Harvest Festival – Sunday, October 19th, 11 am – 4 pm
Farmstands,
pony rides, petting zoo, face painting, music… It’s big fun with OSH,
the Park Slope Farmer’s Market, the Park Slope Civic Council and Park
Slope Parents outdoors in JJ Byrne Park, 3rd Street and 5th Avenue,
Brooklyn,
The Where and When
Sunday, October 19, 11 am 0 4 pm
Harvest Festival
in JJ Byrne Park
3rd Street and Fifth Avenue
McCain/Palin Loop Soup
Obama wants to redistribute the wealth!
Isn’t that a bitch!
That one’s going to take dollars from the poor
And give them to the rich!
On the site New Geography read Jan Rosenberg’s account of gentrification in Ditmas Park over the last 20 years. Here’s an excerpt:
Twenty some years ago my husband, 2 young sons and I moved from our
cramped 16-foot wide attached row house in Brooklyn’s trendy Park Slope
to a free-standing, 7-bedroom Victorian house in the Ditmas Park
section of Flatbush with stained glass windows, pocket doors, original
wood paneling, a back yard, front porch, driveway and 2-car garage in a
little-known, tree-lined neighborhood about 10 minutes away – on the
other, high-crime side of Prospect Park. Friends thought we’d taken
leave of our senses!Built early last century, our neighborhood Long has been known for its
architecture, with the largest concentration of Victorian houses in
America. It’s the kind of neighborhood sensible new urbanists dream
about it; the only block in New York with subway stations at each end.
This was a tribute to the clout of the neighborhood’s original
developers who had a strong commitment to building “suburbs in the
city,” and secured the best in public transportation for their
customers.
Red benches have been installed outside the P.S. 321 playground. And blue cushions wrapped in plastic are piled nearby.
For parents to observe their kids during school hours? For flea market shoppers? For peepers? For pedophiles?
Connecticut
Muffin this morning had three Slope-size strollers parked–indoors.
This in a space smaller than the average brownstone bathroom. No deep
breathing was possible. Unsportingly the staff refused to accept my MTA
farecard for a coffee.
Here’s the occasional—and lovely—note from Fonda at Zuzu’s Petals:
Zuzushopperdears…
I have nothing to say about the Economic news this week …
except one small reference to my lifelong avoidance of roller coasters and other "amusement" rides where one is totally out of control
strapped into some contrivance
which is throttling along an unseen track
pitching one from side to side,
with the sudden "thrill" of being turned upside down…
while being dropped into freefall.
Am I the only one who felt tossed about?On to the Joys of the Season.
For purely selfish reasons, I will not encourage you to leave town
and catch a look at the leaves changing Upstate.
We have some very nice colors happening all around us:
Prospect Park, The Botanic Gardens,The Old Stone House Park on Third Street,
not to mention our neighbors’ front yards, our street trees…and of course, The Zuzus.Stick around this weekend,
save gas,
take a nice long walk in the neighborhood,
head towards The Old Stone House
have lunch out..
what a selection we have to choose from:
‘snice, Stone Park Cafe, Earth Tonez,
Belleville, Get Fresh, Pollio’s ,Brooklyn Bread!
come visit The Zuzus, maybe pick up one of our Recession Proof Seasonal Bouquets
stop in at the new wine shop between 3rd and 4th street
collect dinner materials, do the wine thing again with some friends.
That’s right. Louis Rosen and Capathia Jenkins are doing a free show with their great band at the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Library at Grand Army Plaza. Trust me. You DON’T want to miss this.
Broadway vocalist Jenkins and award-winning composer Rosen offer
selections from The Black Loom, a trilogy of song cycles based on the
works of Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni
The Where and When
Saturday, October, 18
Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza
Dweck Center
4 p.m.
Ran into an OTBKB reader at the Rock Obama show last night (which was great by the way). He lives in the South Slope and saw the piece about The Little Princess Hotel.
He had some questions about the Little Princess Hotel. Is it really a hotel. Who’s running it? What’s really going on over there?
Does anyone know?
