Are you tired of cooking the same 6 meals, over and over?
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Get some friends together and have a COOKING PARTY in your own home instead of going out for another expensive and mediocre meal!!Hardly a day has passed in the six months since President Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus package without an elected official announcing how a chunk of the $5 billion or so that is coming to New York City will be spent.
The money has been designated for a wide variety of uses, including road and bridge repairs ($215 million), summer jobs for teenagers and young adults ($18.5 million), public-housing improvements ($374.2 million), food stamps ($841 million) and Medicaid ($1.59 billion).......
........Nearly $36 million will enable the Police Department to hire 125 new transit officers, which will allow more experienced officers to be utilized in anti-terrorism teams; an additional $3.5 million will help pay for community courts in Midtown and Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Friday, 8/28/09, 6-9pm
Green roofs have become all the architectural rage these days, with each new one claiming to be the biggest of such-and-such area, type, whatever. But you hardly hear of the smallest green roofs.
Atom Cianfarani, a Brooklyn artist, introduced what are probably among the tiniest green roofs in New York City Wednesday in her Brooklyn public art exhibit, “Welcomed Guests,” as part of a Department of Transportation urban art program. The two roofs, which sit atop bird nesting boxes, measure 6 inches by 5 inches and 4 inches by 5 inches. Like many larger green roofs, these mini ones also have a root retention layers, a water retention layer, a growing medium, and plants.
Along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez is calling for funding for a Red Hook trolley, or streetcar, system.Rest of the article hereIn her request for funding for the Fiscal Year 2010 surface transportation bill, she has included $10 million for “design and construction of a light rail system along the Brooklyn waterfront from Red Hook to Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, N.Y.”
At a campaign rally earlier this month, Bloomberg unveiled his ideas for overhauling the city’s transit system — streetcar service being one of them. Velázquez’s request was made in May, prior to Bloomberg’s statement.
Bloomberg’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, also said recently that positive experiences with streetcars in Toronto and Portland made her want to explore a trolley system in Brooklyn. The Department of Transportation (DOT) has now begun a $259,000 feasibility analysis of placing streetcar lines in Red Hook, DUMBO and other waterfront areas, according to published reports.
A network of electric trolleys once crisscrossed Brooklyn, but they were phased out in stages during the 1950s. The Red Hook plan is very similar to one put forward by Flatbush rail fan Bob Diamond in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
A new commercial ferry dock at the foot of Atlantic Avenue will let Brooklynites get to Governors Island faster than Manhattanites - in three minutes, versus seven. Constructed with a $1 million grant from The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and $400,000 from city Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn, the dock will open next summer at the Brooklyn Bridge Park for ferry service to and from Governors Island, and eventually to other harbor landings.
| Vivian Outlaw Red Hook Artist Vivian Outlaw has created a body of work specifically for home/made. Come see her outstanding work and feel the essence of each subject as she has masterfully captured their energy with acute accuracy. Artist accepts portrait commissions. Visit her web site to see her other works www.vivianoutlaw.com home/made produces Red Hook Initiative Fundraiser Red Hook Farmer's Chicken Dinner
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Despite walking past Yeung Son poultry market numerous times in the past, I've never quite mustered up the courage to walk in - and also didn't realize that it was open for individuals to buy meat. Eater broke some of the mystery today with a new feature. Here's some of what they had to say:At the corner of Columbia and Degraw in Red Hook, among bars named after condiments and hip antique and ephemera shops, you’ll find Yeung Sun Live, a slaughterhouse. Out on the street it smells like death, and buckets of blood are strewn everywhere. But you can’t beat the prices if you’re looking for fresh duck, fowl, or rabbit.Don’t be intimidated by the clan of scruffy cats milling around outside. They are just here to take in the smells and swipe the occasional stray piece of meat that washes out their way. Make sure not to pet them.
Affixed to the side of the slaughterhouse is a wooden menu, though it is rarely updated and is usually wrong. The only way to know for sure what is available on any given day is to walk in and see.
