John DeWind
2 months ago
Check out the website of Crown Heights Community Organization, Inc. It contains the Crown Heights Community News, news about BABA Brooklyn (Brooklyn Avenue Block Association and about Restaurant Row on Nostrand Avenue, 12 restaurants joined to create community development. All at chcobrooklyn.com
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John DeWind
7 months ago
Check out Cien video of her singing. She will be at SoulBK tomorrow, Saturday, 10am, 706 Nostrand Avenue, backed up by a band of Ronnie Burrage's students from Brooklyn College. See the unveiling of the mural "Evening" by Aleathea Sapp-Jimenez, first in a series about Restaurant Row, 12 restaurants in three blocks on the Avenue.
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John DeWind
7 months ago
There is going to be an unveiling of the "Evening" panel of Restaurant Row at SoulBk at 10 am on Saturday, February 24th. There will be free food, drinks and entertainment. This is the first of three unveilings; the next will be in March and then one more in April. We are going to transform three blocks of Nostrand Avenue with twelve restaurants into the place to be for eating, drinking, music, art and more. Check out these places besides SoulBK: Savvy, Bleu Fin, No. 1 Chinese Kitchen, Nostrand Avenue Pub, Rosalia, La Napa, Cotton Bean, Uotora, Chris, King Tai, and Akara House
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John DeWind
8 months ago
I am looking for a video that Hot Ice did for the art show I sponsored on January 27th, but I can't find it. If someone finds it I would appreciate getting a link.
John DeWind
8 months ago
My art show opens this Saturday 4-9pm at My Gallery NYC at 587 Franklin Avenue. The featured artist is Aleathea Sapp-Jimenez. She is really good. I would advise everyone to take a look at her work. The colors, the depth of feeling, her humanity are all evident.
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John DeWind
8 months ago
Check out Family and Friends of the Wrongfully Convicted. Derrick Hamilton the head of this organization was framed and spent many years in prison. He got out and devoted himself to helping others. The organization has done some amazing things. Adversity became triumph -- a message for everyone.
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John DeWind
8 months ago
I am making preparations for my art show at My Gallery NYC at 587 Franklin Ave. on January 27, 4-9pm
John DeWind
9 months ago
Crown Heights Community Organization will be having an art show at Darla Ebanks' My Gallery NYC at 587 Franklin Avenue (at the corner of Pacific St.) January 26 to 28. January 26 will be a preview, the reception and opening will be on January 27, 4pm to 9pm and closing will be on the 28th. Five artists will be shown: Foremost will be Aleathea Sapp-Jimenez who has done a three panel work, each panel 10X10, celebrating 12 restaurants on Nostrand Avenue in two blocks between Prospect Place and Bergen Street. They are Cielito Lindo, Savvy, Soul BK, Suite 704, Oistins, Bleu Fin, Hing Hung, Nostr
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John DeWind
9 months ago
Hello I am new to this site. I run Crown Heights Community Organization, which seeks to link different organizations to effectively help each one accomplish its goals. I particularly support non-profits such as Success to Freedom, an innocence project, Little Brothers, which pays visits to the elderly in danger of isolation, Block Associations, such St. Marks Independent Block Association and Brooklyn Avenue Block Association, and certain businesses such as Crown Heights Street Care, Bree&Milly, Bobbie Allison, Rehab Haven, E-Kutz, SoulBK, VivLivPublishing and more.
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