August 2009
13 posts
Legacy of Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming... →
“I always thought that intersection needed something,” Paco Abraham said. Thousands of commuters pass through the subway entrances on these corners every day. You’ve got students walking to schools on Bergen and customers heading to the restaurant row on Smith. They’re all contending with traffic that tends to accelerate on the excessively wide Bergen as drivers to make the...
“I want to stomp on all the dead bad guys!”
– The Boy
The Casserole Club Makes a Comeback! [parenting squad]
What is a Casserole Club? It’s a group of three friends who combine efforts to make a large batch of meals. Here is the math. Each member makes a triple batch of two recipes. An exchange takes place on a Sunday afternoon, and you come away with six meals: two that you made yourself, two from Friend A, and two from Friend B. I advise you to...
Video: Brooklyn’s Illegal Urban Beekeepers Are Ready to Make Honey [serious eats]
Remember those three Brooklyn beekeeper dudes? Well they’re covering up the leg tattoos (just briefly) to put on real head-to-toe beekeeper suits—it’s time for their first illegal honey harvest! Using a special tool called a “scratcher,” they picked off the tops of the comb and got...
New Gov. Island ferry coming to Pier 6 [the word on columbia street]A couple weeks ago, the Governor’s Island Alliance, the Brooklyn Bridge Development Corp., and the Port Authority announced a deal to establish a new Governor’s Island ferry service at Pier 6 - which is within easy walking distance of our neighborhood at Atlantic Avenue (near where the B63 parks) A post from the Gov....
Report: Nearly Three Traffic Violations Per Minute At Busy Intersections [Gothamist]
After studying four intersections for 38 hours, Transportation Alternatives, the bicycling, walking and public transit advocacy group, has released a report with suggestions for the NYPD on reducing “the most dangerous driving behaviors.” Some of the findings: “Traffic law violations occur...
Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and...
via nytimes.com
For the last nine weeks, more than 100 children have been slicing, measuring and baking at Creative Cooks, a children’s cooking school in Boerum Hill that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure.
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