A Guide to the Lights of Dyker Heights; Brooklyn's 'Star War's Ice Cream

A Guide to the Lights of Dyker Heights; Brooklyn’s ‘Star Wars’ Ice Cream

By Dana Schulz

December 7, 2015

A Guide to the Lights of Dyker Heights; Brooklyn’s ‘Star Wars’ Ice Cream

A new food delivery app will donate a portion of proceeds to City Harvest through the month of December with the goal of feeding 100,000 hungry city children. [NYDN]
Here’s a guide to experiencing NYC’s largest holiday light display in Dyker Heights. [Gothamist]
How Brooklyn’s Ample Hills Creamery landed Disney’s limited edition “Star Wars” ice cream. [Fast Co. Design]
Order a flat-packed chocolate Christmas tree that comes complete with white assembly gloves. [Contemporist]
The silk workers of an East Village loft building. [Ephemeral NY]

Images: Via mharvey.nyc via photopin cc (L); Via Ample Hills (R)

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