Marty Markowitz News

On Thursday, March 18, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham hosted the annual Women's Herstory Induction Ceremony and Reception at Brooklyn Borough Hall. The event honors women in Brooklyn who have excelled in the arts, sciences, business and public service.

Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe joined some of the City's greenest at the 20th Annual Parks & Recreation Awards ceremony on March 11, 2010. Top honors included Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, the W. Allison & Elizabeth Stubbs Davis Award, the Thomas Stofka Award, Employee of the Year, and the Commissioner's Award.

THE SHADOW BOX THEATRE, SANDRA ROBBINS, Founding Artistic Director, is pleased to announce LITTLE IS BIG & SING OUT FOR PEACE as part of its 2010 Sunday Family Theater Season at 45 Bleecker Street.

Beginning today, Monday, March 15, Dine in Brooklyn patrons will have the opportunity to contribute to Share the Table, a fundraising campaign with the New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH).

On Monday, March 15, Dine in Brooklyn, an initiative of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Best of Brooklyn, Inc., will officially kick off eleven days of more than 200 Brooklyn restaurants serving up three-course dinner menus for just $25, three-course lunches for $20.10 and even some 'two for the price of one' deals at participating restaurants (list below).

On Tuesday, March 2, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz hosted a press 'tasting' at Brooklyn Borough Hall to officially announce the seventh annual 'Dine in Brooklyn' event (March 15 - March 25) featuring nearly 200 of Brooklyn's best eateries serving up three-course dinner menus for just $25, three-course lunches for $20.10 and even some 'two for the price of one' deals at participating restaurants (list below).

On Tuesday, March 2, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will host a press 'tasting' featuring some of Brooklyn's top restaurants and announce details of the seventh annual 'Dine in Brooklyn' to be held March 15 - March 25. Three-course prix-fixe dinner, lunch and brunch menus will be offered at more than 175 participating restaurants-and the list keeps growing.

On Wednesday, February 17, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham will join the Brooklyn Community Foundation and United Way of New York City to officially launch the NYC Haitian Community Hope & Healing Fund.

On Wednesday, February 17, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham will join the Brooklyn Community Foundation and United Way of New York City to officially launch the NYC Haitian Community Hope & Healing Fund.

17 of the best bars and culinary establishments, from all over the Borough, notorious for their wings are set to cook-off at 3PM on Saturday, February 13, 2010. Brooklyn journalists and culinary editors, Nick D'Arienzo of the BROOKLYN STAR-QUEENS LEDGER Newspaper Group, Gersh Kuntzman, Editor, THE BROOKLYN PAPER and Annaliese Griffin, Senior Editor, Brooklyn Based will put their expert taste buds to the test and select the Best Wing in Brooklyn!

Borough President Marty Markowitz and other elected officials joined members of the MetroTech BID today to announce the opening of the BID's new Downtown Brooklyn Information Center located at 370 Jay Street and Myrtle Avenue.

On February 3, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz announced at his annual State of the Borough Address that Tina Chang of Park Slope has been named the new poet laureate of Brooklyn.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, NYC Media President Katherine Oliver and Small Business Services Commissioner Robert W. Walsh today announced the premiere of 'Job Hunt,' a new ten-part series airing Tuesdays at 9:00 PM on NYC life (Channel 25).

THE SHADOW BOX THEATRE, SANDRA ROBBINS, Founding artistic director, is pleased to announce THE AFRICAN DRUM and LITTLE IS BIG & SING OUT FOR PEACE as part of its 2010 Sunday Family Theater Season at 45 Bleecker Street.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre is bringing the Bard to the Boardwalk in September with two open air performances of The Tempest by William Shakespeare to be staged on the Coney Island beachfront. Two thousand folding chairs will be provided FREE of charge for audience members on the section of boardwalk adjacent to the Aquarium Education building at 10th Street, which the New York Aquarium is donating for the actors' dressing rooms.

From September 8-16, BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents Robert Redford: Artist & Activist, a 16-film tribute to Redford's 50-year career in film. Robert Redford will be at BAM in-person to discuss his work as one of the 20th century's most celebrated actors and as an Academy-award winning director, as well as a leading environmental and social change activist, and champion of independent cinema as founder of The Sundance Institute.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre is bringing the Bard to the Boardwalk in September with two open air performances of The Tempest by William Shakespeare to be staged on the Coney Island beachfront. Two thousand folding chairs will be provided FREE of charge for audience members on the section of boardwalk adjacent to the Aquarium Education building at 10th Street, which the New York Aquarium is donating for the actors' dressing rooms.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre is bringing the Bard to the Boardwalk in September with two open air performances of The Tempest by William Shakespeare to be staged on the Coney Island beachfront. Two thousand folding chairs will be provided FREE of charge for audience members on the section of boardwalk adjacent to the Aquarium Education building at 10th Street, which the New York Aquarium is donating for the actors' dressing rooms.

From September 8-16, BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents Robert Redford: Artist & Activist, a 16-film tribute to Redford's 50-year career in film. Robert Redford will be at BAM in-person to discuss his work as one of the 20th century's most celebrated actors and as an Academy-award winning director, as well as a leading environmental and social change activist, and champion of independent cinema as founder of The Sundance Institute.

Pulitzer Prize winner and Brooklyn native Lynn Nottage was honored by Speaker of the New York City Council The Honorable Christine C. Quinn, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and New York City Council Member Letitia James following the Tuesday, August 11 performance of RUINED at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center- Stage I (131 West 55th Street).