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Miss Heather
TODAY: 94th Precinct Community Council Meeting
If my inbox is any indication now the 94th has a bank robbery (of the HSBC Bank on Manhattan Avenue) and an armed robbery at Milton Street and Franklin Street on Saturday, May 16, 2009 in addition to a vehicular homicide and someone under the assumption the Abundant Life Assembly Church (as depicted above) was a drive thru confessional for stolen motor vehicles to account for. Bring your lawn chairs, popcorn and camcorders fellow Greenpointers. This will undoubtedly be a good one.
94th Precinct Community Council Meeting
May 18, 2009 (that’s next Monday folks!) starting at 7:30 p.m.
Capital One Bank (AKA: The Greenpoint Savings Bank)
Calyer Street Entrance
807 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
Miss Heather
P.S.: Special thanks to Jay for the tip!
Greenpoint Video Du Jour: 875 Manhattan Avenue In 17 Seconds
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
I love this guy.
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: Saturday Afternoon In Greenpoint
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
From Manhattan Avenue.
Miss Heather
Crosstown Local Photos Du Jour: Big Green Monster
Feeling somewhat better I went to work today. Albeit later than usual and with snot rag in tow. Therefore, I got out for my usual walk later than usual and in my harried dither forgot to load the battery into my camera. Whoops.
Thankfully I had bumped into Bitchcakes and she lent me hers so I could capture this select find.
Man(ties) overboard!
You won’t like me when I’m angry.
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: Good Day, Sunshine!
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
From Manhattan & Nassau Avenue.
Miss Heather
New York Shitty PSA: Tomorrow
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
Those of you who have grown weary of the above two establishments and the nuisance they have posed to our community mark your calendars. Tomorrow is the day you have been waiting for! The following screencap is an excerpt of the eating and drinking establishments whose liquor licenses are up for renewal.
As you will notice two of Greenpoint’s more, how should I say, NOTORIOUS venues are on this list. This means at tomorrow night’s Community Board One meeting you will, at long last, have an opportunity to let your feelings be known about the manifold contributions these establishments have made to our community’s quality of life:
- noise
- litter
- traffic congestion and lest we forget…
- bullets
Community Board 1 Meeting
May 12, 2009; 6:30 p.m.
211 Ainslie Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Be advised that in order to speak you MUST sign in by or before 6:15 p.m.
Miss Heather
Spotted: Greenpointer Actually Using New Park…
(or at least getting ready to!)
Christo (who took the above photograph) writes:
Sunday afternoon. Manhattan ave. Btwn Clay and Box. Heading toward the park/boat launch. I couldn’t stick around to see if they made it.
Speaking for myself I would want a LOT more boat between me and Newtown Creek than this. But as long as I’m not the one making the trip to Woodhull I say to each their own.
Miss Heather
BREAKING: 1043 & 1047 Manhattan Avenue Cordoned Off By Police
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
After receiving a partial vacate order last September 1043 Manhattan Avenue is continuing to lose its battle with gravity. For those of you who are not in the know the reason this building was deemed hazardous was in part due to structural instability arising from the (illegal) removal of a first floor wall between 1043 and its neighbor, 1047. A violation, I will add, that the Department of Buildings is well aware of; it was dismissed once last year only to become “pending” once again this year. Per a witness at the scene he walked by this building at noon today to find bricks had fallen from the building and landed on the sidewalk. Fortunately no one was in the path of this falling masonry— but that is immaterial— if also very fortuitous, given this came to pass on a Saturday afternoon. This debris could have seriously injured or killed someone.
If you live in Greenpoint I want you to look very carefully at the above photograph. This is what could have landed on your head had you been the wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time. If this isn’t proof positive that whatever “enforcement” power the Department of Buildings is exercising is not working I do not know what will. Something needs to change.
Or will we have to wait until a(nother) person dies?
Miss Heather
UPDATE, 3:30 p.m.: The tape has been taken down.
More vacate orders and paperwork have been issued.
Life is back to normal at 1043 – 1047 Manhattan Avenue.
My advice to pedestrians:
walk on the other side of the street.
Greenpoint Photo Du Jour: Some Food For Thought At The Garden
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
The western model is not built for a world with limited resources.
—Jacques Cousteau
From Manhattan Avenue.
Miss Heather
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