Starting this Saturday, King Ferry Winery will be at the market. Now you can pick up a bottle or two of wine while you do your weekly shopping. Now that’s what I call, one-stop local shopping! And remember, you can use your debit, credit, and EBT (food stamp) cards at the market, located on Union Ave. between Driggs and N 12th St. See you at the market!
Starting this Saturday, King Ferry Winery will be at the market. Now you can pick up a bottle or two of wine while you do your weekly shopping. Now that’s what I call, one-stop local shopping! And remember, you can use your debit, credit, and EBT (food stamp) cards at the market, located on Union Ave. between Driggs and N 12th St. See you at the market!
Pastor Ann Kansfield and Greenpoint Reformed Church hosts a weekly food pantry and they need our help. Read below and donate your time and food for a healthier and well fed Greenpoint!
I wanted to update you about some things going on at the Food Pantry at the Greenpoint Reformed Church. We’ve seen an increasing number of people coming on Thursdays for emergency food. Last week we served over 350 people. I’m not great at statistics, but I think this represents about a 50% increase since January. As a result, we’ve had to make a few changes. The first is that we’ve added additional hours to the pantry (we’re now open from 1-5pm). We’ve also added a new shift for volunteers, which is on Wednesdays evenings from 6-9pm.
This new shift will allow volunteers to make up the bags of groceries the day before the pantry starts, which will help the pantry run more smoothly when it’s open. There are three things that you can do to help:
1. Please share information about the pantry with anyone you know who might be in need of food. Our doors are open to anyone. People do not have to provide proof of citizenship or need. They just need to come to 136 Milton St. on Thursdays from 1-5pm and they will receive food.
2. Please volunteer or if you can’t, please share information about our new Wednesday evening volunteer shift with people you know who might be interested in helping. More info about volunteering is available here.
3. Please donate. We are able to buy food from the Food Bank of NYC for 10-18 cents a pound. For example, a case of 12 cans of Progresso soup cost $3.06 (almost $.25 per can) and box of Cheerios cost $.27. We can accept donations via PayPal or through Facebook Causes.
If you are aware of surplus food that could be donated to the pantry, please email me or call. We just have to find a way to transport it. Because demand is so high, virtually every piece of food that comes to the is distributed that same week.
Thanks again for all you do to help make Greenpoint and Williamsburg more healthy and well fed. Keep up the good work!
Local favorite Papacito’s is hosting a huge block party on August 14th featuring one of the guys who runs the joint with his new band Colin Schiller and The Reactions playing two sets out in the garden at 5pm and at 9pm. Check out their video filmed around town and directed by Greenpointers own contributer, Matthew Glasson.
The party will start @ 12 noon and go till 4am with Cody personally hosting and grilling a local organic pig out back.$20 per person for all you can eat pork plates with side dishes (no shared plates!)and one tall Margarita in a special party cup. Refill is 8 bucks. Think Cancun Party tumblers. Taco Special will be from 11am-4pm for those who don’t want pork plates.
$1 Tecates from 11am-2pm
$5 shot and a beer from 3-6pmWe will have sponserhsip for shots and Corona. This means lots of FREE TEQUILA AND BEER AT CERTAIN TIMES OF DAY. Models in Bikinis.
The staff will be encourage to wear beach wear.
DJ in the yard when there is not band.
Live reggae band at 6:30pm.
There will be a Dunk Tank located outside the Gate all day long. Prizes and games for dunkin your friends and the staff at Papacito’s!
Facebook event here.
In addition, starting tomorrow – Friday 7/23 – Papacito’s backyard now has a Service Bar. You can just come and hang out back and order drinks right from the bar located outside. No more waiting for a table or waitress. This is how they operated the first year and they just got the permits to do it again. The outdoor bar is open 11am-11pm Sunday-Thurs and Fri and Sat till 1am.
The rumor that Old Hollywood is moving from 110 Meserole Ave to 99 Franklin Street is true. That’s the most logical move I’ve ever seen. Old Hollywood will fit right in on the trendy strip.
But before they make the move, they’re having a ONE DAY ONLY moving sale at their current location at 110 Meserole Avenue - today with 15% off the entire store. Run, don’t walk.
They’ll re-open Saturday, July 31 at 99 Franklin Street between Greenpoint Ave and Milton St. Check out their blog for updates on the new space and stay tuned for info on the opening day party with drinks, djs, designers and a band!
Take a peek at friend and Greenpointers contributer Briana Campbell in the latest issue of Hayden-Harnett‘s IRL: In Real Life interview and photo shoot. Isn’t she just A-DOR-ABLE?
Local favorite Papacito’s is hosting a huge block party on August 14th featuring one of the guys who runs the joint with his new band Colin Schiller and The Reactions playing two sets out in the garden at 5pm and at 9pm. Check out their video filmed around town and directed by Greenpointers own contributer, Matthew Glasson.
The party will start @ 12 noon and go till 4am with Cody personally hosting and grilling a local organic pig out back.$20 per person for all you can eat pork plates with side dishes (no shared plates!)and one tall Margarita in a special party cup. Refill is 8 bucks. Think Cancun Party tumblers. Taco Special will be from 11am-4pm for those who don’t want pork plates.
