Playing with food and understanding the agricultural connection for a fresh lesson at Brooklyn Children’s Food Festival
The inaugural Children’s Food Festival Food Festival, held Saturday at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, brought families from across Brooklyn to learn about food, farming and food science through hands-on play and exploration. “Our entire building is really dedicated to tactile learning. We saw food as the next iteration,” said Atiba Edwards, president and CEO of BCM. Photo: Brooklyn Eagle Staff
Happy Thursday in NYC, where the government is cashing in on Knicks fever while it’s still burning.
Officials with the Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) announced yesterday that the city will auction off one of the 30 “Champions Way” street signs that hung along Broadway during the Knicks’ historic championship parade in June. Bidding began at $100, but the highest bid has already eclipsed the $7000 mark.
The sign was handcrafted at the DOT’s Sign Shop in Maspeth, Queens — the same workshop that brought you such classics as “Wall Street,” “Broadway,” and “Leaving Brooklyn: Fuhgeddaboudit” — not to mention over 70,000 street signs each year.
“The Knicks championship celebration was a once-in-a-generation moment for New York City, and these commemorative street signs capture the excitement, pride and history of that unforgettable day,” said DCAS Commissioner Yume Kitasei in a statement.
Not everyone is having to pay for their Knicks memorabilia. The city also held a lottery last month to give away five Knicks-themed commemorative trashcans. The five lucky winners were selected out of a pool of 125,000 applicants, and attended a special ceremony last Friday in Hell’s Kitchen, where they were presented with their prizes.
The giveaway was inspired by a viral video from the parade, in which a woman was caught on camera brazenly pouring the contents out of one of the blue-and-orange trashcans and making off with it. The woman was later identified on social media, fined by the city and fired from her job.
Let me tell you: if I had known that you could drum up this much excitement by painting a litter basket blue and orange, I wouldn’t have gone into the newsletter business.
Libby, the reading app used by Brooklyn Public Library, is teaming up with TNT for a screening of the season two premiere of hit fantasy-adventure series, “The Librarians: The Next Chapter,” later today.
A new festival focused on Brooklyn film, art and culture will launch this November at BAM — “Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party.”
The Center For Fiction has named writer Julia Alvarez as the recipient of its 2026 Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction award.
The New York Blood Center is kicking off its fifth annual “Blood for a Brew” campaign, offering August donors a voucher for a free beverage at more than 60 local breweries, pubs and coffee shops across NY and NJ.
A new report from the mayor’s office shows that NYC’s crackdown on app-based delivery platforms’ policies on tipping has secured about $104 million in additional gratuities for delivery workers since the start of the year
The city is suing two Brooklyn dental care providers over what City Hall described as “predatory practices” towards patients.
A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 50 years in prison over the murder of a fellow pimp during a dispute, as well as several counts related to prostitution.
Former head of the Queens Defenders legal aid nonprofit and her ex-husband were sentenced to prison time in Brooklyn federal court for embezzling from the organization.
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On this day in 1953, the Eagle reported, “PHILADELPHIA (UP) — The FBI today seized six Communist party leaders, one as he emerged from a secret underground meeting, on conspiracy charges. The dramatic early morning arrests were timed to catch the city’s ‘highest’ Communist party man as he came out of hiding …”
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