Looking for a totally civilized, inspiring, and entertaining thing to do next Sunday afternoon? Check this out. I just got this email about event at the Brooklyn Public Library on January 13th at 4 p.m.

Peter Weitzner is curating a Chamber Music series at the
Brooklyn Public Library’s new auditorium. If you haven’t been there
yet, it’s a great space that’s still Park Slope’s best kept
secret. The programs being offered are pretty impressive. Jonathan
Lethem was there a couple of weeks ago. Russell Banks will be there
on Feb. 1 and there is a complete roster of really great music
happening every weekend.

The first concert in Peter’s series will be next Sunday, January 13
at 4 p.m. It will be a concert of flute and harpsichord music with
artists Susan Rotholz (flute) and Kenneth Cooper (harpsichord), both
world renowned musicians who always have great rapport with their
audiences.

Throughout the day comments came in from readers about Sunday night’s incident on 9th Street. Here’s what readers wrote in. No one seemed to know what happened.

–Watched this out my bedroom window all night…friends and relatives were pleading with the man inside over a block-rocking loudspeaker until at least 3 a.m. There were dogs and SWAT guys on the roof. No sign of the outcome when I left for work this morning. Scary stuff on a very quiet street!

–Yeah, I also live across the street. It was pretty scary. From the announcements over the loudspeaker, it seemed like this was a possible suicide attempt. At one point, they told him to take the gun out of his mouth. They were pleading with him most of the night to come to the window just to let them know he was ok and to drop the gun out the window. Was woken up again around 1:30 a.m. or so to hear them saying that his mother, father and sister were there. They had rigged this phone in a bucket outside his window and were asking to reach into the bucket and call them. I don’t know how it ended. I woke up this morning at 6:30 a.m. and the street was all clear. I would be very curious to find out what happened; I was just really sad to hear this might be a suicide attempt. I hope it all worked out ok.

–does anyone know anything more about this and how it ended? the swat team was on my roof last night – pretty unnerving.

Brooklyn Skeptic had this to add on their blog:

The incident was resolved around 4:30am, when they managed to get Dave away from the building peacefully. The entire block was surrounded in police tape. Anyone trying to get home after 8pm was forced to either find somewhere else to stay, or wait until the standoff was over. My roommates were not allowed to leave our apartment. I was not allowed to get into it.

Someone on Park SLope Parents had this to say:

There is a report on Gothamist. I live across the
street. I think the basics are that he got drunk,
there was a domestic dispute, there were shots fired,
and he refused to come out of the apartment. I did
hear a shot, and the loud speaker with the negotiator
until like 5:30 this morning. Very hard to sleep, it
was right outside my window. Dogs barking, SWAT,
etc

.

I was watching WABC News at noon today and saw a shot of Mayor Bloomberg in Oklahoma attending a bipartisan forum at Oklahoma University.

The Mayor looked dapper and casual in a red sweater and he was carrying a box of Junior’s cheese cake into the home of some kind of official. He said something like: "Here’s some very intense cheese cake."

Junior’s Cheese Cake represents Brooklyn all over the country. If not the world.

According to New York 1, Bloomberg speaking at the forum said that politicians need to find common ground.

"People have stopped working together. Government is dysfunctional;
there’s no collaboration, and congeniality. There’s no working
together. Let’s do what’s right for the country,” said Bloomberg. “I
think there is no accountability. Nobody’s holding themselves
accountable and to the standards of what they promised when they ran
for office. And I think lastly, there is no willingness to focus on big
ideas."

Just got this tip from a friend about a dangerous situation that started on Sunday night. I’m not sure if it has resolved itself yet. It’s from Gridskipper:

…a man became enraged, intoxicated, and fired a gun in his home on 9th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues sparking a police standoff. The shooter, a young man named David, apparently lost it after arguing with friends and family. Despite initial fears that he had taken hostages, he is currently holed up in his home alone. The block is swarming with police personnel including a hostage negotiation team, armored trucks, and a bomb squad robot.

Sunday morning in front of the PS 321 weekend flea market I saw this:  a truck bearing the name Wafel & Dinges. It looked like they were serving Belgian waffles. There was a bit of a line and then I remembered I had no cash on me.

Unlucky me.  The waffles looked delicious and I was hungry.

