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Searching for Gershwin’s Brooklyn roots on his 125th birthday

September 29 | Martin McQuade

George Gershwin, one of America’s most renowned composers, was born in...

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    Get your paddles ready because a new pickleball fa Get your paddles ready because a new pickleball facility is opening in Gowanus on Sunday. PKLYN, located on Fourth Street between Hoyt and Bond streets, will have five courts across the 18,000-square-foot facility. Founder and Managing Partner David Friedman got the idea for PKLYN during the COVID-19 pandemic. Though a long-time player, he got most interested in pickleball when he found a community of players at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 and played the game daily with a regular group. Read more at the link in bio. Photos courtesy of PKLYN
    Grown adults wearing stuffed dolls and dressed as Grown adults wearing stuffed dolls and dressed as mythical anime characters took over Cadman Plaza Park in Downtown Brooklyn this summer, and it couldn’t have been more enchanting. As part of anime weekend in New York City, hundreds of fans of ‘hololive’ gathered in the park to cosplay, buy merchandise and celebrate the group’s concerts at the Javits Center and Brooklyn’s Kings Theater during Anime NYC 2024. Read more at the link in bio. Eagle photos by Mary Frost
    Prince Harry said today’s youth is in the midst Prince Harry said today’s youth is in the midst of an “epidemic” of anxiety, depression and social isolation due to negative experiences online, as he brought his campaign to help children and their parents navigate cyberspace to this week’s Clinton Global Initiative. “These platforms are designed to create addiction,” Harry, 40, said in remarks Tuesday in New York City. Read more at the link in bio. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki
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