BROOKLYN WEATHER: What’s it gonna do today? Check here for Brooklyn weather.
CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS: Daylight savings time
for New York (EST, GMT -7:00) began on Sunday. You were supposed to set your clocks
ahead (spring forward) one hour at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 3, 2005. DO IT NOW.
CITY NEWS: The MTA has decided NOT to close subway booths. According to New York 1, the 169 booths set to be closed will remain open but the attendants will still be out in the station acting as customer service representatives. Subway booths will remain accessible to the clerks so that they can use the phone to call police or fix metro card problems.
_The federal government issued report saying that the city’s bridges are structurally inadequate or obsolete.
As of last Sunday, children age seven and younger must be buckled into a car seat in New York State. This is up from age four.
BROOKLYN BEAT: Residents of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the city’s largest Polish community, mourned the death of the first Polish Pope.
_Tafare Berryman, a promising college basketball player from Brooklyn was shot dead outside a nightclub in Long Island.
_The New York Times reported on Saturday that Bruce C. Ratner bought two properties owned by a rival developer, thus removing a potential obstacle for his $2.5 billion sports and housing project for the Atlantic Yards. He paid $44 million to Leviev Boymelgreen for the two properties that Mr. Boymelgreen paid $20 million in August 2004.
_A rash of muggings at
MS 51 by students from other middle schools resulted in a meeting
between school parents and the 78th pct.
_When more than 500
District 15 fifth graders received the news that they
were not admitted to any of their three top choices for middle school,
City Council Member Bill DiBlasio pressed Chancellor
Klein at an Education Committee hearing, invited colleagues who also
represent District 15 to follow up by letter, and joined parents at a
Community Education Council meeting. ‘This situation should have been
anticipated and avoided through better planning and communication,’ he
said. ‘I’ve been working with my colleagues to ensure as many students
as possible have their choices honored this year and that the process
is improved next year. " From
a press release distributed by Councilman DiBlasio’s office.
_Brooklyn now has a city program aimed at treating sexual assault
victims very quickly in the hopes of increasing the odds of catching
the attackers. This program, which includes a response team with
specially trained forensic examiners, and rape crisis counselors to
treat every victim within one hour of their arrival at the hospital.
started in the Bronx and now includes Brooklyn.
_There have been a number of muggings between President and Ninth
Street
in Park Slope. The victims are women who are talking on their cell
phones. The suspect surprises them from behind, puts his hand over
their mouth and asks for money. According to the police, he hasn’t hurt
anyone; he just takes the cash and runs. The most recent incident was
on Tuesday at 4
p.m. on President Street on or near 8th Avenue. If you have any
information, please call the 78th Precint Pct., re: Pattern 29.
718-636-6484.
IT’S MONDAY: The BAMCinematek presents: "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf "The Graduate," "Carnal
Knowledge," "Angels in America, "Wit," and more.
THIS SOUNDS COOL: Around the World in 80 Days at Puppetworks. Weekends at 12: 30 and 2:30 p.m.
338 Sixth Avenue at 4th Street.
_Too Cool for Shul: Festival of Contemporary Jewish Music. Various artists at the BAM Cafe. Weekends in April.
WORTH TAKING A LOOK: OTBKB Daily Pix
photographer, Hugh Crawford, has a show of portrait work on view at Fou
Le Chakra 411 Seventh Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets until May
16th.
_ In the documentary, "Let’s Get Real" kids speak out about
bullying, name calling, and other root causes of violence in school. The
film explores a variety of issues that lead to taunting and bullying including
racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, learning
disabilities, sexual harassment and others. A panel discussion will
follow the screening on April 16th at The ImaginAsian Theater 239 East
59th Street in Manhattan between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. 10:00 am until noon. The film is appropriate for kids ages
10 and up. Reservations necessary: urbina9@aol.com
HERE/SAY: "New York is city of conversations overheard, of people at the next
restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people
reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train." – Willian
Geist