This is an event sponsored by supporters of Hillary Clinton. It is located at a nice looking new bar on 9th Street called Dram Shop (details below).

When: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Where: The Dram Shop
339 Ninth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
General Area: Park Slope

Join fellow Brooklyn Hillary supporters on debate night in Park Slope – at the newly opened Dram Shop, a terrific bar with a great atmosphere – 7:30PM – 10:00PM. Location is 341 Ninth Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues – close to the F and M/R lines. Please bring your friends to network, watch the debates and get motivated to get out the vote for Hillary in the NY primary February 5th!

Please rsvp by registering at the Hillary Clinton site, http://www.hillaryclinton.com/actioncenter/event/view/?id=7284

Don’t miss tonight’s reading at the Old Stone House.

Tonight: Brooklyn Reading Works presents Word Girls: 4 poets associated with Word Tech Press.

Plus: an open mic following the reading, which I will be reading in.

AWP: The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, an annual conference and book fair is in town and some of the participants are coming out to Park Slope.

Brooklyn Reading Works is at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. Take the F-train to Fourth Avenue or Union Street and walk. The R train to Union Street. Directions are here. For information or questions: 718-288-4290 (if you get lost or need better directions).

WORD GIRLS with poets published by Word Tech: BARBARA CROOKER, MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, KIM GARCIA, ERIN MURPHY. OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW. Starts at 8 p.m.

Yup, it’s closed. Closed down for good.

The women who work at Met Food said the rent was too high. Another local shopkeeper said that they weren’t making any money. Maybe the renovation did them in. A neighbor saw the tall, white haired owner crying.

It’s very sudden. Everyone’s asking, “What happened to Second Street?”

One local shopkeeper told me that she loved the old decor, the pictures on the wall. She thinks they were ill advised to change anything. Moving the door from Seventh Avenue to 2nd Street may have been a problem as well.

Wherever I went today people said, “What happened to Second Street Cafe?” It was definitely the talk of the neighborhood. And there were many expressions of appreciation for the owners, the food, the staff, and the old pictures on the wall.

So sudden. So strange. The block between 2nd and 3rd Street on Seventh Avenue has had three closings in two months (Tempo Presto, Seventh Avenue Books, Second Street Cafe). Park Slope Books will be out in March.

Prior to Second Street that storefront had a liquor store and then an ill-fated Mexican restaurant. Second Street went in ten years ago. Then they made the changes and now they’re gone.

My sister had a dream that she walked into the Cafe and all the old crayon drawings were back.

Good bye Second Street: we will really miss you.

I was excited to see this in the New York Time’s Book Review yesterday. Yay to Lynn Chandhok, a Park Slope Poet, for being #8 on this list.

It ain’t easy to be a poet. And it’s even harder to get your work out there and published. Congrats to Lynn, who book is immediately available at the Community Bookstore. Until recently it was on the front counter. Lynn read at Brooklyn Reading Works in October.

INDEPENDENTS’ DAY: What are this country’s
best-selling small-press poetry books? Small Press Distribution — a
nonprofit distributor that represents books by some 450 small
publishers — knows. On the friendly S.P.D. Web site (www.spdbooks.org) you can find the following list, which reflects sales for December, the most recent month available.

1) “Sleeping and Waking,” by Michael O’Brien (Flood Editions).
2) “This Is What Happened in Our Other Life,” by Achy Obejas (Midsummer Night’s Press).
3) “Necessary Stranger,” by Graham Foust (Flood Editions).
4) “You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I  Am,” by Tao Lin (Action Books).
5) “Eulogies,” by Amiri Baraka (Agincourt).
6) “The Line,” by Jennifer Moxley (Post-Apollo).
7) “Case Sensitive,” by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta).

8) “The View From Zero Bridge,” by Lynn Aarti Chandhok (Anhinga).
9) “Newcomer Can’t Swim,” by Renee Gladman (Kelsey Street).
10) “Lip Wolf,” by Laura Solorzano (Action Books).