Tonight: Walk Don’t Destroy 4:
A Candlelight Walkathon to shine light on the
abuses of the Atlantic Yards Project and
raise funds for the legal gight against the failing project.
Community After-Party at Brooklyn Lyceum, Featuring:
Legendary New York City DJ Delphine Blue
and live Music from Brooklyn’s Own Atomic Grind Show.
Just got this email from David Berreby, Park Sloper and author of the book, Us and Them: The Science of Identity, which is just out in paperback from the University of Chicago Press this week. The subtitle of the book has changed. It used to be: Understanding Your Tribal Mind.
On the website Blogging Heads, there’s a dialog (or, ahem, diavlog) posting this Saturday, Oct 18, in which John Horgan and I discuss Us and Them aspects of the 2008 election, whether progress exists,how much people understand why they do stuff, and other cheery topics.
It’s keyed to the paperback edition of my book, US AND THEM, which was
published this week by the University of Chicago Press.Be grateful to know what you think, if you care to check it out.
Here’s the blurbage from Amazon about Us and Them:
Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White.
As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify
ourselves as a member of a particular group—say, Red Sox fans—we tend
to feel more comfortable with others of our own kind, rather than, say,
Yankees fans. Yet we all belong to multiple groups at the same time—one
might be a woman, a mother, an American, a violinist. How do we decide
which identities matter and why they matter so much? And what makes us
willing to die for, or to kill for, a religion, a nation, or a race?In this award-winning book, David Berreby describes how
twenty-first-century science is addressing these age-old questions.
Ably linking neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other
fields, Us and Them investigates humanity’s “tribal mind” and
how this alters our thoughts, affects our health, and is manipulated
for good and ill. From the medical effects of stress to the rhetoric of
politics, our perceptions of group identity affect every part of our
lives. Science, Berreby argues, shows how this part of human nature is
both unexpectedly important and surprisingly misunderstood.
—Henry Gee, Scientific American
Visit artist’s studio’s located in garages, brownstones, and warehouse along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn sponsored by AGAST.
We invite you to visit the 12th Annual A.G.A.S.T. tour on Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2008 from 1-6 p.m. This is a free event open to the public.
Visitors of A.G.A.S.T. have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with
the creators of photography, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, video,
ceramics, glass, installation, paintings, sculpture & etc. in their
own working studio environment. Artist studios are located in large
industrial buildings as well as garages, brownstones and warehouses
along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Everyone can be easily found on
the tour map here. The Gowanus area is conveniently located from many
subway stations and the LIRR Atlantic Avenue station between Park
Slope, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and the Boerum Hill neighborhoods.
Harvest Festival – Sunday, October 19th, 11 am – 4 pm
Farmstands, pony rides, petting zoo, face painting, music… It’s big fun with OSH, the Park Slope Farmer’s Market, the Park Slope Civic Council and Park Slope Parents outdoors in JJ Byrne Park, 3rd Street and 5th Avenue, Brooklyn,
The Where and When
Sunday, October 19, 11 am 0 4 pm
Harvest Festival
in JJ Byrne Park
3rd Street and Fifth Avenue
I love it, love the idea of it. And I saw it on Gothamist.
Facebook has been stealing the attention of MySpace for quite some time, and today The NY Times
takes a look at just how the 30-somethings are white-knuckling on to
the past through the social networking platform. Check out the group Thirty Something and Grew Up in Park Slope, it’s like a time machine back to the salad days for some, and
for
spectators it’s a faux-nostalgic look back on a neighborhood they
didn’t know at the time.Here’s the actual verbage from the Thirty Something and Grew Up in Park Slope FB page:
Did you grow up or go to school in Park Slope in the 70’s and 80’s?
Did
you live for a trip to Al’s Toyland, Danny’s candy store, or the
original Little Things? Did you eat from the salad bar at Snooky’s and
buy your first tape at Soundtrack?
If you attended PS 107, PS
321, IS 88, JHS 51, 282, Berkeley Carroll street school, or even a
random private school outside of Park Slope, you definitely belong here.The
only other requirement for membership is that you help reach out to and
invite anyone you know who qualifies as a member in this group.
