November 2008
72 posts
Holiday Train Shows in New York
via Mommy Poppins - Get more out of NYC with kids
Visiting the Holiday Train Shows are a favorite activity of Mommy Poppins readers. They usually open right after Thanksgiving and are a great thing to do with your kids during the long Thanksgiving weekend.
New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Exhibit Last year we went to the Bronx Botanical Gardens for...
To Shop: Reference Library @ Kiosk, Nov. 28 - Dec. 7
via Daddy Types
If you shop at only one blogger-curated pop-up store this holiday season, make it Andy Beach’s Reference Library Mini-Exhibition at Kiosk in SoHo. Despite his fame as a retail artist/design guru/dad/ex-DT guest blogger is probably best known for his invention of the “things I didn’t win on eBay” tag....
NYC Parking Tickets Booming Under Bloomberg
via Gothamist by John Del Signore on 11/28/08 Screenshot on NY Times’ map showing blocks and the number of tickets on them
Drivers, it’s the last Friday in November—do you know where your car is? The day after Thanksgiving was the most-ticketed day of the last fiscal year, according to an extensive analysis of parking tickets...
“Why does Ariel have shells on her… ummm… what are those called...”
– The boy
Map of the Day: Thanksgiving Balloon Inflation! [gothamist]
Tomorrow is the day before Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade which means it’s the day to see the parade balloons get inflated! The parade blow-up action is along 77th Street and 81st Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, around the American of Natural History, starting at around 3PM and ending at 10PM. The...
More Bizarre Coney Renderings [curbed]
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.
What’s a gloomy November day without some Coney Island merriment? It turns out there were more weird renderings that came out of the Municipal Art Society’s Imagine Coney session than were originally distributed, so we figured we’d put up the whole bunch of them. The Coney Visions...
BSA Hooks Up 360 Smith [brownstoner]
You can act disappointedjust don’t act surprised! The notoriously developer-friendly Board of Standards and Appeals this morning voted to let construction of 360 Smith Street, aka the Oliver House, proceed under now-outdated zoning rules that allow for a height of 70 feet instead of 55 feet. Despite DOB testimony that the foundation was only 20%...
Danny Hoch: Giving Voice to Gentrificaiton [only the blog knows Brooklyn]
Sounds like a must-see for those interested in the social, economic, and psychological implications of gentrification in this borough.
Hip-hop theater pioneer Danny Hoch takes over the Public Theater stage, presenting a one-man show of characters who have experienced gentrification in Brooklyn first hand.
Blazing...
Personalized Holiday Gifts (from local folks) [a child grows in Brooklyn]
I love Sweeter’s Pals. I have been turning to these recently whenever I am looking for a gift. These Sweeter Pals are individually handknit by Sue, who writes me a personalized “thank you” each time I have ordered one. You can have her personalize the Pal with a child’s name for an additional $6. I have ordered “Jake” and...
Brooklyn H&M at Fulton Mall: It’s Official [mcbrooklyn]Rumors of an H&M store opening on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn were confirmed last week, according to the Brooklyn Eagle. Cushman & Wakefield reported that the Swedish-based clothing and cosmetics store will soon open on two floors in a building at the corner of Fulton and Bridge Street, called “one of the...
Get Carded [Brooklyn based]
A visit to the card and gift store Scaredy Kat is somewhat akin to a visit to the home of its proprietors, Damond Gallagher and Nora Yockey: Every card, notebook, necklace or nightlight in the cozy Park Slope store reflects the personality of the two people who placed it there. So it should come as no surprise that Gallagher and Yockey take a similarly personalized...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-23) →
of Montreal
Stereolab
Lambchop
Throw Me the Statue
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
International Children’s Digital Library goes iPhone [intomobile]
Here’s something for the iPhone/iPod Touch owners with kids. The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) — which is the world’s largest collection of children’s literature available freely on the Internet — released the free ICDL for iPhone app that contains selection of books from their master collection. This translates...
Robot Chest of Drawers is Truly (Wait for It…) [droolicious]
Out of this world! Seriously, though, if I were a robot-crazed kid (and spoke French), I’d be all over Mom and Dad to order this one for my room.
Commode robot rouge avec tablette (€89, or around $112 U.S.) from Robopolis.
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Will New Grand Street Bike Lane Kill Little Italy? [gothamist]
The new bike lane that extends along Grand Street between Varick and Chrystie Streets has been warmly received by many cyclists who like the way it’s separated from traffic by a row of parked cars. Not so pleased are business owners through Soho, Little Italy and Chinatown, some of whom fear the bike lane will “hurt...
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How Twittering Critics Brought Down ‘Motrin Mom’ Campaign [advertising age]
While Johnson & Johnson did manage to offend some mothers with an online and print campaign for Motrin, which implied that moms carry their babies as fashion accessories, was it a genuine groundswell that felled the effort — or an alliance of the few, empowered by micro-blogging service Twitter?...
WatchPixar’s new short, BURN-E
Shake Shack and Blue Smoke at Mets New Stadium
In case you needed any more reasons to root for the Mets…
METS AND ARAMARK TEAM UP WITH DANNY MEYER’S UNION SQUARE HOSPITALITY GROUP TO CREATE ALL-STAR DINING EXPERIENCE AT CITI FIELD
Citi Field’s outfield concourse, accessible to all ticket holders, will feature:
Blue Smoke: the pioneer of urban ’cue, Blue Smoke will offer mouthwatering real pit barbecue (Highlights: Pulled Pork Sandwich...
“May I have some more stinky pie?”
– The boy, over brunch
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-16) →
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Sufjan Stevens
Mogwai
Stereolab
Conor Oberst
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Imagine Coney at BAM on Monday [gowanus lounge]
The next step in the Municipal Art Society’s Imagine Coney effort–which is bringing to together designers to develop a vision for redevelopment–will take place on Monday, November 17 at 6:30 PM at the Bamcafe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. They will be presenting some initial results fo their work. Also, they will be having design workshops,...
Rare Look at Less Touristy, More Terrifying Part of Ellis Island [curbed]
[Photo: Jacques Toussaint Benoit/Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass]
The off-limits south side of Ellis Island, where the creepy hospital and creepy psychiatric buildings and creepy quarantine wards and creepywell, you get the pictureare located, is opened to the public for Open House New York once a year, but even then...
The boy being a rhino
“Hi [the boy’s name here]! Hi Boyfriend!”
– a girl in the boy’s pre-school class, while flipping her hair
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-9) →
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Damien Jurado
Loudon Wainwright III
Nick Drake
Townes Van Zandt
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing [brooklynometry]
There’s lots you can do with strips of cardboard and a hot glue gun. This mask that looks like a demon pig but is actually a wolf results from a collaboration between Nora and I. After Halloween she developed an avidity for costumes, immediately demanded first a bat getup, and then a wolf disguise. When I told her I didn’t know how to...
New F Trains on the Way! [gothamist]
Hey there fellow F train straphangers, good news is rolling into a station near you sometime soon. Control Geek has a report from this morning: “I was waiting for the F subway at 15th Street/Prospect Park Brooklyn this morning and a brand new train came in! Apparently they were testing it, it had the automated announcements and everything. To keep...
Did You Vote for Obama? Then This Book is For You! [strollerderby]
If you voted for McCain, you needn’t continue reading. This ain’t for you. This book is only for those parents out there who voted for Barack Obama. This brand spanking new book, by Jeremy Zilber with pictures by Greg Bonnel, is a “colorful book of rhythm and rhyme” and “is a fun and easy way to make sure your kids know...