The company is apparently thinking of making Park Slope a regular stop on its rounds around NYC. Be on the lookout for these tasty looking waffles in a big yellow truck.

Did anyone try them?

Hey, I just found this post on their BLOG from Wednesday January 2nd. They were going to set up in front of Key Food but parked at 2nd Street and Seventh instead. I wonder how long they wre parked there today. Anyone know?

We’ll be back in Park Slope on Sunday, January 6th. Location will be 7th Avenue and Carrol Street (at the Key Foods).

There is only one place in the world where Wafel & Dinges show is better than in Manhattan… Yes…Brooklyn has the record of eating the most waffles in one day. We haven’t heard from Special Envoy Cynthia W. in a while (would she still be hung over from New Years??), but let’s hope she shows up and orchestrates the visit this time as well….

Japanese Television was at Union Hall Saturday afternoon taping a show about Care Bears on Fire, the hotter than hot trio, leaders of Park Slope’s kid core scene. They’ve got a record contract, a CD that’s gotten a lot of press, and one of the band members performs in a Converse television ad.

A crowd began to gather on the steps leading down to Union Hall’s basement performance space at around 1:30 when Care Bears was finishing their sound check and Mighty Handful was getting just started.

The downstair’s space is neon lit and highly atmospheric like a 1950’s union hall. I guess that’s what it was. There’s a full bar for adults and special drinks for kids like Worm Punch and Hot Chocolate.

The room was packed with fans and friends of Mighty Handful when the band began to play at 3 p.m. In the audience, there were also lots of parents and young kids (3-13), who make up the Care Bears audience.

When Mighty Handful’s fans started moshing, some of the parents got agitated and asked them to stop. The kids didn’t seem to mind but some of the really little kids might have gotten trampled by the unbridled rock and roll energy of the dancers.

Mighty Handful, as the name suggests, is a wildly energetic and eclectic mesh of musical influences and styles. The lead singers (Henry Crawford and Jack Ferenz) definitely project a Mick and Keith vibe, as they riff off of one another and sing and move emotively.

While this was their very first gig, the band members are veterans of other bands and there’s a level of comfort when it comes to stage performance. Everyone seemed highly committed and creative. The energy level and chemistry between the band members was intense.

All I can say is this: I was blown away and am very excited about the prospects for this brand new band. Their next show is at the Cake Shop in February.

Care Bears show began at 4 p.m. and the room was stuffed to the gills with their young fans. I had to leave but Hepcat stayed around. He was very impressed and said their punk pop sound is very tight and very professional. He loved the drummer and said that the singer/guitarist really knows what she’s doing.

Born in 1958? Turned 10 in 1968, that iconic year?

Join the Park Slope Half Century Club. There’s talk on Seventh Avenue of having a party or a support group or just some kind of gathering. What does it mean to be 50 in Park Slope?

Interested? Email louise_crawford(at)yahoo(dot com)

The Perch Cafe may not be the easiest place for 100 people to gather to hear acoustic music but it was the site of one heck of a show on Saturday night.

Perch is a long skinny restaurant. In the front there are tables, in the middle a bar and in the back there’s a tiny performance space and seating area.

Twenty people would fit comfortably back there and it’s a great place for poetry readings and kid’s concerts where a small group can lounge around and let there kids run wild.

About 100 people packed the house for a night of music by the leaders of Park Slope’s new teenage acoustic music scene. Boy oh boy is there talent in our midst.

I won’t brag, but Henry Crawford performing solo grabs an audience by its neck—and heart—and won’t let go. Last night he was a tad tired after his earlier Union Hall show with his band Mighty Handful but his performance of original songs and a smattering of covers was hard to shake. Go man go. Knockout song: Uptown Drunks.

Kane Dulaney Balser, performing with a terrific bass player and his brother Luca Balser, just breaks your heart with the beauty and craft of his self-penned songs, his voice, and his virtuosic guitar playing. Knockout song: Bright Angel Trail

Calamus, a trio with two guitars and an upright bass plays a mesh of country, swing, bossa nova and folk rock that was really fun and original. Knockout song: Act Like You Didn’t

Closing the night, was the event’s organizer Lily Konigsberg playing with her Elliott Smith influenced duo Window Sign Language. She commands the stage with a restrained and quiet vocal power that’s razor sharp. She never pushes and yet holds the audience in her thrall with her ultra-melodic, wise and introspective tunes. Knockout song: The Slowest Song. Watch out for them in 2008.

