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The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is opening the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant for special Valentine’s Day tours.

Can you even fathom a better place to take a date for Valentine’s Day?

The tours will be on Saturday, February 10 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m.

It includes an overview of the wastewater treatment process and a visit of the 120-foot-high observation deck atop the iconic disaster eggs.

Reservations are required and are taken on a first-come, first-serve basis starting today.

The tours begin at the Visitors Center at 329 Greenpoint Avenue.

Outreach has named a new program director for its Greenpoint site.

Janet Walpole will lead the community facility serving communities and families in north Brooklyn struggling with substance abuse and other behavioral health issues.

Outreach, with sites in Queens, opened its Brooklyn location in 2002.

“Janet is a terrific addition to the management staff at Outreach Greenpoint,” said Neil Sheehan, executive vice president of Outreach. “She is a dedicated non-profit executive who understands the Greenpoint dynamic and will work with the community to provide person-centered, evidence-based programming.”

Walpole will oversee adult and children’s outpatient services, which are offered in English, Spanish and Polish. She will also be in charge of Greenpoint’s ReStart Academy, an educational program for young people transitioning back into the public school system after undergoing a residential or community substance abuse program.

Grand Street’s Restaurant Week is turning five!

Due to popular demand, this year’s Restaurant Week will be two weeks long: from January 29 to February 11.

Patrons will be able to enjoy two-course lunch specials, ranging from $8 to $13. Three-course dinner specials go from $13 to $30.

See all of the participating restaurants and their menus here.

Happy eating!

The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is now taking proposals to fund up to $1.2 million in environmental improvement projects.

GCEF’s priorities include improving water quality, groundwater, open space, toxic pollution and air quality.

Projects that can show these qualities will have a leg up:

• Sustain past GCEF-funded projects by supporting maintenance or enhancing community engagement
• Extend past GCEF-funded projects by targeting a new area of Greenpoint
• Implement a new project with environmental benefits for Greenpoint.

Funds may not be used for political advocacy, fundraising, lobbying or litigation.

Grants can range in size from $25,000 to $100,000.

Eligible applicants include 501(c) nonprofit organizations, local government and academic institutions.

Proposals are due by March 15, 2018.

For more information, visit www.nfwf.org/gcef.

C’mon Everybody at 325 Franklin Ave, presents “The First Ladies: Diana vs. Donna”. This dance party features all your favorite songs from both Diana Ross and Donna Summer! On Friday, Jan 19,  at 11:00 PM enjoy live music from The Illustrious Blacks, DJ Manchildblack, and Monstah Black. This event is 21+ and tickets can be purchased for $8 here!

On Saturday, January 6, 2018 A Drinking Game NYC will do a live reading of Clueless. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

What’s “A Drinking Game”? Well, take your favorite 80s or 90s flick, mix in a live staged reading, add a dash of your favorite beverage, and you’ve got one hell of a cocktail.

Talented actors perform cult classics for a live audience. One night only. A new show every month–comedies like The Princess Bride, Back to the Future, and Ghostbusters.

Each movie comes with a list of buzzwords and phrases–when you hear one, a bell rings and everybody drinks! The actors are in on the fun, too. Plus, when someone says a name, the actor playing that character has to drink. So as the evening progresses, the show’s bound to get a little wacky.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here!

The 21st annual Brooklyn Three Kings Parade has been pushed back to Sunday, January 21 due to inclement weather.

After the “bomb cyclone” of 2018, the streets and sidewalks are in no condition for a parade.

But the celebration must go on…in two weeks! Meet at Graham Avenue and Meeker Avenue in what should be an exciting parade!

 

On Saturday and Sunday, January 6 and 7, 2018 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, bring your holiday tree to a designated city park to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings across the city!

Join NYC Parks, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. Or, take home your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree. More than 26,000 trees were recycled last year. Help us top this number!

You can bring your tree to a chipping location on January 6 and 7 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We’ll chip your tree, and give you your very own bag of mulch!

You can also bring your tree to a drop-off site from Sunday, December 31, 2017 through Sunday, January 7, 2018. Leave your tree with us, and we’ll recycle it for you later! The NYC Department of Sanitation will also be conducting special curbside collections for mulching and recycling of Christmas trees from Tuesday, January 2, 2018 through Saturday, January 13, 2018.

For more information and dropoff/chipping locations visit:  https://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest

 

On January 5th, Feeling Gloomy presents Never Wave Bye Bye 2. Join Brooklyn Bazaar at 150 Greenpoint Ave. Brooklyn for a night of David Bowie classics. Doors open at 10pm and tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door.

For more information, visit: https://goo.gl/VbtVYU

A new year means newborns at each hospital in our borough.

You may have heard that Brooklyn’s first baby of 2018 was Joshua Miguel Brito, born to Erica Hernandez and Joshua Brito at Woodhull Hospital.

He was born 6 pounds, 14 ounces.

At New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, their first baby of the new year was Aarya Datar, born at 6:49 a.m.

Aarya weighs 7 pounds, 10 ounces. She was born to Praveen Datar and Vandkode Kulkarni, who live in Crown Heights. Her 17-month-old sister Aadhya was there to say hello to her baby sister.

“We are so thrilled to welcome Aarya into the world,” Kulkarni said. “We feel very special to have one of the first babies of the New Year.”

Over at NYU Langone Hospital, Wilmer De Los Santos Asencio was born at 4:11 a.m. Here he is pictured with his mother, Tirsia Maria Asencio De Los Santos.

Baby Wilmer weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces. He will return home to Sunset Park with his mom, father Wilson and 17-year-old brother Jonas.