BROOKLYN WEATHER: There’s gonna be sunshine. And wind. Slightly warmer than yesterday. More Brooklyn weather here.
CITY NEWS: MTA fair hike will go into effect this weekend. The price of a $70 Metrocard will rocket up to $76. A weekly pass from $21 to $24. The cost of a single ride remains: $2.00.Read all about it.
_Olympic Committe makes it clear: No Stadium: no deal. Read all about it.
_City unveils plans for a waterfront park
underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. The first public meeting for a Brooklyn
Bridge Park in nearly three years was held Tueday. Unveiled were the
new designs for the more than one-mile long waterfront park that
stretches under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Read all about it.
BROOKLYN BEAT: Firefighters battled a huge fire at a Brooklyn Navy Yard warehouse said to belong to B&H Camera. The fire started when sparks from a worker’s blow torch ignited plastic and cardboard inside the warehouse. An acetylyne tank then exploded things making things much worse.
_Human torso found in a Brooklyn recycling
plant. The remains were found around 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Rapid
Recycling Corporation in Greenpoint. The medical examiner is trying to figure out if the torso belongs to the victim whose arms and legs were discovered at a nearby subway station. Read all about it.
_The Brooklyn dance floor where "Saturday
Night Fever" was filmed is on the auction block. Bids at e-bay are
expected to exceed $80,000 for the lighted Bay Ridge dance floor where
John Travolta’s character, Tony Manero, strutted his stuff. The club,
"2001 Odyssey" (renamed "Spectrum" after the movie was made) is
closing.
_Five Brooklyn bike riders are suing the city
over bumps on the Williamsburg Bridge. The cyclists claim they were
hurt when their bikes hit metal plates that are part of the bike path
on the bridge. Cyclists say these metal plates make the commute
difficult. The five riders who filed the law suit say they suffered
injuries from broken bones to fractured eye sockets. One rider said he
shattered his pelvis. They are suing for $2 million each. Read all about it.
_Brooklyn preservation activists are calling
upon Ikea to save Brooklyn waterfront architecture that dates back to
the Civil War. The Municipal Art Society unveiled two alternative
plans on February 14th that would ensure that two dry docks and
buildings would not be destroyed to make room for the new Ikea in Red
Hook.
AMERICAN GIRL DOLL IN THE NEWS: Marisol, the new
Mexican-American American Girl Doll, is causing some controversy.
Actually it’s the book that is sold with the doll that has community
activitsts in Pilsen, a Hispanic community in Chicago, up in arms.
"While it is delightful that the company has decide to create a
Mexican-American doll, I find it insulting to the neighborhood that she
has to move to the suburbs to be safe," said Juan Guzman, Vice President of the Mexican Fine Arts Museum located in Pilsen: Read all about it.
SATURDAY: Native American storytelling and dancers at the Green-Wood Cemetery. 1 pm at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street.
_Book Fair at Park Slope United Methodist Church. Sixth Avenue and Eighth Street. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
_Reception at Skylight Gallery for The Written War: A Retrospective of Graffiti Crews of Kings County. 1368 Fulton Street. Free. 6 p.m.
_ Laurie Anderson performs her one woman with violin
show, "The End of the Moon" at BAM 2/22 – 3/1. According to The Yellow
Rabbit: " Part travelogue, part personal theory, history and dream The End of the Moon
looks at the relationships between war, aesthetics, spirituality and
consumerism. Anecdotal, wide ranging and epic, this original work also features her new music for violin and electronics. Of The End of the Moon
Anderson writes,