August 2008
55 posts
Artful spreads →
Stitch by Stitch, a “cutting-edge” exhibition of quilts debuts in Midwood.
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Is Soy Milk or Cow’s Milk More Eco-Conscious?
Knowing that soybeans are genetically modified and often have to travel vast distances before ending up in milk cartons in my …
July 2008
146 posts
Walkmen album to fight cancer | guardian.co.uk →
Download the New York band’s new material early and the proceeds go straight to cancer research.
Untitled →
Hundreds of Bags Getting Left Behind at JFK Today
Photo: Getty Images
Above, you can see the results of a baggage-check-in snafu at the American Airlines terminal at JFK today. The…
Microbes in filthy Gowanus Canal may hold medical... →
The murky waters of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal have caused the demise of a baby whale dubbed Sludgie, stunk up an entire neighborhood and even once caught on fire. Someday, they may also save your…
Letting Carroll Gardens Grow →
Two ways to ruin the character of a neighborhood, overdevelopment and overprotection.
Art crime via Gothamist.com →
Keith Haring Mural “Modified” by Former Collaborator?
Before photo by Dick Stracke, after photo by WallKandy.
From the inbox: “Hasn’t anyone noticed that the Haring memorial…
“Can I have some cantaloupe like a smile?”
– the boy
A neighborhood icon →
Long Island Restaurant Update
I’ve been watching the fate of the long-closed Long Island Restaurant so closely, I don’t know how this May report in The Brooklyn Paper slipped by me….
Hardcore Destructoporn →
Burg Power Plant Coming Down Fast
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.
If someone didn’t know better, they’d assume that the historic BMT Power Plant on…
Embarrassing Things Kids Yell in Public →
Heads roll at wobbly LICH →
Problems at the neighborhood hospital.
Buy it! New walkmen album $5 for a limited time. Proceeds go to Sloan-Kettering in honor of infant patient, Luca Vassallo. http://is.gd/17tl
What’s Lurking in Your Countertop? →
“The granite, it turned out, contained high levels of uranium, which is not only radioactive but releases radon gas as it decays… with increased sales volume and variety, there have been more…
A classic... →
For the Bauhaus Baby via droolicious by Lisa Mulcahy on 7/25/08
It’s Friday so let’s throw practicality out the window. I don’t think I’d ever buy a cradle like this…
this weekend on the http://snurl.com/bdad-cal Park Slope night at the Cyclones game, Storytelling at BBG, and Food Vendors in Red Hook
Took the boy to our 20 week ultrasound today to see his little sister.
Trapped Kitty Drives Man To Mental Hospital →
A Brooklyn man ends up in a psych ward after he breaks into three apartments to rescue a cat he swears was stuck in the wall, reports The Brooklyn Paper. Friday, July 25, 2008.
New Brooklyn Urban Artists Market gets Underway in... →
NY Transit Museum Launches A New Acquisitions... →
Controversy in Fort Greene →
The Brooklyn Flea Divides a Community
The Brooklyn Flea gets the NY Times treatment today, which succinctly breaks the market’s presence in Fort Greene down to this: the old…
Balloons over New York (and NJ) this weekend
(Friday through Thursday) Flying low over Central Park used to be the province only of the park’s winged inhabitants and the occasional helicopter. But now, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the park’s original design, the Central Park Conservancy and the Department of Parks and Recreation are offering daily rides in the helium-filled AeroBalloon, which soars to a height of 300 feet, or...
Watch“Daughter” by Loudon Wainwright III (for sipoo)
“peace on earth goodwill toward manhattan”
– the boy
Local Seasonal Ingredient... →
TMBG Family Shows this weekend! Two FREE grown-up... →
Friday July 25th, Saturday July 26th & Sunday July 27th - all shows at 3:00 pm
Toms River, NJ at Toms River High School North Campus …
Brooklyn Bridge Park - Music At The Bridge... →
More video from the weekend →
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Williamsburgh Brooklyn, July 15 2007 via John Payne’s Friends’ Facebook Posts by Benjamin Bennett on 7/13/08
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel,…
More Brooklyn Neighborhoods Get Temporary Parking... →
More drivers in Brooklyn will not have to worry about alternate side of the street parking rules for the next few weeks.
Sustainable practices close to home →
In Brooklyn, finding community in composting
via Urbanite by Rolando Pujol on 7/20/08 Wallace and Karolina of Crown Heights, Brooklyn dump a months worth of organic…
In Cobble Hill, a Battle of the Scoop Sales →
Stick with the Italian ices…
Hook vendors in the red; city rules, delays cause... →
Bureaucratic delays and newly enforced health department regulations cause hardship for vendors who have been in operation since 1974.
Real World could move to Red Hook, not Carroll... →
Parents heated up about playground temps →
When playgrounds attack
I heard this story on 1010 WINS this morning, but I can’t find it on their site, so you’re going to have to take my word for it. (Or call me Liar Liar,…
Macondo, a New Restaurant, Introduces Itself, and... →
On a hot day, any frozen drink sound good, even an avocado cocktail.
Power Out in Park Slope, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge,... →
It’s apar-TIDE! Ikea sets up two-tier system for... →
The free for all is over.