Watch out for all of these kids this year. There will definitely be more of these acoustic shows.

Check out this week’s PS I Love You column by OTBKB friend and fave, Wendy Ponte:

Every time I pass by the Barnes & Noble on Seventh Avenue, I remember how I met my boyfriend there. Not the most romantic of meeting spots — I might have preferred the park, or maybe something a more literary like at a reading at the Old Stone House — but nonetheless it was our meeting place and so lovely a moment that the store is inextricably connected to our relationship in my memory.

After 14 years of living here, Park Slope is full of place memories for me — spots that are inextricably attached to a specific event. Around the New Year, I find myself thinking about them even more often.

Hear the leading players in Park Slope’s burgeoning acoustic scene. Should be an amazing show tonight:

—Window Sign Language

—Kane Balser

–Henry Crawford

–Calamus

Perch Cafe
9 p.m. Saturday, January 5
365 Fifth Avenue
between 5th and 6th Streets

The other day I was having my weekly informal chat with Pastor Daniel Meeter at Old First Church and among other things he told me that he was expecting a Buddhist Monk and a Sikh that evening.

They were coming by to check out the sanctuary that will be the site of Old First’s unusual Martin Luther King Day activity.

Meeter has decided to divide the church’s  sanctuary into six separate sections each devoted to a different faith, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism.

This will enable people to silently pray for peace in their own way side by side.

It’s an inspired idea and a few months ago Meeter told me that he wanted to create a King day event that just wasn’t a whole bunch of people making speeches.

“We’re just trying to find ways that religious people can do something together as American citizens, so that religion doesn’t separate us, but somehow unites us,” Meeter told the Brooklyn Paper.

This unusual event is just one week away. Old First’s all-religion day in honor of Martin Luther King will be on Monday January 21, at the church which is located on Seventh Avenue and Carroll Street.

OSFO’s takes piano lessons with church member Helen Richmond at Old First. That’s when I usually see Pastor Meeter and we our chats, which are  always interesting and insightful. The other day he recited an XJ Kennedy poem to me that I wish I remembered enough to put here. We talked about writing and blogs and ways to reach out to the community. 

As we were leaving, I peeked into the sanctuary and saw the Sikh, Meeter and the Monk in the big sanctuary getting ready for the big day.

It was a sight to behold.   

Come to Prospect Park today and mulch a tree. That’s right, Christmas trees will be ground into wood chips that can be placed in tree pits and gardens. It smells so good and it’s so good for your garden.

Read more here.

MulchFest provides New Yorkers an opportunity to bring their Christmas trees to designated sites where they are ground into wood chips. The chips can then be placed in tree pits and gardens. Parks & Recreation encourages New Yorkers to help the environment and their community by participating in this event.

MulchFest takes place on January 5 & 6, 2008 from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Participants are encouraged to bring bags to take advantage of the free mulch provided.

All lights, ornaments, and decorations must be removed from the trees prior to drop-off    

Participants will be able to take wood chips and/or mulch home from designated chipping sites.

Mulch will not be available at sites marked as "Drop-off Only".

How to Recycle Your Tree if You Miss Mulchfest

The Department of Sanitation will collect for composting clean holiday trees left at the curb from Thursday, January 3 through Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Make sure all lights, ornaments and stands are removed before setting trees at the curb

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Get Fresh is sponsoring upcoming classes with nutritionists Laura Fischer-Harbage:

January 12, 1 – 2:30 pm Starting Solids: From When to What, and How to Make at Home. Everything you need to know for your new eater.

January 26, 1-2:30 pm: Fun with Finger Foods (And Other Adventures in Feeding Your Toddler)

February 23, 1-2:30 pm: Strategies for Your Picky Eater

Check the Get Fresh website for more classes.

Just heard from the Greene Grape about their new shop on South Portland and Fulton set to open in mid-January. You can meet the manager of Provisions at the Green Grape tonight from 5-7 p.m.