An OTBKB reader wrote in with some information about the Berkeley Carroll eviction story. I’d like to thank her for doing so. She said that she was having trouble posting a comment. A lot of people say that to me. Just so you know, I moderate all comments so your comment won’t show up immediately. I thought there was a message about this but I guess not. Will look into it.
The tenant dispute concerning
BC school is about a building on Carroll St., not the Child Care Center
building owned by Methodist Hospital. We got a letter from Head of
School today and I thought you’d be interested.
I thought it was the building that houses the Berkeley Carroll Child Care Center, which is actually owned by Methodist Hospital. The building is on Carroll Street near the school. Oh so that’s why the want to use it for extra classroom space. Got it. Sorry for the mistake. The original article is below with the corrections, cross-outs, etc.
Ella Taliercio moved into her Park Slope two-bedroom on Carroll
Street in 1958, the year I was born. She’s been living in that
apartment for as long as I’ve been alive and has raised three
kids there. Two of them died and are buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
Now the Berkeley Carrol School, which bought the building a few
years ago, wants Taliercio out so they can turn the building into
classrooms. Why do they need classrooms so far away from the school buildings on Carroll Street and Lincoln Place? The whole things sounds fishy to me.
According to Gothamist: "The
apartment is rent-stabilized—Taliercio paid $33 a month in ’58 and
$147.08 today—but Berkeley Carroll has non-profit status, enabling the
school to evict the couple. Taliercio tells the Daily News through tears, "It’s my home. How do you just shut the door on something where you’ve been for so many years?" Don’t worry, Ella, Berkeley administrators will have the eviction marshal help you with that."
This is a publicity nightmare for Berkeley Carroll, portrayed in
various local newspapers as a fancy school that charges more than
$25,000 per child a year. There must be a better way to handle this. Is
Berkeley Carroll finding Taliercio a new home in the Slope. I heard
they offered her $20,000 but that doesn’t sound like enough to me.
There must be a way that Berkeley Carroll can handle this situation with grace and humanity.
A group from the Pilgrim Mennonite Mission (PA) passed out literature
and sang hymns at the Union Square subway station.
A nice note from the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, a new and vital performing arts center in Fort Greene, where you can see Peter Pan.
Last weekend we opened the new Irondale Center in Fort Greene, three
blocks up Lafayette Avenue from BAM. 450 people stopped by at our open
house, and 200 stayed for dinner followed by five entertainment
sketches. The "house warming" was sponsored by the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle and Brooklyn Brewery, and 22 restaurants and other merchants
provided vast quantities of very tasty food and treats.Now, beginning next Friday, October 24 (previews 10/22 & 23), we
will be reviving our "somewhat dark" version of J.M. Barrie’s novel, Peter
Pan. D. J. R. Bruckner described it in the New York Times in
November, 2001 as, "…a bit unnerving but also very good fun." This
not the original play, nor remotely like its animated Disnification. It
is a child’s story told for adults with strong psychological
undercurrents. It will run through November 8, Wednesday through
Saturday, with a Saturday matinee.To find out more about Irondale and to buy tickets, go to
www.irondale.org. Hope you can join us.
Great News: Buy in Brooklyn is doing the Snowflake Celebration, a shop local campaign, this year. The Snowflake dates are the first two Thursdays in December (4th and 11th). But many local businesses will also stay open late on the third Thursday and
possibly run additional programs.
However, most of the festivities will center
around these first two two evenings.
If you nibbled your way down Seventh Avenue during Restaurant Night back in September you experienced how FUN these events can be. That event was like trick or treating for adults (with loads of kids in tow). It was fun to wander in and out of restaurants, sample tasty treats and run into friends and neighbors.
That’s what the Snowflake celebration can be like with the emphasis on Christmas and Hannukah shopping. Buy in Brooklyn wants to encourage Park Slopers to do some or all of their gift shopping on Seventh and Fifth Avenues; it’s a win win for local businesses, great fun for the locals and a real economic enhancement for the community.
