There are missing signs up all over Park Slope. The girl’s name is Maria Barrett and she’s 11-years-old born on October 18, 1996.
The sign says that she needs medical attention. She lives at 353 Second Street in Park Slope. I heard the PS 321 crossing guard talking about it. She seemed to know the girl.
Maria was last seen on Monday on Second Street between 6th and 5th Avenues. I am waiting to get a hold of a picture.
She is 5’3" and 120 lbs with should length brown hair. She was wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt with short sleeves.
Her mother’s phone number is: 718-237-3400. Detective Gibbons is on the case. His number is 718-636-6483
Ellie is a spiritual healer, teacher, author, and
psychic whose works and theories can be found on her website, www.crystalinks.com.
She’s even appeared on the Jon Stewart Show talking about creation!
Ellie believes that human DNA is encoded, as if a program, through which you consciously experience, and at some point awaken, to find the ultimate truth about reality and the evolution of consciousness!
Pretty heady stuff.
Ellie is offering a workshop at Seventh Avenue’s Elementi (I’m guessing it’s upstairs in the party room) that is intended to help you unravel your DNA codes and soul purpose. According to Ellie, your DNA patterns will be explored and shifted during the workshop: "You will see change all around you – old systems no longer able to support new fields of streaming energy that fill your body, influence your dreams, create synchronicities, and stir something within you that beckons change," she writes.
Location: Elementi; 140 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope
Date: Saturday April 26, 2008
Time: 10:00 am – 3:30 pm For information and registration go here.
Just saw your interview with Joe Holz at the Park Slope Food Coop – that was great! Do you know when the vote is scheduled for? You may be interested in my latest book, Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It (check out www.bottlemania.net).
I think the coop will sell it, certainly Community Bookstore will – should be on the shelves in another week or so. See you ’round the hood.
Produced by Nerina Penzhorn, the segment aired on Monday night on Brooklyn Independent Television and will be repeated is also on their website (see below)
I have to say she and her crew did an excellent job. The piece is nicely shot and edited.
Check out my interview with Joe Holz from the Park Slope Food Coop called, No More Bottled Water at the Park Slope Food Coop?
Lesterhead over at Clinton Hill Blog had RePop, a vintage furniture shop in Clinton Hill, redecorate her bedroom. She has before and after pictures on her blog and I’m intriqued.
We have way too much furniture in our apartment (and I’m not just talking about the red chair). Maybe I should see if these guys can help me out.
Gersh Kuntzman is posessed by the spirit of Crazy Eddie in his funny webcasts with breaking news from the Brooklyn Paper.
I love how he introduces himself holding his fancy Editor of the Year Award (from the Suburban Newspaper Association). Today he and senior reporter, Mike Mclaughlin, had this big story: Ikea opens on June 15th in Red Hook.
That’s big news for Red Hook. The big box Swedish store will bring traffic, shoppers and loads of business to the Hook.
Opposed for years, it remains to be seen if the Ikea is a win win or something else for the name. Fairway certainly turned out better than anyone ever expected.
I arrived late for coffee at Ozzie’s with Evan Thies but he didn’t seem to mind. He is hoping to replace David Yassky as City Councilmember in the 33rd District 33rd, which includes Park
Slope, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, DUMBO, Cobble
Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Boerum Hill.
He lives in the Northside of Williamsburg and worked with Hillary Clinton, and David Yassky as a senior advisor for five years, where he worked on a wide
range of local issues in the Council, as well as citywide issues.
He’s a very down-to-earth, wonky, policy-oriented guy, who loves to talk about government reform and affordable housing
We immediately started talking about a wide range of topics including blogging and the role that Brooklyn blogging has assumed in the media and political information landscape of Brooklyn.
Thies talked passionately about education and the need to advocate for public school education and undo some of the wrong-headed aspects of the Bloomberg administration’s education policy.
Development is Thies sweet spot. He is frustrated by the way huge swaths of Brooklyn have been developed without concern for infrastructure, affordable housing or education.
Today’s conversation was more of a "getting to know you" type of thing. It was early and I wasn’t taking notes but I must say I got a very positive impression of Thies and his desire to be a really practical, community-oriented city councilmember willing to lend his ear to those in the community who wish to share ideas.
At his December campaign kick-off at Union Hall in December Thies shared with the crowd some of his thoughts on development in this city. I found this excerpt at the NY Observer.
If there’s one constant in New York, it’s change—and right now things
are changing faster than ever. Development is our biggest issue today.