A President Like My Father by Caroline Kennedy (NY Times)

Park Slope food bombshell (Gowanus Lounge)

A kid for a better future (Brooklynometry)

Squirrels fighting for their lives in Prospect Park (Brooklynometry)

Idiotarad: the video (Gowanus Lounge)

Twin Bat Mitzvahs (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

Thinking about Kaddish (Andy Bachman’s blog)

An interview with Park Slope’s murder blogger, Paul LaRosa (Brooklyn Optimist)

February 10th Brooklyn Blogade meet-up on Smith Street (Creative Times)

Beer Table in a liquor license limbo (The City section)

But I do think I can confirm the fact that Union Hall has to enforce a ban on kids and strollers. They are obviously under the gun for some reason that they haven’t put forward officially yet. While they might not want to make a big deal about it, not talking about it seems to be making it into an even bigger deal (Thanks to the blogs).

It might make sense to tell the community what’s going on.

A Union Hall employee, who did not want to be quoted, did want me to remind readers that they still have all ages shows from time to time on Saturday afternoons.

Hopefully, they will continue to do that.

Look’s like mom’s groups with strollers and parents who like to go to bars with their kids may need to find somewhere else to hang out.

Early reaction to Carroll Gardens zoining announcement (Gowanus Lounge)

Life in Prospect Lefferts (Brooklyn Based)

Raise high the rough beams on 2nd Street (Brownstoner)

Undercover temptations in Brooklyn South (NY Times)

Long Island high school senior dies of Meningitis (NY Times)

The Idiotarod NYC 2008 (their official website)

The Idiotarod Returns (Brooklyn Optimist)

Pre-K and Kindergarten entry process for public schools simplified (New York Times)

Tribute to Heath (New York Magazine)

Coverage of the Heath Coverage (New York Magazine)

The Idiotarod on January 26th (A Brooklyn Life)

17th Street Ghost (Brooklynometry)

Ivo’s roommate silent on Remsen Street arsenal (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

New night club for Fourth Avenue (Brownstoner)

Police Corruption Inquiry in South Brooklyn Widening (New York Times)

Human Facade Game (Callalillie)

Green Grape Provisions Store now open (Clinton Hill Blog)

Soundcheck wants to see the inside of your rehearsal space (WNYC)

Greetings from Whitehorse in the scenic Yukon Territory (Dope on the Slope)

Where else but the Jewish Music Café at 401 9th Street (between
6th and 7th Avenues) in Park Slope can you get an  ice
cold bottle of He’ brew Beer, a slice of Mrs. Selter’s famous Cheese
cake, a Kosher Cappuccino and enjoy great bands playing Klezmer,
Sephardic, Avant Garde jazz, Hassidic rap and Israeli trance?

This Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. for $15. come hear Y-Love and Pey Dalid.

Y-Love (Yitz Jordan) is part of the new guard of hip hop revolutionaries. Describing his style as "global hip hop," Y-Love seamlessly intertwines English, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and ancient Aramaic. He combines ethereal scripture with gritty social consciousness, reflecting his own life-changing conversion to Hasidism. Having graced the stage with luminaries as varied and respected as Lou Reed, DJ Spooky, Hadag Nachash, Matisyahu, Steinski, and Immortal Technique, Y-Love has proven himself as a formidable presence in the world of hip hop.

Pey Dalid performs a unique blend of musical styles, incorporating
rock, reggae and many other popular genres with traditional Jewish
sound and content. Singing in Hebrew and English, the band’s live shows are high-energy and
intense, bringing audiences to their feet singing and dancing. Formed
by three brothers, Mordechai (rhythm guitar/vocals), Shlomo (lead
guitar/vocals), and Pesach Walker (drums/percussion/vocals), Pey Dalid
has influenced and inspired thousands of people in its 8 years in the
Jewish music field. They have traveled the world

It’s hard to overestimate what Heath Ledger means to Brooklyn.

When this Oscar nominated Austrailian actor moved to Boerum Hill it seemed to confirm to us what we already knew: Brooklyn is a livable place to be whether you’re a regular person or a Hollywood celebrity.

To the world outside, it meant that brownstone Brooklyn was an it neighborhood: the cool celebrities were coming and Brooklyn had arrived.