If you have any questions about Buy in Brooklyn or the Snowflake Celebration you can contact buyinbrooklyn@gmail.com.
You won’t want to miss this. Take it from me: The Black Loom is FANTASTIC.
Broadway
vocalist Jenkins and award-winning composer Rosen offer selections from
The Black Loom, a trilogy of song cycles based on the works of Langston
Hughes, Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni.
The Where and When
Saturday, October 18, 4:00 p.m.
Central Library, Dweck Center
It’s, like, the biggest news in Brooklyn. A Vietnamese sandwich shop is going into the space that used to be the Tea Lounge on Seventh Avenue and 10th Street. The Brooklyn Paper confirmed the story that Gowanus Lounge reported from a rumor on the Brooklynian. Got it?
Here from the Brooklyn Paper:
“After looking at that the area, [we saw that] there is no
Vietnamese food over there and we just want to bring something to the
neighborhood,” manager Michael Ting told The Brooklyn Paper.The shop will have an expanded tea selection, and Ting said they are
considering opening a coffee bar. But the main attraction will be the
banh mi, that delectable French-influenced Vietnamese sandwich that
comprises spicy pork, pickled vegetables and a mayonaise-like spread
piled high into a baguette — a remnant of France’s one-time dominance
in Indochina.Hanco’s has signed the lease, though some details remain to be
worked out. But neighbors were excited to hear that a storefront empty
since July — and one that was so popular a spot with Wi–Fi-surfing
freelancers — would again come to life.
Medusa Hair Salon is out-doing itself for change in the White House.
Think you have more foreign policy experience than the GOP VP?….Well, you probably do. Are you more equipped to handle the economy? Most likely. Think you would make a better VP than Sarah Palin? Definitely! So what are you missing? I’ll tell you….That amorphous bundle of good ol’ fashion small town kitsch resting safely atop Mrs. Palin’s head. Which is why the ladies of Medusa are bringing the Sarah Palin updo to Brooklyn. For $75 the Sarah Palin updo is yours and places you in the running to win best Sarah Palin look-a-like. Winner claims a prize valued at over $200 and ALL PROCEEDS FOR THIS EVENT GO TO OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN FUND! The ladies "Submerged: Tales from the Basin" will be reading excerpts from their anthology; a book dedicated to hair (a portion of the books proceeds go to Katrina victims). And if you would like to participate and are running low on funds $25 allows you to enter the competition. Please bring your checkbooks and lipstick and don’t forget to brush up on your Tina Fey impressions.
The Where and When
Medusa Hair Salon
Saturday, October 18 at 7 p.m.
177 7th Ave (btwn 1st St. & 2nd St.) Park Slope, Brooklyn
Hear some of Brooklyn’s best teen bands. What a line-up, what a great cause! And at the Lyceum, Park Slope’s most unusual venue (a former bath house). And they’re all doing it for Obama. How can you NOT come out in support of this great event?
Vote Obama Benefit at the Brookyn Lyceum tonight at 7 p.m.
The Where and When
Brooklyn Lyceum
Here’s the schedule at the Old Stone House for the next few weeks. The big news is the OSH benefit/costume party bash at the Brooklyn Lyceum. This is a not to be missed event. Get your tickets NOW.
Saturday, October 25
1st Annual Makin’ History Costume Party Bash
A benefit for the Old Stone House @ the Brooklyn Lyceum
8-11 pm. Tickets: $40
Advance tickets: http://www.nycharities.org/event/event.asp?CE_ID=3129
The Where and When
Saturday, October 25
8 p.m – 11 p.m.
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Avenue @ Union Street
Brooklyn
Sunday, October 19
4th Annual OSH Harvest Festival!
Pony rides, petting zoo, face painting, music & more!