Greene Meat, Greene Cheese, Greene Fish and
Greene Food – just some of the rejected names
for the new
food store we’re opening at the corner of
South Portland and Fulton (753 Fulton to be
exact).  Instead, we went with "Provisions."
The idea is to provide you with
high-quality basics for home cooking and
entertaining.  Prepare yourselves
for pastries and bread
from Balthazar, fresh fish from Wild Edibles,
chicken, beef and pork from upstate farms and
the best local, organic and natural foods we
can find.

In anticipation of the new
store opening in mid-January, we’d like to
introduce you to Matt Roberts who will be
running the show over there.  He’ll be at the
Brooklyn wine store this weekend on
Friday, January 4 from 5-7pm and Saturday,
January 5 from  6-8pm.  Come on by and let
him know what you’d like to see in the new
food store.  If meeting Matt isn’t
incentive enough, check out the pouring
schedule this weekend featuring some wines
worth busting out your rewards voucher for .
. . these include three of your store
favorites of our
over-$25 wines. 

If you can’t make it into
the store but want to put in your 2 cents,
email us at productrequests@greenegrape.com.

Hepcat is under the weather so I brought home some chicken soup from Get Fresh to help him get well.

You know, chicken soup is as good as ten mothers or something like that.

I stop in at Get Fresh once a week on my way home from a weekly appointment in the South Slope. I always have a nice conversation with one of the owners (at least I think she’s one of the owners).

We’ve had two dinners from Get Fresh: short ribs and chicken pot pie. I particularly enjoyed the chicken pot pie. I am such a sucker for comfort food like chicken pot pie. Their mac ‘n cheese is also wickedly good, filled with cheese and oh so tasty.

Get Fresh’s chicken soup is a chicken soup any Jewish mother would love. Talk about fresh and homemade. This is totally natural, very homemade tasting chicken soup. My only comment is that it needs salt but that’s a compliment because most prepared foods have too much salt.

The soup has celery, carrots, potatoes and escarole in it and I felt like such a balabusta giving it to Hepcat. It really helped me fulfill my wifely/Jewish mother/balabusta duty without making it homemade.

Even Hepcat, who could barely talk, said the soup was good.

Two cups of soup: $8.95

GET FRESH
370 Fifth Avenue
Between 5th and 6th Streets
Phone: (718) 360-8469

The New York Times’ reports that Jon Scieszka, Park Slope’s beloved, wacky and subversive  children’s book author, the man behind “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs”, "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales,” and The Time Warp Trio series,  will be named the first national ambassador for young people’s literature on Thursday.

The position is similar to the poet laureate but for children’s literature. There are no specific responsibilities specified for this position, for which Scieszka will be paid a $25,000 stipend. But he will be expected to travel and speak to children’s groups about the importance of reading.

Scieszka runs a web-based organization called, Guys Read, meant to encourage reading in boys who’d rather play video games. Scieszka is also a member of the board of 826NYC, the drop-in tutoring center on Fifth Avenue also known as Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store.

Congrats to Jon Scieszka!

According to Netflix, members in and around Brooklyn, New York are currently renting these titles much more than other Netflix members. Interesting. Check out this list to see what your neighbors are watching.

We are oh so sophisticated—Godard, Antonioni, Woody Allen. We are oh so urban—Crooklyn, The Panic in Needle Park, Brooklyn Lobster, Do The Right Thing. We are oh so interested in local cultures: A Life Apart: Hasidism in America.

What a great list this is, neighbors: There are three Godard films in the Top 25.

I wonder if they can do this by zip code, too. 

A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

Tout Va Bien (Jean Luc Godard)

Crooklyn (Spike Lee)

The Panic in Needle Park

Downtown 81

Black Girl

Brooklyn Lobster

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Five Obstructions

L’Avventura (Antonioni)

The Passenger (Antonioni)

Contempt (Godard)

The Brood

Stardust Memories

Kicking and Screaming (our man Noah Baumbach)

Do the Right Thing

According to a Special Task Force, that is. Councilman John C. Liu, chair of the city Transportation Committee, remains skeptical Here’s a press release from Agnes Kim, who works with Liu.

Dear Friends,

Here’s a news report about the status of our bridges.  Council Member
John Liu has called for intensified efforts to inspect and upgrade
these critical transportation links.  Take a look!

Agnes Kim
Office of Council Member John C. Liu

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: "N.Y.’s cracked bridges called safe" – 12/27/2007
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/12/27/2007-12-27_nys_cracked_bridges_called_safe-1.html>

EXCERPT – Despite finding cracked beams, deteriorating concrete and
missing bolts on 20 of the state’s 49 deck truss bridges, a special
task force has deemed them all "safe" to traverse.

