To kick off GrowNYC and Edible magazine’s second annual Eat Drink Local Week, local chef Jordan Colòn of EAT restaurant will be cooking at the market. Come watch him and eat his delicious food around 10am. Make sure to check out the Eat Drink Local shopping list for the ingredients of the week (http://tinyurl.com/2c9k2fu) and pick up almost all of your ingredients at the market – get clams from Pura Vida, wine from King’s Ferry Winery, dairy from Ronnybrook Farm, and grapes, squash, and cauliflower from S & SO, Garden of Eve, Red Jacket Orchards, Healthway Farm, and Cranberry Hall Farm. You’ll certainly be eating well this week!
The 3rd Annual NY Craft Beer week kicks off tomorrow and don’t think just because it has New York in the title that you’re going to have to leave cozy little Greenpoint – there are many venues participating in our neck of the woods including Coco 66, D.B.A. Williamsburg, The Diamond, Gypsy Bar, Mark Bar, and The Habitat.
For full details visit their FAQ and order your passport online or better yet, pick it up in person at Strand Bookstore as it’s getting down to the wire!
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Time Out New York for some quotes on an upcoming issue they were doing called Why I Love NYC. It came out today and you can read all the recommendations from some old school Greenpointers like Donna Siafakas, the owner of Peter Pan’s (and check out pic #2 of my girl Ania!), Michael Sayers, the owner, of Photoplay and yours truly.
Justine Carroll, blogger, Greenpointers (greenpointers.blogspot.com) “I was born and raised in Greenpoint, I’m third generation. I’m spent my twenties living in Staten Island but moved back four years ago. I [hang out in] old-school and new places. For new places, I really love The Habitat. That’s my favorite: The owner is nice, the food is good, there’s always something fun going on. They do the wings-eating contest, but they do a trivia night on Wednesday nights. When you go in there, they always change the look of the place. I like to go in on Halloween, they go all out and it’s different every year: stuff all over the walls, a corpse in the middle. I enjoy it, and the sangria.” The Habitat, 988 Manhattan Ave between Huron and India Sts (718-383-5615, thehabitatbrooklyn.com)
“If I’m going to stay local, it’s Connie O’s. That’s my home bar, where I’ll shoot my darts, get my beers, hang out with my friends. I can go there on a Saturday afternoon and see my friend’s father there, and I can go in on Saturday night and then my friend is there. Sometimes, you’ll go in and there’s new people and that’s fine too. They have TV, a pool table, it’s small and quiet, they have a good jukebox—one of the online jukeboxes. It’s a family-owned dive bar with $3.50 beers and buy-backs—old-school. It’s owned by someone who’s lived in Greenpoint forever, and anytime I go in there I’m going to know somebody.” Connie O’s, 158 Norman Ave at Newel St (917-578-7959)
This Saturday 9/25/10 yours and my favorite growler distributer, Brouwerij Lane is hosting an Oktoberfest celebration complete with big ½ liter mugs of 5 German beers and free pretzels & sausages!
Berry Park is also getting in on the Oktoberfest party with the Ja Ja Ja’s. There’s still time to check them out at their remaining dates and also to taste the four Oktoberfest beers on the menu including the Schneider Wiesen-Edelweiss which is an amazing Organic wheat beer. It is a true Oktoberfest celebration and as always it’s free. Come sing dance and of course drink! Prost.
Oktoberfest Dates w/ the Ja Ja Ja’s: Friday, 9/24 @ 9pm Sunday, 9/26 @ 7 pm Saturday, 10/9 @ 9 pm
Saturday, September 25, at the Morgan Fine Arts Building in Greenpoint, 40 Brooklyn artists open their studios to the public.
From 5 to 10 P.M., 40 separate studios on five floors of the building will be open to the public, displaying fine art in every medium – painting, sculpture, silk screening, New Yorker cartooning, abstract photography.
The Morgan Fine Arts Building is located at 649 Morgan Avenue, between Nassau and Norman Avenues. The five-story Morgan building, which may be the largest art complex in New York, houses studios for over 100 independent fine artists, including several major award winners, as well as artists whose works hang in the MOMA, Guggenheim, Whitney and Philadelphia museums as well as in several private collections.
This will be the seventh Open House hosted by the Morgan Building. As with the previous Open Houses, everything is free – including the wine, beer and even the limo pickup at the Bedford Avenue L station and the Nassau Avenue G Stations. Need transport? Call 646 302 5775.
This Saturday 9/25/10 yours and my favorite growler distributer, Brouwerij Lane is hosting an Oktoberfest celebration complete with big ½ liter mugs of 5 German beers and free pretzels & sausages!
Berry Park is also getting in on the Oktoberfest party with the Ja Ja Ja’s. There’s still time to check them out at their remaining dates and also to taste the four Oktoberfest beers on the menu including the Schneider Wiesen-Edelweiss which is an amazing Organic wheat beer. It is a true Oktoberfest celebration and as always it’s free. Come sing dance and of course drink! Prost.