The neighborhoods of Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill welcomed Heath and Michelle with open arms and the neighbors stayed out of their way. They were even protective of him: Heath and Michelle were free to be real people in a real neighborhood.

At the same time the local media and the papparazzi followed them with great interest. Their whereabouts were duly noted. Still, the message seemed to be: Look, they’re just regular Brooklyn stoller people, sipping lattes, walking on Smith and Court Streets. Perhaps most importantly Heath and Michelle were members of the Advisory Board of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. In this way, they used their celebrity to make people aware of the battle against the Atlantic Yards.

With every snapshot, real estate brokers could practically hear the
price of local real estate rising. If they wanted to be here: everyone
would want to be here, too.

Neighbors prided themselves on seeing Heath and Michelle doing
ordinary things: Heath jogging or at a movie theater; shopping for wine
or buying Matilda clothing at local kid’s shop, Area.

Even in the New York Times’ coverage of the story of Heath’s untimely passing, Brooklyn has a part:   

Until they separated last summer, he, Ms. Williams and
Matilda were the darlings of Brooklyn, photographed around Boerum Hill.
But Mr. Ledger often clashed with paparazzi — most intensely back home
in Australia.

But a Brooklyn blog, the Brownstoner, proudly posted this comment
from The Daily Telegraph after he and Ms. Williams bought their house
near Smith Street: “Ledger, who’s had a rocky relationship with the
paparazzi in Australia, has found Brooklyn’s residents to be a good
deal mellower. ‘He’s very nice and they’re very sweet people,’ said his
neighbor Margaret Cusack. ‘We got to go to the premiere of “Brokeback
Mountain” — he gave us tickets.’ ” Reached on Tuesday after Mr. Ledger
had died, Ms. Cusack said she would not comment.

After splitting up with Ms. Williams — and jilting Brooklyn — Mr. Ledger remained a favorite of tabloids and photographers.

Jilting Brooklyn. In a sense that’s true.

He may have been leaving his girlfriend but he was walking out on Brooklyn, too. It was a blow to lose such a cool celebrity.

So in a small way, Brooklyn is part of Heath’s story. And it will be
the part of his life remembered for its nascent normality. He got to be
a dad here and the partner of a beautiful actress. Here he could be
himself on the tree-lined streets of Boerum Hill.

And we got a thrill just by knowing he was here. 

It seems that many parents in NYC feel the way I do as expressed in my post yesterday: Educational Measurements: I’m So Sick of It.

The New York Times reports:

But when parents at two Manhattan elementary schools discovered that their children had been selected to participate in “field tests,” or tests to help the state’s testing company try out questions for future tests, they decided to draw the line.

At a news conference in front of City Hall on Tuesday, the parents said they were organizing a boycott of the field tests to be given at their children’s schools — Public Schools 40 and 116 — later this week.

“We’re using tests to figure out how kids will test on tests,” said Jane Hirschmann, the founder and co-chairwoman of Time Out From Testing, an anti-testing group that sponsored the news conference.

If the test takes time away from classroom teaching I say get rid of it. You have to ask, who is benefiting? The kids already spend too much time preparing for and taking standardized tests. The stress on the kids and the teachers needs to be taken into account.

According to the Times, this increase in testing has something to do with the No Child Left Behind Law:

…because of requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind Law coupled with the City Education Department’s decision to raise the number of diagnostic tests given to third through eighth graders — last year there as many as six — New York City’s public school students are taking more standardized tests than ever. And so the boycotters seized on the field tests, saying the testing company should figure out another way to conduct its research.

More testing might make officials feel like they’re doing something. But as every parent knows, it’s just time away from activities that really add to the quality of our children’s education.

And tests about tests, that’s just plain ridiculous

Just read on Racked that there’s a new bookstore in Dumbo called Melville House at 145 Plymouth Street at Pearl Street. A bookstore opening? How refreshing.