Gov. Spitzer ordered the inspections of the state’s deck truss bridges
following the August collapse of the Interstate 35 bridge in
Minneapolis that killed 13 people. The state has more than 17,000
smaller bridges that were not included in the task force’s report.

Eighteen bridges, including Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Kosciuszko
bridges received "yellow flags" for problems that could become
critical flaws if not addressed. The Brooklyn Bridge’s two yellow
flags were for decaying steel beams. Inspectors also found
deteriorating concrete under the bridge’s deck and a rip in the net
that catches debris.

City Councilman John Liu, chair of the city Transportation Committee,
expressed confidence in the thoroughness of the inspections, but
stressed that constant vigilance is needed.

"There’s no reason to scream fire, but there’s no room for complacency
either," Liu, a Queens pol, said. "Every bridge is considered ‘safe’
until it falls and kills people."

Looking for something to do with the whole family? And if you’ve never been to the basement at Union Hall, you gotta come. Great music, a great space.

Saturday January 5th: Join Care Bears on Fire and The Mighty Handful* at Union Hall at 2 p.m. (an all ages matinee show).

Location:
Union Hall is located at 702 Union Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 718.638.4400

*The Mighty Handful is Henry Crawford’s new band. The name refers to a circle of composers who met in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856-1870: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin. This is not, however, the kind of music that the band will be playing.

A few weeks ago, I went to Jalopy. It’s hard to get to as it’s on Columbia Street way over near the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. So I took Eastern Car Service. I’d called the shop the day before o see if they had a 4-string banjo and of course they did.

I got  there at noon, exactly when Lynette Wiley, who owns the shop with her husband Geoff, told me to. She was just opening up and about to walk her trio of dogs. They had to go but she told me they could wait, that she wanted to show me that 4-string banjo.

"My husband is sorry to see this one go," she said. It was a small, vintage 4-string banjo. I’d never seen a banjo so small. But that’s the way they are, 4-string banjos.

"It’s a gift for my son," I told her. "So I might have to bring it back. Is this returnable?"

She said sure and I decided what the hey it can’t hurt to buy this beautiful thing. I wondered where her husband was. He’s the instrument man, the one who fixes the instruments. He’s obviously passionate about vintage guitars, banjos, and ukuleles.

"He’s upstairs. We were out late last night," Lynette told me. "It was my husband’s birthday and we tried to keep him out all night."

The shop is in a 3-story building owned by the Wiley’s, who live upstairs. They bought it a few years ago when they moved here from Chicago. They built a theater in the back, which looks like an old vaudeville music hall with a red velvet curtain. Highly atmospheric in there. In the shop, too.

The NY Post article about Jalopy was posted on the expresso machine on the cafe side of the store. In the article, Geoff is quoted as saying:

"I was reading a book on Dada art, and how it had started out of
this one café, and it just started running around in my head that what
had slowed me down for most of my life trying to create art, theater
and music was not having anywhere to do it…So
I’m reading this book, and this whole thing just started around this
one little room. And I said, ‘What we need is a room.’"

Well, they’ve got a room alright. And quite a bit more. It’s got a real old-timey feel. The antique oak counter, the vintage instruments hanging on the wall. The dusty music books behind glass, a plastic case of picks. Cool very cool and atmospheric. Like something you’d find somewhere out west, in your dreams, in a galaxy far away called Red Hook.

The Wiley’s run a bunch of businesses in there now. They started by selling coffee to neighbors. Then they hosted a night of music. Now they’ve got the instrument shop and they offer music lessons in guitar, banjo, mandolin and ukulele. They have a license to sell beer and wine, too.  There’s that wonderful looking theater with the tin ceiling, the brick walls, church pews and folding chairs scattered about where they present music and theater shows. Lynette told me about a theatrical collaboration between neighborhood kids and police that was scheduled that evening. They show movies in  there, too. It’s a real cultural center at this point.

Just like they hoped it would be.

Lynette put the banjo in a bag. "It’s made out of some kind of recycled material," she said of the bag she gave me. I carried it home. It was a cold, windy Monday. The wind blew me down Columbia Street and I stopped in Margaret Palca for soup but the line was long so I wandered across the BQE to Naidre’s Cobble Hill outpost. Had some soup there and sat with my banjo on the seat across from me.

