Archive | April, 2009

Brooklyn Artsmith Collective Project 261

artsmithThe Brooklyn Artsmith Collective of New York-based artists (which includes Cobble Hill’s Adam Suerte) is holding an event tomorrow at Galapagos art space in DUMBO to benefit P.S. 261, an elementary school in Boerum Hill. Artsmith collaborated on art projects with students from the first to fourth grade, and some of the art they produced will be on display tomorrow. Over 100 pieces will be auctioned off, with proceeds benefiting arts education at P.S. 261. There will be a DJ and a film will be shown documenting the process of the project. Doors open tomorrow at 4:30 pm, and there is a suggested donation of $15.

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Earth Day 2009 Open Thread

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What’s on your mind today?

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76th and 84th Precincts crime blotters

It was a quiet week in the 76th precinct, and there weren’t any crimes at all in the Cobble Hill area. The 84th Precinct blotter did have a few incidents in the Boerum Hill area, and for incidents in Brooklyn Heights and Downtown, check out Brooklyn Heights Blog. Here’s a round-up:

Cops nabbed a 49-year-old perp after he stole a spirited elderly man’s laptop, as the victim was walking along Pacific Street on his way to get the computer fixed. The incident happened on April 20 at 10 am, when the perp pushed the victim to the ground just as he reached Hoyt Street. The perp grabbed the computer, and ran eastbound on Pacific Street, but the 70-year-old man leapt up and chased the perp. Cops joined in the foot chase soon after, and apprehended the thug.

Two roommates were robbed on April 15, after a man broke into their Court Street apartment within a two-hour window and made of with two laptops. One victim left the apartment, which is between State and Schermerhorn streets, at 6 pm. But by the time he came back at 8, his front door had been broken open and the computers were gone.

Another burglar broke into a woman’s Atlantic Avenue apartment on April 15, prying open her door with a crowbar and stealing two laptops and a pair of diamond earrings. The woman left her apartment, which is between Clinton and Court streets, at 10 am, but when she got home later that evening, her door had been smashed and her things were gone.

A woman arrived home on April 15 to her Nevins Street apartment, only to discover a man trying to pick her front door lock. The incident happened at 10:30 pm, near Wyckoff Street. The man quickly left the scene, and the woman immediately called a locksmith to change the locks. Then, she called the cops.

Burglars broke into a Court Street catering service on April 15, cleaning out the store’s cash boxes and stealing two laptops. The incident happened overnight, and when an employee got to the store — which is between Wyckoff and Bergen Streets — at 6 am the next morning, he noticed that a perp had unlocked the door, broken into the office, and smashed through the safe. All told, the perp stole $18,230 in cash, two chef knives, a briefcase, and the computers.

On April 13, a thief stole a man’s Honda motorcycle, which was parked on Wyckoff Street, near Smith Street. The man left his bike at 11:30 am, but when he came back an hour later it was already gone.

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Calpurnia opening with free wine

Photo from Eater.

Photo from Eater.

There’s a new restaurant named Calpurnia opening at 387 Court Street (the former location of Hole in the Wall Video), and they’ve apparently had delays in opening due to a delay in getting their liquor license.

Eater: Who might they be blaming for the extended opening delay? Why, the corrupt State Liquor Authority, of course! But to make up for it, they’re offering a free glass of wine to anyone who stops in opening night. Which, hey, almost makes sense!

As of now, it looks like their liquor license is still pending.

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Lynn Nottage wins Pulitzer Prize

lynnBoerum Hill resident Lynn Nottage has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play “Ruined,” a story of survival set among the denizens of a Congolese bar and bordello. “Ruined” was based in interviews Nottage conducted in Africa, and revolves around young women who have been raped and brutalized, casualties of the decades-long war in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Continue Reading →

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For sale by Twitter

Photo from Curbed.

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Not only can you follow us on Twitter, but you can also shop for property in the nabe. Curbed chronicles Erick Schonfeld’s attempts at selling his 46 Bergen Street condo- placing internet ads, making a website, putting it on Twitter and getting it picked up by Gawker. I’m sure yesterday’s open house was very well-attended. Did anyone check it out?

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Fork & Pencil inspired by Paul Newman’s humanitarianism

The Brooklyn Eagle featured a story on Fork & Pencil, the shop that replaced The Brooklyn Artisans Gallery at 221a Court Street. Owner and Cobble Hill resident Alex Grabcheski (who works in finance by day), was inspired enough by the humanitarian efforts of Paul Newman to open his own consignment shop, where all profits above costs would be donated to charities. The causes that Fork & Pencil support range from independent films to local Cobble Hill schools. Fork & Pencil is currently open Wednesday through Sunday, 11am – 7pm.

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Blogger Thinks She Could be a Hipster

Brooklyn blogger Tinadoll of …And then She Opened Her Mouth writes:

It all started several summers ago. I was sitting on my friends stoop in Cobble hill drinking Pabst Blue ribbon and we were listening to Yaz- No body’s diary. We were dressed as we saw fit- classic 80’s vintage from thrift stores we had searched all of New Jersey for. We were going to get drunk and then go into his house and watch Ingamar Bergman movies on his new flat screen hi def TV.

…That’s the summer I realized I could be a hipster. Read more

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Superfund opposition in cartoon form

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Cristian Fleming, The Brooklyn Paper

The Brooklyn Paper‘s cartoonist did a great job of representing the view of those opposed to the “stigma” that declaring the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site would attach to it.

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