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[ September 29, 2007 5:00 pm to September 30, 2007 12:00 am. ] Charles Polanco-Ali will be walking in the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk October 5-7. To raise awareness and donations, a fundraiser will be held on Saturday, September 29th from 5:00 pm until midnight at Yin Yang Yoga, 748 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, just off Nostrand Avenue. There will be live entertainment, dancing, [...]

I’m not sure what I was thinking when I decided to do that headstand, back flip thing I made up. Nonetheless, the result was a crick in my neck that just would not alleviate itself. It was time to get some professional help.

It was Saturday morning, and I lived with this literal pain in the [...]

I spotted a new mural on Throop between Quincy and Gates. There is a ghostly hooded figure at the bottom left that unfortunately was blocked at the time I took the photo. It is on the side of the C-Town and I wonder how long has that been there? If it has [...]

[ July 7, 2007; 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. ]

Bed-Stuy and Brooklyn residents are invited to PR-G’s (Project Re-Generation) 5th Annual Community Pride Day (CPD) featuring The Hip Hop Magician. CPD is the largest free annual cook-out in Bed-Stuy. Over the past four years CPD has provided a free fun-filled day for members of the Bed-Stuy community. Attendees received free food sponsored by [...]

I passed by this address often as I make my way north on Bedford, just before turning onto Myrtle Avenue. As a friend asked to be on the lookout for properties to lease that could facilitate a school, this “Warehouse Available” sign on 898 Bedford Avenue caught my attention. While researching the address [...]

South of the Navy Yard Artist’s (SONYA) 2007 Studio Stroll will be taking place this weekend, May 19th and May 20th, from 12:00 pm until 6:00 pm. It kicks off at the ElevenTen Gallery, located at 1110 Fulton Street, off Franklin Avenue. The SONYA Stroll Map is available here.

ElevenTen Gallery @ 1110 Fulton [...]

In The Changeling’s last comment of the previous post, Women Build 2007: Building Affordable Homes on Halsey and Marcus Garvey, I researched Habitat for Humanity’s other Bed-Stuy projects. Habitat for Humanity started building homes in Bed-Stuy in 2000, spearheaded by Jimmy Carter. I found a few photos of existing Habitat homes, and thought [...]

The annual Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build 2007 took place this Saturday, May 12th on Halsey and Marcus Garvey where fifty-two women, aged 16 and above, took part in the construction of affordable homes. Each volunteer has committed to raise $250 helping to finance the contruction. The women volunteers raised $40,000 in this [...]

While web surfing and seeking Bed-Stuy related events, I came across Project Re-Generation‘s website. Project Re-Generation (“PR-G”) is a non-profit organization with a very clear mission: the elimination of teen idleness. Barnabus Shakur, the founder of PR-G, created the organization after a very close friend, who was a member of the Bloods [...]