Archive | October, 2008

CO2: It’s a Gas at Secret Science Club Next Wednesday.

By on October 31, 2008 in Arts and Entertainment, Events

Next Wednesday morning you may wake up with a hangover from an election victory celebration or from drowning your sorrows in Scotch, but by the evening you may be ready to party again, and to learn something in the process. Perhaps something important about the environment, which, depending on the outcome of the election, and your views, may finally be about to receive the attention it deserves, or too much attention, or not enough. If you’re game, you should plan to attend Secret Science Club at the Bell House, 149 7th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, in Gowanus. This edition of SSC will feature Tyler Volk, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the NYU Environmental Studies Program, whose latest book is CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge. Tyler is also a guitarist and vocalist for The Amygdaloids.

While learning about such abstruse matters as why the CO2 you exhale doesn’t add to the earth’s burden of greenhouse gases, you can get gassed on sensibly imbibe Bell House’s featured cocktail of the night, the “Hunk of Burning Love”. Admission is free-ee-ee!

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French Navy Ship Visits Brooklyn.

By on October 31, 2008 in Maritime, News


The French missile tracking ship Monge, named for the 18th-19th century mathematician Gaspard Monge, is docked at Pier 7 near Columbia Street just south of Atlantic Avenue. Need to brush up on conversational French? Drop in to Montero’s or other Atlantic Avenue watering holes this weekend.

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Carrol Gardens Howl-o-Ween

By on October 30, 2008 in Carroll Gardens

From the CHB Inbox:

Miro’s Run Annual Howl-o-ween Fundraiser
Sunday, November 2nd from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m.

Join us at the dog run for cider and donuts, a dog costume contest, dog games, photo booth and raffle. Costumes are optional but if you dress up your doggie you may win a prize for Best Costume, Best Handmade Costume, Cutest Costume or Scariest Costume. $10 suggested donation, all proceeds go towards improving and promoting the dog run. Sponsored by Monster Mutt, Mobile Mutts, Walk This Way and Hope Vet.

Miro’s Run is located in DiMattina Park, on Hicks Street between Rapelye Street and Hamilton Avenue (next to the baseball field). It was the first official dog park in Brooklyn, established in 1997. (PDF flier)

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CHA fall general meeting, Nov 13

By on October 28, 2008 in Events, News

For those of you not on the CHA mailing list…

CHA fall general meeting

The Cobble Hill Association invites the entire community to our annual fall general meeting. We will provide updates on all our various projects and neighbourhood concerns, including Brooklyn Bridge Park, 182-194 Atlantic Avenue, and our upcoming fifttieth-anniversary dinner. The main theme of the meeting will be ‘LICH: Hospital in Crisis’. Our featured guests will be soon-to-be State Senator-Elect Daniel Squadron, Arnold Licht and Toomas Sorra of the LICH doctors’ group, and Dominick Stanzione, the interim CEO of LICH.

What: CHA fall general meeting.
When: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 7.30 p.m.
Where: LICH conference rooms A and B.

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Cobble Hill Pizza

By on October 28, 2008 in Carroll Gardens, Food

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As you may have heard, Lucali’s was recently named the BEST pizza in New York by Zagat’s. While congratulations are in order for this achievement, their lines are now bordering on outrageous and it’s time to consider the other area options…

Eat In Pizza
I’m a huge fan of the pizza at Sam’s on Court Street. They don’t deliver, so if you’re not inclined to deal with the owner Louie, Cobble Hill Park is nearby to down the pie with a nalgene of wine.

Has anyone tried La Pizzetta on Atlantic Ave yet?

Delivery Pizza
Our go-to delivery pie comes from My Little Pizzeria, with the occasional change of pace at Layla Jones.

Of course, if you’re near the F Train, a trip down to Totonno’s in Coney Island ain’t a bad idea either. (photo from Sunday above)

Where are you guys eating pizza these days?

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NY Times on Char No. 4

By on October 26, 2008 in Carroll Gardens, News
Flickr photo via marcipants

Flickr photo via marcipants

New nabe hotspot Char No. 4 [196 Smith Street] is profiled in today’s New York Times:

NY Times: Boite…Boite…: The first thing you notice about Char No. 4, the new bourbon-obsessed bar in Cobble Hill, is the intimidating wall of whiskey sitting directly behind the bartender and stretching up to the ceiling. More than a hundred bottles are displayed in a custom-designed iron and walnut case, and a muted backlight suffuses the young professionals at the bar with a faint amber glow.

