Welcome to the Hot Seat, where we interview folks involved in Brooklyn real estate, architecture, development and the like. Introducing Amy Sananman, the founder and director of Groundwell Community Mural Project. Groundswell is a Brooklyn-based nonpro... »
Battle for Brooklyn. You won't win an Oscar but You have won my heart. With regard to the near Oscar nod Michael Galinsky, one of the film's co-directors, tells Park Slope Patch, "We are really pleased by the energy that being on the short list gave t... »
The North Westchester Energy Action Consortium (NWEAC), a group representing 14 Westchester municipalities and their 230,000 residents, has followed the lead of the town of Hastings-on-Hudson in passing a resolution that calls on “Governor Cuomo, the N... »
Happy Kwanzaa! Celebrate the African-inspired, Kwanzaa, holiday and its seven principles with the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from Monday, December 26 – Thursday, December 29. Wondering what celebrating Kwanzaa means? The Official Kwanzaa Site explains:... »
With impressive urgency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has spent his first months in office retooling and reconfiguring how the “City That Works” works. Emanuel’s energy is evident in changes from beat-cop deployment to the push for a longer school day, b... »
Welcome to the Hot Seat, where we interview folks involved in Brooklyn real estate, architecture, development and the like. Introducing Shai Lauros, the executive director of GreenHomeNYC, a community-oriented, volunteer-run organization that helps fac... »
November is National Novel Writing Month. I've never participated in the official month, but I did follow the excellent system proposed by Chris Baty in his book No Plot? No Problem! to write a novel in a month. I'm a... »
Weeks after making a list of 15 Oscar hopefuls, it's official: The Clinton Hill filmmakers behind the Atlantic Yards documentary, "Battle For Brooklyn," won't be strolling down the Kodak Theater's Hollywood red carpet after all. The film, which has be... »
