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Pet Spotlight: Sciutto the Blind Rescue Dog

May 20, 2014

Meet Sciutto, a two-year-old Australian Shepherd mix, we saw on a walk in Fort Greene Park on a sunny spring day.

Sam. a medium-sized black lab mix, was last seen on Saturday morning in Fort Greene. (Photo courtesy of Kateleigh Denchak)

FG/CH News, Local Animals, Neighbors

Lost Black Dog in Fort Greene

May 19, 2014

Help a Fort Greene family find their lost dog, Sam, who was last seen in Fort Greene on Saturday morning.

Boys working in the foundry at Brooklyn Technical High School, date unknown. (Photo courtesy of the

FG/CH News, Neighbors, Schools

#ThrowbackThursday: Brooklyn Technical High School

May 15, 2014

Check out a picture of schoolboys working in the foundry at Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene.

Don't miss this event happening at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this weekend. (Photo courtesy Situ Studio)

Business, Entertainment, FG/CH News, Neighbors

Beyond the Fence: “Making it in NYC”

May 14, 2014

The free exhibit “Making it in NYC: the Era of New Manufacturing,” which highlights 30 different New York makers in five different industries, opens this week at BLDG 92 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

The original plans for the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument included an observatory and a rostrum, which were never built. (Image courtesy Images of America: Fort Greene by Howard Pitsch)

FG/CH News, Neighbors

#ThrowbackThursday: The Original Plans for the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

May 8, 2014

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday is an image of the original design of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park.

This Clinton Hill apartment building is the last standing home of Walt Whitman. (Illustration by Daniel Lewis)

Arts, FG/CH News, Neighbors

Our Buildings: 99 Ryerson Street

May 7, 2014

There’s no plaque to mark it, but Walt Whitman lived on Ryerson Street when he wrote his opus “Leaves of Grass.” Learn more about the poet and his home in this week’s edition of “Our Buildings.”

Arts, FG/CH News, Food and Drink, Neighbors

Urban Forager Ava Chin Writes About Searching for Food and Love in New Memoir

May 6, 2014

Ava Chin, who wrote the Urban Forager column for The Local, has a new memoir about searching for edible plants and love in New York City.

FG/CH News, Local Animals, Neighbors, Real Estate, Schools

City Withholds Water Access at Myrtle Village Green

May 5, 2014

After shutting off water access to avoid broken pipes during the frigid winter, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has refused to turn the water back on at Myrtle Village Green, forcing members to haul their own water to garden.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music was first built in 1861 on Montague Street and moved to Fort Greene in 1908. (Photo by Irving Underhill, courtesy the

Arts, FG/CH News, Neighbors, Real Estate

#ThrowbackThursday: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1910

May 1, 2014

Get a look at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s current building, built five years after its first location, built in 1861 on Montague Street, burned to the ground.