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: Jury selection began today in the Crown Heights malpractice trial. The family of Yankel Rosenblum’s is accusing Kings County Hospital of botching up emergency care of Rosenblum who was injured during riots.
_Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the city’s largest Polish community, mourned the death of the first Polish Pope at the St. Stanislaus Church.
_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 has purchased 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 bought for $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 TUESDAY: Broolyn luminaries Paul Auster and Siri Husvedt read at PS 107 as part of Readings on the Fourth Floor, a fundraising event for the school’s library. 1301 8th Avenue. At 7:30 pm.
_The National Ballet of Canada at BAM in "The Contract" a work loosely based on the Pied Piper of Hamlin. 7:30
_Park Slope Poetry Project, Ryn Gargulinski reads followed by an open mic. St. John, St Matthew Emanuel Church. 283 Prospect Avenue. 7:30 – 10 p.m
_Opening night of the Brooklyn Jewish Film Festival. BAM 30 Lafayette Avenue.
THIS SOUNDS COOL: Jack Rabbit’s tri and swim classes start this week. Where would we be
without Jack Rabbit to help us get our bodies in SHAPE. And it feels so
goooooooood. Go to Jackrbt.com and find a class for YOU.
_The first Park Slope Kids Music Festival. This Sunday at Southpaw:
Wendy Gesanliter, John Carlin and Uncle Rock. Refreshments available.
4/10 at 11 a.m. 125 Fifth Avenue. $12 for kids, $6 for kids 2 and up.
Under that: free. concertforkids.com
Frank London, who plays trumpet in the Klezmatics, leads kids at the Eldridge Street Synogogue through a lesson on traditional Jewish melodies. Plus a tour of the 1887 synogogue and egg creams. 4/10 at 11 a.m. Reservations required. 12 Eldridge Street, near Canal Street. 212-219-0888 or eldridgestreet.org. Admission is $8.
_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.
Brooklyn Reading Works. Fiction. Memoir Poetry. Curated by Louise G. Crawford. APRIL 28 at 8 p.m. Pamela Katz reads: And Speaking of Love (Aufbau-Verlag)
a novel that evokes the life and loves of Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill, and poet Michelle Madigan Somerville reads from Wisegal
(Ten Pell Books) and newer work: "A multilingual hardrock
reverie…going upside your head to whisper whipsmart secrets about
cracked-out big-city survival.