Lacrosse is America’s fastest growing sport and Brooklyn is just catching up: we have had one lacrosse organization, Brooklyn Crescents Youth Lacrosse Club, for some time (since 2006), but this fall there is a new… Read More »New Lacrosse Club Makes for 2 in Brooklyn
Do you miss running and would like to find some other moms to run with? So did another mom: Brooklyn parent, Susan McBarnet, had a baby girl nine months ago and found herself ready to… Read More »Miss Running? New Brooklyn Babes Running Group
This is the eleventh installment of our feature called “Top of the Shop”. A local photographer gives us her view of a Brooklyn establishment. I hope that you see some new shops to visit or… Read More »Top of the Shop: Feliz in Fort Greene
What once was a garbage dump and weed garden in Clinton Hill has been remade into a lushly seeded green space with an operating plant nursery and farmers market. For the last month, locals in… Read More »Dumping Lot Becomes Nursery and Market in Clinton Hill
I got this lovely email yesterday from a student at Hunter College Schools of Nursing and School of Social Work. She and some of her classmates have organized a food/child supplies drive to benefit Women… Read More »Have Extra Diapers, Formula, Canned Food for Moms in Need?
Whether you are looking for goodie bags or balloons, Brooklyn has a lot of great resources for your birthday supplies. We’ve listed where to get Party Supplies in our Marketplace but we rounded up some… Read More »Where to Get Party Supplies in Brooklyn
Come out Thursday night to enjoy the last of SummerStarz; Town Square ’s family music and movie series at the East River State Park. The series wraps up wraps up this Thursday, August 16th so… Read More »Last Night of SummerStarz is Thursday!
This afternoon, a reader posted on Facebook asking, “If you know of a pre k half day program that isn’t full, please let me know. Thanks.” I answered it on Facebook, but I thought some… Read More »New Schools in Brooklyn: from Montessori to Immersion
The DOE’s reform in special education will get its true test this fall when schools implement the new programs. The reform entails moving children with the least restrictive settings from self-contained classes to classrooms that… Read More »DOE Opens Hotline and Office Hours for Upcoming Special Ed Reform
Sometimes watching the Olympics without a cheering crowd just isn’t that much fun. What if you could watch the Olympic soccer matches in a mini-stadium with a large screen along with fellow enthusiasts all within… Read More »Watch the Olympic Soccer Gold at Upper 90