Sponsored in partnership with the Park Slope Civic Council & Park Slope Parents
11 am – 4 pm
Saturday, October 25
1st Annual Makin’ History Costume Party Bash
A benefit for the Old Stone House @ the Brooklyn Lyceum
8-11 pm. Tickets: $40
Advance tickets: http://www.nycharities.org/event/event.asp?CE_ID=3129
November & December 2008
Barbara Ensor’s Thumbelina
A story in silhouette – an OSH Great Room Exhibit
Tues/Sat/Sun 4 pm – 6 pm; Thurs. 4 pm – 8 pm or by appointment
Tuesday, November 4
Circle Singing with Ben Silver
Learn and practice this improvisational musical form taking rhythmic and melodic cues from a skilled leader.
7-9 pm. $25 suggested donation.
For more info & reservations: ben@bensilvermusic.com
Thursday, November 13
Five Dutch Days!
Edwin Burrows: Forgotten Patriots
Join us for a book talk about the prisoners
of war who remained in Brooklyn and Manhattan during the years of the
Revolutionary War
7 pm
Friday, November 14
Five Dutch Days!
An Evening of Classical and Contemporary Dutch Compositions with Hans Pieter Herman
Presented by The New York Opera Society, the Five Dutch Days Festival and the Old Stone House
Sponsored in Part by the Netherland America Foundation
8 pm. Suggested Donation: $20 for Adults, $15 for Students/Seniors.
Advance Tickets: https://www.nycharities.org/eve
Phew. Now my son can pick up those H&M jeans he likes. But this is big news. An H&M in downtown Brooklyn. Okay. Here’s the Brooklyn Paper with the story:
Swedish cheap-chic clothing store H&M will come to Fulton Mall
by next spring — and could be one of the first tenants in a giant new
glass-walled mall at Bridge Street.
The high-fashion/low-priced
store confirmed that it would open by spring, 2009 — and a real-estate
source told The Brooklyn Paper that reclusive Fulton Mall developer Al
Laboz will be the store’s landlord.That makes sense, given that
Laboz owns the landmark Conway building at 505 Fulton St. and plans a
glass mini-mall next door — and Laboz has said for years that H&M
is exactly the kind of retailer he wants on a diversified Fulton Mall.
Thanks to those who have donated to the Crandall Public Library in Glen Falls, NY in my father’s name. The Crandall is a small, vibrant library that my father loved; he always had loads of books out from there when he was spending extended periods of time upstate. I hope you’ll consider sending a donation in the spirit of Monte Ghertler, a man who devoured books and loved libraries. He was so pleased to have a decent library near his upstate home. A great community needs a great library. This is especially true in small town America, where resources are sometimes limited. In Glen Falls, they’ve got the Crandall.
The ‘tails
Crandall Public Library
251 Glen Street
Glens Falls, New York 12801
…complete with a saw player and paintings, accessories, objects and photography with a decidedly macabre and spooky vibe.
Urban Alchemist invites you to join them on Friday October 24th. Four feature artists. Paintings, accessories, objects, and photography.
~Live music at 7pm. Saw and accordion player
~Enjoy poison punch and ghoulish treats
The Where and When
Friday, October 24th
Reception 6-10pm
Death by Design: A Collection of Macabre Artists
Urban Alchemist
343 Fifth Street (just east of Fifth Avenue)
Poet and teacher, Bill Evans, was one of the readers last night at the Poetry Punch. I loved his poetry and wanted to read more online. Then I found this blog post he wrote for Lesson Plans, Learning to Teach in a Complicated World, a New York Times education blog. Bill teaches 8th grade English at Trevor Day School. That won my heart. The Trevor Day School is in the same building where my high school, Walden, used to be. Bill sounds like one heck of a teacher.
I’m supposed to come back to school
with a goal for the year written on an index card. I think the card
itself may even be included in one of these inspirational end-of-summer
packets that have been piling up around my writing table. This is the
kind of thing teachers do when there aren’t any kids around, and though
I’m totally a team player, teacher-training activities tend to fill me
with, shall we say, dread. Even after almost 20 years of teaching, I
hate the thought of going public with my strengths and weaknesses.
Well, actually, I don’t mind a bit of praise for the good stuff, but
I’m truly leery of excess honesty when it comes to the bad. But there is no “bad,” as teachers are aware, only “challenges” and “areas for growth.”
