It's going to be a wonderful weekend in Brooklyn!

Friday Night

• Coney Island: Burlesque at the Beach

Saturday, May 19, 2012

• Brooklyn Half Marathon
• Free, all ages: Strongman Extravaganza at Coney Island
• 4 Coolest Places to Go for It's My Park Day in Brooklyn
• Mermaid Parade on Wheels; Bike Month Parade in Rockaways
• Googa Mooga (ticketed event) food festival in Prospect Park
• Red Hook BWAC Art Fest
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden New Visitor Center: Green Installation
• Brooklyn Museum: Question Bridge: Black Males  Roundtable at 1 P.M.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

• BAYFEST: Free! Brooklyn's Largest Waterfront Festival in Sheepshead Bay (noon-6)
• 5th Avenue Festival from St. John to 12th Street
  Flatbush Avenue Bid Street Fair from Flatbush Avenue - Parkside Avenue to Cortelyou Road
• Red Hook BWAC Art Fest
• Historic House Tour in Park Slope
• Googa Mooga (ticketed event) food festival in Prospect Park
• Bike Month: NY Cycle Club Social Ride "From Fairway to Fairway"
• ShredFest: Free shredding of your personal tax, credit card documents, thanks to NYC

Headed to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend to see the new Visitors Center? It's wonderful. Here are 10 Great Places Near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that are worth a visit.

The contest's almost over. So cast your vote today!

Nine interesting Brooklyn landmark institutions, including historic churches and synagogues, a historic school and Weeksville, a site important in NYC African American history, not to mention Coney Island, are competing in an online voting contest to win some of $3 million in historic preservation funds. It's called Partners in Preservation, a project of American Express in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Check out the contestants, and vote every day for your favorite one, now through May 21.

Read more.

Here's my list of the Top 25 Things to Do in Brooklyn.
What's on yours?