Jose has posted pictures and a bit of reportage on the 2005 NYC Idiotarod, along with links to competitors that did not win Best in Show. Also check out Flickr tag: idiotarod which, at last count, brought up 207 pictures.
Try to count all the discrepancies in these two reports. Is it heck? Is it hell? Is it junk? Is it crap? One thing’s for sure: someone said something the other night, he got confused, and his last name may contain one or two L’s.
From the Newark Star Ledger: "Pete Carril marched up to some stranger last night, demanded to know whether he was the ‘new owner,’ and immediately started scolding him for moving the Nets out of New Jersey. Then he had to be told that he was speaking to a team publicist, and that Ratner is not with the team."
"… the legendary coach wasn’t done … ‘You’ve got to get the owner to cut the crap and stay in New Jersey. I wish he knew what the hell he was doing.’" Read more…
UPDATE: MORE DETAILS from the Daily Herald’s Mike McGraw:
"…Before New Jersey played in Sacramento on Tuesday, Kings
assistant Pete Carril walked up to a stranger, asked if he was the
Nets’ new owner and proceeded to berate the person for moving the Nets
out of New Jersey ….
Carill was then told he was speaking to Nets publicist Gary Sussman …
Carill, who coached at Princeton for 30 years, was upset by Ratner’s
plan to move the Nets to Brooklyn. Those plans are not set in stone …
little to no progress has been made on the proposed Brooklyn arena."
"’You’ve got to get the owner to cut the junk and stay in
New Jersey … I wish he knew what the heck he was doing. And you can
quote me on that. … I mean, what’s the matter with that guy? I really
feel bad about this.’"
Small, informal gathering for current and prospective PS9 parents tomorrow (Tuesday) night. May make a general announcement later. For now, if you want details, e-mail us.
Stephen Witt, writing in the January 10, 2005 edition of the Park Slope Courier, reported on an "incendiary letter" charging that "Forest City Ratner is the hidden force behind grassroots suppport" for the Atlantic Yards project. According to Witt, the letter alleges that Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) "orchestrated and engineered" a protest outside the office of City Council member Letitia James.
Witt writes of the "quickly scrapped" note: "The note, bearing the letterhead of City Council member Albert Vann, asks for ‘black elected officials’ to express outrage …"
BUILD President James Caldwell is quoted in the article: "I as a black man can think on my own … We’re an independent organization and all we want is betterment for all the people in our community." ACORN Executive Director Bertha Lewis: "Out of respect for Mr. Vann, I refuse comment…" Forest City Ratner Companies spokesperson Joe DePlasco: "Ridiculous."
Would be nice if the whole article was online, but it doesn’t appear to be. Can anybody find it?
Douglas reports that the A train seems to be running north through the Chambers Street station once again; however, it slows down drastically as it approaches the (still unsolved) crime scene before it comes to a full stop: "Then, the train lingers with the doors open while the conductor reads from a scripted statement: ‘As many of you know, a crime was committed last week when a fire was started in the Chambers Street station. If you have any information about this incident, please step out of the train and speak to one of the detectives.’ Long pause. Anyone? Anyone? Then, after about a 5-minute wait, presumably the amount of time required for one’s memory to spark or conscience to awaken, the train continues north."
Jose reports that your home team, Pirates of the High Cs, won Best of Show at NYC Idiotarod and just managed to avoid last place in the race). Photos TK. Details TK. TK TK. TK. TK?
Brooklyn 11217, reported in January:
92 Lafayette Ave., $650,000, 1600 sq. ft. 1899 lot size; tax value $20,960
636 Pacific St Unit 204, $729,684
636 Pacific St Unit 504, $1,045,378
Brooklyn Museum of Art. Informed.
Turns out one of the primary dailyheights e-mail addresses was out of service for a while. Sorry. If you tried to send a suggestion, idea, article, etc. and you didn’t get a response, please try this handy (and hopefully spam-proof) e-mail form.
Our home team, Pirates of the High Cs, race a shopping cart in the NYC Idiotarod, tomorrow (Saturday,
January 29) at 2 pm. Starts at Fulton Ferry Pier in Brooklyn, and
finishes at Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan: "The rolling pageant and
grueling endurance race will happen rain or shine, blizzard or breeze." Apparently they discourage "just filming" but hopefully someone will document it (hint, hint). See precisionaccidents.com for more info.
In case you never made it past the jump in that Brooklyn Papers article …
Forest City Ratner executive positively gushes: “We like working with
ACORN. They have that radical feeling, they really fight for what they believe
in. We just love their history, how they started, and feel it really
represents what we’re working to do here." [PR tip-of-the-day: don’t say “trying to do.” Say “working to
do.” It makes you sound like a go-getter!]
“Forest City Ratner has been working in conjunction with the
New York City chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now (ACORN), to establish an affordable housing scheme for Atlantic Yards.”
“Talk is cheap,’” [ACORN’s] Lewis said of the Ratner
executive’s announcement …" Read the whole thing… (DIAL-UP WARNING:
3.24MB PDF of the entire paper)
Caution: Graphic Images. Also, Bundt cake is served. PHOTO: former ProHo resident DJM recoils in horror after touching dead squirrel.
