Dumbo Arts Festival
Don't miss this fantastic festival with tons of installations, performances, and art, from Sept. 28-30.
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September 17, 2025
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Fundraiser for BQE Art
@ Green Room in Gowanus, Thursday night.
Flavorwire’s Streaming Movie Guide
Flavorwire was picking hot cultural events and emailing subscribers before that was the norm, and now the site has come out with something great, a
Tour $6 Million Warren St. Townhome for Sale
Curbed has a lovely photo tour of this Warren Street, Cobble Hill townhome for sale. At $6 million, it far outpaces the cost for Carroll
Condo Building Brings Parking to Bergen and 3rd
The Streets blog shows a new condo building on Bergen that’ll bring 85 parking places to Boerum Hill.
Underground Park Exhibit
Check out plans for Manhattan project, first anywhere.
Police Capt: Gangs in Play
Red Hook gangs order robberies in CG, CH.
Recycle! Kids Clothing/Toy Swap
@ ArtsCetera on Smith Street this weekend
Suspect Shot and Killed at W. 9th
Suspect aimed automatic gun at police. Officer kills suspect.
Christ Church Steeple Dismantled
After it was hit by lightening.
Brooklyn Artists Open Studios
"Go" Studios, this weekend. Here, Rachel Barrett's "Kale Road," showing at Invisible Dog Gallery on Bergen near Smith.
Martin Amis, Cobble Hill’s new bard, says life here is like the 1950s
Prolific writer Martin Amis has a new book out, read recently at BookCourt and at Brooklyn Bridge Park, and is the subject of many new
Marquet Patisserie on Court Street
Trendy coffeeshops increasingly grace our shores, while Lynne and Jean-Pierre Marquet continue to serve mouth-watering croissants on Court Street.
The Importance of Doing Art
Friday: Fringe Festival NYC features Queens troupe in comedic production
Self-powered designer B&B opens on 9th St.
Curbed calls it NYC’s first self-powered building. From the pictures, it looks like perhaps the first design-forward, clean nice and new B&B in Carroll Gardens,