The woman sitting next to be enjoyed being seated next to a banjo. It was a special day my banjo and me…

To be continued.

And I was there.

The Fun Run was, well, fun. At 11:15 p.m. more than 200 people ran the 3.3 mile Prospect Park loop. It was cold but I love running in cold weather if I am dressed properly (Kirsten at Slope Sports helped me figure out what to wear. The winter running gloves SS gave away to the first 100 registrants were also great).

What an amazing way to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Invigorating. Meditative. Energetic. Ecstatic. Running in the park at night is such a treat! The lake, the trees, the Oriental Pavilion, Wollman Rink, the playgrounds.

Everything looks so different at night (the secret park we don’t know).

Running on this cold, clear night, stars were visible and it felt like the best possible way to begin the new year. An omen of health, exercise, self-care, good living.

The fireworks were beautiful and what a festive and special evening in the park. We walked home down Third Street with the bustling fireworks crowd looking at the Christmas-lit windows of the limestones and brownstones.

Home. A hot bath. OSFO blowing on her Happy New Year horn. Finally quiet. Then sleep.

OTBKB has switched to moderated comments. That means I have to check the comments before they get published.

As you know I was a big believer in an unsupervised comment area but things got out of hand. I am finding this much more relaxing.

Thursday, December 28th at 8 p.m. at Barbes: The Jazz Passenger and educator takes on a repertoire of West Coast pop songs which, to his own admission, are a complete mystery to him, and gives them a new and quirky twist: featuring Sean Sondregger, Pete Karp, Adam Jackson and Marcus Rojas. Barbes is located on 9th Street just east of Sixth Avenue. For more information go here.

Consider making a donation to the Petra Foundation:

       The Petra Foundation was established in 1988 to sustain the trajectory of Petra Tölle Shattuck‘s
life by honoring the kind of people she most admired – unsung
individuals making distinctive contributions to the rights, autonomy
and dignity of others.

Each year since then, through a national search and nomination process, the Petra Foundation has recognized such leaders as Petra Fellows.

Often
at risk and without the safety net of personal privilege or
institutional support, Petra Fellows fight poverty, discrimination,
environmental degradation and violence. They work in prisons and police
departments, labor unions and migrant worker camps, health clinics,
housing projects, family farms and public schools – wherever people
lack the resources, education, connections or clout to participate
fully in American society. Armed with the fierce passion for justice
that inspired Petra Shattuck, they are fixing what’s broken in American
society.

If you don’t have a TV (or a fireplace) you can watch the yule log here.

I had a nice talk with Jake this evening. Jake is the panhandler who stands in front of Ace Supermarket on Seventh Avenue and Berkeley Place. He has a lovely smile and a pleasant personality. Jake said this is a tough Christmas for him because his 95-year-old mother died a few weeks ago. She lived in South Carolina. That’s where Jake grew up. On a farm. He thinks about going back to South Carolina but he  likes the pace of New York City he said. "It’s too slow down there," he said. "Too slow."

My favorite Christmas scene in a movie is the one in Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman. How about you?

I got this short note from Brooklyn blogger, Creative Times, about the next Brooklyn Blogade Road Show, which is a casual monthly gathering of bloggers in various nabes all over Brooklyn. Created at the 2nd annual Brooklyn Blogfest, the road shows are an attempt to spread the blogging gospel all over Brooklyn.

Hi All –

I am hosting the next blogade in the Carrol Gardens/Cobble Hill area
on Sunday, Feb.10 around 11:00 am.

Hope to see you there!

Eleanor Traubman
Professional Organizer
Inspiration through Organization
etraubman@aol.com
917-499-7395
creativetimes.blogspot.com

You’ve probably seen her blog, Park Slope Street Photography. But now Lara Wechsler is showing her wonderful Coney Island pictures at 440 Gallery on at 440 Sixth Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets.

The show is called Coney Island: The Lost Horizon. It’s open until January 6th. Saturday and Sunday the gallery is open from 12-6 p.m.

I plan to check out the show today. I’ve walked by and was very impressed with the size of the prints that are in the window. She seems to be showing quite a few of my FAVE IMAGES.