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Third-Annual Brooklyn Bridge Birthday Celebration At Brooklyn Tattoo May 27

By on May 21, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Cobble Hill, Events, Hipsters

How’d you like the Brooklyn Bridge generously sprawled across your back? The third-annual Brooklyn Bridge Birthday celebration will do the honors for you on Sunday May 27, 1-7 p.m., at the Brooklyn Tattoo & Urban Folk Art Gallery in Cobble Hill. To commemorate the 129th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge, a group art show and a special $29 rate on tattoos is scheduled.

The event planners note: “It is a time honored tattoo parlor tradition to commemorate an auspicious date or event with a themed tattoo.” Shops have long been inking $13 “13″ tattoos when that date falls on Friday the 13th, or $31 Halloween images on October 31.

And thus, Brooklyn Tattoo at 99 Smith Street, will again honor one of its biggest inspirations three days after the Bridge’s 129th anniversary on May 24. The Urban Folk Art Gallery, adjacent to the shop, will host a group art show commemorating the Bridge through the eyes of 20+ local painters illustrators, educators, photographers, comic book makers and tattooers, opening Friday, May 25, 7-11 p.m. Continue Reading →

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Super Kitsch! Nostalgic Shuffleboard Club Coming To Gowanus

By on May 17, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Bars, Gowanus, Hipsters

A campy shuffleboard club inspired by Florida’s senior scene is making its hipster debut in Gowanus. Golden Girls unite!

Owners of The Royal Palms, a grocery-store sized club featuring regulation-size shuffleboard courts and a full bar, is set to open their new venue in a 17,000 square foot repurposed Gowanus building—location not yet disclosed—featuring a nostalgic bent with lounge music, bingo, Yahtzee, key lime-flavored cocktails and episodes of “The Love Boat” on TV.

The Brooklyn Paper reports that the coming shuffleboard club will offer a dozen regulation-sized courts and a potential roof deck. Continue Reading →

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Booze & Books: NYC Lit Crawl Coming To Brooklyn For First Time May 19

By on May 12, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Bars, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Events, Hipsters, Literature, Uncategorized

The Brooklyn Lit Crawl beer-and-book festival, which stumbles through 13 Cobble Hill, Carroll Garden and Brooklyn Heights venues on Saturday May 19, 6-8 p.m., will comprise cocktails, trivia contests, book readings and special events along the way.

Venues include Zombie Hut (273 Smith Street), Knit Lit (253 Smith), People’s Republic of Brooklyn (247 Smith), BookCourt (163 Court Street), Last Exit (136 Atlantic Avenue) and the After Party at 8 p.m. at 61 Local (61 Bergen Street). Continue Reading →

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New Eatery ‘Pok Pok’ Brings Adult Slushies To Columbia Street Waterfront

By on May 3, 2012 in Bars, Columbia Street Waterfront, Hipsters

Imagine the childhood joy of a 7-Eleven slushie with the grown-up bliss of a little compulsory booze amid the concoction. A new restaurant on the Columbia Street waterfront, Pok Pok, run by James Beard award-winning chef Andy Ricker, is serving up the delectable beverages, courtesy of a barrel-shaped rapid-cooling contraption.

“It’s very unique,” manager Ryan Domingo tells the Brooklyn Paper. “People drink beer on ice in Thailand, but not like this.” The machine is reminiscent of those in wine stores that utilize a salt and ice solution around a bottle that chills it to perfection in about 4 minutes. Continue Reading →

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Daniel Radcliffe Films In Carroll Gardens As Beat Poet Allen Ginsburg

By on March 20, 2012 in Carroll Gardens, Hipsters

Now that he has finally shaken off Harry Potter, actor Daniel Radcliffe is ready to play some meaty grown-up roles, including the curly-headed lead in upcoming film “Kill Your Darlings,” where he is taking on beat poet Allen Ginsburg. With co-star Dane DeHaan, filming has been taking place around Carroll Gardens this week.

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#OccupyWallStreet Feasts Cooked in Boerum Hill

By on November 3, 2011 in Food, Hipsters

The Brooklyn Ink reports on where the Occupy Wall Street protesters are getting some of their meals:

Brooklyn Ink: Food for Occupiers in Zuccotti Park is being cooked in Boerum Hill and East New York, shipped to Lower Manhattan in donated vans and, occasionally, yellow taxi cabs.