Once you acclimate to the smell, the first thing you’ll notice is how loud a hundred and fifty uncomfortable birds can be. For this reason, it’s probably not a great spot for a first date. It’s more of a third date, seal-the-deal type place.
Read the rest of this great post here.
Image above via Eater
[Building photo from Curbed via PropertyShark.]
On second thought, perhaps last week's report of some stirring at Red Hook gray elephant 160 Imlay Street was, in fact, the old warehouse's look-alike sister building, 162 Imlay. That would make sense, considering today's blockbuster announcement: Christie's, the chichi auction house, has signed a 30-year lease on the former New York Dock Company building and will turn it into a high-end art storage facility for its clients' collections. Opening in January, the six-story building will be outfitted with infrared video cameras, biometric readers, motion-activated monitors and every sort of climate-control device imaginable. Where once the hookers and sailors roamed, Picasso, Monet and van Gogh will make their home. The Times notes that each client's collection will probably be worth more than the entire building itself, so why Red Hook? And is there anything going on at 160 Imlay?Rest of the story available here
Other links:
· A High-Tech Home for Multimillion-Dollar Works of Art [NYT]
· 160 Imlay coverage [Curbed]
Christie's Makes Winning Bid for Red Hook [Brownstoner]
These images are of neckdowns (sometimes referred to as bulbouts) that were recently installed by the Department of Transportation (DOT) at Hicks/Sackett and Hicks/Union on the Columbia Waterfront side of the BQE. Pedestrians should be very happy with the shorter crossing distances and the added visibility at these intersections will make it safer for all users. In addition, large trucks will be discouraged from straying off the truck route because they will simply no longer be able to make the turns. This appears to be part of the implementation of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Report.
Dear Friends and Colleagues
Last week, I wrote with an exciting opportunity to support Added Value. An
anonymous donor pledged a one-to-one match for every dollar we raised through
August 26th up to $10,000.
In the last five days, we were able to raise $10,000 for the full match! In
fact another donor has now offered us another one-to-one $5,000 match, but we
only have until the 28th to raise it! That's just three days away.
I hope you will take this opportunity to renew your contribution or make a
first time donation to Added Value and support
(http://www.added-value.org/donate.php ) our work to create sustainable
economies that nurture our community here in Red Hook and throughout New York.
Can you help us to reach our goal of an additional $5,000 by making a donation
now? Your contribution will help to support all that we do at Added Value to
promote the triple bottom line - the economy, the environment and ourselves, in
unison. Your gift, at any level, will bring us one step closer to meeting our
goal and every dollar you give will be doubled. I hope you will take this
opportunity to support Added Value's youth empowerment and urban agriculture
programming.
Please join us in growing a more sustainable city by making a contribution
today. (http://www.added-value.org/donate.php )
Warmest regards,
Ian Marvy,
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Grindhaus
Housemade sausage is but one attraction at this Red Hook spot, where chef-owner Erin Norris will indulge her own eclectic appetite with digressions like Gruyère fritters, brandade, and just maybe her signature snack, mini corn dogs she calls “little bitches.”
275 Van Brunt St., nr. Pioneer St., Red Hook. Nov.
DJ Premier vs. DJ Scratch in Red Hook (Video) from Digiwaxx TV on Vimeo.
Not in the neighborhood, but it might interest quite a few people:
Metropolitan Pavilion Events presents the premier of
The Baby Show NYC on October 3rd & 4th 2009
The Baby Show NYC welcomes tri-state area expectant women & mothers to an exciting two day showcase of 50+ top notch vendors, interactive experiences and shopping for both baby and mommy!
Explore all the best and newest products and services from Babies R Us, The Bump, Beginning by Maclaren, Dan Dan, Milkdot, Mabel’s Labels, Viacord, Key Baby, Metropolitan Moms, Jade’s Toybox and more!
Learn from the best childcare experts, test out the latest in kid safety at our stroller test drive, and nosh at our organic cafe.