Fort Greene Sports has spaces available in its 12 &14 year old basketball program. Contact Bob Byer or sign up in person at the Brooklyn School For Career
Development gymnasium (510 Clermont Avenue, btw Atlantic & Fulton) Timeslot for the 14-year-old division is 3-4 pm Saturdays. Fee for the remaining 8 weeks of games and coaching is $90. Players who show "tremendous skill" will play for a travel team.
In New York Press, Lionel Beehner writes on the Brooklyn Comedy Company (BcCo), a weekly stand-up at the Ripple Bar, on Washington Ave. between St. John’s Pl. and Lincoln Pl.: "A comedy scene grows in Brooklyn … the brainchild of a 26-year-old Bed-Stuy native, Elon James White … Since (November), he’s hosted a weekly stand-up show at the Ripple Bar in Prospect Heights … recent shows have been standing-room only."
"… larger comedy clubs in Manhattan operate on the bring-your-own-crowd
rule. ‘Here’s there’re no weird policies … [We’re
just] here to do comedy for comedy’s sake.’"
"The audience at the Ripple Bar is mostly young and African-American
(when I entered, one of the comedians pointed at me and said, ‘Don’t worry, no one’s gonna…’
then made his hand into a gun and pointed it at his head)."
Wow. Am I the last person in Brooklyn to hear about the Hot97 Tsunami Scandal? Here’s an MP3 of "USA for Indonesia" as played on the air. Give thanks to Angry Desi. I’m not even going to speculate on what the yelling
is all about. But if you want to see wall-to-wall coverage of this
scandal, go here:
"Racist Hot 97 Skit Mocking Tsunami Victims: … For the last week Hot 97 has been running a hideously offensive and unfunny skit named "Tsunami Song," that ridicules the victims of the
Tsunami as "ch*nks" whose children will now be sold into child slavery.
It’s being played on the station’s morning show, hosted by Miss Jones."
Complete lyrics are at Gothamist. Forget offensiveness for one minute, and notice that it truly is probably the most un-funny parody song ever recorded and played on a major market radio station. It’s stupid. Like, fifth-grade-kids-riffing-at-recess stupid.
"If Ratner’s Nets Arena Complex plan is accepted for construction in Brooklyn, who will the architect supposedly be?" Go take the quiz.
Aha… I knew I was saving this Jan. 10 copy of the Park Slope Courier for a reason. Highlights from the Jan. 10 Letters to the Editor:
-72-year-old Barbara Sheeran of Flatbush fumes that Prospect Park does not belong to the "Transportation Alternatives terrorists": "I will tell you why cars belong in the park … because it was built for all people to enjoy, not just those who live near the park." Later: "Since when did [the park] become the private property of those close by?"
-82-year-old Cornelius U. Morgan of Baltimore, Md. blows the whistle on the "Evildoer" in the White House who is ready to "give the bankers the assets in the Social Security Trust Fund": "George W. Bush is evil personified but because of his grand nature, a child of God, I love him as a brother and I pray that he will abandon his evil ways… "
(ed. note: Not really secret. Also, not actually the Batcave.)
From the DAILY NEWS: "Within the next two months, construction will begin on an underground auditorium that was planned when the Grand Army Plaza Library was built in 1912 … ‘The hole for the auditorium was dug,’ Ginnie Cooper, executive director of Brooklyn Public Library, said. ‘They poured the concrete for the entire building - and then they stopped.’"
"… the $16 million project … also includes a new plaza … The auditorium will seat 200 and will have a sloped floor, a fixed stage and a video screen.
Cooper envisions conversations with authors, panel discussions and small music presentations … The entire project will take 18 months to complete…" Read it…
Also, check out this amazing construction photo from the 1910s, courtesy of our new best friends at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Following up on last week’s car service thread: 7th Ave. Car Service quoted me a 45-minute wait, so I took a chance on International (Wash Ave., 718-230-8484). Got picked up, as promised, in about 5 minutes, by a beat-up (and still not warmed-up) minivan. I asked how much to 70th. My Ecuadorian driver said, "how much do you usually pay?" Hmm. $28? "OK." No wait, that’s the JFK rate. How about $25? "OK! No problem." Also, this guy really knows how to work the exits.
ProHo car service reviews and war stories are taking place in this discussion thread.
You think you had it bad. CLICK VINTAGE PHOTO to see what Park Place looked like on March 14, 1888.
Can anybody pinpoint the block? Someone should go out and take "now & then" photos.
Tanangachi Mfuni wrote over at gothamgazette.com: "The complex relationship between Ratner and the neighborhood began in
the mid 1990s. when Ratner built Atlantic Center. Although it featured
popular stores, including a Pathmark supermarket and an Old Navy, its
architecture was deliberately forbidding. To discourage loitering in
the crime-plagued neighborhood, it offered few gathering spaces or
public areas."
"A second building, Atlantic Terminal, opened this year. To make
it more inviting – and reflecting the lower crime rate in the area – it
features open spaces and benches."
Bonus from the archives: Mike points out the similarities between the Atlantic Center logo and the symbol used by people who identify themselves as anarchists.
Not much going on at the greenmarket these days, but these Tree Licious pies looked mighty good. Treelicious.
In case you blinked during Bloomberg’s 2005 "State of the City" address:
"Marty Markowitz I know you will be with us
at Red Hook when a new cruise terminal that will create 600
Brooklyn-based jobs opens for business by the end of the year. And we’ll work together to see the construction of a new areas for
the Brooklyn Nets, the capstone of Downtown Brooklyn’s rebirth."
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