According to NY1, PS 369 will reopen on Monday morning after closing due to a high number of flu-related absences.
Archive | May, 2009
Carroll Park Flea Market tomorrow
Friends of Carroll Park are hosting the Carroll Park Flea Market tomorrow (President and Smith Streets). According to their website it’s going all day… any further information is welcome!
Tag Sale tomorrow
This Saturday is the Summit Street Community Garden Tag Sale. All proceeds of the multi-family/neighbor tag sale go to benefit the Red Hook community garden. As the flyer above says, the sale takes place tomorrow, May 30, from 8:30 am to 2:oo pm, on the corner of Summit and Columbia Streets (rain date Sunday, May 31).
Birth Dearth at LICH
According to The Brooklyn Paper:
Long Island College Hospital is in the midst of a precipitous drop in births this year, months after threatening to shut its maternity ward, a decline that is resulting in large increases in deliveries at other Brooklyn hospitals, including a record number of births in 48 hours at one medical center.
Last year, Continuum Health Partners, the hospital consortium that manages LICH, tried to shut down its obstetrics and pediatrics practices, citing high cost of malpractice insurance and low reimbursement levels. However, the State Department of Health denied Continuum’s application to close those departments, citing, among other things, the lack of capacity to handle patient overflow at other Brooklyn hospitals. Now those hospitals are, in some instances, being overwhelmed with additional deliveries, despite several LICH obstetricians having transferred their practices to one of them, Methodist Hospital in Park Slope.
Summer in the McCord-Van Kempen Cottage
Newsday reports that the Hamptons rental occupied by Cobble Hillbillies /Real Housewives of New York City stars Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen last year is up for grabs.
If you’re interested in summering in Southampton contact Gina Michael, 646-415-2208; gigi0986 AT aol.com . Details after the jump. Continue Reading →
Open Book Cafe at BPL Central Branch
Open Book Cafe by Mambo opened at the plaza in front of Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza.
Brooklyn Paper: Spencer Rothschild, the man behind much-loved Park Slope restaurants Barrio, Playa and Cabana Bar, is now serving his Latino-influenced beach cuisine on the plaza in front of the central branch of America’s fifth-largest public library.
“This is a chance to do real food, not just a hot dog, and give people a great new gathering place,” said Rothschild, who cut the ribbon on Open Book Cafe by Mambo with Borough President Markowitz this morning.
The concept is classic Rothschild: breakfast, beginning at 8:30 to serve incoming library workers and some commuters, will consist of homemade granola, espresso drinks, muffins and croissants.
At 11 am, the menu expands to include lobster salad sliders (a bargain at three for $8.75), mini pulled pork sandwiches (three for $5.95), chips and guacamole, tacos, quesadillas and salads.
Boerum Hill swine flu school closing
Following the deaths of two more New Yorkers due to swine flu, the school for disabilities at PS 369, the Coy L. Cox School (State Street between Nevins and Bond), is closed as of today.
Adam & Eve dance on Bond Street
Photo from New York Times.
Company XIV‘s production of “Le Serpent Rouge!” is playing through June 6 at 303 Bond Street, where they are the resident company (the space was converted from a tow truck warehouse with the addition of a state of the art dance floor, glass facade, and theatrical lighting). Continue Reading →
Reading at Bookcourt June 1
It is probably one of our most complicated relationships; fraught with love, fear, jealousy and joy. No other bond is as strong or as long-lasting. We read about it in Greek mythology, Freudian psychology and literature. Yet we still for the most part have to navigate it alone— our relationship with our own mother. We love them, we hate them, we miss them profoundly when they are gone. They are as axiomatic as the sun, the moon and the stars.
Because I Love Her, edited by Andrea N. Richesin, is a collection of essays on the mother-daughter bond including contributions from Karen Joy Fowler, Catherine Newman, Ann Hood and many others. On June 1st, 7pm, at Bookcourt, in Cobble Hill, Ms. Richesin and some of the authors will read their work. In an essay in the Huffington Post about the book, Ms. Richesin describes some of the stories; Tara Bray Smith had to find a way to love her mother despite a life long heroin addiction, or Amanda Coyne who writes about her mother in prison for 12 years. Some of the essays are haunting, some are funny, but all are “a tribute to how difficult it can be to accept the ones we love the most.”
For more information: 718-875-3677, Bookcourt
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