The Barclays Center is currently recruiting for box office, food service, guest services, operations and security positions.

Click here to sign up to begin the registration process. NYCHA residents and residents of community boards 2, 3, 6 and 8 will be prioritized. Candidates that are screened and chosen to move forward in the process will be scheduled interviews at job fairs in July and possibly August.

Register online or at a location below by June 23rd.

Ingersoll Community Center
177 Myrtle Avenue
M-F, 1p-3p

Farragut Community Center (ATTAIN Lab)
228 York Street
M-Th 3p-6p; F 10a-5p; Sa June 9 and 23rd only 1:30p-5p

REES Central
787 Atlantic Avenue
M-Th 2p-6p

303 Vernon ATTAIN Lab
303 Vernon Avenue
Tu and Th 10a-6p

Roosevelt BTOP
400 Hart Street
M-F 10a-2p

Saratoga BTOP
940 Hancock Street
M-F 10a-2p

Van Dyke BTOP
392 Blake Avenue
M-F 10a-2p

logo credit: logo copied from the barclayscenter.com website

Join Myrtle Eats Fresh program participants at the Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) Annual Community Health Fair in Fort Greene Park on Saturday, June 9, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be over 30 different information points along the path close to Washington Park along DeKalb Avenue where visitors can receive free basic health screenings, information on how to lead a healthy lifestyle and pharmacists will be on hand to do medication screenings and smoking cessation.

Myrtle Eats Fresh Community Chef Beryl Benbow will be preparing samples of an “Avocado, Cucumber & Arugula Salad” recipe. The Fort Greene / Clinton Hill Community Food Council will share information and encourage all to get involved in 10 community food projects happening now! Look for the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project Banner and we'll see you at the fair!

Curious to what Fort Greene and Clinton Hill was like in the 1940s? A spectacular new website, 1940snewyork.com, offers us a glimpse. The website features an interactive map that allows you to zoom into Fort Greene and Clinton Hill , simply called Fort Greene Park at the time, to learn about rent prices and demographics. Also, the site has a few neighborhood pictures that worth checking out.

The site was developed by the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center, in collaboration with The Gotham Center for the New York History.

Photo taken from www.1940snewyork.com.

Come share your ideas for this new community space on Monday, June 4th 6PM @ Pratt Center!

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is offering a temporary space to be used by the community at the water tunnel site at the NE corner of Kent and Myrtle and they are ready to provide access! Now it's time to come together and decide how to create a user friendly open space for all to enjoy.

WHEN: Monday, June 4, 2012, 6pm
WHERE: Pratt Center: Myrtle Hall 536 Myrtle Avenue – enter through Willoughby Avenue (walk through the parking lot
*ID is required to enter the building

To RSVP or for more info email – rsvp@prattarea.org

The event is sponsored by Councilmember Letitia James and is brought to you by Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) and Pratt Center for Community Development.

For more information on the community site visit: Myrtle Village Green

MARP and Architecture for Humanity got great feedback from almost 40 residents who attended last night's presentation of draft proposals for improving pedestrian safety on Park Avenue at the Navy Yard houses. Thanks to all who attended and shared your thoughtful ideas! Stay tuned for a fine-tuned Pedestrian Safety Plan in June.

Using specific recommendations and input from the public gathered at workshops, MARP and AFH have developed a set of draft recommendations to improve pedestrian safety on Park Avenue in Fort Greene, Wallabout and Clinton Hill. We will present these draft proposals to the general public on Wednesday, 5/30 from 6-8pm at the Navy Yard Houses community room, 45-55 North Elliot between Park Avenue and Flushing (across from Commodore Barry Park).

MARP and AFH will use your feedback to finalize the safety proposals, which will be presented to Community Board 2, local officials and appropriate city agencies. We hope you can attend, and that you will share the attached flyer with others who would be interested in participating in this important discussion about pedestrian safety.

RSVP and Questions: Dan Scorse, dan@myrtleavenue.org or 718-230-1689

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Garden and Greening Program staff built and filled 8 new garden boxes at the Walt Whitman development along Myrtle Avenue between North Portland and Carlton Avenues on Friday, May 18th. Eight Whitman residents will be growing food in the new boxes and planting flowers and plants around the grounds. The gardeners that were out to watch the boxes be built on Friday were excited and ready to get planting! Ms. Isabella Lee, Whitman Tenant's Association President, encouraged neighbors that were asking how they can get involved to plant flowers and plants all over the grounds; “we're trying to beautify the community” was her message to them. As resources become available additional boxes can be built in order for more residents to grow food but, in the meantime, residents will be working together to spruce up the grounds.

