The Dweck Center presents: The American Presidency: Profiling the Candidates with Stanley Renshon, a political scientist and a certified psychoanalyst, considers the character of the candidates in the 2008 presidential election. Renshon is the author of In His Father’s Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush.
Sounds interesting, eh?
The Where and When
The Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza
Sunday, September 28th at 1:30 p.m.
Free
…and were thrilled that Obama strongly held his own. The pundits lamented that neither candidates said or did anything memorable. But at a time like this, who cares about the entertainment value of these things.
I was just pleased that Obama came across as experienced, incredibly knowledgeable, and eminently serious about the urgent issues that face this country.
The Times’ editorial said that Obama needs a better counter punch and that may be true. He is an even-handed guy with a tough intelligence. Maybe he needs to show some more of himself and his personal outrage at the state this country is in at the next debate.
On the economy it was hands-down Obama’s show. He was clear and direct in his analysis of the current Wall Street crisis and very straight forward about what he plans to do. His emphasis on the needs of the middle class and the failure of our health care system was strong.
During the foreign policy section, McCain was able to muster the sense that he is experienced and knowledgeable.
But it was downright disgusting to hear him defend the war in Iraq (and even Ronald Reagan’s missle defence shield, which McCain said is what won the Cold War. Huh?)
He never acknowledged what a huge mistake it was to invade Iraq in the first place and still seems to believe that the key to defeating Al Queda is tied to our victory in Iraq. Winning the war in Iraq? It’s like some weird time warp.
Obama, on the other hand, stated clearly that we should NEVER have invaded and can never win and any success in Afghanistan is impossible as long as we’re bogged down in Iraq.
The debate was for the most part cordial and serious. It really exposed the vast differences between the two men. For those who are undecided, I’m curious how the debate will influence their decision.
I fear that McCain’s bogus “I’m old and experienced stance” might be convincing to some who aren’t that familiar with the issues. On the other hand, Obama grasp of the issues was, as always, impressive, and could be convincing to those who worry that he is too inexperienced.
A nice guy in a Hawaiian shirt welcomed me at the door. Once inside I took in the grandeur of the landmark bank building that is now a grocery store, albeit a super fun grocery store.
Ceilings that touch the sky, huge gorgeous windows. Space, space, and more space. It’s a surreal environment to buy groceries in.
And what fun it is to shop there. The hand-picked employees are a lively, friendly group. Okay, so the guy at the front door makes silly jokes, he means well. The people wandering around with tastings in the aisles were well informed and friendly, too.
And the product: Well, it’s Trader Jones. Organic produce and meat. Kooky snack products. Great frozen foods. Fascinating condiments. Excellent desserts. Vitamins and interesting body care products.
It’s sort of like the Food Coop with a sense of humor and way more junk food.
If you haven’t spent time at a Trader Joe’s before you could spend hours at this one just exploring the unusual merchandise. Just about everything from ketchup, mayo and pickles to frozen Mandarin chicken or Salmon roulette is Trader Joe brand.
I got there around 1 p.m. and the store was still bustling with people who’d walked over from downtown Brookyn during lunch hour. At around 2 p.m. the check out line was much shorter. I got through in less than five minutes which was impressive considering how crowded the store was.
And here’s what I got. Mind you we already have favorite Trader Joe’s items because of all the time we spend in Northern California where Trader Joe’s is everywhere (with WINE, mind you). That’s the only thing I miss at the Brooklyn store: that Two Buck Chuck.
–Ginger, Almond and Cashew Granola (Hepcat’s fave)
–Trader Ming’s Mandarin Orange Chicken (frozen)
–Cilantro & Chive Yogurt Dip
–Trimmed and cooked (and pre-washed) Green Beans
–Olive Tapenade
–Corn Tortilla Multi-Seed Flat Breads
–Low Fat Chocolatey Cats Cookies For People (OSOF’s fave)
–Organic Maple Syrup Grade A Dark Amber ($5.99 for 12 oz)
–Strawberry Preserves
Saturday at 1 p.m: the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library: Russian American Kids Circus, called a circus of delight. Trained and produced by Moscow Circus veterans, these artists dazzle audiences with their synchronized acrobatics, unicycling, juggling, and daring aerial feats
Saturday at 4:30: Warren Adler, author of The War of the Roses and Random Hearts, will be reading from a new book called Funny Men there at the Dweck at 4:30 (see above link for details).