The amount of food required to meet demand has reached a peak since the protests began in mid-September, Chef Eric Smith said. The voluntary kitchen staff, constantly shuttling food in from Brooklyn, is now preparing three meals a day for nearly 2,000 people.

Sean Dolan, chief cook at the protest, says one problem organizers face is an inability to “discriminate” between protestors and freeloaders.

“Rich people can come looking like homeless men, protestors can come in suits,” he explained. “We have to serve everyone.”

 

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Boerum Hill Resident Likes Stuffed Animals

By on October 17, 2011 in Hipsters

Last week the NY Times profiled a Boerum Hill resident with a thing for taxidermy.  We thought that, if you missed it, you should know all about this.  Like right now: Continue Reading →

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Hipsters Mock and Taunt Lost Teddy Bear Owners

By on June 10, 2011 in Cobble Hill, Hipsters

Brooklyn Paper photo

This one has us scratching our heads — is it a total hoax or documentation that some folks love to mess with the emotions of a 2 year old?

The Brooklyn Paper reports this week that the owners of a lost teddy bear have received a “response” from its alleged “bearnappers.”

Last month Susannah Bortner posted a sign in Cobble Hill Park that her toddler Donovan had lost “Mr. Bear”, who was wrapped in a blue blanket, somewhere around P.S. 29.

The paper reports that a response and a modified poster, featuring an image of the bear wearing a blindfold (very disturbing and much too reminiscent of real terrorist acts to be funny) were left this week:

Brooklyn Paper: “We have the blanket. Nothing will happen to it if we get $10,000 of gluten-free cupcakes delivered to this park.”

Lest Bortner not be able to ID the “kidnappers,” the ransom note went on: “I’ll be dressed as a pregnant woman with a baby in a stroller. My accomplice will be wearing a T-shirt, baseball cap, cargo shorts and mandrals. We’ll be obsessing over our toddler.”

Then it added this horrifying warning: “Come alone or this blanket (and bear) goes into the washer. No gentle cycle!”

The last three words were underlined.

 

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Well Dressed Cobble Hill Man Commutes via Bicycle

By on April 26, 2010 in Blog Posts, Hipsters

The New York Times online has a piece on folks who bike to work including Cobble Hillbilly Ben Watson:

NY Times: BEN WATSON pedals his 1960s Schwinn three-speed from Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, to SoHo in a designer suit and tie, custom tailored — tapered legs, a bit more room for movement in the jacket — to make riding less sartorially treacherous. It’s a lesson he learned the hard way with a new pair of Yves Saint Laurent pants: on his way to the Javits Convention Center for a trade show, the gears tore a gaping hole in the cuff. “I’m probably not wearing what most folks think one ought to wear on a bike, and maybe I do that on purpose,” he said. “I like to think that an old bike and a happy outfit can make you a little happier.” Mr. Watson, 45, the managing director of Moroso U.S.A., an Italian furniture maker, said that when he passes other stylishly dressed cyclists, they often give each other a “wink and a nod,” adding that this “happens with some frequency on the corner of Chrystie and Delancey.”

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More Nabe Hijinks: DPH Mustache-Net Crackdown in Cobble Hill

By on April 1, 2010 in Blog Posts, Food, Health, Hipsters

Oh noes! Our right to whimsical facial hair must be protected!

Quick! Someone call Daniel Squadron!!

Image and the following report from Chow.com:

The artisanal cocktail movement suffered heavy casualties last night, when New York City Department of Health officials cited several restaurants in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn for old-timey facial hair code violations. For people preparing food and drink, state law requires that beards, sideburns, and mustaches be protected by a “mustache net.” However, in recent years, a trend toward aggressive nostalgia in the hospitality industry has encouraged whimsical mustaches at the expense of hygiene. There is often an equally compromising accumulation of Victorian clutter: phonographs, velvet flocked wallpaper, tarnished medical equipment, and pinned butterfly wings that officials warn can attract dust and crumbs.

The crackdown was a surprise to restaurant employees—one bartender apparently panicked and attempted to hide behind a taxidermied warthog. However, many of those cited have remained defiant.

“I’d be happy to have my staff wear mustache nets—if I could find a sustainable source,” said a representative of one of the establishments targeted in the raid. “And so far, I have not found a mustache net farm whose mustache netting practices I believe in.”

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