It affects everything: where we can afford to live, the quality of our
neighborhoods, and even where the jobs are. In the Northern part of
this council district alone, where I live and my grandmother used to
work, we will add 10,000 new residents in the next few years. Park
Slope, Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn are all growing. But who benefits
from that? If billions are invested in our communities, shouldn’t that
mean that the folks who live here now can still afford to later; that
our schools improve, not slide; that this becomes a nicer place to live
and not a harder one to?
Today over coffee with Evan Thies, who is running for David Yassky’s city council spot, I learned that my old friend from video production days, Dewey Thompson, is a member of Community Board 1’s Waterfront Committee. It was great to hear his name again. Hey Dewey, how ya doing.
Evan Thies seems like a good guy. A real policy wonk, he cares A LOT about affordable housing, education and a rethinking about the way development is approached in this city.
Once home, I googled Evan and Dewey. Here’s what I found about Dewy. And it’s in the award-winning Brooklyn Paper from February 2008.
Greenpoint’s noxious Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant will lose its notorious stink, city officials promised last month.
Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Emily Lloyd announced on Jan. 23 that the city’s upgrade and expansion of the facility would knock out the smell by adding chlorination tanks and enclosing the open-air treatment basins.
Some residents were open-minded about that promise, but others were skeptical.
“If everything works the way it is supposed to, we should be an odor-free community by the end of the year,” said Christine Holowacz of the Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee.
Dewey Thompson, a member of Community Board 1’s Waterfront Committee, was less convinced. “I can’t imagine a sewage treatment plant that won’t smell like sewage,” he said. “I’d like to believe what the commissioner said, but my nose says ‘no.’”
Thompson wasn’t the only skeptic. Dubious questions came fast and furious at the meeting, prompting plant superintendent James Pynn to admit that the city does not actually monitor odor at the plant because odor cannot be quantified scientifically. Simply put, only the nose knows.
“Odor is a perceptible nuisance, but it’s not a health hazard,” Pynn said.
Greenpointers have good reason to be skeptical about the city’s promises. In 2005, Mayor Bloomberg pledged to staunch the stench at the Owls Head sewage treatment plant in Bay Ridge — but two years later, residents there are still complaining about the smell.
I didn’t make it to the blogger talk with City Council member Bill de Blasio at the Tea Lounge last night and I’m sorry I missed it. Sounds like an interesting discussion ensued. De Blasio is running for Borough President and is a frequent presence around Park Slope. The fact that he gets the meaning of Brooklyn blogging and wants to reach out to the Brooklyn bloggers is pretty cool. Brownstoner has coverage:
Last night Councilman Bill de Blasio held a meet-up for Brooklyn
bloggers at which he spoke for a couple of hours about development
topics including Atlantic Yards, rezonings, affordable housing, and
what he’d like to accomplish if he’s elected borough president.
Like Gowanus Lounge,
we were most interested in what de Blasio had to say about Atlantic
Yards: The councilman said he thinks there should be no more
demolitions in the Atlantic Yards footprint until Forest City Ratner
puts its current plans for the project into writing. De Blasio said he
was "livid" about the interview Bruce Ratner gave to the New York Times last month since the likely stall "calls the entire Community Benefits Agreement into question."
City Council Member and Brooklyn Borough President candidate Bill de Blasio is calling for a moratorium on demolition in the Atlantic Yards footprint.
Mr. de Blasio made comments deeply critical of possible changes in the
huge project as part of a wideranging discussion last night that
covered everything from construction safety as developers race to beat
changes in the 421a tax break program to zoning issues in Gowanus and
Carroll Gardens. (Check out Brownstoner’s excellent report on the discussion here.)
On Atlantic Yards, Mr. de Blasio said, "I am livid at the New York Times interview with Ratner"
in which the developer announced that the project would be scaled back
and that massive amounts of affordable housing would be seriously
delayed or eliminated. "There was no discussion with the community
before he went on record," Mr. de Blasio said, adding that the changes
put "the entire community benefits agreement up for question."
It’s my turn for "A Walk Around the Blog: Brooklyn Bloggers on TV." Producer Nerina Penzhorn just emailed to say that the segement, which aired last night on Brooklyn Independent Television is online.
I have to say she and her crew did an excellent job. The piece is nicely shot and edited.
Check out my interview with Joe Holz from the Park Slope Food Coop called, No More Bottled Water at the Park Slope Food Coop?
