Community Corner

5 Things: Send Love To Boston, Celebrate the Outdoors

What you need to know, pre-coffee.


1. Send love to Boston! It's been a heartbreaking, nerve-wracking week. If you feel helpless and would like to contribute toward victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, consider a donation here. Want to wear your feelings? NYRR is offering $20 t-shirts benefitting The One Fund Boston, sold at their 9 E 89th St location 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

2. Celebrate the outdoors! The first ever Prospect Park Fair takes place Saturday, April 20, featuring "food trucks and tastings, music and local vendors, plus information about activities and programs offered in the park, including as the new Pop-Up Audubon, Lefferts Historic House, tennis, volunteering, and space rentals." Prospect Park Bandshell (Prospect Park West and 9th Street) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

3. Learn about Brooklyn liquor! Kings County Distillery offers informal tours and tastings from 2:30pm to 5:30pm every Saturday. Tours last about 45 minutes and run every 20-30 minutes. No reservations are needed. Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bldg 121, past the gate at Sands St. and Navy St. $8

4. Attend a TED talk! The Brooklyn Free Clinic is sponsoring a free day-long TEDMED Live conference at the Gowanus Ballroom. Live speakers will present solutions for overcoming the challenges in current healthcare. Gowanus Ballroom, 55 Ninth St, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free.

5. Relive Baseball history! Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he became the first African-American to play Major League Baseball—for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Watch the story unfold in 42, now showing at BAM Rose Cinemas.



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