$1 Tecates from 11am-2pm
$5 shot and a beer from 3-6pmWe will have sponserhsip for shots and Corona. This means lots of FREE TEQUILA AND BEER AT CERTAIN TIMES OF DAY. Models in Bikinis.
The staff will be encourage to wear beach wear.
DJ in the yard when there is not band.
Live reggae band at 6:30pm.
There will be a Dunk Tank located outside the Gate all day long. Prizes and games for dunkin your friends and the staff at Papacito’s!
Facebook event here.
In addition, starting tomorrow – Friday 7/23 – Papacito’s backyard now has a Service Bar. You can just come and hang out back and order drinks right from the bar located outside. No more waiting for a table or waitress. This is how they operated the first year and they just got the permits to do it again. The outdoor bar is open 11am-11pm Sunday-Thurs and Fri and Sat till 1am.
Papacito’s
999 Manhattan Avenue
The rumor that Old Hollywood is moving from 110 Meserole Ave to 99 Franklin Street is true. That’s the most logical move I’ve ever seen. Old Hollywood will fit right in on the trendy strip.
But before they make the move, they’re having a ONE DAY ONLY moving sale at their current location at 110 Meserole Avenue - today with 15% off the entire store. Run, don’t walk.
They’ll re-open Saturday, July 31 at 99 Franklin Street between Greenpoint Ave and Milton St. Check out their blog for updates on the new space and stay tuned for info on the opening day party with drinks, djs, designers and a band!
Friend and neighbor Gaby just sent me this email. I highly recommend anyone with any vested interest in what our neighborhood parks will look like, feel like, and smell like attend this meeting NEXT WEDNESDAY. Read on:
The following info is about an important meeting about how to spend the $7 MILLION! that has been allocated to our area’s parks. Your input will be heard and you will have the opportunity to suggest ways of making our ‘hood a nicer, better, cleaner, healthier place. Anyone with children might want to think long and hard about where to put in new playgrounds with better access and safer equipment or kids programs perhaps. There is a lot of “dead” park space near the waterfront and these areas WILL ALL be reassessed immediately! I am continually making my plea to implement community composting bins throughout ALL the parks. , the more people who are working on the same ideas, the louder you will be heard. So! Send this around to our community members who care. We can not make big change alone! All for Greenpoint, Greenpoint for all!
Wednesday, July 28th
6:30pm
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Visitor Center
328 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn
(Entrance through the main gate at the intersection of Greenpoint Avenue and Humboldt Street)
Please RSVP to either 212.360.1310 or NewtownCreek@CityParksFoundation.org as soon as you can.
The primary purpose of the meeting is to develop a list of possible projects that can be funded by the $7 million that has been allocated to City Parks Foundation, together with an initial sense of the important criteria to be used when judging projects.
After this meeting on July 28th, City Parks Foundation staff will develop cost estimates for the projects that have been suggested and will identify any relevant feasibility issues or barriers to completion. We will then reconvene in the Fall, so that everyone can express specific preferences from among the list of projects; this information will be vital to the Department of Environmental Conservation as they make a final decision on which projects should be funded.
At the meeting on July 28th, you will hear about four specific projects that have already been suggested to the Department of Environmental Conservation by the groups that successfully advocated for this $7 million of funding. You will also hear about a recent brainstorming session held among Brooklyn groups about community preferences for open space projects. In addition, you will hear about the results of the surveying that City Parks Foundation is now conducting in Brooklyn and in Queens.
Most of the meeting will be spent in small groups, with facilitators from City Parks Foundation, allowing everyone to suggest projects and express opinions on project ideas. Each group will report its findings to the entire group. We expect the entire meeting may take 2 – 3 hours. We will have food and beverages available.
Our own Joann Kim’s Greenpointers 5:
1. Favorite block/street?
Monitor Street!! I live on this street, McGolrick Park is within arms reach, my neighbors and their dogs are awesome (for the most part).
2. Favorite coffee?
Cafe Grumpy! They have their own gigantic roaster and it’s my go to spot when starring at the computer all day and need white noise distractions from espresso machines to hipster chatter to obnoxious music they sometimes play.
3. Favorite bar?
t.b.d. hand’s down. They host many community benefiting events AND, they have a ping pong table. I am asian. I ping pong.
4. Favorite restaurant?
Cafecito Bogota. Mounted empanadas of the shrimp, beef, chicken, veggie variety accompanied by salad and mulled wine. AND they also contribute plenty to the community.
5. Favorite etc.?
WORD and their nerdy dating board, East River Tattoo for embedding the most kickass tattoo on my skin, The Garden for never failing to supply EVERYTHING I need, Ashbox for their spicy mayo riceball, Rooftop Farms, for their, rooftop farm, Papacito’s for their carne asada taco, the “nature walk” at 100 Paidge, Church of Messiah for hosting all the amazing and creative events this nabe has to offer, including Greenpoint Food Market, R.I.P.!
Note: Reflecting on my favorites of Greenpoint reminded me of how much I love this neighborhood. I grew up in NY and for the first time in my LIFE I feel at home, I feel like I’m part of a community, that I am contributing and receiving an ever growing energy of bubbling creativity, whether in the realm of food, or art, or drinkery. I’m in the midst of moving and to think I even CONSIDERED moving into the city is pure blasphemy. Greenpoint til I die!!!
xo
j
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