1st UP "THE GREAT DEBATERS"

If you have not seen, "The Great Debaters" here is your
chance...for free!!! at The 9th Annual Kids Flix Film Fest
in BedStuy
When: Aug. 1st 2008
Where: Fulton Park (A/C train - Utica Station)
Time: 8pm

FYI - FISH @ THE MXB MARKET

Greetings Fish Lovers,
just to let you know, this Friday (Aug. 1st) at the "MXB Farmers Market" Fish vendors will be out and about.

SMALL/MEDIUM/LARGE

click on image to view

URBAN ARTS MARKET

click on image to view ^
Myrtle Avenue between Grand Avenue & Emerson Place
Sunday July 27th 2008
12 noon -6pm
local vendors, music & food
DJ Spinna
& The Earthmen Experience
feat. DJ Hard Hittin Harry

For more info check out: Brooklyn Urban Arts Market site

FAMILY FITNESS vs MXB FARMERS MARKET

Alright everyone, please do not forget what's going on every Friday in Bedstuy Brooklyn...
July 25th 2008
1. Malcolm X Blvd. Farmers Market -- 12noon -6pm at Malcolm X Blvd. btwn. Marion St & Chauncey St
2. Family Fitness Day -- Boys & Girls High School 5:30 - 7:30pm
enter at Schenectady Ave btwn Fulton St & Atlantic Ave. Every child must be accompanied by an adult (18+) Water bottle, sneakers & comfortable clothing. All children aged 3-5 and their families are FREE! Parents with children 6yrs and up will be charged $6.00 for the day. For more information please Contact Karenga @ 718-913-7347 or karifu@hotmail.com

***Absolutely no gum or candy!



Please support our neighborhood events.

BADU LIVE AUG. 4th 2008

An evening with Erykah Badu live
Aug. 4th 2008 at Wingate Field
for more info. check out brooklyn
concerts.com or call 718-222-0600

ONE LOVE CELEBRATION - SUNDAY JULY 20th IN FULTON PARK

Another Target Community Garden Coming Soon...Cool!

I was walking back from the MXB Farmers Market on Friday afternoon when I saw a neighbor of mine watering his plants. Chit chat chit chat, yadi yada yada...he told me while strolling down MXB earlier today he noticed some men working at an empty plot of land on MXB & Monroe St. He asked the workers what the plan was for the space...they replied, "Target Community Garden". Cool!
Slowly but surely...keep your eye on this fast developing neighborhood...very exciting. If anyone has more info. on this project -- please feel free to leave your comment.

JOHN LEGEND HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ON MONDAY JULY 21st

I received an email from a friend & neighbor regarding a cool music series, check out: http://www.brooklynconcerts.com/mlk.html

JOHN LEGEND HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ON JULY 21st 2008
The 26th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series performances are held Monday nights 7:30 pm at Wingate Field entrances on Brooklyn Avenue (Rutland Roa an Winthrop Street.)

John Legend is a five-time Grammy-winner and multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and performer whose albums -- "Get Lifted" and "Once Again" -- and singles -- including "Ordinary People," "Used To Love U," "Save Room," and "Heaven" -- have secured his place as one of the most striking, vital and important American musical artists to emerge in the 21st century.

Legend -- who'd made his name primarily as an in-demand all-star studio session writer and musician whose credits included work with Lauryn Hill, Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Common and Kanye West among others -- stepped into the solo spotlight in 2004 as the first artist signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music production company and was signed to Columbia Records in May of that year.

BED STUY FARMERS MARKET

GRAND OPENING FARMERS MARKET starting this Friday July 18th, 12-6 pm on Malcolm X Blvd between Marion & Chauncey Street. You will be able to buy veggies and fruits...for now - but, in the next week or so we will have fish vendors and bakers and hopefully fresh flowers will follow (that would be great!). This is our chance to enhance our quality of life in the food area for Stuyvesant Heights. Lets support our new farmers market...other communities do it all the time!!! Why go all the way to Park Slope, Court Street or Union Square when we have a market right here.

Everyone should buy at least 1 or 2 items every Friday, I will.

For more information, contact 718-363-3085.

BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM - REOPENING

Get a sneak peak of the Brooklyn Children Museum

You’re Invited to a Neighborhood Sneak Preview Hard-Hat Tour

at 11am, on Sunday, July 20 and Saturday, August 2! Adults only.