The store is part of Melville House Publishing, the publishers who put out a well-designed series of novellas, which I just love. I already have Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, The Dead by James Joyce, First Love by Turgenev. I bought them at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Here’s their blurb:

Melville House Publishing is a new, independent publishing house
founded in Hoboken, New Jersey, which is also known as the Left Bank of
New York City, and which is where Marlon Brando said to Eve Marie Saint
(in "On the Waterfront," which was shot in Hoboken), "Come on, I’ll
walk you home. There are a lot of guys around here with only one thing
on their mind." As it turns out, what’s on the mind of a lot of those
men — and local women, too — is good, solid literature, especially
literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry. In an amazing coincidence,
this is exactly what Melville House provides. Except now it provides it
from an entirely new location — Brooklyn. Yes, the Real Left Bank.
Well, except for the Other Real Left Bank, of course. We’re in the
neighborhood known as DUMBO, to be exact. With a spiffy bookshop to
boot. So, to review, that’s DUMBO, D-U-M-B-O. Remember the "O," or it’s
just dumb. And where would you be without the O? In the river, that’s
where.

Here’s this week’s Smartmom from the Brooklyn Paper.

The middle school moment of truth is just around the corner.

Sort of.

In the next month or so, Smartmom, Hepcat, and the Oh So Feisty One will have to fill out OSFO’s application to middle school.

Da da da dummmmmm.

Since the fall, they’ve been attending middle school open houses and tours.

OSFO keeps tabs on Smartmom’s progress. She’s convinced that she isn’t doing enough to facilitate the process.

“Have you made appointments at all the schools?” OSFO asks frequently. “Isn’t there somewhere else we should be looking?”

Smartmom explains to her that they are only looking at public schools.

“Is Berkeley Carroll public or private? How about Poly Prep?”

Obviously, middle school is the talk of the playground — and the source of great anxiety for kids and parents alike.

In preparation for that big decision, the Smartmom Three (the whole family minus Teen Spirit) toured New Voices Middle School on 18th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues and got a really detailed sense of the place from the charismatic principal, Frank Giordana, who took them around. His shirt was lavender, the same color as the walls of the school.

Giordana prides himself on knowing the names of all the children in the school and seems to have created a cozy and nurturing learning environment.

It’s also a very creative place, where the arts are considered an important component of academic life. All sixth graders are required to take dance, drama, fine art, graphic design, and music. In seventh and eighth grade, they are required to specialize.

OSFO liked the idea that she’d have a chance to sample a variety of artistic disciplines. MS 51, another school she is considering, requires that you make a commitment to one of the arts and stick with it for three years.

It’s hard to imagine that a fifth grader would be prepared to make that kind of decision.

Walking back to Third Street after the tour, Smartmom knew better than to ask OSFO what she thought of the school. Sure, part of her just wanted to just blurt out, “So, is New Voices a top contender?”

But she knew that OSFO would bite her head off. A girl needs time to process her own thoughts.

Poor OSFO. She has to leave a school where she’s been comfortable and happy since kindergarten and make a choice about something strange and new.

By the time the Smartmom Three got to 16th Street and Seventh Avenue, OSFO did seem willing to share. She said that she liked the school, but thought it might be a little far away from the apartment.

She wondered if any of her friends would be going there. Obviously, she doesn’t want to make the transition from PS 321 to middle school alone.

Finally, she asked about lunch. She’s gotten used to going out to lunch every day with her friends at PS 321.

“They don’t let any of the kids out of their sight,” Smartmom told her.

“You mean we can’t even go out to get something to eat?” OSFO inquired somewhat incredulously.

“That’s weird.”

So geography, friends and lunch seemed to be OSFO’s main concerns about her future education. That seemed about right to Smartmom.

The three of them walked down Seventh Avenue and avoided the topic of middle school altogether. Mum’s the word unless OSFO brings it up — the subject is fraught with so much anxiety for everyone.

Will she get into the right school? Will she be happy there? Will she do well? Where will she go to high school?

“How about we get something to eat?” Smartmom asked as they passed Grab, the gourmet shop on Seventh Avenue near 14th Street that had some delectable looking pastries in the window.

But OSFO seemed eager to get back to her fifth-grade teachers and classmates at PS 321, the place where she belongs.

Who wouldn’t be in a rush to get back to the tried and true? The future is a giant white piece of paper with not even a stray number two pencil mark on it.

