Location: Urban Rustic, 236 N. 12th Street near Union
Please join us for a composting fundraiser event. Learn how to lower your urban-eco footprint, meet other folks in the community interested in composting, join our raffle to win prizes, bid on items for the silent auction, and help us raise funds for the expansion of the North Brooklyn Compost Project while eating snacks and toasting to our worms with a glass of sangria. $10 suggested donation at the door. Our guest speakers include No Impact Man; Colin Beavan, and the North Brooklyn Compost Masters; Kate Zidar, Griffin Thomas, & Natasha Heflin.
Noise in the nabe has been a hot topic lately. Personally, I feel like living in NY one should be expecting noise. Especially on the weekends. But this reader emailed me and more than anything I’m curious as to what’s going down on the other side of the ‘Point with cars & music on Saturday nights?
Hey, Do you or any of your readers experience the LOUD music coming from what must be 50 cars at Norman and Kingsland on the weekends? They were out there ALL night Saturday, despite many filed noise complaints. This seems to happen every Saturday night. What can be done?
What can be done? I’d just call the 94th precint and tell them to send a car over. Likely that will lower the music for awhile but unless they’re doing something especially illicit (Might be some drag racing going on?) besides cranking their car radios on a Saturday Night, I’d just get over it. Once it gets cold out, they’ll probably be gone.
I’m never over there, so if anyone knows what the deal is – chime in!
This weeks Sunday Snaps is a video contributed to the Greenpointers Flickr Group Pool by BF 08. And it’s a stunning rooftop view of a Greenpoint sunset. Enjoy!
Apparently last night there was gunfire at Club Exit. Again.
First this mornings email from a reader:
Hey there-
Was wondering if you’ve been able to find any info on the shooting around 4am last night on Greenpoint Ave near Manhattan (assuming it’s Club Exit). Around that time, I was woken up by a string of gunshots, screaming, and people running. Haven’t had any luck finding news about it yet.
wow! i get to be the first one to post about this one too!
okay so last night i had locked myself out of my apartment and at around one or so i was walking back from my friends house with her copy of my keys. i noticed that there were a lot of sort of thugged out dudes and women wearing, like, just a strip of leather across their boobs. walking up and down the street, and i just remember thinking, oh good, i have a set of keys now and don’t have to be stuck out here. “crazy club exit”….
but then at 3 i was lying in bed half asleep and i heard a series of three loud shots, followed by screaming and general noise. i saw a few heads looking out of windows, and i looked outside too, but made eye contact with some scary looking dude and quickly shut the window again. no cops were showing up, and i was PRETTY sure it had been gunfire i’d heard, so i called the cops. i don’t know if they ever showed up or what, i fell asleep.
at 4 or so (i think) i heard another shot. more screaming. and this time the cops showed up immediately. lots of yelling. i was trying to sleep, because i have to work early today… so it’s sort of like it was a dream. i’d like to know if anyone knows what happened. this club is totally out of control. obviously.
No word on anyone being shot or hurt, but gunfire twice in six months at this club is a little ridiculous. I know it’s not really Club Exit’s fault that the entertainment they book brings with it a gun-toting type of clientele but something needs to really be done before someone gets killed at this joint.
Ya know, a bunch of people won’t shut up or stop bitching about Studio B and it’s construction and licensing issues. They’re all up in arms over the loud, litter-producing hipsters that spill out of the place (oh the horror!), but here is a club where the cops REALLY need to be, for safety reasons and of course that’s just not nearly as important as whether Studio B’s cabaret license is up to date.
Has anyone heard anything else about this shooting?
This weekend is looking to be a wash out with the rain but Bushwick Beer Garden’s Oktoberfest is going on anyway.
THIS is the party we dreamed of since putting the first post in the ground. OKTOBERFEST runs from Sept 20th to October 5th in Munich Germany … And Bushwick!Come to the Bushwick Beer Garden Saturday the 27th. Bring delicious German brews. Wear those costumes. Bring some German eats for the grill! Scared of rain? We built 3 huge beer tents! This is the one to attend.
This weekend is looking to be a wash out with the rain but Bushwick Beer Garden’s Oktoberfest is going on anyway.
THIS is the party we dreamed of since putting the first post in the ground. OKTOBERFEST runs from Sept 20th to October 5th in Munich Germany … And Bushwick!Come to the Bushwick Beer Garden Saturday the 27th. Bring delicious German brews. Wear those costumes. Bring some German eats for the grill! Scared of rain? We built 3 huge beer tents! This is the one to attend.
Work is killing me! I am busy, busy, busy and have no time to post. I’ve missed so many things that I wanted to post about but just haven’t had the time. I need to start doing more Quickies… but only in the blogging sense.