All Weekend: The Dumbo Arts Center presents Art Under the Bridge Festival, which features over 65 new public art projects, over 100 open artist’s studios, and video installations. A good time to check out the new Galapagos Art Space. The festival runs through Sunday, September 28. FREE.
Saturday Night Only: Party All Night at BAM: To to Takeover, the all-night fun at BAM. Bands. Movies, DJ’s. Games. Cheap beer. All at BAM from 9 p.m. until 4 in the morning.
All Weekend at BAMcinematek: Hawks: Howard Hawks Film Festival at BAMcinematek.
All Weekend at the Park SLope Pavilion: Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Coen Brothers: Burn After Reading, and Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna and a filmed version of the Broadway production of Rent are all at the Pavilion.
Just wondering. I think I missed the big opening ceremony. May try to pop over there this morning. See ya.
The Brooklyn Paper has the story. Here’s an excerpt from the BP article about plans to build a mall next door to IKEA. And you thought it was just going to be a BJ’s.
The BJ’s Wholesale Club destined for the Red Hook waterfront might
be part of a six-level shopping plaza with several other stores and
even some residential units, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.Documents obtained by The Paper reveal that developer Joe Sitt wants
to renovate a historic warehouse on the former Revere sugar refinery;
erect several new buildings for shopping, parking and housing; and
create a 40-feet-wide public esplanade by 2011 along the water’s edge
of the Beard Street property next door to the recently opened Ikea.Sitt’s company Thor Equities would not comment about the “request
for proposals” that Sitt issued in July, but if the plans are still
current and the city approves a zoning change to allow commercial and
residential development, the project would catapult Red Hook into the
borough’s major big box retail destination.The documents, which were part of a package to solicit bids from
architects to build the shopping plaza, sought proposals “to maximize
commercial retail square-footage” of at least 400,000 square feet —
larger than Red Hook’s Ikea.
In a collection of urgent and intimate poems, D. Nurkse explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present with which it resonates, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons.
A poet of unique force and sensitivity, Nurkse refuses to pass over the marginal characters and corners of the world, attuned to the scraps of beauty or insight they might offer up in the midst of moral darkness. In The Border Kingdom he has given us an exceptionally powerful collection of poems—unfailingly rich in imagery, undaunted in subject and spirit.
D. Nurkse is the author of eight previous books of poetry. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Tanne Foundation award, and two awards from Poetry magazine. He has also written widely on human rights. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.
The Where and When
Community Bookstore
Seventh Avenue between Carroll and Garfield
Tuesday September 30th at 7:30 p.m.
Only Angels Have Wings. The Big Sleep. Monkey Business. The Big Sky. Sargeant York. Need I say more?
Okay: Cary Grant. Lauren Bacall. Humphrey Bogart. Rita Hayworth. Jean Arthur. Ginger Rogers. Marilyn Monroe.
Put it on your calendar. Support Obama at this Park Slope benefit for change. Buy some art in the process, have a great time.
Art Obama is the brainchild of a committee of smart, creative Park Slopers, who are mad as hell and can’t take what’s happening to this country anymore. So they got organized out of frustration and passion and put together this home-grown effort to raise money. Lucky thing they know a lot of New York artists, who were willing to get on board.
On October 3, there will be a silent auction of over 100 small works by American artists to support the election of Barack Obama and down-ticket Democrats.
Proceeds benefit the Obama Victory Fund. Donations also accepted for ActBlue , a clearinghouse supporting progressive House and Senate candidates nationwide. Space is limited, and pre-registration for this event is strongly recommended.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Silent Auction 7 to 10 pm (bidding 7-9). $25 at the door
62 Eighteenth Street, Brooklyn NY, 5th Floor
This Saturday September, 27th.
It’s the Takeover (not The Takeaway, the new WNYC morning news show) and it’s at BAM on Saturday night. What a cool, cool event. So Brooklyn. So fun sounding. Maybe too fun sounding.
