Great article in the NY Times detailing how the city has expanded its recycling program to include all hard plastics (including toys)! “Starting today,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said at a news conference in City… Read More »NYC Expands Recycling Program to Include Hard Plastics
The 5th Avenue Family Festival is taking place this Saturday April 27th from 11am-3pm in Park Slope! And A Child Grows will be there! Stop by for a tattoo! See you there! This Saturday, April… Read More »5th Avenue Family Festival – April 27th Park Slope – 11am-3pm – A Child Grows Will Be There!
The Tribeca Family Festival’s annual Street Fair is on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Greenwich Street from Chambers Street to Hubert Street, and at venues throughout the Tribeca neighborhood. The fair,… Read More »Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair – Sat April 27th – Free!
Dolly Parton started a foundation called Imagination Library that I signed up for 3+ years ago when my daughter was first born. The way it worked is you sign your child up and they send… Read More »Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Suspended in the NYC Area
Join Moms Demand Action’s NYC Chapter at a strategy meeting in which we tell you how we’ll be continuing the fight for common-sense gun laws – and what YOU can do to help. Despite the… Read More »Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense – Apr 21st Strategy Meeting
Over 200 musicians from 26 New York public schools will converge in one place for the Noel Pointer Foundation’s 10th Annual Fiddlefest. Founded in 1995, the Noel Pointer Foundation (NPF) is a not-for-profit that dramatically… Read More »200 Music Students from 26 NYC Schools Perform in 10th Annual “Fiddlefest” in Prospect Heights
Inside Schools and DNAinfo have provided some interesting new information and deadlines regarding the Gifted and Talented program, the high school application deadline and a parent panel discussion. My kid qualified. Now what? DNAInfo gives a… Read More »Latest Public School News: G&T Programs, High School Deadline, Panel Discussion
SUNY Downstate is moving forward with its’ plans to close Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill to convert its’ real estate valued at $500 to $800 million into cash to prop up the… Read More »March to Save Long Island College Hospital on Sunday
On Saturday, April 6, almost 2,000 Little League players will start the 2013 baseball season with their annual parade through Park Slope and into historic Prospect Park. The pint-sized players will be joined by their… Read More »NYC’s Largest Little League Parade this Weekend in Prospect Park
Pictures by Isabelle Dervaux Squibb Bridge opened on March 21 this year. It starts at the end of the Brooklyn Bridge Promenade. On Columbia Heights, look for Squibb Park, zig zag down to the suspended… Read More »Squibb Park Bridge in Brooklyn Heights is Open and is Awesome!