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Northside Festival Takes Over Williamsburg and Greenpoint For Its Sixth Year

Northside Festival Takes Over Williamsburg and Greenpoint For Its Sixth Year

Beyond South Brooklyn

Northside Festival is back for 2014, welcoming over 90,000 attendees to venues spanning Williamsburg and Greenpoint on June 12-19, 2014.

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The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and Brooklyn Bridge Park announce May events including Celebrate Brooklyn! Bridge Dance Parties, Wednesday Night Tours series, a senior fitness class, and free skate sessions.

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and Brooklyn Bridge Park announce May 2014 events

Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and Brooklyn Bridge Park announced a diverse and dynamic May 2014 programming schedule with an array of cultural, educational, and recreational events.
 

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SummerScreen is free to the public on Wednesdays in July & August, presenting Back to the Future, Zoolander, Cry-Baby, Heathers and The Big Lebowski in McCarren Park, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

SummerScreen presents Outdoor Films in McCarren Park

Beyond South Brooklyn

In the spring of 2006, Noemie Lafrance of Sens Productions, Alex Kane of Jelly NYC, and brothers Scott and Daniel Stedman of The L Magazine scouted what Rolling Stone magazine would soon call “the coolest venue in the

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Jim Creighton Monument restoration unveiled at Green-Wood cemetery.

Green-Wood Honors a Baseball Legend

Park Slope, Beyond South Brooklyn

Green-Wood cemetery is the final resting place of many of the “fathers” of baseball, as well as many of its earliest participants.

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CELEBRATE EARTH WEEK at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Monday, April 14th - Tuesday, April 22nd, Spend your spring break week at BCM's festival celebrating all things green and sustainable.

CELEBRATE EARTH WEEK!

Park Slope, Beyond South Brooklyn

CELEBRATE EARTH WEEK at the Brooklyn Children's Museum!

Monday, April 14th - Tuesday, April 22nd

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© Chuck Bigger, Lunar Eclispe of April 15, 2014

Total Lunar Eclipse begins a Tetrad

Beyond South Brooklyn

The first total eclipse of the moon to be visible across the whole of North America since December of 2010 took place Monday night into Tuesday morning, April 15th.

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Starting Saturday, April 12th at 10:00am, Brooklynites can trade in their ice skates and enjoy roller skating on The LeFrak Center's spectacular 16,000 square foot covered rink overlooking Prospect Park Lake

The LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Prospect Park puts its Spin on Spring

Park Slope

Starting Saturday, April 12th at 10:00am, Brooklynites can trade in their ice skates for quads and enjoy roller skating on The LeFrak Center's

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s (BBG) cherry blossom festival, Sakura Matsuri returns for its 33rd year on April 26 and 27, 2014 featured on The South Brooklyn Network.

Sakura Matsuri at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Park Slope, Beyond South Brooklyn

Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s (BBG) cherry blossom festival, Sakura Matsuri—popularly considered NYC’s rite of spring and the largest event

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The Invisible Dog is bringing French director and choreographer Thierry Niang to Brooklyn for two weeks to create a production of SPRING

Call for Auditions for "SPRING" at The Invisible Dog

Boerum Hill

The Invisible Dog is bringing French director and choreographer Thierry Niang to Brooklyn for two weeks to create a production of SPRING, inspired by “The Rite of Spring” by Stravinsky.

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Good Friday Procession from Sacred Hearts - St. Stephen Church through the streets of Carroll Gardens

Good Friday Procession: Sacred Hearts - St. Stephen Church

Carroll Gardens

If you have never seen the Good Friday Procession from Sacred Hearts - St. Stephen Church through the streets of Carroll Gardens, you have missed an amazing piece of Brooklyn's history.

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