It’s the second annual Takeover, an all-night open house at BAM. Here’s what to expect: music curated by Sufjan Stevens at the Opera House, from the likes of St. Vincent, Budos Band and the gospel diva Naomi Shelton; DJs; screenings of “She’s Gotta Have It”; “The Warriors”; “Perfect,” with John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis); a rec room with a Wii and Guitar Hero; video art installations; and loads of socializing.
That’s right: an all nighter at BAM. You Gotta Have It.
Yikes.
My Sidewalk Chalk is excited about the new schools in Sunset Park. Go to her Great blog for more information about all things school-related.
The parents in Sunset Park are awesome. I attended a town hall meeting last night in celebration of their 40 year effort (supported by hundreds of parent activists and community organizers, yes!) The auditorium was packed to capacity with standing room spilling out into the halls.
Sunset Park has schools! A brand spanking new state of the art, 1650 seat HS building is going up on 34th St. and 4th Ave. to open Sept. 09. The construction authority was there to give progress reports (not grades.) It is on schedule.
This school that has already chosen it’s Principal, Corrine Vinal (a longtime educator and experienced administrator). It will have three learning communities within the school: Performing and Visual Arts, Health and Human Services, Business and Entrepreneurship. The themes were chosen by the community, as was the currently unprecedented model of having one principal to oversee the school. It is not a screened program. They are focused on college prep and there is priority for Brooklyn students.
th graders, if you want to place this school on your list of 12, this is how you do it. It sounds weird, but it IS the procedure straight from the DOE. This school will not be listed in the directory. Don’t panic. Fill out your application. Don’t list Sunset Park HS yet. Hand in your registration on or before the appointed day in the fall. File a NEW FORM during the February 2009 application period for new schools. This form overrides the previous form. Rank Sunset Park High School along with your other schools in the order you want them. If you have questions about admission call OSEPO (212) 374-2363. If you have questions about the high school call the Sunset Park Task Force (718) 788-3500.
Barack Obama isn’t the only one wondering whether John McCain is going to debate tonight. Plenty of Park Slopers have debate parties planned. So what’s the story, John? Are you really too busy “helping out” in Washington to take out 90 minutes for a debate?
Come on, dude. Here’s the blurb from barackobama.com
Where are you watching the debate?
Barack is moving ahead with plans for Friday’s debate.
The election is less than 40 days away, and the American people deserve to hear directly from the candidates about how they intend to lead our country.
You’re invited to join a Debate Watch Party in your community and discuss the issues that are most important to you and your family, friends, and neighbors.
Find a Debate Watch Party in your area and RSVP today.
These parties will allow you to to get to know folks in your community, and continue building this campaign from the bottom up by reaching out to even more supporters using our Neighbor to Neighbor tool.
If you can’t attend a party, you can still use our Neighbor to Neighbor tool to reach out to swing voters in a crucial battleground state who need to hear from you
.
Thursday, October 2, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, join the Brooklyn Historical Society for the launch of the Park Slope Neighborhood & Architectural History Guide, written by OTBKB fave and Park Sloper, Francis Morrone, which looks at the people, events, and architecture of Park Slope, past and present.
The guide covers Park Slope’s days as a horsecar suburb and the emergence of the "Gold Coast" of Brooklyn’s elite; the working-class history of the South Slope and the mid-20th-century demographic changes that brought new groups, including Italians and African-Americans, into the neighborhood. The guide pays special attention to Park Slope’s magnificent architecture.
Become a member at the launch and receive a first edition copy of this fascinating publication! Guides will also be available for purchase at the BHS gift shop and online at www.brooklynhistory.org for $10 for non-members and $8 for BHS members.
FAILOUT
Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke
–Renowned as Hank and Bank–
Now want exclusive right to run
The economy they sank.
And who would quarrel with their creds,
This mighty Wall Street duo–
If success breeds even more success,
What’ll failure do, oh?
This photograph by Tom Martinez shows a Coney Island Street Performer making huge bubbles astonishing a newlywed bride (bottom right).
Just heard about this interesting series at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. They’ve got quite a line-up of writers. And it’s in the new Stevan Dweck Center, which is a nice venue.
