in Brooklyn is…the Masonic Temple in Fort Greene. “This 99-year-old hall, a place known for secret society meetings and wedding receptions for Masons and friends of Masons only, is Brooklyn’s new alt music venue, and we have Brice Rosenbloom, of boomBOOMpresents, to thank. The Fort Greene music promoter, who’s booked […]

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We don’t know how long this sign in Fort Greene that was felled by street work has been sitting there, but we suspect it has been down for a very long time, we also believe that an ongoing project at Rockwell Place near BAM rendered it irrelevant. It makes for a lovely photo, though.

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When our friends at Brownstoner launch an exciting flea market we would naturally expect a blog to come with it. And so it is with the Brooklyn Flea Blog that’s just been started by Brownstoner in advance of the April 6 opening of Brooklyn Flea. Brownstoner writes: With the April 6 launch date of the […]

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The first thing we’ll say about the brand new Fort Greene blog called General Greene is that we’re looking forward to big things from it. It’s the work of two Fort Greene residents, Jim Colgan and Scott Lamb, and features an excellent mix of neighborhood posts including some excellent items about the neighborhood’s long history. […]

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Something Has Been Returned To Me., originally uploaded by woodendesigner. The clock in the old Williamsburgh Bank Tower, aka One Hanson, was turned on again yesterday at noon after a long absence. Presumably, it wasn’t an accident that it was returned to service on the same day that people started moving into one of the […]

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Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of Emily Geoff/flickr]

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Fort Greene, Brooklyn[Image courtesy of gaby 72/flickr]

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Sometimes, a quick trip out can turn into something more than a poppy seed bagel with scallion cream cheese. So it is with this eyewitness account from a GL reader of an attempted robbery of a laundromat in Fort Greene on Friday: I was working from home in Fort Greene yesterday and I saw someone […]

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Do you have any electronic devices–computers, monitors, printers, etc.–that need to be recycled? If so, there are opportunities coming up in both Fort Greene and in Park Slope. The Fort Greene recycling drop off spot will be the Habana Outpost on Fulton Street at South Portland Avenue. The dates and times are: Saturday November 24, […]

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The priapic Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower has finally been set free of the scaffolding and netting that have surrounded it for a year. As of yesterday morning, however, the clock wasn’t telling time properly.

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We noted yesterday that the old Williamsburgh Savings Bank building is finally losing the black netting and scaffolding that has covered the top for a long time. It is only a matter of moments before the clock itself is revealed. Hopefully, after all this time and effort, it will actually tell the correct time on […]

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A big plan for a remake of Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill was posted yesterday. The document is the result of a long period of planning and community meetings by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Parternship and the Project for Public Spaces. Streets Blog wrote of the effort: The days when Myrtle was […]

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The City Council voted to approve a rezoning of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill that will make it harder to put up tall buildings on residential blocks in the two neighborhoods. The Council held a hearing on the plan on Monday and voted to pass it yesterday. The City Planning Commission had voted in favor […]

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The focus at Brooklyn eminent domain hearing on Tuesday was the Underground Railroad Houses on Duffield Street, but Brooklyn Daily Eagle reporter Sarah Ryley reports another pending taking of property that would otherwise fly under the radar screen. In this case, the city would like to seize property at 95 Rockwell Place and clear the […]

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