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Spook-tacular! Coney Island gearing up for 13th annual Halloween Parade on Oct. 28

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Oct. 27, 2023 By Augostina Mallous Families are gearing up for a spooktacular time at this year’s 13th Annual Children’s Halloween Festival and Parade in Coney Island. Hosted by the Alliance for Coney Island and NYC Health+Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health, this highly-anticipated event promises a day of delightful frights and family fun at Maimonides Park on Sat., Oct. 28, from noon to 4:00 p.m. “Halloween gives us the opportunity to celebrate childhood, impart important lessons, such as ‘scaring is caring,’ and welcome everyone to join us as whomever they want to be,” said Dan Murphy, Executive Director of the Alliance for…
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PHOTOS: The return of the sun brings literary crowds to the Brooklyn Book Festival

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Oct. 2, 2023 By Susan de Vries

The weather made a dramatic turnaround in time for the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday. Literary enthusiasts crowded into Columbus Park to chat with publishers, authors, and vendors, snap up some new reading material, and enjoy the sunshine after the intense rain of the week.

First-ever One Bite Pizza Festival set to take over Coney Island

First ever One Bite Pizza Festival set to take over Coney Island.

Sep. 20, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer

Pizza lovers will finally have the opportunity to joyously celebrate dozens of the city’s best pizzaiolos at the first-ever One Bite Pizza Festival, set to take place in Coney Island on Sept. 23. 

Rolling the dice! Brooklyn Game Knight opens in Industry City

Aug. 25, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen

Game night is every night at Sara Bender and Frank Szelwach’s home in Sunset Park — and now, all of Brooklyn is invited to join in at their new lounge, Brooklyn Game Knight.