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Crosstown Local Photo Du Jour: Amazin’
Outside the Queens-bound Crosstown Local platform at Metropolitan Avenue.
Miss Heather
East Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Elk
Filed under: 11211, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
From Skillman Avenue.
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Take It Back
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
This great image (which hails from North 3rd Street) was a much-needed reminder to yours truly that this Saturday, September 26, 2009 starting at 11:00 a.m. Project ENVISION Williamsburg will be hosting a launch party at our very McCarren Park. Here are the details from the event’s organizer, Jennifer Wyse, as culled from the CB1 Yahoo Group:
Hi everyone!
My name is Jennifer Wyse and I am a member of the Project ENVISION Williamsburg
coalition. Project ENVISION is a group of community members and New York City
rape crisis service providers dedicated to sexual violence prevention through
community involvement. We want YOU to tell us how you envision sexual violence
stopping in Williamsburg!On SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, come welcome our group to the neighborhood with food, a raffle, speakers and FUN in MCCARREN PARK Field House, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm! We will be presenting the results of our research about sexual violence in Williamsburg and asking for YOUR input and involvement!
Anyone interested in learning more about this event or Project ENVISION can do so by clicking here. Spread the word!
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: Brownfield Farms?
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
On Labor Day I posted an item entitled (appropriately enough) Happy Labor Day From New York Shitty. Among the scenic points of interest I pointed out to my fellow Greenpointers was Bushwick Inlet…
and this dead rat. This was several weeks ago. Not only is the dead rat box still there, but more garbage has accumulated and the weeds have overgrown the sidewalk to a point where pedestrians are taking their chances on the bike lane nowadays.
The owner of this property, Motiva, also has holdings on Paidge Avenue. For some inexplicable reason those facilities there are better maintained.
Perhaps my buddy, fellow Greenpointer and New York Shitty contributor, Rowan, offers an explanation: they’re trying to go green on brownfield.
They’re starting a farm. Rowan writes (in regards to the above photograph):
Yes. A lone corn plant.
I couldn’t believe it. Is this really corn?
Hell if I know. Can anyone out there verify if discarded Marlboro containers and dead rats make good compost in a brownfield? Is this a halfhearted attempt to restore some much needed greenery to The Garden Spot of the Universe? A foray into alternative fuel? Or simply a public nuisance?
Miss Heather
The River Street Scrivener
Some of you might remember this interesting find which I made last month: a squat cum-open air art gallery I found on River Street between North 1st and Grand Street (as seen above and at left). You can read my post about it in its entirety by clicking here.
Anyhoo, I have walked by this site numerous times since. Once I found a gaggle of crusties hanging out there— but they didn’t strike me as being the the kind of folk who would be responsible for this.
I recently learned I was correct.
It’s this guy (seen busy at work around the corner on North 1st Street).
When he runs out of paper chap presses into service whatever happens to be at hand.
Walls.
Inside a roll of tape.
But mostly walls.
All the previous and more can be seen in larger format on my flickr page. Enjoy!
Miss Heather
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