Smartmom looked at her precious child with the long brown hair, skinny jeans, and Uggs and felt an outpouring of love and empathy. How would you feel if you were being asked to leap into the unknown?

No doubt, she’s up for the task. In some ways, she’s ready and raring to go.

But still, change is never easy. Even for OSFO.

It’s been a busy couple of days. Aside from attending a Bar Mitzvah and a Brooklyn Blogade Breakfast in Clinton Hill, our Internet connection is down at home…

Thanks to those of you who checked in wondering what’s going on. I am fine. In fact, I am having a lovely, festive weekend.

Sorry for the brief hiatus.

On Martin Luther King Day,  Monday January 21 from 10 am until 7:30 p.m, Spoke the Hub Dancing and the Old First Reformed Church have come together to create an event dedicated to the idea of creating and sustaining peace.

This special event will be a day of participatory activities at Old First at Seventh Avenue and Carroll.

The event that intriques me is Six Chapels: Simultaneous interfaith
Meditation and Prayer for Peace right in Old First’s sanctuary.

Go here for a listing of everything going on at Old First on Monday.

SIX CHAPELS: INTERFAITH MEDITATION AND PRAYER FOR PEACE

Six sacred spaces set aside for simultaneous silent prayer
and meditation for Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh
faiths.

They’ve got it all. Everything I want to see. I’ve already seen The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and LOVED IT. The others: I’m dying to see. Juno, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men.

Check the schedule here.

Over at BAM, they’ve added an additional Joanna Newsom show. The Friday Feb. 1, show has been sold out for quite some time. So here’s your chance to see her with the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

Thu, Jan 31 at 8pm Just added!
Fri, Feb 1 at 8pm Sold out!
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Running time: 120min
$25, 35, 45, 55

Joanna Newsom’s The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004) announced the arrival of one of the most original and intriguing artists to emerge in the new century. A classically trained harpist with a poet’s imagination, Newsom makes folk songs filled with playful allegories and exquisite textures. On her next album Ys (2006), Newsom teamed up with Van Dyke Parks—a legendary composer who has worked with artists from The Beach Boys to Rufus Wainwright—and created a work of epic scope, lyrical insight, and lush orchestration. Newsom makes her BAM debut with a performance of Ys accompanied by Brooklyn Philharmonic, followed by a set with her band.

Brooklyn Reading Works presents SIDE STREET, a staged reading (with actors) of a play by Park Slope’s Rosemary Moore directed by Ian Morgan of the New Group.

A woman discovers that her dead mother has been living in a studio
apartment on the Upper East Side for the last 30 years. And she’s still
the same age she was when she died. A mother/daughter reunion you won’t
want to miss.

Thursday, January 17th at 8 p.m.
at The Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue and Third Street
8 p.m.
Your $5 donation includes wine and refreshments.

Today’s the big day.

The eagerly awaited Union Market, at 402-404 Seventh Avenue at 12th Street, is set to open. My prediction: the new branch of this locally owned upscale supermarket will be a huge success.

Up to now, South Slopers have had a long way to go for groceries. The excellent C-Town on 9th Street was the only game in town. Once there was a D’Agostino on 7th Street and Seventh but, alas, that’s gone now.

Opening the way for Union Market.

Key Food, the Food Coop are both a long, long way to go for dinner.

So hark the arrival of Union Market, which will change the grocery landscape above 9th Street and the price point. No one said it was cheap.

The excellent selection of prepared foods, organic produce, meat, bread and more should be met with great excitement.

I am curious to see how they’ve improved on the Union Street concept. Welcome to the South Slope, Union Market.

This just in. Taj Mahal, a two-time Grammy winner, will perform at the Brooklyn Museum, in a benefit concert for the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music on Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 8:00 PM

To celebrate Black History Month, The Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music concert series Jazz at the Conservatory, in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum , presents two time Grammy award winning jazz legend Taj Mahal.

