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1 Island . 1 love 🇩🇴🇭🇹
1170 Nostrand Ave BK, NY
OPEN 6 DAYS | 11AM
CLOSED WED
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Flatbush, we’re bringing the village together, and we want to make sure you’re there!❤️ Join @antillesofbrooklyn and @odetoyoustudio for the official FREE Double Dutch Day Party happening next Sunday, November 1, from 1 PM–7PM

Come and enjoy an afternoon of music, food, friendly competition, and community culture right here in Flatbush.

🪢 Double Dutch competitions with @msksdanceanddoubledutchacademy
🥩 Smoked meats by Chef Noelle of @midnite_smoke
🌽 A sponsored corn-braiding corner
🎁 Sponsored gifts from @metrobytmobile
🏆 Special recognition for three Flatbush community leaders
🏰 Bounce houses, games, and activities for the whole family
🐾 Free, sponsored veterinary vaccination services
🍽️ VIP Tier 1 and Tier 2 experiences with meal combos and more

And that’s only the beginning. We have even more surprises, community partners, and fun planned for the day!

This is about more than a party. It’s about celebrating the people, culture, and small businesses that make Flatbush feel like home, while creating a space where our community can come together, have fun, and make memories.

📍 Antilles Café — 1170 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
📅 Sunday, November 1, 2026
⏰ 1–7 PM

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See you this Saturday!

🎃 The weather’s looking gorgeous for THIS SATURDAY’S First Annual FLATBUSH CLEAN FOR HALLOWEEN: Oct 24, 1–4 PM. 😎🍂 Come clean the neighborhood and feel good about something! Bring a friend!

👉 We’ve got a fantastic bunch of volunteers and we could still use more. Sign up + choose your zone: link in bio (tinyurl.com/helphallowclean)

🟠 On Saturday, meet at your zone’s orange dot on the map, or find your meeting spot in the list below. 👀 Look for a volunteer captain wearing an orange or purple bandana 💜 (spooky szn colors 👻)They’ll give you gloves, bags, tools and instructions AND one of our special event day stickers!

☕ Help clean for an hour or more and get a thank-you card redeemable at one of eight awesome Flatbush businesses: @antillesofbrooklyn @brooklynperkcoffee @ciaobellacoffee @hamletcoffeecompany @hasenstuble @mattina.bk @miskicafenyc @pachacafebk

🏆 The zone with the highest turnout gets a free tie-dye sidewalk pop-up from @stuydyed a Black woman-owned, Brooklyn-based tie dye business. They’ll coordinate with you and your neighbors & come right to your zone in time for the holiday gift-giving season 🎁 Fun for the whole family. Just bring what you want to dye!

MEETING SPOTS
Zone 1: Bedford Ave & Lefferts Ave
Zone 2: Nostrand Ave & Lefferts Ave
Zone 3: Brooklyn Ave & Lefferts Ave
Zone 4: Bedford Ave & Midwood St
Zone 5: Nostrand Ave & Midwood St
Zone 6: Brooklyn Ave & Midwood St
Zone 7: Bedford Ave & Hawthorne St
Zones 8 + 9: New York Ave & Hawthorne St
Zones 10 + 11: Rogers Ave & Parkside Ave
Zone 12: New York Ave & Clarkson Ave
Zone 13: Bedford Ave & Lenox Rd
Zones 14 + 15: New York Ave & Clarkson Ave

Organized by friends in Flatbush with support from Brooklyn Community Board 9, Brooklyn Community Board 17, Assembly Member Brian Cunningham, Council Member Rita Joseph and NYC Sanitation, with additional help from @communitycleanupplg and @sanitationfoundation

#Flatbush #Brooklyn #thingstodoinnyc #CleanUpNYC #Halloween

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We can do the reading together!

Meet us at Antilles Cafe for "Book Club," a gathering to read selections from a book as a group, and discuss our reading as it relates to housing rights.

The book we're discussing this session is Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Come by and chat with us, no spoilers and no reading required!

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Because the 🍁Harvest Table🍁 is for everyone and this season, I’m thinking about what it means to bring our village to one table.

The Season to break bread, create with our hands, share an experience across generations, while making room for the kind of connection that happens when we show up in real life.

This week, @sirjonbishop made his own harvest-inspired ikebana arrangement, reminding his environment that creativity doesn’t have an age requirement. Children deserve spaces to explore, adults deserve opportunities to play, and we all deserve moments that invite us to slow down and connect.

So this season, we’re making room for all of it.

Join @odetoyoustudio + @antillesofbrooklyn for The Harvest Table on November 8th. Bring your family, bring a friend, bring your curiosity.

Let’s get offline and into the room. 🔗 in bio

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Better yet, pour yourself a glass and join us at The Harvest Table🍅

Next month, O2U Studios is partnering with @antillesofbrooklyn for an evening of seasonal creativity, good company, and unexpected arrangements inspired by the harvest.

