Brooklyn Review
Tonight, a new installment of BCAT’s bi-monthly news magazine Brooklyn Review
premieres. The show, produced by Brooklyn Independent Television,
explores the fight over Coney Island and a new public-school program
promoting healthy eating.
Other segments feature the creators of C is for Cupid, a dating website for cancer survivors, as well as the HIV/AIDS outreach group that served as the basis for the HBO film Life Support.
9pm. Time Warner 56, Cablevision 69.
A Daily News reporter reads the story in OTBKB and never once mentions that that’s where they sourced the story or that Hugh Crawford is a blogger.
When Park Slope resident Hugh Crawford complained to a city work crew that their jackhammer was too loud, he expected to get blown off.
He didn’t think one of the hardhats would chase him down the Brooklyn street with a shovel.
But according to Crawford, that’s exactly what happened, and now the Department of Environmental Protection is investigating.
"They sort of had an extreme ‘Mind your own business’ reaction. And a guy started waving a shovel at my head," Crawford said.
The run-in happened Tuesday while a DEP crew was replacing a sewer on Sixth Ave. near Third St., using a jackhammer without a required muffler.
Crawford, a 51-year-old software engineer and photographer who lives half a block away, approached to tell them they should have noise-reducing equipment.
The workers told him to buzz off and call 311. So Crawford did – on the spot.
"When I took my phone out, the guy started chasing me down the street," said Crawford. "I wasn’t sure how sincere they were, but I really didn’t want to find out. Anytime a shovel is above head level, I take it pretty seriously."
He filed a noise complaint with 311, but opted not to press charges with the police.
DEP spokeswoman Anne Canty confirmed the agency had received a noise complaint and had a crew in the area Tuesday. But she knew nothing of a threatened physical altercation.
"DEP takes allegations of this nature very seriously; we will be investigating and interviewing all of the crew members involved," she said.
Got this email from Catherine at Community Bookstore in my inbox today:
absolutely wonderful things are happening with the store, and I’m
very excited to tell you all about it, but I’m going to send out a
proper newsletter soon, and don’t want to take up space here going into
details — there ARE things you can do now (buy gift certificates and
shop local!), and going forward, there will be more — because it’s
beginning to look like things might get rather exciting around here,
soon. (Tip!: if you buy a gift certificate and donate it to a
non-profit for them to use, you can tax-deduct it!)One Way Avenues Stupidity Update: ANOTHER MEETING APRIL 11th (wed)!Okay
— I know the word in the neighborhhood is that the terrific turnout at
the Community Board 6 meeting effectively squashed the one-way plan,
but THAT meeting was, I think, just the opportunity for DOT to present
the plan — the actual VOTE on it happens on Wednesday, April 11th
(this I’m sure of). Pressure at the April 11th meeting is important
too! Don’t let the effort you’ve already made (those of you who have)
go to waste! TheCommunity Board meeting is at:John Jay High School
237 7th Avenue
(4th & 5th Streets)
Auditorium
6:30 PMMy sources say:"You
probably thought we were in the clear, but it ain’t over until CB6
votes. The pressure at the last meeting was phenomenal. Power to the
people. If we let up now, however, CB6 might pass a wishy-washy
resolution that would not safeguard our neighborhood from DOT’s plans.
So spread the word and see you next Wednesday!"
Steve Reich’s Different Trains on Tuesday, April 10th.Just
a reminder that the Music Listening Group is meeting this Tuesday at
7:30 pm. The recording is available to listen to in the store NOW, and
Sue Bernstein’s left some photocopies of pertinent information up
front, if you want to think about some aspects of the music, beforehand.In
my usual bumbling way, I’m bearing the (probably totally erroneously-
based, but oh well) following in mind, in listening beforehand (which
I’m actually doing, for once) . . .As
Reich is credited (at least by my liner notes) (and this came as a
surprise to me) with figuring out "how to restore, after a long period
of experimentation, the primal pleasures of stable harmony and a steady
pulse" (his own experimentation? musico-historically ?) — I’m
listening trying to hear two things: The harmony and the phenomena of repetition.I’m also hoping to troll around for a good definition/descript ion of minimalism before the meeting. Sigh.Related
things to listen to (that influenced Reich): Bach’s "Brandenburg
Concerto No. 5," Stravinsky’s "Rite of Spring" (!ha!), any John
Coltrane, Terry Riley’s "In C."
