🌱 Brooklyn Visionaries + Fish Get Financed + Italian Glassblowing

Happy Friday, everybody! It's me, Carlie Houser, your host of the Daily. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about what's going on in town these days, including updates on:

• The two Brooklynites among this year's David Prize winners 💚
• The Coney Island aquarium just got a really big check 🐠
• A glass studio is keeping Italian heritage alive in Brooklyn
• Things for your Hallo-Friday 🎃

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🌤 Breezy. High: 58 Low: 44.

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Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:

1. Among this year's David Prize winners are two Brooklyn visionaries. Each year, the David Prize is awarded to a handful of New Yorkers who are committed to improving the lives of the city's residents of color. Recipients hail from all sectors, including child welfare, culinary, creative, technology, and media sectors, and receive a "$200,000 no-strings-attached grant to enable awardees to transform their plans into lasting initiatives that directly impact their communities." On Wednesday, this year's winners were announced: David Shalleck-Klein, Dianna Rose, Geneva White, Jason Gibson and Mark Winston Griffith. Both Griffith and White are longtime residents of Crown Heights and Bushwick respectively. Griffith is building Brooklyn Deep, a journalism endeavor focused on the history and culture of Black Brooklyn; White is the founder of Scope of Work, a talent agency that sources and trains young creatives of color.

Brooklyn Reader

2. The Coney aquarium has received a $4.5 million check to support programming and continue its rebuilding a decade after Sandy. "The money will be used for capital needs of the aquarium dating back to the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy," said Councilmember Ari Kagan, who allotted the funds in partnership with the Council's Brooklyn Delegation and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams. The big check — a 'symbolic' gesture given to the aquarium earlier this month — will go towards educational programming and exhibits as well as towards strengthening the aquarium's life support systems and infrastructure.

Brooklyn Paper

3. A Brooklyn duo and their glass studio 'Keep' Italian heritage alive with their unique home decor pieces. Business and life partners Susan Spiranovich and Adam Holtzinger met as students at the Cleveland Institute of Art. After a few decades of working for other artists in NYC, the pair decided to open their own business with their own vision. With a special focus on lighting and light fixtures, Spiranovich and Holtzinger opened Keep, a Brooklyn-based glass studio whose minimalist aesthetic is accomplished by some pretty complicated, precise, and traditionally inspired glass-working techniques. Holtzinger, a student of traditional Italian glassblowing, has allowed what he knows of eighth-century Italian glass heritage to inform his designs and techniques at Keep.

Business of Home

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Today in Brooklyn:

• 🎬 [Free!] 'Not In My Neighborhood' Screening + Director Q&A, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Today @ 7 p.m. | Details
• 🎭'Hamlet' in Brooklyn, BAM Strong, Today @ 7:30 p.m. | Details
• 🌖 Post-Eclipse Masquerade, Bordello boudoir speakeasy of Putnam Pub, Today @ 8 p.m. | Details
• 🍻 A Drinking Game NYC: 'Hocus Pocus' Screening, The Bell House, Today @ 8 p.m. | Details
• 👻 Circoloco Halloween 2022, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Today @ 10 p.m. | Details

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🐝 Brooklyn Buzz:

• ⚾️ For the baseball folk: Game 1 of the World Series kicks off tomorrow, sadly without any New York or Brooklyn representation. If you're sour about it and boycotting the Phillies v. Astros, read up on some NYC baseball history instead. The 1953 World Series was a battle of the boroughs, the Yankees v. the Brooklyn Dodgers. Read how it went down at the link. (The Daily Advocate)
• 🥳 Happy birthday to the NYC subway! Yesterday was the 118th birthday of the New York subway — at the link, check out some super old photos of the first trains and stations! (PIX11 New York News)

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— Carlie Houser

About me: I'm a recent grad based in Brooklyn, NY. I love to write, run, read, and find new restaurants and venues around the city.

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