Opened by Rebecca Fitting and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo in 2009, Greenlight Bookstore is an independent bookshop offering a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction for sale, both in-store and online. Visit the Greenlight Bookstore website for information about new releases, staff picks and bookstore events.
The Weeksville Heritage Center provides education and learning programs on free African American communities throughout Brooklyn. This cultural institution offers programming in art, history and the environment, with music performances, art gallery exhibitions and a farmer's market. Programs are available for elementary school students and research internships are available for older students.
The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 by William Booth, an evangelical minister who spread the idea of a fixed, single and traditional standing church as the only means for true worship. Booth formed an organization -- or army -- of evangelists. Today The Salvation Army is known most as a donation center for the elderly, sick and poor.
This center does not accept donations; instead, it is a parish and a house of worship. It houses a day care center and after school program in its quarters facing Kosciusko Street, and it runs a food pantry Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