An OTBKB reader sent work of this:
A Toxic Apple: The Story of the Williamsburg Greepoint Corridor is a VBS produced film premiering April 9th on VBS.tv
Preview information available at
myspace.com/thetoxicapple
There’s an article in the City Section of the New York Times’ by Jake Mooney about the Gowanus neighborhood.
TEN years ago, the idea of worrying about the future of the land around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn would have seemed a little strange, especially in hot weather. An underground tunnel designed to circulate the canal’s water had been out of service for decades, and as a result, sewage from nearby houses and storm drains overflowed regularly into the canal, emitting a formidable stench.
The state’s housing chief rejected Clipper Equities’ second attempt to buy Starrett City in Brooklyn.
The Housing Commissioner Deborah Van Amerongen says her office rejected the developer’s proposal Saturday, saying it does not protect the residents.
The original $1.3 billion plan to purchase Starrett City came under fire from advocates concerned over losing affordable housing in the neighborhood.
The commissioner says her agency believes Clipper wants to obtain market rates for almost 6,000 apartments, meaning rents would also go up for the subsidized housing.
Last month, federal officials rejected the deal over fears the new owners would not be able to keep the complex affordable.
Gowanus Lounge was at the Civic Council meeting last night and has a report. Anyone else at that meeting, please write in. I’d love to know more. I’m away at the moment.
A group of Ninth Street residents turned out in force to strongly oppose a Department of Transportation proposal that would add turning lanes and bike lanes to Ninth Street, and in the end the PSCC voted 14-3, with one abstention, to object to the plan.
The primary objections voiced by residents were that a bike lane would interfere with double parking and the ability to pick up and drop off children, for instance. There were also concerns that narrowing the street from two lanes to one lane would cause traffic congestion and that bicyclists would be deposited at the Ninth Street entrance to Prospect Park, which is for pedestrians. There were also a number of complaints that the city’s Department of Transportation had not involved residents in preparing its plan.
“It’s not a plan that was done looking at community needs,” said PSCC Trustee and Ninth Street resident Bob Levine, who led the charge against the bike lane proposal. “Yes, we need bike lanes, but DOT didn’t talk to the neighborhood.” Mr. Levine suggested placing new bike lanes on 15th Street, which he argued is more amenable.
Power was restored to the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn Friday evening after a manhole fire earlier in the day sent smoke onto the street and into a supermarket.
Fire officials say the explosion happened around 11 a.m. Friday morning in front of Key Food grocery store on Atlantic Avenue. The blast caused the store to lose power, forcing it to close.
Lights also went out at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street.
A store employee says it was a scary scene.
“We were standing here, next thing you know it was just a big cloud of black smoke just coming from out of nowhere, from underneath there – the manhole,” said Janay Packer. “And then for like give or take a good half an hour, it just exploded. There were like ten fire trucks out here. It was just crazy.”
The fire may have been sparked by a transformer. No one was hurt.
Gowanus Lounge reports on the debate over DOT’s 9th Street redesign plan at last night’s Park Slope Civic Council meeting. The Civic Council voted overwhelmingly to “table” a plan that would provide the neighborhood with improved pedestrian safety on one of the most hazardous streets in the area, enhanced cyclist safety along a key access route to Prospect Park and Red Hook, and traffic-calming along an overly broad street with low vehicle counts and a serious speeding problem.
Note to Livable Streets advocates: If you don’t join civic groups and show up to community meetings, you lose.
Note to DOT: I am sure that you could have won over most of this 9th Street crowd if you had included them in the planning process.
Note to Mayor Bloomberg: You need to say that projects like these are critical to the future of New York City. We need a mandate.
Hepcat and I were having Greek salad for lunch at home when the phone rang.
Ring. Ring.
"Did you call yesterday to complain about construction noise?" a man with an adorably New Yawk accent said to me on the phone
"No, I think you have the wrong number," I said.
"Ahhhh, let me check," he said.
"Hey, did you make a noise complaint?" I said to Hepcat who was eating some lettuce.
"Yeah. That was me," he said as he grabbed the phone.
I was more than a little surprised.
But then again Hepcat is a man of few word (they don’t call him No Words_Daily Pix for nothing and I guess this didn’t warrant a mention when I asked him how his day was yesterday.
"How was your day, honey?" I asked. "Fine." was his simple reply."
Here’s a more detailed version of what Hepcat told the guy on the phone.
