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Greenburg Photos Du Jour: Rides
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
From Leonard, Dobbin & North 13 Streets.
Miss Heather
From The New York Shitty Inbox: Fire At 832 Manhattan Avenue?
Filed under: 11222, Bloomblight, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
Peter (who sent me the above photos) writes:
hello miss heather-
I was having coffee this morning and happened to notice an enormous cloud of blackish smoke pass by my window on Leonard Street. It appeared to be a pretty serious fire on Manhattan Ave near Calyer that had both the entire neighborhood and what seemed like the entire NYC fire department on the scene. Attached are some iphone pictures of what was going on. I emailed them from my phone so some might be sideways. My apologies.
We happened to be home today, and saw the smoke from the fire right as we were leaving the newly re-opened 3-Decker Restaurant after breakfast. (BTW, I can’t really make out anything different about the diner…can you?)We got there right after fire trucks arrived, and witnessed a somewhat dramatic rescue of 2 hipsters climbing down the truck ladder from their 3rd story window.
We initially thought that the fire was mainly on the roof, from that crappy addition on top of the building, but it appeared that the firemen were concentrating on the empty 2nd floor apartment, which looked like it was in the midst of a renovation.
It looked like total apartment destruction for those unhappy 3rd floor residents. We hope they had renter’s insurance. Their cat almost jumped out of the 3rd floor window, but was barely stopped by a fireman and a window screen. Sad situation. Seems like that landlord is the type of guy to do a shoddy renovation, so probably an electrical fire?
From The New York Shitty Inbox: An Easy Way To Help Our Local Library
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
This item comes from a lady named Meg. She writes:
Hi Heather,
I’m one of the volunteers for the Greenpoint Friends Group. You’ve been such a big supporter of the Greenpoint Library and the Greenpoint Friends Group, I was hoping you could spread the word about the opportunity to donate money to the group at Buffalo Exchange with their “Tokens for Bags” program. If you don’t take a bag for your purchase, you get a token to to donate 5 cents towards a choice of charities. And right now the Greenpoint Friends Group is one of the charities!
This is very good news indeed!
Buffalo Exchange
594 Driggs Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Miss Heather
A Greenpoint Bomb Scare Update
Today I was contacted by someone we’ll call Q about yesterday’s bomb scare. He/she writes:
I have pictures of the “package” and some on the spot comments. i was there for two hours. LMK
To wit I replied:
I hope you were not one of the poor unfortunates that couldn’t go into their apartments because of that? Yeesh. Sure, send me over what you got. Thanks!
Sure enough, Q delivered the goods. He/she writes:
Attached are pictures of the device and the Bomb Squad investigating it. No, I was not misplaced, but did have a suggestion to what it might be. The bomb squad pretty much snubbed me.
Turned out I was right anyway. Being a biker (Motorcycle) I used to use a method (pictured) to adjust my carburetor.
So there have you.
Miss Heather
P.S.: You can see the first four images in larger format by clicking on them.
From The New York Shitty Inbox: Bomb Scare?
This is proving to be a very interesting day. First it was a dead body being retrieved from McCarren Park this morning and now I have gotten word there has been a bomb scare at— get this— the Greenpoint Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Some of you might recall this building is currently closed for renovations. Here’s what my tipster had to say via text (after I inquired “Are You Serious?”):
Yes. Tons of police. People are saying that they found “something”. But that’s all I got.
It goes without saying that if anyone has more information about this please share via comments or email at: missheather (at) newyorkshitty (dot) com.
Sheesh…
Miss Heather
UPDATE, 7:22 p.m.: We have a confirmation/corroboration. Anonymous writes:
I live on the block by the Greenpoint branch of the Brooklyn library, and I can confirm at least the reports of a bomb scare. They have been there for about two hours at least; we walked by there going to dinner and then by the time we got back, they had cordoned off several more blocks. One cop told me the same thing as the person who texted you (that there was “something”) and also encouraged me to ske-daddle; but my boyfriend got more info from the other cop. He said it was some kind of device and they were dealing with it, and that it was a bomb scare.
UPDATE, 10:12 p.m.: And at last we may very well have the lowdown. It is, well, rather Greenpointesque. Anonymous the Second writes:
I… was one of the people who couldn’t get back into my building. We were told by one of the detectives (who was very friendly and seemed to be very chill) that the thing they found was a black bag, containing 2 large polish beer bottles with a suspicious straw connecting the two….a kind of straw that is not usual in a situation like that (not sure what that can mean) but with no timing device. Because of it being a post 9-11 world, they had to treat the package like they would a bomb. The detective seemed to encourage refrain from telling the whole world to keep pranksters from getting any ideas.
I wonder what the make and model of this ‘ordinance’ would happen to be? My educated guess: Zywiec. 24 Ounces.
UPDATE, July 8, 7:20 p.m.: The “bomb” has been identified! You can read about it here.
At Large In Greenpoint: Spiff
Filed under: 11222, Crazy Cat Lady, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
I just received this the above photograph of Spiff the cats from her very upset owner, Stephanie. She writes:
Heather,
Our 12 year old cat just escaped from our car on Greenpoint and Leonard Street between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street (My boyfriend ran out of gas, chaos ensued, cat jumped out the car window.) I am hoping she is still in that area, but she might try to get back to our place on Franklin between Green and Huron. Would you mind posting her picture and a plea for people to contact us if they spot her? Her name is Spiff. She has grey stripes, a white chin and green eyes. She has a zitty thing on her chin right now from the food bowl. She is very sweet.
If anyone has seen Spiff please contact Stephanie via email at: stephanie (dot) lawkins (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks!
Miss Heather
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