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New York Shitty Day Starter: Mixed Signals
This, one of Greenpoint’s more delightfully eccentric edifices, hails from Nassau Avenue.
Miss Heather
Greenpoint Photos Du Jour: 189 Green Street Revisited
As you can see, the Christmas display at 189 Green Street is even more spectacular in day light.
In fact, I’d go so far to say they have a jump on this year’s tree!
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: B61 R.I.P.
Filed under: 11101, 11211, 11222, Bed-Stuy, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Long Island City, Queens, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
You may be gone, B61, but you will not be forgotten.
This post goes out to Bed-Stuy Banana and Best View in Brooklyn. Not only are you among the most wonderful, intelligent and downright nice people I have met via the Interwebs but you ran kick-ass blogs about kick-ass neighborhoods. I miss you and I suspect the greater “Brooklyn Blogosphere” will as well.
Take care and please keep in touch, BSB and BVIB. I love you both! I’ll darken your respective doorsteps come spring. Perhaps earlier.
Consider your respective persons warned! 🙂
Miss Heather
Reader Tip Du Jour: Three Kings
Filed under: 11222, Advanced Life Forms, BAD ASS, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
(OR: King of Kings, King of Beers & King’s County)
Jay Lombard (of Dog Habitat) writes:
189 green St. Fire escape. Check out the aluminum tree. Gives new meaning to Christmas cheer.
Needless to say I had to investigate this matter immediately. Here’s what I found.
I realize the above image is a bit lacking in terms of quality so I will describe it to you. It is a Christmas tree lovingly erected in the honor of the King of Kings. It is constructed of 12 ounce cans of Budweiser (the King of Beers) and topped with a bow. It is located at 189 Green Street; Greenpoint, Brooklyn U.S.A.: the County of Kings! As a very kindly chap across the street noted as I was taking the above photographs:
Pretty cool, eh? She even taped it so it would not fall over!
An opus as this deserves recognition. I don’t care if Christmas is last week’s news. This is Greenpoint Glory at its very finest!
189 Green Street, I salute you!*
Miss Heather
*Chez Shitty is a Budweiser and Miller High Life household. Brooklyn Beer does not inhabit our fridge. The reasons for this are numerous, but I’ll tender two:
- The political leanings of Brooklyn Brewery’s owner, Steve Hindy. This gent is decidedly pro-Atlantic Yards.
- Most of “Brooklyn Beer” is not made in Brooklyn. It is made in Utica.
Mostly the first point.
From The New York Shitty Inbox: Fifth Annual Memorial Ride & Walk
This item comes courtesy of a lady named Leah of Ghostbikes. Follows is a general rundown what this event is about per Ghostbike’s press release:
The Annual Memorial Ride and Walk brings New Yorkers together to remember pedestrians and cyclists killed in our city over the past year. This will mark the 5th year that this event has occurred. Riders will visit the site of each ghost bike, a white-painted memorial for cyclists, installed in 2009, then join the Memorial Walk in Greenpoint. Please join us for this important event. Louisville, KY cyclists will be riding in solidarity with us to remember their own losses.
Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010
Ride Start: West 145th Street and Convent Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan; 10:00 a.m.
Walk Start: Manhattan Avenue and Milton Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn; 4:30 p.m.
Event End: Greenpoint Reformed Church, 136 Milton Street, Greenpoint,
Brooklyn, 5:00 p.m.
Those of you who wish to get more information about this, the Fifth Annual Memorial Ride & Walk, should (in light of the inclement weather) peruse the “day of” schedule by clicking here. You can also view a full itinerary by clicking here.
Bundle up— and please stay safe, folks!
Miss Heather
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