HEPCAT’S ACCOUNT OF YESTERDAY’S INCIDENT
Yesterday there was a DEP crew on Sixth Avenue at the intersection of Third Street jackhammering the pavement away from a manhole cover.
Rather than the usual jackhammer as loud as a jackhammer, it was the jackhammer as loud as a jackhammer in your very own bathroom while you have a hangover.
In other words much much louder than normal jackhammers that we all know and love. So as I walked by on my way to UHaul, I noticed that the jackhammer didn’t have the so-called muffler that they’re required to have in New York City. If you haven’t noticed, most jackhammers have a gadget that looks like a small lawn mower muffler sticking out of them or are wrapped up in a little blanket much like a newborn baby.
These are required by the city because they cut the noise considerably.
So I stopped and asked the work crew why didn’t their jackhammer have the New York City required swaddling?
"You’re supposed to have a muffler on that, why don’t you? I said fully expecting the converation to go along the lines of:
THEM: "We have no idea what you’re talking about."
ME: "Tell your supervisior to give you the right equipment. It’s making too much noise."
THEM: "Thanks, buddy."
Basic good samaritan stuff.
Instead, a crew member said: "So you want to make something of it? Why don’t you call 311?" interspersed with colorful Anglo Saxon construction terms of art.
So I said: "I’ll do just that!" And I took my handy cell phone out of my pocket and one of the crew members started waving a shovel over my head and made various threats.
One of the others tried to reason with the guy: "Put that down," he said.
The shovel-guy chased me west on Third Street and finally was stopped by one of the other crew members.
Phew.
Shaken up, I continued walking toward Fifth Avenue. When I finally calmed down, I called 311 and started telling them the whole thing. When we got to the shovel waving portion of the account, they switched me to the 911 operator because of threats and assault by shovel. But, I don’t know, it seemed like the door was opening into a weeks-long Kafkaesque episode I didn’t want to be part of.
"So I told the 911 people I didn’t want to press charges and all that. I finished talking to the nice people at 311 who were very professional and that was that until the phone call we just got
It was than 24 hours later. Some of the city employees are doing a very nice job and some of them…."
END OF HEPCAT’S ACCOUNT.
So when was Hepcat going to tell me that he nearly got hit on the head with a shovel?
For those who don’t know about Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), check out his retrospective at the Whitney Musuem. I heard about him years ago when I saw a film called 14 Americans (by Michael Blackwood) about 14 New York artists in the early 1980’s. That film shows footage of Matta-Clark slicing a New Jersey house in half.
An early site-specific artist and the co-owner of Food, a SoHo restaurant managed and staffed by artists, Matta was an artist with an adventurous and experimental spirit. A photographer,
filmmaker, conceptual artist and restaurateur, Gordon Matta-Clark sliced buildings in half, bought tiny parcels of land around the five boroughs grew mushrooms in a gallery basement and more.
From Wikipedia: In the early 1970’s as part of the Anarchitecture group, Matta-Clark
was interested in the idea of entropy, metamorphic gaps, and
leftover/ambiguous space. Fake Estates was a project engaged with the
issue of land ownership and the myth of the American dream – that
everyone could become "landed gentry" by owning property. Matta-Clark
"buys" into this dream by purchasing 15 leftover and unwanted
properties in Manhattan for $25-$75 a plot. Ironically, these "estates"
were unusable or unaccessible for development, and so his ability to
capitalize on the land, and thus his ownership of them, existed
virtually only on paper.
The Whitney retrospective shows, what Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times calls: “that messianic, carefree ethos that arose when New
York was a crumbling capital with mean streets, cheap rents and bad air
and when art wasn’t worth much either, so nothing was impossible."
Through June 3 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street; (212) 570-3676. Screening and talk, 7 p.m. Screenings continue throughout the month.
Streetsblog has the proposal the DOT gave to Brooklyn’s Community
Board 6 on March 29th regarding safety improvements at Grand Army
Plaza. The plan’s highlights include:
When we were driving around Red Hook the other day, on our way home from Teen Spirit’s gig at the Liberty Heights Tap Room, I noticed that Chelsea Garden Center is going in right down the block from Fairway. They are opening April 23rd. We also drove by the newly re-located Gowanus Nursery at 45 Summit Street between Van Brunt and Columbia.
Chelsea Garden Center in Red Hook?
Gowanus Nursery in Red Hook? (check out A Brooklyn Life’s gorgeous pictures).
Location. Location. Location.
Today was a day for Poetry. Panda poetry that is.
