Just spotted running up Vanderbilt Ave., can in hand. “He caught on that I was following him and gave me the slip at Butler Place…”
Montauk Club / Open House Weekend New York
Photos of Open House New York 2004 in Brooklyn: whatisee.org
JessicaSophia writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
“The thread about Open House New York got me to thinking about Montauk Club. When my fiance and I were looking for a site for our wedding, we toured the Montauk Club and actually considered becoming members (partly so we could say haughtily, “You must dine with us at the club!”
“…is anyone here a member? Please dish! It seems like a cool concept to be part of a social club.”
Links:
Montauk Club Members? [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
Open House NY (Discussion)[Prospect Heights Message Boards]
Open House NY official site [ohny.org]
PS. What is Open House NY? daveb explains: “for those who don’t know, this weekend (Oct. 8-9) is Open House New York. I can vouch that the electrical plant tour at Pratt is freakin’ amazing. Here’s some close-up photos from last year: http://flickr.com/photos/davebgimp/tags/pratt/
How do you keep a German occupied?
1. Form alliance with Brighton Beach and then invade Greenpoint.
2. Invade Brighton Beach.
3. Form alliance with Bensonhurst and invade Staten Island.
4. Pull out of Staten Island, but occupy Bensonhurst.
5. Retreat to Bushwick.
More in the .
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building Finally Closes, Nobody Notices
An Englishman in New York writes: “A New York institution passed into history last week. The banking hall in the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building on Atlantic Avenue, in Brooklyn, closed its doors for the last time on Friday. Not that you would have noticed.”
“… it’s worth explaining that the banking hall in question is an art deco masterpiece, decorated in marble, adorned with a giant mosaic, lit via 40ft windows and crowned by a 63ft vaulted ceiling … The next time you see this room, it could be a Barnes and Noble or a swanky restaurant.”
Read more… Link: [An Englishman in New York]
See the previous discussion in the Daily Heights Message Boards.
Party Like It's 1799: Garbage Throwing Fashionable Again!
File under “ew ew EEEEEW this is so NASTY!”:
(Pictured: 269 Prospect Place, a building from which garbage has allegedly been thrown.)
After 200 years on the “out” list, throwing garbage out of your window is once again “IN” in Prospect Heights! Here’s a sampling of some items that the upstairs neighbors have pitched onto Vanilla’s windowsill: “dirty napkins, used paper plates, dirty toilet paper(!!!), dirty underwear, tank tops, mouse traps (the glue kind), dirty Q-tips, hair clumps …and other assorted objects. “
This is not an isolated incident, as the 19 posts in this Prospect Heights Message Board thread suggest. For example, here’s sje describing her neighbor’s year-round “diaper tree”:
“…someone from the big building next to me threw out of their window a plastic bag containing baby clothing and dirty, used diapers, which got caught up in the huge tree straddling our backyards…”
… and 11238 writes: “I live next door to 269 Prospect Place [Google Satellite Map] and people throw crap out of their windows all the time. It’s disgusting to have to pick up other people’s trash in my own yard.”
Read more filth in the Prospect Heights Message Boards
TONIGHT: Opening at Kurdish Museum on Underhill Ave.
“Madhat Kakei is born as a Kurd in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, and has aspired for painting since he met with an old, travelling painter on a mountain lane in his childhood.” Read more at madhatkakei.com.
An Exhibit at the Kurdish Library: The Art of Madhat Kakaei
Meet Madhat: Reception, Thursday, Oct 6, 6-8 pm
The Kurdish Library, 144 Underhill Avenue (corner of Park Place)
Brooklyn, NY 11238; Contact 718 783 7930; [email protected].
Forget Emergency Sublets – Check in at Hotel U-Haul
Taken at the Atlantic Ave. U-Haul. Thanks to Charles Star for sending this our way.
Link: How Did U-Haul That [Stay Free! Daily]
Will Caldwell Turn Tish Out on Her Ear? Find out Monday.
Wowie… no surprise here, since Letitia James is one of the Atlantic Yards project’s fiercest opponents, and James Caldwell is the project’s cheerleader-in-chief. But still… come on!!
Random_person told Daily Heights: “We were walking down the Flatbush Street Festival on Sunday and ran into Tish James… she said James Caldwell ‘banned’ her from the Community Council meetings at the 77th Precinct, and said he would throw her out if she tried to show up.”
[Oh yeah… in addition to being the CEO of BUILD, Caldwell also happens to be the President of the 77th Precinct’s “Community Council,” which is supposed to be some sort of interface between NYPD and “The Community.”]
Random_person continued: “She said she is going anyway, and they are public meetings, and they can’t kick her out. And they refunded the money she gave to the kids organization that they run. I think they have a youth police athletic-type thing.”
“You may want to ask her about it… She didn’t seem afraid to bring it up.”
Will do. Thanks for the info! This month’s 77th Precinct Community Council Meeting is next Monday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 PM. 127 Utica Avenue.
DISCUSS: Will Caldwell Turn Tish Out on Her Ear? []
Burrito Bar Signage
From Jack Szwergold’s Picpatrol.com, one of Brooklyn’s premier neighborhood photoblogs:
We don’t mind this sign, too much… but others have expressed strong opinions about it.
Discuss: Ungodly Ugly Sign on New Burrito Bar[Prospect Heights Message Boards]
Lorena's Coffee Shop: DEAD
11238 writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
“RIP…. a for rent sign was up in their window yesterday… I think the opening of Prospect Perk and eventually Heights Coffee put the last nail in the coffin.”
“I wasn’t a big fan of Lorena’s so no love lost here… their bagels could have doubled for hockey pucks!”
DISCUSS: Prospect Heights Message Boards