“We really liked it. We sat in the back room and they played old R&B and the Beatles the whole time.”
“I don’t recommend the calamari appetizer — rubbery, hard to bite through. He really liked his shell steak, though. I wasn’t crazy about my catfish, but I’d still return to the place because the menu was better than I expected.”
Those of you lamenting the sanitized, homogenized, baby-pushing Prospect Heights: 2005 Edition can take solace in the fact that a car was torched and abandoned near the Newswalk condos on Dean Street on Friday night. See previous post for details. Many thanks to DAILY HEIGHTS regular-slash-supporter rogersma for pointing us to an incredible slideshow of the event posted by mac.com user kevpatrick:
LINK: Car Bomb – Car blew up outside my building Fri Sept 9th, 8pm. Torched and abandoned. The Good Old Days…. [kevpatrick on mac.com]
Still no word on what caused the fire (too lazy to pick up the phone, call the 77th Precinct and get yelled at for actually trying to get information on a crime that happened in my neighborhood), but BrooklynSwordStyle said, “rumor has it there was a woman in the car, and a guy ran up and threw something into it. The woman got out, and the car exploded.” Jack said that soon after 9/11 (the original 9/11) someone blew up a car on Dean Street between Nevins Street and Third Avenue: “When I grew up near Coney Island, seeing burned out shells of cars was quite common… Many times cars that are stolen for joyrides are torched after the joyriders ditch it.”
Read the whole discussion: Prospect Heights Message Boards
Maybe one of our Newswalk resident readers can arrange a guided tour for us?
JOSH DEAN writes in New York Magazine: “There are 36 vintage Corvettes in the garage below the former Daily News printing plant in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. They’re dusty, and secure behind a chain-link fence, as if being held as evidence: one Corvette for each year they were made, starting with a pearl-white ’53 convertible and ending with a red 1989 model. Some of their windows are open. Some have flat tires. A lone white ’61 rests outside the fence. On its back end, someone has scrawled NO ONE LOVES THESE VETTES! in the grime.”
(Photo Credit: David Allee)
Thanks to Captain Marvelous for the tip!
LINK: It’s Peter Max’s Car, Man: How one artist’s big PR dream left 36 Corvettes in the dust in a Brooklyn basement [New York Magazine]
I have no idea what this means. Taken on Dean St. somewhere near Flatbush Ave., on a building that will probably be torn down when they build the stadium.
LISA L. COLANGELO writes in the DAILY NEWS: “A rooster with no sense of time or decorum has finally been caught in Brooklyn – giving the good people of Dean St. some much-needed peace and quiet. Animal Care and Control officers nabbed the noisy bird yesterday after a breathless chase over fences and through narrow backyards.”
“Thank goodness, now we can sleep,” said Charles Houston, who has been plagued by the rooster’s serenade in the wee hours for months. “Take him far, far away so he can’t walk back.”
LINK: Cock-a-doodle-dandy officers nab B’klyn rooster [Daily News]
Thanks for the tip: Heather
Adult Spelling Bee emcee Josh Reynolds reports that he recently received an e-mail from blog-savvy Daily News reporter Deborah Kolben:
“She wanted to do an article on the spelling bee. I was pretty excited about this and called her up. She said, ‘So…you have this adult novelty spelling bee.’ and I launched into my spiel and she stopped me very early on to say, ‘So, it’s not adult?’ … ‘Uh, well, we don’t spell the names of vibrators or anything like that. I mean, other than being in a bar, it’s a pretty wholesome spelling bee.’ She said, ‘Oh’ in a disappointed way, and told me that she was probably not going to be able to pitch the regular old spelling bee story.”
“I guess a ‘Sex and the Spelling Bee’ event is a good idea, but how hard are those words to spell really?”
Bonus! Heather reports on last week’s bee:
“…not packed to the rafters like last time, but … any time there are no tables left completely empty, it is a good turnout … It always seems half the people there don’t participate in the spelling, so it’s not like you’d be alone in your spell-lessness if you were to come just to watch. As non-speller Mark pointed out, it’s not just a competition, it’s entertainment.”
The next Adult Spelling Bee takes place at Freddy’s Backroom on the last Wednesday in April.
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.”
According to Kathy, "apparently the Jane Pauley
Show went to Freddy’s in order to film Knit Night in action [Monday, Feb. 1]. As a
friend pointed out, Jane Pauley going to Freddy’s sort of points to us
now being in The End Times."
UPDATE: Knit Night organizer Tony Limuaco just got back from the show taping downtown (air date TBA): "Jane was a gracious host–I got all sorts of loot … The show was on crafts, and Knit Night at Freddy’s was the opening piece. The show also featured cake decorating genius Kate Sullivan and Lilly Chin, author of ‘The Urban Knitter.’ They left one of my quotes in the clip: ‘Knitting is the new yoga, but after few beers it’s the new bowling.’"
Josh gives details on last Wednesday’s Adult Novelty Spelling Bee at Freddy’s: "There were three rounds all won by three different people and there
were 23 people in the first round which was a monster turnout … I got to shower the winner with the cash … Thank
goodness Heather was there to help me pronounce some words such as
"leptocercal" … the crowd gets ugly when things are mispronounced." If you missed it, don’t despair, because it’s happening again March 30 at 8 pm.
