The Week

Aug 18, 2025

Fun Stuff:

That TV show shooting all over the neighborhood (MOVE YOUR CAR THEY DEFINITELY WILL TOW IT) under the production title STARCAMS appears to be Apple TV’s Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. Starring some funny people, and is an actual show as opposed to some non-union influencer vanity project. Be neighborly.
Attention, Millennials, this is not a drill:

Find someone who loves you and go split the new Oxtail burger and a cocktail at Osteria Radisa. Enjoy your nap afterwards.

The Superbowl of Town Halls:

Public hearings for the Proposed MTA Fare Changes are 8.19 @ 6pm & Wed 8.20 @ 10am and 5pm. The Metropolitan Transit Authority is hosting three public hearings on proposed changes to MTA fares. All are hybrid meetings offered via both Zoom, and in-person at 130 Livingston. Info at the link. People are gonna be maaaaaad.
Community Boards are required to help identify each Community District's top funding priorities, officially (by charter) the first step in the City’s annual budget process. City agencies are required (again, by charter) to respond to each Board's requests in the City's draft "Preliminary Budget" every January. Take the survey for our neighborhood here.
NYCC: Free Adult Computer Classes
Register Now / Runs Mon 08.25 - Thu 12.18 - NY Communities for Change offers free computer skills classes and job search assistance. Text “COMP” to 917-746-5399 or call 347-410-6919 to register. Learn more here.
Babies & Books at Pacific Library, enjoy stories, songs, and rhymes for babies, birth to 18 months and their participating caregivers. Mon, Aug 25
10:45am to 11:15am. More free programming here.

The northbound B61 stop on Smith St at Atlantic Ave is closed until April 2029. The jail construction is shaking a lot of things up. Before long Livingston may be moving to one-way (toward Flatbush).
The Manhattan-bound 3 skips Kingston Av, Nostrand Av, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza and Bergen St. Monday-Thursday, 9:45 PM to 11:00.
The Manhattan-bound 2 skips Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza and Bergen St. Monday to Friday, 9:45 PM to 5:00 AM.
No late night R between Whitehall St-South Ferry and Atlantic Av-Barclay’s, it’ll be running express between Barclays and 36 St. Mon to Fri, 11:45 PM to 5:00 AM
The N local will be running on the Q track in both directions between DeKalb Av and Canal St. Mon to Fri, 11:45 PM to 5:00 am.