For the sixth year in a row, I took PS 321’s poetry magazine, Pandamonium, to the printer. We always have to get it there the first week of April so that it will be printed and delivered to the school by the first week of May.
It’s always a relief when I (with one of my co-editors) take the file to the printer.
Phew. It signals the end of a very laborious process.
Pandamonium, a parent/teacher/student collaboration, is a 64-page, 11-by-17 inch magazine that features one poem from every child in the school.
That’s nearly 1,300 poems.
The poems are written by the kids during the monnth of May, which is poetry month at PS 321. During the following summer, the poems are typed by twelve or more parent-typists.
In the fall, parent-graphic designers work on the layout. Later, parents are enlisted to proof read and scan artwork.
For printing, we use JNB Printing and Litho, a commercial printing shop in Sunset Park. John, the ownerm has obviously been in the printing business for ages. A real perfectionist, he has an amazing eye and a great memory. He has seen the business change a great deal over the years as computers took over but he’s managed to stay in the game. He’s been printing Pandamonium for as long as it’s been professionally printed.
It was good to see John today.
JNB is located at 141 West 32nd Street (718-965-4700). The woman in charge of pre-press is Robin and she is just fantastic to work with. She seems to enjoy working on this project and treats it with tender loving care. What a big help that is!! I always show up with a variety of CDs and files and fonts and scans and…
It can be a bit confusing. "What version of Quark are you using "Quark 7. We don’t use 7…"
Today it only took an hour to get everything loaded on Robin’s computer and ready for the pre-press process.
What a relief.
This year, as always, we had a top-notch production crew. Elizabeth Reagh of Good Form Design was our lead design and layout person and she is such a talented pro. Antony O’Hara contributed a great deal of time, expertise and creativity to Panda’s new artwork centerfold, as well as other sections. And as we speak, Debby Albenda, an art director at Nick Magazine is hard at work on the cover and the credits page.
The co-editor of this epic project is Susan Buchsbaum and she’s just amazingly energetic and smart. The list of typists, scanners, and proofreaders is too numerous to mention but thanks to all.
But today, I want to salute the effort and energy of Robin, John and the staff at JNB Printing in Sunset Park. Thank you so much for all your work.
Check out Racked, the new retail blog developed by Curbed.
Carroll Gardens: Opening this very day is Go Fish!, a vintage furniture store and boutique on Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens. On the shelves: mid-century modern furniture as well as jewelry, housewares, clothing and shoes. Their website is a work in progress, but they do have a MySpace presence whose interests include “estate sales, rock and roll, deviled eggs and the perfect dresser.” (187 Sackett Street between Henry and Hicks, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn; 347-721-3401). [Racked Inbox]
This is from Red Eft’s blog, Oswegatchie:
I applaud San Francisco for pushing biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable plastic bags.
But really, can’t we learn to bring our own canvas bags when we go shopping or baskets woven from the native grasses of our front yards? I’m no model of alertness, and I’ve made it a habit.
Forgot your bag? Here, we’ll sell you a canvas one, at cost. And more discounts for people who bring them, as some places do now.
I can’t believe I’m talking about plastic bags while bigger fish like the Iraq supplemental are swimming through Congress, but there are better essayists out there on that one.
“I can’t do it!” I blurted today while driving with my husband. “I cannot go on buying bread in plastic bags. Let’s buy all our bread loaves at Bread Alone from now on, and bring ’em home in our own bags.”
Talking of plastic bags, recycling and so forth, I was at the playground with my children yesterday and my foot fell upon some pale film protruding from the mulch. “What’s this, a baggie?” I thought, toeing it. A condom. “Gross. But really, who has sex at the playground next to a busy thoroughfare?” (People who aren’t allowed to have sex at home? I won’t pursue that line of thinking just now.) Later, I got to thinking about condoms as garbage. All the strange places I have seen them. On asphalt, on grass, hanging from chain link fences…do Canada geese choke on them?
“Why am I obsessing about condoms as litter?” I had to ask myself. Condoms contribute to safer sex and zero population growth. As the biggest polluters on the planet, Americans in particular should use lots and lots of condoms, that’s a good thing, even if they don’t biodegrade (the condoms I mean, not the people. At least people still biodegrade!)
The guy who dropped his baggie full of fertilizer in the mulch is, at least, working to reduce. But what about composting and condoms? Seems there’s some disagreement about whether latex ones, best for preventing STDs, help grow seeds after spilling some. More good reading on this from EcoChick.