The tour begins promptly at 11am • 145 Brooklyn Avenue at St. Marks Avenue If you would like to attend, please contact Barbara Troy, the Museum’s Government and Community Affairs Associate, at (718) 735-4400 x391or btroy@brooklynkids. org. Please indicate the date you will attend.

Visit our website for up-to-date expansion and programming information: www.brooklynkids. org

Our reopening is right around the corner!

September 2008!

Brooklyn Children’s Museum will reopen to the public this September with

a spectacular new building—doubled in size—that will be home to:

• all-new exhibitions for children and families to explore the arts,

cultures from around the world, and science and the environment

• all-new programs, including demonstrations, arts and crafts

activities, workshops for preschoolers, and cultural performances

• all-new services, including a large café, a coat check, a gift shop, and extra restrooms

FAMILY FITNESS DAY KICKOFF

This past Friday (june 11th) was the first day of the family fitness kickoff at Boys & Girls High School...and let me tell you, if you missed it -- you missed a very fun day...but, no worries it will continue for the next 7 weeks (every Friday starting at 5:30pm) Check out some pics below and see you next Friday. Oh yeah, it was great to see all the parents enjoying the games as well.
click on photo to view larger image

THE NEW BROOKLYN

DESIGNER FIXTURES Kevin Reid is renting a two-bedroom in the Mynt in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He decorated his living/dining area with a wraparound couch and sleek kitchen stools.

By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY

WHILE condominium developers across the country are trying to unload thousands of apartments that they can’t sell, some builders in Brooklyn have found the real estate equivalent of a golden parachute. Having turned their new units into high-priced rentals, they have found a surprising number of eager takers.

Kevin Reid, who is renting a two-bedroom in the Mynt at 756 Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is a perfect example. His 72-unit building was originally planned as condominiums, but the developer converted it into rentals and kept the appliances and fixtures meant for buyers.

Mr. Reid pays $2,550 a month for perks like views of the Empire State Building and a deep Kohler bathtub that reminds him of tubs in a luxury hotel room. The brokerage firm Aptsandlofts.com has rented all but five units. A similar unit in Manhattan would rent for an average of $6,853, according to Citi Habitats.

Mr. Reid, 30, an event planner, decorated his living/dining area with a white wraparound couch and sleek kitchen stools. He and his friends, he said, had no interest in living in brownstones or older Brooklyn properties. When he eventually buys in Brooklyn, he wants a condo like his current rental.

“My peers who have their M.B.A.’s and their new master’s degrees and new jobs, they’re looking for new condos; they’re not into the traditional houses or brownstones,” he said. “This is the lifestyle we like. You cannot put a fitness center in a brownstone. You don’t have a doorman in a brownstone.”

The taste preferences of these new renters worry some longtime Brooklyn residents who wonder how the borough will change if these renters, who are not seeking Brooklyn’s characteristic tight-knit neighborhood feel, decide to stay and buy.

COMMUNITY GARDEN MEETING AT TARGET GARDEN

Thursday, July 17th at 7:00 p.m. the New York Restoration Project will be holding a meeting in the community garden located on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Dekalb Avenues. At this meeting you will get a chance to hear from representatives from NYRP, learn about garden membership and help plan events. This meeting is open to all.

For more information call Angela at 212.333.2552 or email amichie@nyrp.org.

Bedford Avenue Garden is Open For Your Enjoyment

Bedford Avenue Garden Gets a Major Facelift

REVISED MUSIC

I thought it would be nice to share this pretty cool rendition of "Redemption Song" by Ziggy Marley & The Chieftains
Enjoy!

MELBA MOORE LIVE IN FULTON PARK

R&B singer Melba Moore along with Dj Joseph Clarke, performing her live classic hits July 19, 2008 at Fulton Street Park -- Brooklyn NY. Show starts at 6pm and is free to all, get there early to hold your spot you dont want to get left in the back melba will sign autographs and take photos bring your cameras see you there!

JULY 4th IN STUYVESANT HEIGHTS

Photos from: 2nd Annual Block Stoop Sale -- 50th Annual Fulton Park Art Fair -- Jumping w/ Aisha Cousins -- The Brooklyn Music Experience & the first of many Stoop Soiree
click photo to view larger image