So I need to come up with an intellectually sound and educationally
relevant goal that doesn’t blow my cover and expose me as whatever it
is I’m afraid I am in secret (fraud? misanthropic iconoclast? big
loser?). This is pretty much what it feels like to be a kid in school
as well, as far as I can tell, and perhaps my goal should be simply to
remember that. Does that count? I just found the index card; it was included with a letter! Already I’m making progress on this assignment.A few days ago I went up to school — from the East Village to the
corner of West 88th Street and Central Park West — to pick up some TransitCheks,
and as I suspected the place was packed. One week before we even had to
report for teacher training and the place was already filled to the
brim with teachers skittering about. And I’m not counting
administrators; they never leave.All the earnestness and energy left me feeling a bit stunned. What are all these people doing
here already? And am I supposed to be here doing it with them? No kids,
though. The kids are still off like Mr. Evans – poeting, swimming laps,
going to yoga class, writing blogs for The New York Times — all the
myriad social and private niceties that make up the backbone of a
Living Culture. But my teacher colleagues are serious. And
that goes for my public school colleagues, too. I happen to know
because I am in the unique position of being both an eighth grade
English teacher in a private school and the parent of an
eighth grade student in a New York City public school, so I’m rather
intimately connected to both worlds. And I tell you, both are loaded
with excellent, hard-working true believers. They’re out there, ladies
and gentlemen. The real problem is keeping them there and into it
across Time — because energy is wonderful, but being present is
everything, and truly it takes ten years to hit your stride and begin
teach really well.The secret weapon in this business is consistent, long-term human
connection. That’s where values come from, and that’s where context and
meaning are imparted. Ideas and ambition are great, but absolutely
nothing beats experience, and sadly, or gladly, no one stays 24 years
old for very long. We need grownup teachers who are in it for the
duration, and to become that one has to be able to survive the job. So
we should all add survival to our personal goal anthologies. I’d like
to do my job this year with some amount of grace, skill, tact, and yes,
even joy. Oh yeah, joy is good. That definitely goes on the card.
You missed it. But hey, there are still a bunch more you can go to. Here’s the poster (sorry it’s impossible to read in this format).
Isn’t it cool? It was designed by Elizabeth Reagh at Good Form Design. The next Brooklyn Reading Works is November 20th at 8 p.m.: a reading of Baby Love, a play by Michael Winks.
But about last night. This year’s Poetry Punch was curated by Michele Madigan Somerville and it packed a punch alright. And the punch. It was a tad sweet. But the spiced run was a nice addition. Michele did a great job of gathering poets you should know about. Some of them have events coming up:
Ilene Starger is reading tomorrow night, Sat. Oct. 18, 6 p.m. at the Dactyl Foundation, 66 Grand St. between Wooster and W. Broadway in Soho. She is the featured
reader and will read for about 25 minutes or so, followed by an open
mic.
Jeff Wright runs Live Mag at the Bowery Poetry Club. The next show is this Sun. October 19th. Bring your poems and be "published" in Live Mag! #6 as co-hosts
superstar Bob Holman and Gary Parrish, editor of Farfalla Press, read
poems from audience submissions. Find out who these publishers are
excited about. Plus hear spotlite poets Akilah Oliver and Edmund
Berrigan. Free copy of Live Mag!
Joanna Sit will be reading at the Dweck Center on Wednesday, October 29, 7:00 p.m. as part of the Visions Launch Party with Elizabeth
Nunez, Linda Susan Jackson, Joanna Sit and Gregory Pardlo. Medgar
Evers College creative writing students will read selections from the
premier issue of Visions, a peer-reviewed, academic journal.
Michele Madigan Somerville’s book, Black Irish, will be coming out in early 2009. We will most definitely keep you posted.
Will Nixon has a lovely new book out called, My Late Mother As A Ruffed Goose.
And Bill Evans. I don’t know where his next gig is but I want to be there. He’s terrific. Read his essay about teaching 8th grade English here on OTBKB here.
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