Seventy Years Ago Today in Crown Heights: Our Parents' Wedding at the Park Manor - May 28, 1949

Sunday Afternoon in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: The Fourth Annual Parkside Empire Street Festival presents The Gemini Band Live at Flatbush Avenue and Westbury Court

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Thursday Night in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Phantom Station at The Owl Music Parlor

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Late Wednesday Afternoon in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Make Music New York presents Social Robot at the Crown Heights Branch Library

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Wednesday Morning in Flatbush: At Prospect Park Station

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Saturday Night in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Dave Rempis and Brandon Lopez at The Owl Music Parlor

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Tuesday Morning in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Q Train Arriving at Prospect Park Station with Dead Motor

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Wednesday Afternoon in Crown Heights:12th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival's Hip-Hop Institute presents The State of Hip-Hop Journalism Panel at Medgar Evers College

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Tuesday Afternoon in Prospect Heights: Bluebell Wood at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Friday Afternoon in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Cherry Blossoms at Cherry Esplanade and Cherry Walk on Earth Day

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Saturday Night in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Lenny Kaye and Christian Gibbs at the Owl Music Parlor Room

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Tuesday Afternoon in Crown Heights: Hillary Clinton at Medgar Evers College

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Monday Night in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Chris Pitsiokos at 65 Fen

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Thursday Night in Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Andrew Drury presents Michael Foster / Ben Bennett Duo with Isabelle Duthoit and Franz Hautzinger at Soup & Sound

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Saturday Night in Crown Heights: Simchas Beis Hashoeva Dancing on Kingston Avenue south of Eastern Parkway

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Saturday Night in Crown Heights: The Hoover Dam Collective presents "Falalalaloft" at Mister Rogers

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Saturday Afternoon in Prospect Heights: Chile Pepper Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Monday Morning in Crown Heights: Crown Street between Bedford and Rogers Avenues

This morning, walking from one of Bedford Avenue buildings of Medgar Evers College to our apartment on Crown Street at Nostrand Avenue, we once again enjoyed the early fall beauty of the block just before ours -- between Bedford and Rogers -- which got Honorable Mention earlier this year for the Greenest Block in Brooklyn. (The winner was just five blocks north on Lincoln Road.)

Walking down Crown Street is always such a pleasure.

Tuesday Morning in Prospect Heights: Breakfast at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

After more than three wonderful summer months living la vida loca on the vibrant Southside of Williamsburg - this was the view from our bedroom's front window on South 5th Street between Rodney and Keap -

on Sunday we moved for a month to another sublet, this time in wonderful Crown Heights. Here's the view of Nostrand Avenue store signs from our Crown Heights bedroom window:

Early this morning we got to the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza via a short two-stop trip from President Street and even before the library opened, we sat at a table on the library's own plaza and graded papers -- some terrific ones from our students -- for an hour. Then we got some breakfast from the Mambo Open Book Cafe inside and walked down Eastern Parkway to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where it was the first totally free off-season Tuesday.

After sitting at a bench and eating our cereal and drinking our juice,