Carroll Gardens is finally getting a green market. Woo.
It is set to begin on July 8. The nabe already has Carroll Gardens CSA. where you can sign up for a share of a farm’s crop. They’ve got a CSA in Ft. Greene, too.
Anyone know where the green market is going to be in CG?
I thought this was a very interesting exchange between two OTBKB readers. One happens to be my dear sister, Diaper Diva (AKA Caroline Ghertler).
“Here’s a very educated guess (as both a parent and psychotherapist in Park Slope): if you’re using “taking care of kids and trying to do your own work” as an excuse for finding “very little time for self-care,” chances are you’re also neglecting your love/sex life as well. Truth is, nothing will get rid of that frumpiness like some romance and passion, and the even better news is nothing is better for kids than having a couple of adults in their lives who are fulfilled in the love-Eros-sex departments. For the emotional health and well-being of your kids, and for a real make-over that counts, get a babysitter and get a life!”
Posted by: Peter Loffredo | Apr 4, 2007 12:37:23 PM
“good advice. but perhaps it could be said in a gentler fashion? ouch.”
Posted by: caroline ghertler | Apr 4, 2007 12:41:35 PM
“You’re right, Caroline. I could have been gentler. Sorry. I tend to be very… passionate… about this subject. Too many adults think being a good parent means neglecting themselves, and in particular, neglecting the Eros side of the married-with-children equation, and that is absolutely the worse thing for the kids. Nonetheless, I will try to better mind my bedside manners.”
THE GOOD THIEF is a suspenseful and
haunting narrative from a playwright who is finally earning his place
as one of the most exciting voices of his generation." This production
features
Katie
Adams is the Producer of THE GOOD THIEF; Artistic Director, Brian
Avers; Tom Wojtunik directs; Production Design by Travis Walker;
Costume Design by Isabelle Fields; Dramaturgy by Marcie Bramucci;
Myvonwynn Hopton is Assistant Director/Production Stage Manager;
Starring Kit Wannen; Music by Ben Carroll and Corey Mustin.
The Access Theatre is located at 380 Broadway, 4th Fl, New York, NY,
two block south of Canal at the corner of White Street. THE GOOD THIEF
contains strong language and graphic subject matter. It is not
recommended for children under 12 years old.
This from New York 1:
The Brooklyn jail is not only
set to re-open, it may be expanding after sitting empty on the corner
of Atlantic Avenue for four years.Despite community protests, the Department of Correction has said
for some time that it plans to reopen the Brooklyn House of Detention
to ease some of the burden on Rikers Island.But now NY1 has learned that the city also wants to expand the jail
so it can hold as many as 1,500 inmates – almost twice the current
capacity.Advocates of the plan say the Brooklyn location will make it easier
to transport inmates to their court appearances, but critics say the
jail wasn’t a good neighbor before it closed in 2003."There’s a reason why counties have county jails located next to
courthouses. That’s where they should be in the civic center of the
community," said DOC Commissioner Martin Horn.The Brooklyn jail is actually connected to the nearby court through a tunnel.
Its expansion, in conjunction with a controversial proposal to
build a new jail in the Bronx, is actually part of the city’s plan to
reduce jail capacity because the new jails would clear the way for the
demolition of thousands more cells in rundown Riker’s Island."Riker’s island is the wrong place for the City of New York to put
all of its jail beds," said Horn. "It’s connected to the mainland by a
single bridge; it complicates justice by making it very hard to get
inmates back and forth to court everyday."The shuttered jail is located at Boerum Place and Atlantic Avenue
in Boerum Hill, which is experiencing a housing and commercial boom and
is next to the downtown area that officials want to make into a 24-hour
community.But the decision is certainly a controversial one as many in this
community say they don’t want a bigger jail in their backyard."I think it’s a bad idea with so many young families and children
moving into the neighborhood. Bad idea," said one area resident."I think it’s going to be bad, ’cause there’s a lot of children who
live in this neighborhood. A lot of kids around here. It’s going to
really bad, I know that," added another area resident.But some community groups have been working with the city for over
a year to hammer out some middle ground, including 250,000 square feet
of proposed retail space on the ground floor and an underground garage
as part of the expansion plan.But they say memories of city cars parked on the sidewalks and
other issues when the jail was last open are still fresh in their
minds."It was not kept as clean as it should be. This is a residential
neighborhood there are apartments and condos," said Sue Wolf of the
Boerum Hill Association. "If the commissioner is a good neighbor, I
think it should be fine. If he’s not then we’ll have problems."But since the Correction Department has the right to reopen the
facility with or without the community’s approval, many are striking a
diplomatic tone."I think we have an opportunity to make this a win/win," said
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. "I think it can work for
the Department of Correction and even more important it can work for
the residents of Downtown Brooklyn and even all of Brooklyn."The expansion of the jail is expected to take around five years,
but the Department of Correction says it could open within 48 hours
notice if the space is needed.