The series is “Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in New York,” which features WNYC host Leonard Lopate in conversation with three authors, including last year’s Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction, Junot Diaz.
The first event is October 4, with Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz, which was hailed as a “powerfully affecting depiction of a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the [Iranian] revolution” that “stands a chance of becoming a classic” by bestselling novelist Claire Messud writing in the New York Times Book Review.
Dalia Sofer, author of the debut novel The Septembers of Shiraz will appear on October 4, 2008 (Saturday) at 4pm
• Hailed as a “powerfully affecting depiction of a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran shortly after the [Iranian] revolution” that “stands a chance of becoming a classic” (New York Times Book Review), The Septembers of Shiraz was released in paperback by HarperPerennial earlier this year.Junot Diaz, author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao will appear on November 1, 2008 (Saturday) at 4pm
• Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Diaz’s multigenerational Dominican-American family chronicle flashes “his geek credentials, his street wisdom and his literary learning with equal panache” (New York Times). Just released in paperback by Riverhead Books.Lara Vapnyar, author of the Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love will appear on December 6, 2008 (Saturday) at 4pm:
• Having learned to speak English after emigrating to the U.S. from Moscow in 1994, Vapnyar has been called “a talented writer, possessed of an ample humor and insight and a humane sensibility” (New York Times Book Review). Her story collection was released in hardcover earlier this year by Pantheon Books.Each event will take place at the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, located at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library, at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn (#2 or #3 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum).
City Council Member, David Yassky, who is running for the job of NYC Comptroller, sent out this email about the current financial crisis:
Dear Friend-
The full impact of the Wall Street earthquake will not be known for some time, but it is already clear that New York’s leaders must begin planning now for a significantly weaker City economy.
The pain will be real. Mayor Bloomberg has already ordered City agencies—including police and schools— to implement $1.5 billion in cutbacks, and has signaled that he is likely to propose an increase in the property tax rate. These are prudent steps to address the short term crisis. The real challenge will be responding to the wholesale restructuring of the City’s core industry.
First, we must work to strengthen policies aimed at diversifying our economy. For example, I recently proposed an expansion of the City’s tax credit for film and TV production. The original credit, which I sponsored three years ago, has spurred a doubling of film production, creating some 6,000 new jobs. We must take advantage of similar growth opportunities in biotechnology and green manufacturing.
Second, we must intensify efforts to create a more efficient and entrepreneurial City government. Earlier this month, I called on the Department of Sanitation to sell advertising space on the City’s 25,000 trash cans. Today, the City adorns its trash cans with the names of local politicians (including me). Let’s use this space to generate revenue rather than political support. Now, we need a hundred more ideas to generate revenue and eliminate wasteful spending.
Finally, we must recognize that New York’s position at the center of the financial world is at risk. Merrill Lynch will soon be a North Carolina bank; the surviving parts of Lehman Brothers will be absorbed by a British firm; Bear Stearns has disappeared; and AIG has been taken over by Washington. To be sure, a new order will emerge, and the next generation of financial giants is likely to be found among the many smaller, nimble firms already operating here in New York. But our government must do its part by making sure the City remains a preeminent place to do business.
I have great confidence in the leadership of Mayor Bloomberg as we enter these uncharted waters, but I have no illusions about the difficulty of the choices we face. I spoke last night at a residents’ meeting in a large new apartment building in Downtown Brooklyn. When I explained the City’s financial situation, a young father said, “So we’ll be paying more taxes for less service?” I agreed, and he did not look happy. But as I was leaving, he stopped me to thank me for my work and asked, “What can we do to help?”
That’s the spirit.
Watch tonight’s debate at Bar Reis at 375 Fifth Avenue at 6th Street. The interesting, smart bartenders are so excited about the debate they renamed the beers on tap (see fuzzy picture). There should be a real interesting crowd over there.
So work has begun on JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue at 3rd Street, home of the Old Stone House. What I didn’t know is that the handball courts were demolished to make way for the changes.
I’m sure that rubbed some people the wrong way.
But according to Phil Abramson, a Parks Department Spokesperson: "We tried to keep them open as long as we could," he told the Park SLope Courier. Previously, they promised the handball players that they’d never be left without their courts.