An OTBKB reader wrote in to see if anyone else had noticed an increase in air traffic noise in the neighborhood.
I live near Grand Army Plaza and have noticed much increased air traffic here the past few months……..low fliers sometimes a 3 min intervals right over my bldg……..wonder if anyone else has noticed have been calling complaint line from 311…………..have a great day.
Bloggers meet Bill De Blasio, Bill De Blasio meet the Bloggers…
Bill is inviting members of the Brooklyn blogging community to join him once again to talk about issues of concern to all of us as Brooklynites.
I appreciate the work you have done to inform the community about important issues; many of my constituents rely on your reporting and I am thankful for your voice in the discussion of these issues.
I hope to see you to tonight! Please feel free to spread the word throughout the blogging community. When: At the Tea Lounge on 7th Avenue and 10th Street tonight from 6:30 to 8pm Location: The Tea Lounge location on 350 Seventh Avenue, via the F train to 7th Ave
Maybe I’m imagining it, but on the last two weekends the PS 321 Antique Flea Market has been smaller than usual.
This longtime flea market, which is open Saturdays and Sundays, is located in the front yard of PS 321 on Seventh Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets.
Like most flea markets, this one is a mixed bag of good junk and bad junk. They usually have an interesting selection of vintage furniture in front of the school’s entrance.
According to New York Magazine, the Park Slope flea market offers locals “a wide selection of shabby-chic furniture, clothing, and kitsch. A great place to look for currently stylish mid-century home furnishings, from $25. Bargain hard.”
PlanetMomTshirts.com, founded by two moms, sells tees, hoodies, hats, boxer briefs and more embroidered with irreverent, mom-centric phrases. I’m not sure if they’re Brookyn-based. But they got my name and sent me info about their t-shirts, which have been getting worn by the famous and not-famous alike.
Kathy Griffin wore her “Whine? No. Wine? Yes.” and “Botox Free” tees on Bravo’s “My Life on the D List.” Cindy Crawford wrote to Planet Mom that her “Secretary of Transportation” tee was very cute and Brooke Shields calls her “I need a playdate” tee “the perfect one for me!”
Might make a good Mother’s Day Gift. Speaking of Mother’s Day, Amy Sohn and I chatted today about an Edgy Mother’s Day Event around Mother’s Day this year.
Will keep you posted. Here’s a list of what Planet Mom’s T-shirts say:
Whine? No. Wine? Yes.
Star of my own Reality Show
Mother Superior
Nudity. Nature’s answer to laundry.
PTA Reject
Living for the next Girls Night Out
In my next life, I want to come back as my kids
Botox Free
Juice box for them, Cocktail for me
World’s Best Mom when my kids are in school
Kids are my Workout
Chicken Nuggets or Pizza?
Trophy Wife
Seeking Tall, Dark, Rich cup of coffee
I need a playdate
Chauffeur moonlighting as mom
Nanny Deprived
We go away for 26 hours from Park Slope and everything changes. At least on the facade of Mark Ravitz’s building on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope between 2nd and 3rd Streets.
That’s right, Ravitz repainted the drips to match the cyclops-octopus sculpture in the window
It’s big news around here for those obsessed with Ravitz’s drips, which have been many colors in the years I’ve lived here.
“My drips,” Ravitz writes on his website, “are an abstract expression of an other worldy entity making an unexpected appearance. They have made thousands of people smile.”
You got that right, Mark.
The drips on Ravitz’s building at 200 Seventh Avenue (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) have been blue, gold, mad cow, brains, florescent green brick, red and gold and glossy black. Now they’re painted like the cyclops-octopus sculpture in the window. Go here for a history of the drips.
No pictures yet. But it is so cool.
Have I mentioned that Ravitz is trying to rent out the storefront int he building?
Thanks to Leon Freilich for sending these words of warning about this weekend’s 2,3, service:
2 TRAIN
No 2 trains between Atlantic Av and Chambers St
Uptown 2 replace the 5 from Bowling Green to 149 St
Uptown 5 replace the 2 from Chambers to 149 Sts
Apr 12 – 14, 12:01 AM Sat to 5 AM Mon
For more information click on the mta.info link in this e-mail, pick up
a brochure, and read station signs.