The legendary Taj Mahal has been playing his own distinctive brand of soulful music, variously described as Afro-Caribbean blues, folk-world-blues, hula blues, folk-funk, and a host of other hyphenations, for more than 40 years. In 1971 he released the influential album The Real Thing recorded live at the Fillmore East, where he was backed by four tubas. This concert reunites him with four those musicians, Howard Johnson, Bob Stewart, Joe Daley and Earl McIntyre (Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music’s Jazz Division Director), as well as veterans Buddy Williams, Earl Gardner, Victor See Yuen, John di Martino, Ron Jackson and Jerome Harris. Together these musicians comprise a living history of jazz.

The Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music has been serving the community for over a century promoting individual, professional and community growth through music, and making music accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels. One of the ways we fulfill our mission is by holding remarkable events such as this at affordable prices. Our commitment to the community and our world-class faculty makes these events a reality.

We are happy to have the Brooklyn Museum as our partner in presenting this concert and providing the venue for this extraordinary evening.

Please join us for what promises to be an unforgettable Jazz at the Conservatory concert event, and check out The Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music’s other great concerts, programs, classes and much more at www.BQCM.org

Ticket information:
General public $25 and $50; students and seniors $15.
Please go to www.BQCM.org or call Zerve ticket services at 212.209.3370 to purchase tickets.
Premium tickets $150 including a Meet-the-Artist post concert reception.
Please contact 718-230-5030, ext. 12 or ddean@bqcm.org for premium ticket information.

I got this email about a new show on the DIY Network. This one focuses on Brooklyn brownstone construction, which might be of interest to OTBKB readers. .

Brooklyn is all about renovation and now there’s a show that takes
people behind the Brownstone. It’s called Under Construction, and it
follows John DeSilvia and John Palanca, owners of Design Tech in Brooklyn,
as they build, demolish, renovate and refurbish projects all over New
York – especially Brooklyn. You can find more on Design Tech here:
http://www.designtechconstructionny.com/

The show premieres tonight at 9pm on DIY Network, and it’s part of a
weekday lineup called “Nailed at 9.” You can get more info about Under
Construction by texting “Under” to 59568, or check out the Nailed at 9
website here: http://www.diynetwork.com/nailed

Also, thought your readers might get a kick out of this video of the
guys on the job in Park Slope. Like Curbed says, It’s not the Mad
Crapper of Boerum Hill, but it’s pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nI7_PZU4QU

Some People Have Real Problems (Sia)

Call for Exhibitors at Bklyn Designs (Reclaimed Home)

Trench rescue at Brooklyn construction site (NY1)

Stuyvesant High School athlete paralyzed in car accident (NY Daily News)

Detective isn’t shy about  investigating local credit card fraud (Gowanus Lounge)

Photos of the three Cunard Queens (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

Inflation rate is worst in 17 years (NY Metro)

Two stars from the Times for those Bromberg Brothers (NY Times)

Real estate values start to flatten (NY Times)

RIP: Yuriy Vanchytskyy (NY Times)

RIP: Brooklyn Dodger, Johnny Podres, 1932-2008 (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

View from roof of 68 Jay Street (Brooklynometry)

MySpace plan to block sexual predators (NY 1)

Prospect Park time travel (A Year in the Park)

Belated holiday card from Denis Hamil (NY Daily News)

Housing officials to roll out bedbug campaign (NY Daily News)

Dry cleaners forced out on Court Street (NY Post)

Brooklyn Bombshell in Gravesend (NY Post)

Valentine’s Day real estate auction for 5 big parcels (McBrookyn)

Embracing the Radical King: Panel discussion on Sunday (WNYC)

The Carroll Gardens Nut Truck (Gowanus Lounge)

Subway Artist (Gowanus Lounge)

Ed Velandria’s Subway Series (Flickr page)

Brooklyn Reading Works presents SIDE STREET, a staged reading (with actors) of a play by Rosemary Moore directed by Ian Morgan of the New Group.

A woman discovers that her dead mother has been living in a studio apartment on the Upper East Side for the last 30 years. And she’s still the same age she was when she died. A meeting of two middle-aged women: one dead, one alive. Interesting stuff.

Thursday, January 17th at 8 p.m.
at the Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue and Third Street
8 p.m.

Gowanus Lounge has the full story. And the reaction from Develop Don’t Destroy, Marty Markowitz, Bruce Ratner and more.