From Brooklyn Tattoo’s Adam Suerte comes this pic of a fantastic ride parked in front of his store. Also check out the cover of this week’s Time Out NY – Suerte inked up the statue that’s featured front and center.
Archive | July, 2009
Bike thieves caught
The Brooklyn Paper reports that two men have been arrested for bike thefts that have taken place this month around Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill.
An officer busted two local men – Adrian Figueroa, 37, and Gasper Alcade, 49 – who were seen clipping the locks on two bikes that had been tethered on Wyckoff Street on July 20.
Before their arrest, there were at least seven other cycles stolen between July 1 and 15 in the 76th Precinct.
But since a cop cuffed the pair between Hoyt and Smith streets, there have been no reported missing penny-farthings, according to a community affairs officer in the precinct.
Boerum Hill assistant principal named interim acting principal at PS 20
According to Insideschools.org, Lena Barbera, assistant principal at Boerum Hill’s PS 261, has been named interim acting principal at PS 20 in Fort Greene (in May, PS 20′s principal, Sean Keaton, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a teacher). Barbera has been a member of the staff at PS 261 since 1996.
Open Thread: What would you like to see open in the nabe?
There are a lot of closed down restaurants or shops around these blocks, some with signs of blooming business and others sitting just as they were left. What do you want to see open in in these shut down storefronts?
Boerum Hill may be getting some new brownstones
According to The Real Deal, John Frezza, president of Strategic Development & Construction Group, and Sammy Brahimi, a partner at IBEC Building Corporation, have plans to build a collection of six high-end, one-family brownstones, called the Ensemble, will be located at 354-349 State Street between Hoyt and Bond Streets.
The series of six six-story brownstones will be roughly 5,000 square feet each, and range in price from $3.5 million to $4 million. Buyers will have the option of a modern or traditional design. All of them will have private outdoor terraces and basements, which he considers a sixth floor. Frezza also hopes the building will earn a LEED Silver rating for its eco-friendly design.
“These homes have been in development for a year and a half and we’ve been working on the virtual designs and gearing up to release the plans to the brokerage community for a while,” Frezza said.
Brooklyn Boulders opening next week
Brooklyn Boulders, the converted Daily News garage turned rock climbing gym, is currently open for members of their “First Ascent” club, and will open to the public next week. As we reported back in May, there will be a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge that can be climbed (photo to the left from Brooklyn Boulders website).
Dick & Perry’s Variety Game Show at the Bell House
On Tuesday, July 28, join Dick Swizzle, Perry Comb-Over, and other special guests for a night of game show debauchery at the Bell House (149 7th Street). The show starts at 8pm, and tickets are $5.
Dick says, “There will be song, dance and challenges to bring the crowd into a frenzy. Come early for the Beer and Crab Rangoon Happy Hour, stay late for insane drink specials that change hourly. First 40 to sign up play The Sudden Death game show for a jackpot of up to $250 dollars. Audience members will be chosen throughout the night to play prize challenges worth up $250.”
Dick and Perry on the New Homer Fink Show:
Serimony to Present “Fashion Nights” Wednesday and Thursday
As part of the Shop Brooklyn promotional campaign, Serimony, located at 421 Court Street, between 2nd and 3rd Places in Carroll Gardens, will present “fashion nights” featuring apparel and jewelry by local designers, from 5:00 to 10:00 P.M. on Wednesday and Thursday, July 29 and 30. Wednesday’s event will feature silkscreened apparel by KimmChi, and Thursday’s will present jewelry designed by Triggerhappy.
Little Room to relocate despite Montessori expansion
Back in December 2008, we covered the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School’s decision to remove the Little Room, a program for special needs 3 and 4-year-olds, from its Bergen Street campus. The decision was made to keep the Little room open until August 2010, until it would be moved to join a different organization, which, according to the Brooklyn Paper, will possibly be the League Treatment Center, a center in DUMBO for children and adults with autism and other disabilities.
Brooklyn Paper: The planned expansion into the historic brick firehouse, as well as the takeover of the Little Room’s space, was a grim reminder for parents that the program will only remain in the Montessori School for this coming school year.
Some worry that future students will lose the developmental benefits that come from being around mainstream classes if they’re housed only in a special-education environment.
“It’s very disheartening,” said Joyce Creidy, the mother of twins graduating this summer from the Little Room. “The Little Room is in a nice space in a real school. The League [Treatment Center] is more of an institutionalized setting.”
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