Sign Here to Vote… and Donate Your Organs
Coney Island Hospital and other city medical centers took advantage of election fever to encourage visitors to register to vote – and become an organ donor.
Place: Brooklyn
via The Red Hook Star Review
New Gowanus Clean-up on Tap
The effort will target urban debris – including tires and shopping carts.
Brooklyn Cafe Serves up Help For Haiti
Bedford-Stuyvesant's Kafe L'Ouverture is collecting supplies for victims of Hurricane Matthew.
via The New York Times
Brooklyn Football Star Goes Far
Jahsen Wint, a standout linebacker at Erasmus Hall High School, is headed to Ohio State.
Students Fight Lockout With Walkout
Students joined professors in a protest outside LIU's Brooklyn campus, where the administration locked out faculty amid a contract dispute.
Fielding Lead Concerns
Authorities temporarily shut seven ball fields in Red Hook amid findings of elevated lead levels in the soil. Meanwhile, an adjacent track remains open.
via Brooklyn Based
Artistic Insight in Greenpoint
More than 300 neighborhood artists – including Ky Anderson – invited the public into their studios.
via Reel 13
Tiger Hoods at the BQE
Alfred G. Evans uses found items to create mini golf courses in the shadow of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.