Hillary holds a rally in Crown Heights

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton held a rally last week in the gym of Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, as Newsweek reported.


The report includes a long video of the event.

Literal 'Hole in the Wall' Caribbean restaurant on Kingston getting rave reviews online

Nameless Caribbean restaurant, Kingston Ave. near St. Johns Place
Photo:  UntappedCities

A nameless, signless restaurant on Kingston keeps getting good reviews online. The latest is from UntappedCities, mentioning that the website's offices are nearby. Here's from the write up:

"There’s no name, no sign, no hours, no menu, no door to walk through. Just a rectangular cutout from a storefront grate,  just by the intersection of Kingston Avenue and St. John’s Place, behind which a man from Jamaica ["Papa"] is serving up delicious Caribbean food."

This review points to an earlier one on Edible Brooklyn. So much for keeping a secret in this town.

Community Groups meet for bike and pedestrian safety in Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Photo: David Meyer, via StreetsBlogNYC

A group of community organizers, including Transportation Alternatives and Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association recently hosted a workshop called #SlowDownPLG for neighborhood residents to share ideas about walking and biking safety in the neighborhood. Around 35 people attended and worked in small groups to address concerns on five streets: Ocean Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, Rogers Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, and Empire Boulevard.

Details on StreetsBlog NYC.

Vote until this Sunday on how to spend City funds on Crown Heights projects

Photo: DNAinfo

DNAinfo reports that you can vote until this Sunday for how the city will allocate project funds for Crown Heights. It is part of the city's Participatory Budgeting.

Details on how to vote here.

Crown heights Film Festival Coming October

Racing Towards Red Hook, Jessica Scott, Brooklyn, NY

Calling all local filmmakers: Crown heights Film Festival is in Full Effect.  After a two year break, local art gallery Five Myles will showcase mainly NY and Brooklyn-based short films, with a max 20 minute length.  Gallery program manager Marine Cornuet said all types of films are admissible, “we want to be surprised, intellectually stimulated, entertained, in awe, challenged in any short film genre.”  You can submit your film in 5/20-6/20, finalists will be decided end of August.

Kingston Junk Shop Building Sold for $1.1m

Even before I became a real estate agent, I was always interested in knowing "what's going on?" in my neighborhood or in the community at large. So I figured I'd let you in on my latest discovery so far. My associate and I were chasing down a lead of an owner of a building on Kingston avenue, a mixed use development with a few residential units on top and a storefront. You can't really see the storefront because the painted red steel security gate is always pulled down. What you do see is the crew in front selling everything from bicycle tires to toilet seats.  If you've walked down the northern end of Kingston, you know which building I'm talking about.  They are always really nice and say hello as you pass by and are known to give you a deal if you turn up a smile. Well it turns out the owner sold this spot, 104 Kingston Avenue, to a Chinese developer sight unseen for $1.1 million dollars, according to my source.  That's how hot our community is right now. Word is, the Asian market believes our community is worth investing in. We could have told them that a long time ago.  I'm curious to see what they will do with the space. Hopefully, a coffee shop. What do you think?