October 3rd 2009 11am-7pm
October 4th 2009 10am-6pm
Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th St, NYC
The first 500 people to buy their ticket online receive a gift bag
Advance tickets are now available click here
Tickets start at $20
For more information contact info@thebabyshownyc.com
Or call 212.242.1213
SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 6PM - 12AM
WORK is pleased to present The Breaking Point, a one-night exhibition of new work by ERIC AYOTTE, MELODY BOONE and RYAN O'CONNOR. Please join the artists for an evening of art, BBQ, spirits, and dance at the red tin shack.
The Breaking Point relates to the moment when the energies of societal conflict shift from being potential to being active. Envisioning the artist as an agent of substantive change, this exhibition investigates how the fragmentation of established order is manifest through the exhibition of painting, video installation and sculpture.
ERIC AYOTTE uses imagery of rioting crowds besieged by tear gas and water cannons as the basis of his heavily charged oil and resin paintings on aluminum. Multiple layers of paint are fragmented by mathematical patterns resembling a camera's lens or an intermittent television signal, referencing the various ways we receive information in our modern mediascape.
MELODY BOONE employs hand-made kaleidoscopes as the platform and context for her multi-media installations. Using images of her own family, Boone creates wallpapers from her video kaleidoscopes, which are mounted and loop endlessly back and forth, enticing the viewer to enter the fragmented interior space.
RYAN O'CONNOR uses the Tomfa, a Japanese martial arts billy club, to construct his Riot Chair. The resulting sculpture is riot gear furniture built with a Shaker aesthetic.
The Met’s annual concerts in New York City parks are one of the most beloved summer traditions in the city. This year, the company will present a six-performance series of recitals in the parks of all five boroughs. All performances in the Summer Recital Series are free and no tickets are required, except for the concert at Central Park. For information on how to obtain free SummerStage tickets, please visit metopera.org/parks beginning June 1. For additional information, please call (212) 362-6000. There will be no rain dates for these performances.
The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, created in the 1950s to break the mob’s grip on the docks, became its own bastion of lawlessness, employing some of the same corrupt, self-serving methods as the gangsters it was supposed to pursue, investigators said Tuesday in a scathing report.
Top officials at the $11-million-a-year bistate agency divided spoils, helped cronies evade the law and thwarted security provisions meant to safeguard the port against terrorism, according to the report by the New York State inspector general, which capped a nearly two-year investigation in 2007 and 2008 that the commission had sought to block in court.
We are very proud to announce the upcoming reading of The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers, and performed the Brave New World Repertory Theatre.
Lisa Lisa, leader of the classic 80s Freestyle group Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, will be performing in Red Hook Park tonight at 7pm for free. “We think the dust coming off the site will be less than if it was [still] a vacant lot,” said Michael Gentoso, a regional vice president for US Concrete. The local business will be a subsidiary called Eastern Concrete.....But some say it’s too close for comfort. US Concrete’s factory would sit across the street from Added Value, a community farm, and Red Hook Park, with its sprawling athletic fields.
It is also next to the Ikea superstore, with its peaceful waterfront park.
“It’s an awkward location that should have required more study,” said John McGettrick, co-president of the Red Hook Civic Association.
McGettrick said the company should perform an environmental review before opening, but officials from the company dodged the request, neither consenting to nor rejecting it.
The complaints extend to the expected noise, exhaust and traffic from the 15 to 20 trucks that the company says it will operate from the site.
“Traffic is going to be too much. In and out. In and out,” said Lillian Marshall, tenants association president for Red Hook Houses West.........
The Revere Sugar Factory site / Sitt's Mega Mall
Brooklyn Paper also observed that demolition of the historic Revere Sugar Factory building began last week, which possibly suggests that developer Joe Sitt has soured on his plans for a mega mall that would have incorporated the building.
The article says:
The old warehouse, along Beard Street near the Ikea superstore, was all that Sitt left standing after he tore down most of the sugar factory in 2006 to the howls of preservationists, who said that the Revere plant, with its iconic dome, was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
Since then, the site has been quiet, but Sitt has been talking about repurposing the brick storehouse as a mall with BJ’s as the anchor tenant, according to documents obtained by The Brooklyn Paper.