3 TRAIN
No 3 trains running, take the 2, 5, or bus instead
Downtown 2 replace the 3 from 135 to Chambers Sts
Uptown 5 replace the 3 from Chambers to 135 Sts
The M7, M102, and free shuttle buses replace the 3 between 148 and 135 Sts
Apr 12 – 14, 12:01 AM Sat to 5 AM Mon
Always like to share emails from Fonda and the Zuzu’s. Sounds like the name of a band.
Hello to you zuzushoppers….what great beautiful days we have been having at The Big. It is so exciting to bring the Gardenshop back to life for our 37th Spring. We have lots of fabulous Pansies….so far it has been too cold to bring out the more tender Annuals.
We brought in a few early Perennials: Heuchera and Hellebore (to die for!)…. and some Pieris covered with thick strands of pearly white bells. We found some wintered over pots of multicolored Euonymous that look as if they dressed themselves to match the fabulous Antique Pansies below.
We have a substantial wedding to do this weekend so i have not had time to take pictures of the garden…you need to use your imagination for the moment .
It will be fine weather for gardening this weekend, not too hot and some refreshing intermittent showers.
We have lots of new zuzutreats just in….summer table cloths and runners, watering cans, kids garden aprons, tools, carrot and tomato totes,and pots of every size and color….sorry no pictures of this stuff either.
you just have to get yourself over to The Big …but don’t neglect Little Zu
She has some new surprises too…garden hats, little kid aprons, kitten and puppy backpacks, and washable coloring dolls…see below.
And Oh! I forgot! We have the first Lilac up from Virginia! Come visit…
Have you ever considered becoming a boarding care parent? I didn’t even know what it was until today when I got this email
Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, a highly respected adoption agency serving New York, New Jersey and Long Island, needs families to provide temporary boarding care for infants awaiting permanent placement.
There’s 21 (about the MIT blackjack team. Great book. Not sure about the movie), George Clooney in Leatherheads, The Bank Job, Horton Hears a Who, Stop-Loss, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Shine a Light, and a whole bunch of stuff you probably don’t want to see.
The San Diego Independent ran this article a few days ago. It’s by Penny Patterson, who writes an online column about gay life at independent.com/gaygirl.
It’s true that Park Slope used to be known as a lesbian neighborhood. Now it’s stroller central. Which isn’t to say that PS doesn’t have its fair share of gay parents—and plenty of lesbians.
But things have changed.
Last month, my girlfriend, Jackie, and I went on our first vacation together. We went to New York to visit a Santa Barbara friend who moved there to broaden her professional horizons and, for an added bonus, date a few ladies. Despite having lived in Santa Barbara for a good three years, my friend had never really met any dateable gals. The one time she did end up with a girl’s phone number, we were at a club in West Hollywood. After a few pleasant phone conversations, WeHo Woman got a little obsessed and wouldn’t stop calling my friend. Chalk up another failed attempt with the ladies.
But New York would be different. My friend lived in Park Slope in Brooklyn, and practically every travel book Jackie and I read used some variation of the phrase, “Park Slope, or Dyke Slope as it’s referred to because of the high concentration of lesbians, is a lovely brownstone neighborhood …” Plus, two New York natives swore it was lesbian heaven, and one of my coworkers, who lived in the city for seven years, actually said,
“You’ll be in paradise; you won’t ever want to come back.”
Could it be true? Lesbians, in herd-like form, taking over an entire part of an N.Y.C. borough? Its reputation alone would have required Jackie and me to make a stop in Park Slope, but we would be making
it our home base for a few weeks; we couldn’t believe our luck. The first morning we were there, I excitedly wiped the sleep from my eyes, put on my best dangly earrings, and bundled up in my warmest clothes: We were going to our first New York brunch and, to make matters infinitely better, there would be lesbians.
Ah, the pang of disappointment: nary a lezzie in sight. In fact, quite the contrary; we were surrounded by straight couples and sat next to two gay fellas who spent a large portion of their morning trying to get their adopted child to say “Dad.”
That, more than lesbians, turned out to be the theme: families. Everywhere we went there were strollers, toddlers, criers, screamers, snotty noses, and Happy Meal toys. My friend, whose chosen career as a writer must be supplemented by more lucrative jobs like babysitting, is living it up with several well-paying gigs per week. And they’re predominantly heterosexual families, who are well-off and hoping to raise their children in the safe streets and good schools of Park Slope.
Cool Hunting, a blog dedicated to cool things worldwide, has a post about Brooklyn Modern, a new book from Rizzoli, about Brooklyn’s modern architecture boom. Written by Diana Lind, Contribution by Robert Ivy, Photographed by Yoko Inoue, the book is described as “the first book to explore the connection between Brooklyn’s astounding rebirth and its emerging architecture.”