Oktoberfest Dates w/ the Ja Ja Ja’s: Friday, 9/24 @ 9pm Sunday, 9/26 @ 7 pm Saturday, 10/9 @ 9 pm
Saturday, September 25, at the Morgan Fine Arts Building in Greenpoint, 40 Brooklyn artists open their studios to the public.
From 5 to 10 P.M., 40 separate studios on five floors of the building will be open to the public, displaying fine art in every medium – painting, sculpture, silk screening, New Yorker cartooning, abstract photography.
The Morgan Fine Arts Building is located at 649 Morgan Avenue, between Nassau and Norman Avenues. The five-story Morgan building, which may be the largest art complex in New York, houses studios for over 100 independent fine artists, including several major award winners, as well as artists whose works hang in the MOMA, Guggenheim, Whitney and Philadelphia museums as well as in several private collections.
This will be the seventh Open House hosted by the Morgan Building. As with the previous Open Houses, everything is free – including the wine, beer and even the limo pickup at the Bedford Avenue L station and the Nassau Avenue G Stations. Need transport? Call 646 302 5775.
I’m a business owner in Greenpoint. I own a hair salon on Manhattan Ave and Green St. It has come to my attention and I would like to share this with you. Maybe you already know. At the address 400 Mcguiness Blvd. will be a 200 bed homeless facility. As someone who has had my business here for 17 years. I’ve seen what housing people on this level does to the neighborhood with the famous Greenpoint Hotel housing drug addicts and criminals. Many of these people are sex offenders. I would like you to share with all the Greenpointers a meeting on Sep. 27 at 6:00 to discuss this.
Thank You, Tonia
I think a lot of people are naïve in thinking that a homeless shelter brought to this neighborhood isn’t going to cause problems in the community. Why is the loyalty to these people instead of the local businesses and families? The residents near the Brownsville womens shelter talk about prostitution and the cops always being there. So we think that 200 men will be better? Why can’t we have low income housing instead? Low income housing would help people right here, already in Greenpoint and areas of North Brooklyn. Families who need housing in a safe neighborhood and can become part of the community.
Either way, whatever side your on, let your voice and concerns be heard. The 9/15 community meeting has been rescheduled for Monday September 27th.
6:00PM – Monday September 27th 2010 The Public Safety Committee and the Human Services Committee will hold a joint meeting at the Polish National Home,261 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222 (between Eckford Street and Leonard Street)
AGENDA:
( 1.) Presentation – Discussion on Department of Homeless Services policies and the open RFP process – by Alex T. Zablocki, Director of Community Relations NYC Department of Homeless Services 33 Beaver St • 17th Floor • New York, NY 10004 Tel. 212-487-2151;
( 2. ) Also invited, HELP USA, Mr. Laurence S. Belinsky, President and CEO, Tel. (212) 400-7070, for an update regarding their plans for 400 McGuinness Blvd.
Church of the Ascension and Greenpoint Williamsburg Mission in cooperation with Unleash: Brooklyn & Dog Habitat Rescue invite you celebrate your beloved animal on October 3rd at 4pm at the Church of the Ascension. There will also be a service of remembrance for beloved animals no longer with us. If you would like the name of your deceased animal read during the service, please send an email to ascesnionbrooklyn@gmail.com or call 718.389.3831.
Blessing of Animals and Remembrance – Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 4pm
This St. Francis day, October 3, at 4 p.m. we will be holding an Animal Blessing and Remembrance service at the Church of the Ascension (127 Kent St between Franklin St and Manhattan Ave). It is a wonderful service for two reasons.
First, animals bless us every day with their presence, their unconditional love and a communication that exceeds anything words could ever convey. Those of us who love animals, who live with them daily, feel as deeply toward them as we do toward humans (sometimes more deeply). On this day we gather to bless them, and ask for their health and joy in the coming year. In addition, we will be having a remembrance of those animals we love that have died. Losing an animal and the lack of closure or ritual around it is very hard for many of us left behind. We hope that the solemn reading of their names during the service affords some sense of healing and shared mourning over these losses.
Beginning at 3:30 there will be a processional of rescue dogs from Dog Habitat Rescue. If you would like to join the parade we will be meeting at co-sponsor Unleash: Brooklyn (216 Franklin St between Huron and Green St) with the whole array of animals for a solemn, yet noisy procession (incense included) to the church – New Orleans style! If you prefer, you can meet at the church at 4 p.m.
There will be tables outside the church to bring awareness to animal rescue concerns and rights issues. All are welcome – cats, dogs and all creatures great and small – inside the chapel for the service. At the conclusion of the service there will be a reception in both the back yard and front of the church replete with animal and human refreshments. Wine generously supplied by Lily from Dandelion Wine and her dog, Bonita (the cattle dog). The event is also sponsored by District Dog.
Dogs must be on leash. Cats, rodents and other animals must be in carriers. Teddy bears may roam freely if accompanied by a child.
