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The main event at Thursday night’s Society for Clinton Hill general meeting was a turkey cooking and carving demonstration by Anna Kovel from Martha Stewart Living Magazine. Kovel described the two different types of Thanksgiving turkeys: the more widely-used...
The Gulf Station & Auto Repair at 140 Vanderbilt Avenue received some unwanted news at the Community Board 2 Land Use Committee Public Hearing last night. Several homeowners surrounding the station filed a petition to cease permission to use the land as a...
Crime Report – Reported by Captain Vanessa Kight
--Pretty Good Halloween--
*Over the 28-day period from October, 19 2009 through November 15, 2009, overall crime within the confines of the 88th precinct was up 7% versus the same...
Ten takeaways from Monday night’s standing room only Fort Greene Association (FGA) Neighborhood meeting:
10. The Brooklyn Pit Bulls Football League thanked FGA for its continued support...
Talk about a bump in the road....literally. The NYC Dept of Transportation identified two Fort Greene/Clinton Hill schools in need of speed bumps to slow down traffic in order to keep our neighborhood children safe. Residents living next to the...
It's officially fall in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill! After a short lived winter following this summer the weather is finally back on track, allowing residents to enjoy the foliage in the neighborhood. Don't wait too long to go play in the leaves though! Residents are...
Mayor
Independence/GOP: Michael Bloomberg – 51%
Democratic: Bill Thompson – 46%
Conservative: Stephen Christopher – 2%
City Comptroller
Democratic: John Liu – 76%
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Fort Greene/Clinton Hill welcomed a few visitors Sunday morning as over 40,000 runners from all over the world passed through the eight mile mark of the 40th ING New York City Marathon on Lafayette Avenue.
Meb Keflezighi (right) won the men’s race with...
Daylight savings time ends tonight, turn those clocks back before going to bed and gain an hour's sleep.
Whether you're craving the sweetest grapes in Fort Greene or you need an apple a day, you'll go bananas for Kashm's fresh fruit stand. Weekdays from 7:30am -- 5:30pm, corner of Dekalb Avenue and Ashland Pl. Tell him My Little O sent you!
