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Mar 18

Brooklyn Bridge Park to open Monday -

intrepidbrooklyn:

why not open it FRIDAY for the glorious weekend that’s on tap? Still, good news regardless. 

“Dad, Do you realize that happiness can make you cry?” — The boy, quoting Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips

Dec 16

“Daddy, are there skateboards in India?” — The boy

Sep 13

Listen to my latest recording: Freestyle 1 This track was created using I Am T-Pain for the iPhone

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Sep 11

“I wish littlies were older than biggies” — The Boy

Aug 29

Legacy of Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Advocates Continues [streetsblog] -

“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 light at Court Street.

Aug 28

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“I want to stomp on all the dead bad guys!” — The Boy

Aug 26

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 really science labby with a centrifuge to apply some centripetal force on those honey frames.

After successfully…

New Gov. Island ferry coming to Pier 6 [the word on columbia street]

A new commercial ferry dock at the foot of Atlantic Avenue will let…

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 call for a pizza on Sundays, when you may be tired from cooking.

Why would you want to do…

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 three times every minute (157 times an hour) per intersection” and “On average, each intersection had…

Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing [nytimes]

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.

Aug 24

Surprise Happy Ending to Carroll Gardens Basil War! [Curbed]
Today fresh basil grows anew on President Street. It was apparently a gift, for next to it is a simple sign written (by a kid, judging from the spelling) on a piece of white paper: “Hey, Hwoever you are, thanks for the new basil!!!”

Aug 22

Designing custom currencies [Future Blog: Design Hotels]

There is a trend taking place currently in local communities and regions creating custom-designed currency and putting it into circulation.  While we are not sure about the logic and functinality of these new currencies, we love to see the designs that some communities are coming up with.