Now that I’m a YMCA employee I’m all about the Y. This week is America on the Move and that means Free Guest Passes among other events. – Greenpoint YMCA
Andrew Barwick, the victim of the September 10th Northside Car Service drivers hit and runposts his side of the story as a guest poster on NAG – Neighbors for Allied Good Growth. “…on Tuesday morning, while cycling to work northbound on Kent Avenue at N 7th Street, a south-bound Northside Car & Limo sedan made a left-hand turn on to N 7th Street directly across my path. The driver neither yielded nor slowed even though I was presently crossing the intersection. To avoid going up onto his hood, I had to slam on both brakes, the sudden stop flipping me over the handebars, and throwing me directly in front of his bumper.” – NAG & Brooklyn Paper
NAG also has a post regarding 137 Oak Street, a longtime favorite Greenpoint building of mine and my Dad’s, architecturally. My father told me about how it was a dicey SRO joint back in the day with shady individuals squatting there. Figures he had some friends who lived there… but now those shady cats are old men and trying not to get kicked out of their landmark home by a greedy developer. I’m surprised it took this long before a bloodsucking slumlord came a knockin’. – NAG
New hot shop Old Hollywood had it’s opening this past weekend and although I was bummed I missed it cause I was out of town, I’m glad they’ve got a blog to keep me in the loop about their designers and store info. – Old Hollywood
New cleanup for Newtown Creek? “In a landmark announcement more than three decades in the making, the Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to perform preliminary tests for hazardous industrial pollutants in Newtown Creek, the beleaguered estuary between Brooklyn and Queens. The results of the tests could make the site eligible for a Superfund designation, which would potentially allocate program funds for up to 90 percent of the cost to clean up the contaminated areas…” I seriously don’t get how this hasn’t already been done but Danny Meyers says it best toward the end of the article: “When informed that the testing might lead to government money for cleanup, he seemed unimpressed, and said “there’s never been any money for Greenpoint. Not for my part of the neighborhood anyways.” – Yeah, tell us about it. – Renew School
It’s not even funny how excited I am about the Trader Joe’s Brooklyn opening this Friday. And although it’s not in Greenpoint, it’s at least on the G line so I need to take just one train to get things like my dark chocolate raspberry jellies and frozen pizzas that don’t taste like frozen pizzas. And I can’t wait to see how it looks inside the old bank.
The Richardson is now offering daytime hours! They’re open noon to 4am everyday and in just a few weeks they’ll begin serving food. Haven’t gotten over there yet myself, but I will… eventually.
Queen’s Hideaway is closing October 18th. Can’t say I’m surprised or upset about it personally. It’s one of those places in the neighborhood that I wanted to like sooooo badly but was disappointed every time. Eventually I just gave up. – via Williamsburg Is Dead
Kill Devil Hill is about 100 steps from my house and I pass it almost daily. I love looking in the window – it’s always something interesting. And after reading this Ask a Shop Clerk interview, I can see why! – NY Magazine
It started with the 9/11 Memorial Plaque being stolen from St. Cecilia’s and since then three more have gone missing in the nabe. “Lentol is proposing a law that would make it a felony to steal or knowingly possess a stolen memorial item. If the thieves are scrap metal dealers, they’d lose their license under the legislation.” – Newsday
And Tuesday night I finally got over to Five Leaves and was impressed. The service was attentive and friendly which I was happy about. The Five Leaves burger was delicious and reasonably priced, though I have to say the other options were a bit too rich for my blood. And it was hot as balls in there. It was cool out but with a packed small place the two doors open just were not cutting it. I wish I was around this weekend cause I really want to try it for brunch. Oh and that walk-up coffee window on Bedford is just a-dor-able.
Next Thursday local community group NAG is having a Town Hall meeting to get neighbors together to discuss and unite on local issues. They seem like an organized bunch read yto get things done!
NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) a community organizing group in Williamsburg and Greenpoint is having a Town Hall Meeting on 10/2 to mobilize the community on the most important issues we are facing. The L Train is crowded, the G never comes. We need more open space. We need more affordable housing. We need to keep our neighborhood unique.
You can be part of the solution. Join our chorus of old and new neighborhood voices at:
NAG’s Town Hall Organizing Meeting Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00p Holy Ghost Hall Basement 160 N 5th Street (between Bedford and Driggs)
Next Thursday local community group NAG is having a Town Hall meeting to get neighbors together to discuss and unite on local issues. They seem like an organized bunch read yto get things done!
NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) a community organizing group in Williamsburg and Greenpoint is having a Town Hall Meeting on 10/2 to mobilize the community on the most important issues we are facing. The L Train is crowded, the G never comes. We need more open space. We need more affordable housing. We need to keep our neighborhood unique.
You can be part of the solution. Join our chorus of old and new neighborhood voices at:
NAG’s Town Hall Organizing Meeting Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00p Holy Ghost Hall Basement 160 N 5th Street (between Bedford and Driggs)
This Friday 9/26 is the deadline for art submission to the The Greenpoint 100, but maybe your artistic talents lie in bake goods as opposed to watercolors. If so then you’re in luck since a volunteer bake sale will accompany the show.
The Greenpoint Library Friends Group is having a benefit art show at the library on Saturday October 4th, 11AM-3PM. All the art has been donated by local artists and will be sold for $25. And all the money raised will go to the Greenpoint Branch.
Are any of you interested in volunteering an hour or two to help us out?
We need people to help set up the art, work the bake sale table, to keep an eye on the art and hand out information about the show, and to help distribute the art at the end of the show. If you can bake something for the bake sale that would also be great!
Set up for the show will start at 10am. The show will start at 11. The bake sale will run from 11-3 The winner of the art show will be announced at 2:30 and that is when the art will be distributed.
Let us know if you can help out!
Greenpoint Library 107 Norman Ave. @ Leonard st. 718-349-8504
Tomorrow after work why not stop by Urban Rustic for snack and sangria while helping keep yourself green? And did I mention there are raffle prizes???
