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14 hours agoAt Green-Wood Cemetery, knitting and crocheting are becoming a way to make space for conversations that can be difficult to have. The local cemetery is bringing back its “Grieving and Weaving” program, a series that combined fiber arts, reflection and community to create an…
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20 hours agoA massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.
Daylon Orr with some of the archive. The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive. [ more › ]
Creatives & Arts
Brooklyn Paper
September 22Immersive installation ‘Aqua Cosmos: The Hudson Canyon’ brings marine life to the Brooklyn Bridge
An immersive art installation will plunge the Brooklyn Bridge deep below the surface of the sea and into a critical marine ecosystem on Sept. 25 and 26. Artist Anita Glesta’s piece “AQUA COSMOS: The Hudson Canyon,” an 18-minute “hybrid documentary” projection, will bathe the…
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Brooklyn Paper
September 22Yom Kippur vigil in Brooklyn see hundreds mourn lives lost in Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers gathered in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Monday afternoon on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, to remember the lives lost in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Organized by progressive groups Jews For Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and Rabbis…
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Brooklyn Paper
September 21From Sheepshead Bay to the ski slopes: How a yacht club launched a ski club
When Miramar Yacht Club in Sheepshead Bay member Arthur Berger saw winter coming around in the 1940s, he wanted to hit the ski slopes instead of the water near Southern Brooklyn. Berger reached out to some other members to create a second club, born out of the boating club and…
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Brooklyn Paper
September 21Hey Brooklyn! Borough’s influence on “Hey Arnold!” lives on 30 years later
Thirty years after “football head” first wandered the streets of fictional Hillwood, Brooklyn is still hiding in plain sight all over “Hey Arnold” — in its brownstones, stoops, playgrounds, schoolyards and even its jazz-heavy soundtrack. The Nickelodeon cartoon, which debuted 30…
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