There hasn’t been a period of such a fervent excitement about Brooklyn homes since the advent of the brownstone more than 150 years ago. In Brooklyn Modern”, Diana Lind examines this architecture and interior design boom through 18 particularly innovative living spaces and the homeowners who designed them. In addition to Lind, the book includes essays by the blogerati, Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge and Jonathan Butler of Brownstoner, who all rhapsodize on some of the exciting new aesthetics within “the new cultural heart of New York.”
Presentation Skills for Women workshop, the two-hour class I took with Jezra Kaye last week was probably the most VALUABLE two hours I have spent in ages.
Every woman should take this class if you have to do any kind of public speaking or presentations (sales, meetings, speeches, non-profit, corporate, etc).
What a great workshop for women of all ages.
An interesting group of women gathered at a space on 23rd Street and in two hours Jezra had us writing and presenting short speeches. We also did breathing exercises and learned a bit about the differences between men and women’s speaking styles.
All fascinating.
Jezra Kaye founded Communicate with Power and Ease to bring her passion for speaker coaching to clients in business, not-for-profits and the arts. Before setting out on her own, Jezra worked for 16 years as a writer/creative director and speaker coach working with executives and managers of Fortune 500 companies. A noted speaker in her own right, Jezra lives in Brooklyn NY, where she practices communicating with her husband and their 18-year-old daughter.
Get in touch with me or Jezra if you are interested. Check out the fascinating resources on her site.
First he put the cyclops octopus sculpture in the space that used to be Seventh Avenue Books. Now the multi-talented Mark Ravitz is displaying drawings from his blueprint series on the front window.
The one up now is called: Oh The Libido Now We’re Talking. Other blueprints in this humorous, tongue-in-cheek and smart series include: I am an Island Floating in a Sea of Allness, Emotions are My Enemy Emotions Are My Friend. Physics Six Simple Machines. The Theory of Relative-ity. And more.
You can see them at Mark’s website. Or go to the window on Seventh Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street. Share in the creative explosion of Mark Ravitz.
And you thought he just did paint drips on the building?
Toby Pannone, a 4-year-old boy from Park Slope was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma just a year ago. Since that time, he and his family have been living a nightmare.
Thankfully, they have received much support from friends and neighbors. Many have cooked meals, baked cookies, or offered words of hope. Now there is something else that people can do for Toby and his parents, Mookie and Stephen. I saw this on Park Slope Parents:
Kids Walk for Kids with Cancer, in Central Park on Saturday, May 10, is an
annual event to raise money for pediatric cancer research at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center! This year’s funds will support research
at MSKCC on Stage IV Neuroblastoma, the cancer that Toby continues to
battle.
We are organizing a TEAM FOR TOBY and I hope that everyone will come
out and show support for this corageous boy and his loving family. The
event starts at 2 pm and will be a 4.5 mile walk, ending with cookies
and socializing. Everyone from babies in strollers to grandparents and
even pets are welcome!
How wonderful would it be to show Mooki and Stephen, his parents, that
we are literally walking with them as they endure this battle that no
parent should ever know !?! And what better weekend can it be than
Mother’s Day to share this gift of support and love…and celebrate our
own children’s health.
Please email me at walkfortoby@gmail.com
and tell me how many will join us for this very important cause. I will
then send you specifics of where to meet on the 10th and how to
designate our team on the sponser sheet. You may also check out the
event’s website for more details. www.walkforkidswithcancer.org .
“Today is a sad day for New Yorkers and a sad day for New York City. Not only won’t we see the realization of a plan that would have cut traffic, spurred our economy, reduced pollution and improved public health, we will also lose out on nearly $500 million annually for mass transit improvements and $354 million in immediate federal funds.
“I will be speaking with Secretary Peters and will express my thanks for her commitment to innovative solutions to real problems facing large cities today. I will also express my deep disappointment that, sadly, even Washington, which most Americans agree is completely dysfunctional, is more willing to try new approaches to longstanding problems than our elected officials in the State Assembly. It takes true leadership and courage to embrace new concepts and ideas and to be willing to try something. Unfortunately, both are lacking in the Assembly today.
