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THIS WEEKEND: Paws & Whiskers Edition
Filed under: Crazy Cat Lady
This Saturday, July 26, District Dog will be hosting a sidewalk sale to benefit the McGolrick Park Dog Run from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. They will be accepting donations for this fundraiser as well, so if you have a box of knick-knacks sitting around, swing by early and drop ’em off!
District Dog
142 Driggs Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
On the other end of the Garden Spot Animal Planet will be hosting an adoption event featuring the felines of Linda’s Feral Cat Assistance from 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. I have no word what the resident shop kitten, Kobe (depicted at right) thinks about this, but I suspect he will be none too happy about sharing his domain.
Animal Planet
1084 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
For more information about this event check out Linda’s web site.
Miss Heather
The Bombing Of South 4th Street
If you want to see one of the most innovative and (reputedly) effective anti-dog doo signs in north Brooklyn, head over to South 4th Street just east of Kent Avenue.
This discovery comes courtesy of my colleague over at Brooklyn11211. He writes:
Amazingly, there was very little poop on the sidewalk here (and usually it is strewn with poop).
I have no idea why this method appears to work while so many others have failed before. Is it the catchy graphics? The rather explicit manner in which it depicts the behavior it wishes to eliminate? The evocation of the Domino Sugar Factory?
Or maybe it is because there are no less than four of these signs gracing this strip.
Miss Heather
Torch Of Suffrage
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
This is 619 Manhattan Avenue. It is currently the home of the Brooklyn Slavic American Citizen Club. On any given weekend when I walk by it is teeming with men socializing and watching television. Therefore, I found it very interesting to learn it was not the first social organization to grace this building. Just under 100 years ago it was the home of the Woman’s Suffrage Party, as you will learn from this great old story from the December 20, 1909 edition of the New York Times. Enjoy!
Feminists and Socialists in Greenpoint?!? Believe it or not, this is not as far-fetched as it seems. Greenpoint has a very long history of being a progressive burgh. Take day care for working mothers, for example. Our humble neighborhood had it long before it became “mainstream”. The Garden Spot of the Universe keeps getting more —not less— interesting the more I research it!
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photo du Jour: Kent Avenue
Filed under: Williamsburg
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.Alfred Lord Tennyson
What you do with your dick afterwards is your own damned business.
Miss Heather
The Rat King Residence Is Dead
Or at least dying, anyway. Ben writes:
The home of the Rat King is officially coming down. I took this one last Friday… and they’re a bit further along today. My guess is that it’ll be gone by the end of the week. Not sure where he’s living these days, but I have seen him walking around in the neighborhood the past few days.
What will take the place of this house, you ask? It is rather hard to tell. Plans were filed to build a six story condominium but the Department of Buildings said, no, no, no!
And no once more for good measure.
I suppose we will have to wait and see. What I want to know is what the Rat King thinks of all of this.*
Miss Heather
*No need! Check out the comment left by bellario!
Photo Credits: Ben L.
Ugly Made Fugly
Filed under: Williamsburg
When I looked up at this building (located at the intersection of Roebling and Broadway) I thought to myself:
Wow, that’s really ugly!
Yes, I realize that this building is probably being designed with the needs of Hasidim in mind, but what is up with this?
Of course the first two floors being bombed by “Katsu” and others does not help matters.
Could someone please explain to me why someone would do this? And by “this” I mean going to the trouble of filling a fire extinguisher with paint and going to the intersection of Roebling and Broadway to deface a new building? Yes, the above edifice is hideous. BUT— and this is a big but— “bombing” some old industrial building in Billyburg or Greenpoint is one thing, defacing the soon-to-be-home for people you don’t even know is different.
Is this really necessary?
Miss Heather
Live Like A Hipster King!
I have become magnificently obsessed with the illegal hotel hostel at 249 Varet Street. I’m serious. I almost want to go down there and spend the night so as to assure myself the New York Loft Hostel is, indeed, for real. When I find advertising copy like the following (from hostelworld.com) it only fans the flames of my burning curiosity.
Ten minutes to Union Square? From Morgan Avenue?!? What the hell are these people smoking? But I guess time doesn’t matter if there is no curfew. That’s what being a “Hipster King” is all about!
You know, when my husband and I eloped we never had a honeymoon. We just ate lunch at Fernando’s Foccaceria, hopped on the G train and went back home. Methinks an extended conjugal visit at the “Mixed Dorm Ensuite”* is just the thing to put the fire back into our marriage!
Miss Heather
*With shower/toilet facilities in room. Showers (be they yellow or otherwise) for the masses! Hallelujah!
Subway Poster du Jour: Nassau Avenue, Part II
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
From the Smith – 9th Street bound platform of the Crosstown Local.
Miss Heather
Cleanpoint!
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
Wishing to steer clear of the downright nasty heat today I have whiled away the afternoon by knocking around the apartment doing housework and perusing the Brooklyn Daily Eagle archives. Mostly the latter— which is where I found this plum of story from the June 9, 1896 edition which proposes that our fair burg might soon be re-christened Cleanpoint. With a hefty helping of patriotism and child labor, naturally.
112 Years Later: July 19, 2008, 239 Banker Street
Looks like we still have a ways to go.
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photos du Jour: Gentrification
Filed under: Williamsburg
From South 2nd Street.
Miss Heather
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