Come for the experience. Stay for the conversation. Leave with a new appreciation for the beauty in the things we gather.

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What if the arrangement was also the centerpiece?

Join us at the 🍅Harvest Table🍅 with @antillesofbrooklyn next month — for another ikebana experience all provided by Ode to You Studios.

More details to come!

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Come make pikliz people!! Meet us at Antilles Cafe to talk tenants rights and get chopping in our pikliz workshop lead by the lovely chef and co-owner of @antillesofbrooklyn! All materials are provided, just come ready to make a difference with and for your neighbors. Link in bio to RSVP!

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ECHOES OF MEMORY: A Sacred Drumming Gathering 🪘

Elders, Youth & the Living Tradition of the Drum

The drum remembers, and this October 14th, we're gathering to listen. 🇭🇹🇩🇴

Join Kiskeya Collective for a community workshop and drumming procession bridging generations through rhythm, story, and ancestral wisdom.

✨ What to expect:
🥁 Sacred Drumming
📖 Storytelling
🤝 Mentorship

📅 October 14th at 5pm
📍 Antilles Cafe, 1170 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225

Bring your family, your elders, your youth, and your spirit. All are welcome. 🧡

💛 Sponsored by @blakstarcreations , Soul Desires Apparel, Viv Ayiti 2104, Organización Cultural Kiskeya Indígena Africana (OCKIA), and Kiskeya Collective

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In every chapter….Explore

What’s your next stop? Who’s there with you?

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The celebration isn’t over yet! Join us TODAY for the final day of the 3rd annual Kreol Fest.

Get ready for a day filled with Creole culture, music, dance, workshops, art, and community as we celebrate the richness of Creole heritage from around the world.

Swipe through to see today’s programming, plan your visit, and come celebrate with us! Bring your friends, support our community, and let’s make this final day unforgettable.

#KreolFest #CreoleCulture #NYCEvents #BrooklynEvents #CreoleHeritage

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There are less than two weeks left in Hispanic Heritage Month, so consider this your reminder to get out there and support! 👀

I put together 15 Afro-Latino businesses in NYC to add to your NYC things to do list, from food to bookshops and more. I put the owners faces as important to see as we often erase Afro Latinos from the narrative, even during Hispanic Heritage Month.

While Hispanic Heritage Month ends October 15, your support of Afro-Latino businesses should not.

SAVE THIS LIST for your next NYC adventure, THEN SHARE IT with someone who needs new spots to check out, and go show these businesses some love.

REMEMBER: While Hispanic Heritage Month may be the reason you discovered them, you don’t need a heritage month to keep supporting them.

Here, we support Black, and by default, Afro-Latino businesses all year long!

Sprinkle some much needed Azúcar Negra in the voice of Celia Cruz across people’s feed by repost & sharing!

SOOOO: Which other spots should I add to the list? Which spot you supporting ASAP?

BROOKLYN Afro Latino-Owned Businesses: @cafeconlibros_bk @elpuntocubanony @antillesofbrooklyn @barkbbq @michelles_lounge @eljeffenyc

BRONX Afro Latino-Owned Businesses: @thelitbar @fairysquadmothernyc @beatstronyc @boogiedowngrind @doncarvajalcafe

*CORRECTION NOTE: the owner of the Lit. bar identifies as Afro-Boricua (Afro-Puerto Rican)

Also, @beatstronyc has been temporarily closed since the Spring as they figure out their next chapter!

QUEENS Afro Latino-Owned Businesses: @stuartcinema

MANHATTAN Afro Latino Owned Businesses: @nuyoricanpoetscafe @lostboroughicecream @afrolatinotravel

*IMPORTANT TO NOTE: The owner of Afro Latino travel is now based in Panama so she rarely does Afro-Latine tours in NYC these days!

#HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinoOwned #SupportLatinoOwned #afrolatino latinoheritagemonth #latinoheritagemonth latinoheritagemonth

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The Kreol Fest schedule is officially here! 🎉

Three days. One celebration. So many ways to experience Creole culture in NYC.

From music and dance to art, food, culture, and community, there’s something happening all weekend long. Take a look at the schedule, save this post, and start planning your Kreol Fest experience.

About Kréol Fest:
This festival is a celebration of Creole cultures through music, dance, visual arts, literature, fashion, and food during international Creole Heritage Month.
Born from a desire to educate and connect, it showcases the richness and diversity of Creole heritage on a global scale.
For its 3rd edition, the program will consist of an opening ceremony with a jam session, live performances, a market place, conferences, workshops and a closing dj set.
A free program, for all generations.

Thanks to our partners and sponsors @mocada_museum @haiticulturalx @bkartscouncil @oifrancophonie

#KreolFest #KreolFestNYC #CreoleCulture #NYCCulture #NYCEvents

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