Well, maybe that’s the second thing you notice.

“It smells like bacon,” said Udo Schneider, a 20-something “semi-cool kind of guy.” That smoky smell is likely wafting from the back of the bar, where house-smoked ham and other Southern staples are served at leather booths. And despite the bacon’s olfactory dominance, the food is meant as an afterthought.

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Eagle Reports on The Remarkable Mrs. Lipschitz

By on October 26, 2008 in Uncategorized

Olga Lipschitz, CEO of the Cobble Hill Health Center and Holocaust survivor will be honored on November 11 by the Jewish Faculty and Staff Association at City Tech CUNY on the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht.  The Brooklyn Eagle profiles her and tells her amazing story:

Brooklyn Eagle: The Remarkable…: Olga Spitzer Lipschitz, the CEO of the Cobble Hill Health Center on Henry Street, recalls her sister telling her to say “yes” when asked by German soldiers at the ammunition box factory they were brought to if she was able to work. And then as she was instructed to run to the right to join the workers’ line with the rest of her family, a bag of poppy seeds that her mother had given her and which she carried in a satchel on her back began to leak.

“I have such a clear memory of those poppy seeds running down the back of my neck as I ran,” Lipschitz relates.

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“Floating Brothel” Lands at Galapagos

By on October 24, 2008 in Arts and Entertainment, DUMBO

Cobble Hill’s a bit “edgier” than Brooklyn Heights these days (Smith Street even had it’s own burlesque bar), so while this landed in the BHB inbox, we’ve decided to post it here.
From the inbox, an invitation from Galapagos that speaks for itself:

Join Galapagos Art Space in welcoming The Floating Brothel to our 1600 square foot indoor lake. Imagine five actors on a 3′x6′ platform, utilizing only movement and a few objects to create varying settings of a 1789 brothel from London’s underbelly. This method is based on Le Coq- a striking school of theatre, which we enthusiastically welcome to our programming.

Monday October 27th, 8pm $5

In this production, five actors tell the story of a ship full of convict women pulled out of their world in the underbelly of London and thrust into the helm of a ship sailing to a unknown continent where they will begin their lives anew.

This epic journey is performed entirely within the confines of a 3′x6′ platform that the actors never step off of. With the help of a few everyday objects, they transform the playing space from the bustle and noise of London, to the dank bilge of a ship and the harrowing voyage across the sea to a new world.

At a time when the public can step into a movie theater and be amazed by the results of big budgets and special effects, audiences are reminded why theater is exceptional and extraordinary: the actors amaze the audience by telling an epic story from a small wooden platform.

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Spooky Stuff at Moxie Spot

By on October 24, 2008 in Events

From the CHB Inbox comes word of fun at Moxie Spot [81 Atlantic Avenue]:

Halloween Bag Decorating and Monster Mash!

Starting tonight we will be decorating re-usable trick-or-treat bags!

We’ll have trick-or-treat bag decorating all-week in the afternoons during this next week leading up to Halloween (while supplies last). Decorate reusable bags to fit your devilish mood.

Next Friday, Come by before/after Trick or Treating in the neighborhood to get some food into the kids before a candy meltdown sets in.

Monster Mash: Halloween night — costume dance party starts at around 6:30pm on the 2nd Floor. Continue Reading →

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Eat to Blog Takes in Jill’s Cafe

By on October 24, 2008 in Food
Flickr photo by h-bomb

Flickr photo by h-bomb

Eat to Blog stops at Jill’s Cafe [231 Court Street] and lives to write about it:

Eat to Blog: My first stop was at Jill’s Cafe in Cobble Hill, just a short train ride away from my apartment. In honor of the Brooklyn Goes Veg! week they are offering a $25 prix pixe menu; they actually have two different menus, one raw and one cooked. Each of those menus offered two choices each for the appetizer and the main. Those bad experiences I mentioned led me to the cooked menu: I chose quinoa rolls , raviolis, and a thumbprint & tea for dessert. $25 is quite a bit more than I typically spend on lunch, but I figured it was for a good cause and hoped that I would at least get plenty of food.

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