Scott Adkins, playwright and founder of the Brooklyn Writers Space is putting on a show
or to be more exact, The Atlantic Theater is developing his most recent play.
Come to a reading. Here's what he had to say:
Friends-
Hope you can make it to a reading of my most recent play, Running
Commentary No. 4. I've had the awesome experience of developing it over the last six months in the SoHo Writer/Director Lab.Kenn Watt is directing and we'll present at:
The Atlantic Theater: Studio A
330 West 16th Street
Wednesday April 11 at 8 pmSee below the complete schedule of the lab participants, they're all
amazing!Best-
Scott
Monday April 16 at 7 pm
WHITE HOT
by Tommy Smith
Directed by May AdralesMonday April 23 at 7pm
NOCTURAMA
by Annie Baker
Directed By Debbie SaivetzSunday May 13 at 7pm
THE MELTING POINT
by Kristen Palmer
directed by Awoye TimpoSunday May 20 at 7 pm
DO NOT DO THIS EVER AGAIN
by Karinne Keithley
directed by Maria GoyanesMonday June 11 at 7 pm
MARIA/STUART
by Jason Grote
directed by Brooke O'Harra
A store called The Bodhi Tree is finally going into the vacant storefront on Sixth Avenue and 7th Street (396 Sixth Avenue). Pix by R. Guskind (Gowanus Lounge).
That’s a storefront I know very well. At one time, it was a nice, clean bodega that had candy and ice cream. For years, we used to stop there on our way to Teen Spirit’s Karate class at the Center for Non-Violent Education, which used to be above Save on Fifth. He used to get skiddles. Always Skiddles.
The Center for Non-Violent Education has moved to 327 Seventh Street (near Fifth Avenue) but they still offer incredible self-defense classes for kids and adults.
Two years ago, that storefront became an occupatinal therapy gym for the Rivendell School, which until last year was located on 7th between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Teen Spirit attended The Children’s House from 1994-1997 (it later became Rivendell).
The Children’s House is/was an incredible Montessori School, which was founded by Gretchen Courage. It was sold to the Rivendell folks about ten years ago. It is still a wonderful school from what I hear and is newly located on Carroll Street near Fourth Avenue.
They used to rent from the church on 7th Street — for years and years. But recently they bought their own building.
I was excited to see that the storefront on 7th Street is becoming The Bodhi Tree, a store for items from Tibet. So far, a beautiful awning with a lovely illustration of the Bodhi tree.
Sometime during the sixth century BC a solitary, wandering ascetic named Buddhat sat
to meditate beneath a shady tree (the Bodhi tree) promising not to rise until he had
attained the ultimate knowledge of spiritual enlightenment. Thus began
Buddhism, one of the world’s great religions and pilgrimage traditions.
Thanks to all the OTBKB readers who reached out to the desperate housewife desperately seeking a kitty.
MiMa Kat found her kitty and it’s not such a kitty. It’s a one-year-old Bengali named, well, they haven’t selected a name yet.
Zanzibar. Dayenu. Raja. Those are three of the names they are considering. If you have any suggestions (or preferences) just send ’em in.
MiMa Kat and Groovy Grandpa are madly in love with their new Bengali. He is huge, regal, friendly, and GORGEOUS They can’t get over him. Or their luck for finding such a great cat.
They found their kitty at a shelter in Long Island. It was not one of OTBKB reader’s tips (and there were so many) but they are very grateful for everyone’s help.
And he, this yet-to-be-named Bengali has a lovely new home in Brooklyn Heights and Upstate New York. So far he’s loving the city life. Fingers crossed that’s he’s comfy on the farm.
MiMa Kat wanted me to extend her sincere appreciation for all of your help. It was really an amazing out-pouring of community energy and cat power. OTBKB will gather together all the information and post a post — that way the whole OTBKB community can learn what we learned about finding a cat in this city.
Thanks so much to you all.