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First Saturday

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basquiatnew-b.jpgVivian of Housebroken asked us to put the word out that Vanderbilt Ave. businesses will be doing their own First Saturday thing this weekend: “A lot of the businesses will be open until later and will offer special discounts.” Not sure of many specifics yet, but we know that Fermented Grapes will be doing a wine tasting from 4-7 pm with Daniel from Domaine Select Wine Estates, who “will pour some amazing wines from Italy and elsewhere. We will offer a 5% discount on wines from the tasting.” Do you have any other First Saturday updates or news? Let us know.

Oh. Did we mention that the Brooklyn Museum will also be open this Saturday night? Check out the schedule. Let’s see if Basquiat mania can push First Saturday over into another new attendance record.

REFERENCE: [Record 12,000 Crowd at First Saturday]

Categories: Brooklyn Museum, Vanderbilt Ave.

ISO a Biscuit in a Sea of Sushi Tatsu?

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Send in Your Menus! (And if you know someone who has a local restaurant, point them to this page.)

1. E-mail attachments (or website links) to [email protected], or fax to this number.
2. If not obvious, indicate whether the restaurant is (a) located in Prospect Heights or (b) willing to deliver to Prospect Heights (neither is necessary, but this will determine where your menu gets posted). Restaurant owners: please note that including photos, reviews, etc. will increase the chances that we’ll do a write-up or at least take a closer look. People will be able to find your menu on the Bars and Restaurants page, which right now looks like it’s an absolute mess (almost time for sub-pages).

Thanks to Lizzie for the inspiration: “How about a section on take-out and delivery? It could work like the car service section, with comments from the peanut gallery. Perhaps someone out there even has a scanner, and you could post all the menus in the area, so that thereafter, not a one of us would have to sort through stacks of Sushi Tatsu menus screaming “I KNOW there’s a Biscuit menu in here somewhere!!!”

UPDATE: Menus found! Jon Keegan pointed out that this site has about 35 menus for restaurants in the North Flatbush area, including Geido, Biscuit and of course, Sushi Tatsu.

Categories: Food and Drink (incl. Restaurants)

Outdoor Loudness Season (OLS): New Regulations for 2005

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j5-collector.com loud-tn.jpgJust a friendly reminder to leave your windows and front doors wide open in observance of Outdoor Loudness Season (OLS), sometimes referred to as “Spring.” Please be sure to maintain minimum decibel levels, particularly when washing your car, or pulling up to the curb to pick up your friends.

Those living in apartments on 4th or higher floors may need to increase stereo volume to compensate for distance from the street. Rule of thumb: simply double the standard blasting volume to be sure you’re in the “safe zone.”

Is Your Friend/Relative/”Connection” At Home? No need to use your cell phone during Outdoor Loudness Season. Just be sure your to have the bass pumping, and your windows rolled down, BEFORE you double park on the opposite side of the street. If double parking is not available, block a fire hydrant. Please be sure to spend at least 5 minutes crossing the street, knocking on the door of your friend who is clearly not at home, and then walking, slowly, again, back, across, two, lanes, of, traffic (allow an extra 2 minutes if neighborhood babies are napping in bedrooms facing the street).

Musical selections are no longer mandatory for 2005 (ref. “Hey Ya/When I Move, You Move” alternate-side blasting regulations of 2004). However, playing prerecorded tapes of dancehall reggae deejays grunting and yelling at strategic intervals (i.e., “HUUNNNH!”) is widely encouraged.

The Jackson Five, though pioneers of Loud in at least one respect, are expressly forbidden for the duration of The Season. [IMAGE CONSULTANT: J5-Collector.com]

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Drop Everything: Adult Spelling Bee TONIGHT

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LOCATION: Freddy’s on Dean near Flatbush. Probably will get underway around 8. $1 Per Round; Winner Take All. See the Events Calendar for more details. JOSH tells DH: “The bee should be extra fun tonight since I think there are going to be a fair amount of bee virgins.”

BAD SPELLERS, TAKE NOTE: “Would you mention something about how a woman told me how bad of a speller she was before the last Bee I had, and she went on to win.”

PHOTO: Chris “Got the Jimmy Legs” G. gets alphabetic at last month’s bee. Heather: “It is turning into a force to be reckoned with. The house was packed — people were standing in the back due to lack of enough seating.”

Categories: Dean St., Feats of Skill, Freddy's Bar & Backroom

SUNDAY: Recycle Your Electronics at Grand Army Plaza

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Recycle Your Electronics Day: Sunday, April 3rd
11am to 3pm @ Prospect Park West at Grand Army Plaza

-Bring your old computer
-Bring your friends and their old computers
-Stop by to say hello
-Help load the truck

WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED? Working and non-working computers, servers, monitors, printers, copiers, fax machines, scanners, TVs (no
wooden consoles please), keyboards, mice, cables, docking stations, battery backups, storage devices, routers, radios, phones, cell phones, stereo equipment, CD players and microwaves.

WHERE WILL THE ELECTRONICS GO? To Per Scholas, a nonprofit organization in the South Bronx with three primary goals: bring computers to technologically deprived children and families at the lowest possible cost, train disadvantaged community residents to become computer technicians, and provide environmentally responsible recycling of end-of-life computer equipment in their EPA Approved Recycling Facility.

Donations: Appreciated but not required. In exchange for each $10 donation, contributors will receive a $25 coupon toward the purchase of a Per Scholas reconditioned computer.

Categories: Grand Army Plaza, Recycling and Waste

Mystery Real Estate Auction Date

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QUIG checks in: “The other day, I stumbled upon this listing:

SUPREME COURT — KINGS COUNTY … AL’S REAL ESTATE, INC., plaintiff, against MAURICE GIBSON, et al, Defendants … foreclosure and sale … I will sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder … on April 7, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. … 951 Pacific Street, Brooklyn … Judgment is for $183,526.00 …

“Auction? Real Estate? P_heights? It was a Tom Vu moment. What castle could be picked up for pennies on the Euro? I decided to investigate while walking my dogs, Monster 1 and 2. What I came upon was this vision in galvanized steel and cinderblock: What could be hidden behind those walls?”

Categories: Real Estate