“If that wasn’t shameful enough, it takes a special type of cowardice for elected officials to refuse to stand up and vote their conscience– on an issue that has been debated, and amended significantly to resolve many outstanding issues, for more than a year. Every New Yorker has a right to know if the person they send to Albany was for or against better transit and cleaner air. People know where I stood, and where members of the City Council stood. They deserved at least that from Albany…
In honor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Cherry Blossom Festival, Park Slope’s Rosewater Restauarant will have a RW-does-Japanese-American menu at a special price. There will be sake, beer and wine pairings for those that want ’em. The special meals will be on: Monday, April 28th through Sunday, May 4th. All the details will be on the Events page of Rosewater website by April 21st.
If you’ve never done the Cherry Blossoms at the BBG, do yourself a favor this year. Go! And, if you can, stop by us and say heyThere’s no clearer evidence that Spring has Sprung in Brooklyn than Hanami – the Viewing of the Cherry Blossoms, under way now at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Hanami culminates each year with Sakura Matsuri, the beloved and astonishly attended Cherry Blossom Festival at the BBG. Sakura Matsuri first came to our attention after we’d gotten our butts kicked two years in a row on the same weekend, early on in our history. Why are we so busy, we asked? We’re a little slow sometimes, but we usually figure stuff out eventually. (Sakura Matsuri will be held this year on Saturday, May 3rd and Sunday, May 4th.)
This time around, for the first time, we’ve decided to do something to honor the flowers and all the folks that come to see them. We remembered that Chef Marcellus Coleman has a deep background in how Japanese cooking dovetails so nicely into the larger mantle of New American cuisine, and asked if he’d like to run with a special menu for a week at blossom time? (Being a Maryland boy, he knows blossoms, too!) His reply was something like, “well, hellyesss!”
It was a cold and unsunny day for the first Brooklyn Flea but that didn’t stop thousands from checking out the brand new Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene.
The Flea will take place every Sunday from 10am to 5pm—rain or shine—at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Lafayette Ave. between Clermont and Vanderbilt Ave. The Flea will feature 200 vendors of vintage furniture, clothing and antiques alongside new designs by local makers of everything from jewelry to textiles
Brownstoner, who is running the Flea, wants feedback from those who were there about the vendor mix and other suggestions. Here’s what he had to say about yesterday.
By some miracle, it didn’t rain and the day went off without a hitch. While some of them were double-counts to be sure, the security guard at the door clicked off 20,000 entries into the market throughout the day. Insane. We’ll have more candids up later in the day. If you took photos, please put them up on Flickr and tag with “brooklynflea”; if you a post a big Flickr set, please email us with a link. We also want to hear your feedback about vendor mix and other suggestions. Obviously we need more food; unfortunately dealing with the Department of Health isn’t exactly a simple and transparent process, but we’re working on it. Personally, we want to see more furniture and classic category-killers like antique silver and old watches; maybe a little less new jewelry and arts-and-crafty stuff. This first month will be a gradually tweaking and culling process, so please throw in your two cents.
Sometime between 7 and 8 tonight, there will be a segment about Park Slope’s Simone Dinnerstein on WNYC’s Studio 360. She will perform a few of the Goldberg Variations and talk about what it means to play the piece.
34-year-old pianist Simone Dinnerstein scraped together the cash to record Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” The album was picked up by a major label, and reached #1 on the Billboard classical charts. She performs live and tells Kurt why that piece never goes out of style.
There was the baseball parade, loads of activities, buds on the trees and more in the park yesterday. Here’s an excerpt (and a lovely Picture) from Brenda’s A Year in the Park Coverage.
Rain was forecast, but there were blue skies instead for Prospect Park’s “Opening Day.” As I biked around the East Drive, the calliope music of the Carousel floated through the trees, and life was absolutely good.
Brownstoner had this to say about getting to Brooklyn Flea:
Just a quick note to check the weekend subway changes on the A/C and G lines this weekend at the MTA site before heading out to Fort Greene. Seems like the F is running on the A/C line from Hoyt-Schermerhorn to the Flea (use the Lafayette Ave. stop, 5 minutes away), and buses are replacing the F/G from Bergen St. to 7th Avenue. The G is stopping normally at Clinton-Washington Ave., which is literally a block from the Flea (use Clinton Ave. exit).
Your other subway option is any train that goes to Atlantic Ave.-Pacific St., which is at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Flatbush Avenue. The 2/3, 4/5, B/D, M/N/Q/R and Long Island Railroad all stop there–the Flea is a lovely 10-15 minute stroll from there.
Check out this map to find your way. It shows all the subway stops mentioned above.
