Street Fair: Baltic St.
Farm animals and a fire truck.
News & Culture in Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Points Nearby
December 27, 2025
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Teens Confess to PS 29 Fire
Brooklyn Eagle's "Breaking News."
Mom: Marijuana Makes Me Better Mama
Woman pens piece for NY Metro. Her husband is pot-smoking doc.
100 year old teaches Jewish Humor at Hunter College
Bel Kaufman, who’s granddad was the inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof, teaching a course in Jewish humor at Hunter College. Kaufman is 100, looks
The Times Loves Prime Meats
An article on the hen dish, from Berlin.
Funk Dance Night at Pier 1
Sax legend Maceo Parker plays waterfront lawn.
Pizza Stabbing Update
No witnesses. Case may fizzle.
Teacher Layoffs Loom
Bloomberg: 4,000 teachers will be cut.
Fire Hits PS 29 Play Yard
Playhouse scorched. FDNY investigating.
Doctor Sells Cola Waterfront Home for Loss
Check out your neighbors’ real estate news at Blockshopper: http://brooklyn.blockshopper.com/news/story/200124904-Physician_sells_Carroll_Gardens_condo,
Online Engineer Buys $1M Sackett Home
http://brooklyn.blockshopper.com/news/story/200124906-Kickstarter_engineer_takes_Carroll_Gardens_4BD
Cobble Hill Celebrity Househusband Interviewed
Gothamist has an interview with Simon van Kempen of Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens, who’s become a celebrity himself after four years on the Real Housewives of
Brooklyn: The History Behind the Brand
City Limits Magazine explores how the economic changes and branding of Brooklyn juxtapose with the borough’s history.
Court Street Festival
Photographer Joshua Kristal captures the personalities that make Carroll Gardens sparkle.
Hoyt Street Garden Profiled
The New York Times raves about the Hoyt Street community garden, which produces chard, tomatoes and other veggies.
Oh Sunny Day
Festivals, parks, flowers, biking--weekends like this make city living worth all the trouble.
Stillspotting NYC
Guggenheim quiet and space art treatment, downtown Brooklyn.