Promises, promises.
The silver lining is this: there will be eight new handball courts, a basketball court, a skate park and a dog run.
The new wine shop on Fifth Avenue has only been around for a few weeks but it already feels like the place we go for wine.
It’s so well located for those of us on Third Street who spend a lot of time on Fifth. There it is right next to The Gate, Brooklyn Mercantile, Serene Rose. Across the street from the Old Stone House, JJ Byrne Park. So near to ‘Snice, Bird, and Stone Park Cafe.
I can grab a bottle on my way home from my therapist — always a good time for a bottle of wine. Friends brought over two bottles of wine from there the other day.
We’re beginning to collect sleek, brown wine bags from there.
The shop is called Picada y Vino and it’s on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. They carry a wide variety of wines from a variety of countries. The prices range from $8.99 to about $80 for what the owner calls an incredible champagne. They said price isn’t the issue. If they love the wine they’ll carry it.
For me, I’m just glad they have plenty of “screw-off” bottle tops. No corks for me—no more corkscrews
It’s a very pretty shop. Elegant, sleek. Very Lexington Avenue, I’d say. In fact, the original Eric NYC may have been on Lexington Avenue.
One of the partners in that NYC shop has ventured out to brownstone Brooklyn alongside Barrio and across the street from the upcoming Kids Rx (both are venturers from Manhattan).
Visually, Eric will pull in all the shoe-obsessed of Park Slope. Stylish shelves lines the left and right walls and comfy ottoman-style seating is down the middle. Browns, beiges, whites, the space is minimalist, stylish and restful to the eye with a discriminating selection of shoes.
Yes, shoes for the Park Slope woman.
I wanted to ask Eric, the owner, what he thinks the Park Slope woman wants when it comes to shoes. From the looks of it he thinks: comfortable, low, brown. Yes, there is life beyond Keens, Birkenstocks and Crocs.
There are some fun, dressy shoes. And the ski book style boots in the back are really cool. I’ll be in there again today to check out the price points and to talk to Eric:
“So what is a Park Slope shoe?”
A new public charter school is opening in September 2009 to Community School District 15 students. For fifth grade families in our district, they will be hosting several Student/Family information sessions throughout the district over the next several months.
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, a new public school opening to sixth grade students in School District 15 in September, 2009 will begin hosting information sessions for current fifth grade students and their families.
Info Sessions will be held:
October 6th and October 27th, 2008
6:00 to 8:00PM,
New York Methodist Hospital’s East Pavilion Auditorium in Park Slope
Come and meet the team and learn about this new school.
space is limited….RSVP is required;
to view an invitation and reserve tickets log on to our website (www.brooklynprospect.org)
Each evening will feature a short presentation about our school and will allow plenty of time for questions. We encourage parent(s) and the prospective student to attend.
There will be at least six information sessions at different locations throughout the district between now and early spring 2009.
Additionally the Brooklyn Prospect Team is happy to visit your elementary school. Speak with your parent coordinator or guidance counselor and contact Brooklyn Prospect Charter School for a visit.
It’s a big deal when your kid learns to ride a two-wheeler. In fact, it’s a major rite of passage. Bike New York and City of
New York Parks and Recreation have lined up more than a dozen free Learn to
Ride–Kids classes in neighborhoods all over the city every weekend until
November, including two in Brooklyn .
Parents
can bring children to learn the magical balance-first method plus starting,
stopping, steering, and other biking necessities. So far this year, more than
1,000 kids and their parents learned this method, and the program received the
2007 Best of Parks Best Partnership Award.
This program is for children with their parents; recommended for ages 5 and
up. Bikes and helmets required. Pre-register at
http://www.bikenewyork.org/education/classes/learn_to_ride.html .
The When and the Where:
Saturday, September 27, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Owls Head
Park, Shore Parkway, Shore Road, Colonial Road, and 68th Street, Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn
Saturday, October 11, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.,
Linden Park ,
Linden Boulevard
and Stanley Avenue, Vermont
to Wyona Streets, New Lots, Brooklyn
Sponsored by Bike New York
is a non-profit organization that promotes and encourages bicycling and bicycle
safety through education, public events, and collaboration with community and
government organizations. Best known as producer of the nation’s largest
recreational cycling event, the Commerce Bank Five Boro Bike Tour, Bike
New York also organizes
smaller rides and runs a Bicycle Education Program offering free classes and
workshops for adults and children. For more information on Bike
New York ‘s rides and
programs, including registration details, visit www.BikeNewYork.org.