Given that the Swedish furniture company’s big box store is next to Sitt’s property, many believed that Red Hook’s waterfront might become the shopping outlet center of the city.
The sudden burst of activity in Red Hook is a change for Sitt who has been preoccupied with larger pieces of real estate puzzle.
Its not like we were thrilled with the prospects of a mega mall on the site, but the plan that had been previously released for that at least incorporated this building. Now its being torn down - and who knows what we'll end up with.
Additional coverage of this topic can also be found on Curbed, including the excellent photo below:
Image from Curbed via Flickr/Lazzo51
Brad Lander, who is running for City Council in the 39th District (our district in the Columbia Waterfront neighborhood), held an event today to discuss proposed steps for reducing truck traffic and achieving an overall greener port. The event served as a call for action to all stakeholders involved (see the link for the related petition below).
image from Huffington Post via Google
Local artist, Launa Beuhler has been leading a fun and successful free art program in one of our neighborhood's community gardens, The Human Compass (corner of Columbia and Sackett).
O'Barone Chef-owner Fulvio Leone brings his native Italian sensibilities to the table at this rustic eatery. The slim menu stresses simple dishes, like tagliatelle with mushrooms, and melted tomino cheese with pancetta, while the wines hail from the country’s regional vineyards. 360 Van Brunt St between Sullivan and Wolcott Sts
Frankie Negron will be performing in Red Hook Park at 7pm. According to the info from the Parks Dept. website "The Puerto Rican American has had nine Billboard Top 40 Hot Latin Tracks, and adds some contemporary pop sounds into his salsa – a perfect combination for a hot summer’s night."
Saturday, August 8
499 Van Brunt, Red Hook, Brooklyn
at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) Summer Show:
ART in Changing Perspectives
an anime cartoon festival
an invitation for anime enthusiasts to show off their costumes
from 2 o'clock to 5:30
fashion show of cos players
prizes for the best top 3
“You are standing into danger” is a communiqué of the international maritime signal code, denoted by flying alone the flag “U” (pronounced uniform), which appears as a four-square of checkered red and white.
The artists who contribute work to You Are Standing into Danger deliver analogous communiqués, each one built from its own visual language. More than two dozen works of painting, sculpture, photography, video, printmaking, illustration and embroidery mediate the instability that persists between the contents of artwork and the honest and oftentimes horrific confrontations with contemporary life. A nausea emerges from this instability, as the viewer is held in a tenuous balance between beauty and terror.
Shanti Grumbine’s The Unsayable, for example, is a life-size plaster of a nude crouching in prayer. In place of the torso and head, the figure’s innards spill forth in a sensual mess on the floor. The horror of this depiction is sanitized by a logic of the unreal, giving Grumbine's object a macabre beauty.
Astrid Craven's At Sea, on the other hand, is an oil seascape in the moody spirit of J. M. Turner. The residue of a violent confrontation lingers on the horizon, as a plume of black smoke rises from the sea, offsetting an enigmatic swath of deep red in the water.
Curated by Walker Waugh, You Are Standing Into Danger is the third exhibition this summer at Space 414, following Vintage Violence and Disaster Kit, to address the persistence of threat, disaster, survival and the role of the artist as a purveyor of hope against harbingers of fear.
Featuring work by Audrey Anastasi, Joseph Anastasi, Rafael Bueno, Marie-Helene Carleton, Matthew Cox, Astrid Cravens, Layla Delridge, Karni Dorell, Emily Driscoll, Patrick Dunaway, Sean Eno, Micah Garen, Mollie Goldstrom, Shanti Grumbine, Cathrin Hockinson, Joetta Maue, Siobhan McBride, Stuart Nicholson, Susu Pianchupattana, Ryan Russo, J.T. Theodoracopulos, and Harriet Zucker.
Please join the artists for an opening reception and garden party on Friday, August 7 at 7pm. Exhibition runs through September 11, 2009.
For more info check out: www.space414.com