Marks Gourmet Burgers, a new burger shop coming to Myrtle Avenue at the corner of Waverly Avenue this summer, is looking to hire a cashier. Interested applicants can send resumes to marksgourmetburgersllc@gmail.com or call 718-875-2525 to find out more.

The new restaurant will be at 441 Myrtle, in the former Bechamel space.

Chef, author and traveler, Anthony Bourdain and superstar chef and entrepreneur, Marcus Samuelsson (swoon, swoon) have surely talked about the delicious drink, palm wine, in their books and on their television programs. Palm wine, an alcoholic beverage created from the fermented sap of various species of palm tree, is said to especially be a good accompaniment to very well seasoned dishes and pungent cheeses and sweet desserts. It's reminiscent of white wine with a more earthy finish.

Palm wine is popular in Africa and South Asia and hey, now you can find it on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, NY too. 🙂

Owa African Msrket, which is at once an African art, craft and textile store and grocery oasis, located at 434 Myrtle Avenue between Clinton and Waverly Avenues, now offers palm wine as a new product offering. Stop in to pick up a bottle for dinner tonight!

This Sunday, May 20, at 1:00pm in Fort Greene Park, the Walt Whitmans Fort Greene Park and Area FREE walking tour will be hosted by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project. The Walt Whitman Projects Artistic Director, Greg Trupiano will be leading the walk, which begins at the parks Visitors Center at the top of the hill.

Below is Mr. Trupiano description of the approximately two -hour event:

Walk around Fort Greene Park, a greensward that owes its existence in large part to Walt Whitman's editorials written for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and learn about this poet's intimate connection with Brooklyn's first official park. The afternoon includes discussions about the park, its role in the American Revolution and Civil War, the Wallabout Martyrs and the monument dedicated to their memory. The event continues with a walk up Myrtle Avenue to 99 Ryerson Street, the last existing building in Brooklyn that was a residence of Walt Whitman.

After the walk, visitors can continue over to BLDG 92, the incredible new visitors center and museum at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (admission is free!) before stopping to grab a bite on Myrtle Avenue.

RSVP for the walking tour is not required, but encouraged. Please email info@fortgreenepark.org if youd like to make a reservation. Further information can be found by calling 718-391-8824.

It's that time of year again! Check out the info below from the Fort Greene Association.

Once every two years, Fort Greene homeowners open their doors, literally, to showcase their creativity, spirit, style and historic beauty of our neighborhood.

This year the FGA is producing a unique and intimate guided house tour where they will feature four homes in Fort Greene, where four groups of Fort Greene House Tour Enthusiast will visit each of the four homes in a rotation, similar to a bar crawl lead by Fort Greene Association Ambassadors.

Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a discussion with homeowners / architects regarding the renovation process for a particular area of each home being featured: parlor floor, kitchen, garden apartment, and a restored exterior fa

This Sunday, May 6th at 11:00am, a neighborhood Janes Walk will be held along Myrtle Avenue and through the Wallabout neighborhood. The walk is open to residents or visitors to the neighborhood and will explore the history, urban fabric, and social life of Myrtle Avenue and the surrounding neighborhoods. The walk will begin at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park and end at 99 Ryerson St, near the corner of Myrtle Avenue. The walk is free, no registration is required, and the walk will occur rain or shine.

Janes Walk is an international event with hundreds of walks held across the globe during the first weekend of May. The walks originated in Toronto and honor the legacy of urbanist and preservationist Jane Jacobs. The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has helped to organize 70 walks this year in New York City. To find out more about Janes Walk or to find other free NYC walks this weekend, visit MAS online.

New bacon cupcakes are in at CakeJoy Bakery! The new cupcakes, called 'You're Bacon Me Crazy,' are bacon and maple syrup-infused cake topped with real maple syrup butter cream.

They sold out within one hour of hitting the display case yesterday. Give CakeJoy a call to inquire about other delicious flavors like red velvet, blueberry and raspberry zinger, orange dreamsicle and vanilla and to find out when 'You're Bacon Me Crazy' will be offered again!

CakeJoy is located at 364 Myrtle Avenue, near corner of Adelphi. Please call the bakery at 718.624.CAKE (2253) or just drop in.

(pic above: from CakeJoy's Facebook page)