Last weekend was re-opening weekend for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum after its $48.5 million renovation with a striking and bold design by Rafael Vinoly. The museum is now double its old size and full of all new exhibits.
Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn Paper.
People are always wondering about the Knife Sharpener, the guy who drives around in a brown truck and rings a bell. Ding, ding, ding: time to sharpen your knife. By the time you realize he’s there, he’s already gone.
Alas, he’s never around when you need him. Does anyone know how to get in touch with him? Some Park Slope folks would sure appreciate it:
One local mom heard him on 10th Street around 4 p.m.. Unfortunately, she missed him because she didn’t think it a good
idea to run after him with a handful of knives. Yes.
She continues to cook with dull knives.
Another Park Slope mom saw him on Saturday, September 13th driving down 13th Street between 8th
Avenue and PPW. Apparently, she asked him when he would return and he said in another three months. She didn’t notice a name or a number on the truck, but is going to keep an eye out for him.
Does anyone know any other alternatives for dull knives?
My father’s voice is still on his answering machine and I love the way he delivers the message. Especially the way he says: Thank you. There’s a slight squeak at the end of the you.
I helped him install that machine a few months ago. His old one had broken and he always relied on me for electronic installations. I was his computer geek and phone machine expert and I must say I enjoyed the somewhat misbegotten confidence he had in me.
And I did not want to disappoint.
I sat with him when he recorded the message. He was already sick with cancer but going through a good phase.
He sounds very healthy on the message.
Friends are pressuring my stepmother to change the message. They tell her that’s it’s disturbing to them. My stepmother doesn’t want to take it off. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Also, she doesn’t hear it because she never calls herself.
My sister wants to keep it there. So do I. We both enjoy this daily encounter with our father. I don’t think I can bear the thought of it not being there. He was always the voice on their answering machine.
Pastor Meeter wrote this morning with a similar story:
My father-in-law died from multiple mialoma almost three years ago.
His distinctive voice is still what I hear whenever I call my
mother-in-law and she’s not home. His voice is the one who gives the
outgoing message on the answering machine.
What I would give to have a recording of my own grandfather’s voice.
His voice was unique, he spoke from somewhere back in his throat, but
high in the back and yet low in front, and with his distinctive
Amsterdam accent, which he could never shake, having immigrated at age
16, and never wanted to shake, being an Amsterdammer. I think it’s why
he so loved to visit us in Brooklyn, because it was the place in
America most like Amsterdam.
Government leaders, including Governor David Paterson and Borough President Marty Markowitz were at the New York Army National Guard Armory on Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights yesterday to call on the public to donate desperately-needed supplies for hurricane relief efforts in Haiti.
Recent hurricanes have left hundreds of residents dead, tens of thousands homeless, and many areas ravaged by hunger, dehydration, destroyed roadways and crumbling infrastructure.
Governor Paterson has directed the opening of the New York Army National Guard Armory in Brooklyn to allow for the collection of donated relief supplies. The facility at 1579 Bedford Avenue at Union Street will be open through September 29th from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Soldiers from the New York National Guard are on hand to receive, sort and prepare for shipment donated items for the citizens of Haiti. In addition, the state is accepting donated items at the Adam Clayton Powell State Office building at 163 West 125th Street at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. in Harlem . Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The most-needed items include:
• Bottled water (packed in cases or six packs at a minimum). Single bottles are inappropriate donations since they will have to be repackaged
• Rice (dried in bags)
• Beans (dried only and cans)
• Sterno canisters
• Tarpaulin – of any size, preferably 10×10 or larger. It is used for both roofing and flooring
• Nylon cord (100’ rolls)
• Hygiene items limited to toothbrushes, toothpaste, mild soaps
• New underclothes – children sizes
• New hand towels
For more information, please email relief@chamber.state.ny.us or call (212) 681-4010.