Good Friday was observed in a variety of ways around Brooklyn yesterday, including local processions marking the stations of the cross. Here are some photos from Windsor Terrace from GL Correspondent Anna Lewis: The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church (Windsor Terrace) marked Good Friday yesterday with a “Way of the Cross” Procession through the parish. […]

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[Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis] GL Correspondent Anna Lewis attended last nights CB7 Meeting and filed this report: Brooklyn Community Board 7 (Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park) rejected Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan at its monthly meeting Wednesday night. It objected primarily to the Mayor’s inclusion of a residential parking permit system within the congestion […]

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A lot of Brooklyn neighborhood activists are up in arms over proposed school budget cuts. We got an email last night from Lauren Collins at the Windsor Terrace Alliance directing our attention to a page they’ve posted with some sample letters protesting the budget cuts and contact information. She writes: Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are rallying […]

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Some siding has come off a house in Windsor Terrace on Tenth Avenue at 17th Street and, apparently, the new version is going to be brick. “I’m not sure if the bricks they’re using on it were underneath the siding or if they came from elsewhere, but they are very nice bricks, in the sense […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] This is another photo sent to us by sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle, who is a regular photo contributor to GL. If you missed Mr. Mirabelle’s snow photos, you can check them out here and here and here.

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] We’ve run several of the gorgeous snow shots sent to us by sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle since Friday. This is the last of them. It was shot in Windsor Terrace, and it is just as beautiful as the others.

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Icky in Brooklyn, who so brilliantly chronicled things in Windsor Terrace and weighed in on issues elsewhere that inspired him, is back. We’re noting this because we miss Icky’s voice. He writes: This blog was in effect, retired last month. But sometimes sometimes a story so appealing happens along, well … ya know.” The issue […]

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The story of Samantha, the dog-napping victim from Windsor Terrace, has ended happily, although the story is still strange and disturbing. We got an email last night that said: There were signs up in stores all over Windsor Terrace. Today Samantha’s owner was going to the stores carrying Samantha, who has been retrieved! Her owner […]

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On Thursday night, Community Board 7 and the Windsore Terrace Alliance hosted a “Public Speak Out” on traffic and transportation issues at the Grand Prospect Hall. More than 100 people attended, including residents, officers from the 72nd Precinct, members of community groups and members of Community Board 7. A number of local officials also attended […]

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“How come the greatest schoolyard in the history of outdoor basketball is no longer in use? Where are all the ball players? Do they still play there? Do the students at Holy Name still use it for recess? I see two backboards up on the middle court but remember there used to be three full-courts? […]

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“The corner stores are sold out of flour, the fabulous/kitchy over-the-top decorations are up on Windsor Place…” Check out some of the photos.–Icky in Brooklyn

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One of Brooklyn’s best new blogs of 2007 offers up the Windsor Terrace 11, a list of local blogs. “Happy holidays, my stalwart Brooklyn blogging compatriots. You do the community a great service by continuing to chronicle our neighborhoods in your own words, through your own eyes, calling ’em like you see ’em. I take […]

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There’s a new neighborhood group in town. It’s called the Windsor Terrace Alliance and it’s been set up talk about community issues like development, edcuation, traffic safety and other important quality of life issues. The group’s website can be found here. The group lists it priorities as: Expanded Education and Child Care: pushing for a […]

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Community Board #7 is putting on its 20th Annual Holiday Gift Drive for the needy children in the Sunset Park & Windsor Terrace communities, and they are accepting donations. Their email says: Over the years we have distributed thousands of toys to children but our success depends upon the kindness & generosity of everyone in […]

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Got toys? The Friends Group of the Windsor Terrace Library is looking for donations of “gently-used” toys for a toy sale on October 20. They say they need “puzzles, games, trucks, dolls, blocks–basically any toy that’s suitable to be sold.” The money raised will benefit the Windsor Terrace Library. Money from last year’s toy sale […]

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Windsor Terrace residents have apparently started a petition drive to “demonstrate the desire to have the owner of the C-Town on 9th St, Steven Reifinger, buy the Key Food Supermarket onProspect Ave. in Windsor Terrace. The Key Food is currently up for sale and will be available for public purchase if no other Key Food […]

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