Cablevision customers — that is, almost everybody in this part of Brooklyn — can’t see the Oscars tonight because of a dispute between the cable and ABC7, which is airing the show.
But the Oscars will be on at 773 Lounge, on Coney Island Avenue just south of Cortelyou.
They have DirecTV, says the bartender, “because we’re classy like that.”
Alternately, Cablevision says they’re making their pay-per-view movie selection free as a kind of consolation prize, so you staying home is an option.
If you know of any other local spots showing the ceremony, let us know.
UPDATE: ABC just came back on, a little before 9:00 p.m.
We’ve noticed that Brownstoner has been paying quite a bit of attention to DP, but this really does it. A neighbor emails:
Now I now we have really crossed over into being a fashionable neighborhood. The Met food near the subway is now selling sushi and have put in a little olive bar! Check it out. Strange times..
Just a reminder for tonight’s creative women’s networking salon 7:00pm – 9:30pm at Kris Waldherr Art and Words studio-gallery (1501 Newkirk Avenue, entrance on Marlborough Road). See you there.
Have a great idea for a community improvement project? Apply for a New Yorkers for Better Neighborhoods Award! Citizens Committee for New York City awards grants of $500 to $3,000 to volunteer-led groups to work on projects that bring neighbors together and that have a positive impact on the community.
In addition to small grants, we offer one-on-one project planning assistance, skills-building workshops, and a resource center with access to computer stations, conference space and an equipment loan library.
Our next grant deadline is March 14. For a grant application and for more info, call/email Arif Ullah or Saleen Shah at 212.989.0909/grants@citizensnyc.org
Investigators hope they are tantalizingly close to solving the decade-long disappearance of a pregnant Baruch College student – but two days of searching a Queens basement has yielded nothing.
Kristine Kupka, 28, vanished in October 1998, but her body has never been found. While suspicion has long centered on the married professor whose child she was carrying, he has not been charged.
At the meeting last Wednesday, Pratt Center for Community Development presented the survey done by its graduate students on the current conditions on Coney Island Avenue. Here it is, along with the notes to the presentation after the jump. The folks present at the meeting provided some feedback, but if you have some time on your hands and care to look it over and comment, it would be much appreciated. (We seem to be on their required reading list!) Thanks Paula, for emailing these over.
I come down with strep throat. I’m new to the area and need to find a doctor. I’ve walked past the walk-in clinics on Foster Ave and they seem a little crowded and well a little grimy. Any other walk-in clinics around the area or doctor offices?
The 70th Precinct Community Council just posted the minutes of their January meeting on their blog, http://70PctCC.blogspot.com. The short – total number of crimes was down 12%, the blue van (WPIX & Daily News got it wrong) was in the Bronx, and these are the guys you need to know:
Captain Tom Pascal. If you have any information or questions regarding illegal drugs or drug sales, please talk to him.
Captain Peter Venice. He is in charge of all the IMPACT cops in the IMPACT zones.
Captain Mike Giovanelli is involved in several areas of the precinct’s work; but the two main issues that he is involved with is identifying and tracking bad criminals in the precinct, the guys that carry firearms, and those who are dealing drugs and doing robberies. Secondly, he is in charge of traffic stats within the precinct. He goes over all the accidents, where the accidents are happening, as well as where the summonses are issued, in order to help reduce the number of people involved in car accidents.
Some items, including various olives, spice mixes and a few pastries like sesame sandwich cookies, are made by Mimi’s. Others are from local purveyors, like Mast Brothers chocolate, Brooklyn Brine pickles and Hot Bread kitchen flatbreads. Imported labneh in oil, pomegranate molasses, Spanish quince paste and cheeses and various kinds of dried beans and lentils are also sold, as is fresh bread from Balthazar and Royal Crown.
To follow up on our earlier post about East 22nd street building in desperate need of repairs, Aga Trojniak of the Flatbush Development Corporation emails that:
“Tenants and FDC have identified the main individual behind East 22nd Realty LLC (the entity that owns the buildings). His name is Samuel Fleischman, and we’ll be protesting outside his house tonight at 7:30PM: 1372 47th Street, Brooklyn. Please come out in support!”
Aga says that FDC has been organizing the two buildings for the past year.
“With a lot of work by dedicated tenants and South Brooklyn Legal Services, we received some (limited) response from the landlord early on, but things have significantly deteriorated since then.
Needless to say, NYC’s building code enforcement system is clearly broken when something like this can go on for such a long time, even with devoted tenants and community organizations like FDC and SBLS working on the issue. To make matters worse, these types of conditions are being repeated thousands of times all over NYC as landlords withhold repairs to get long-term tenants out of increasingly desirable neighborhoods.”
The Brooklyn Restaurant week will take place March 15-25, and the link to the list of all the participation restaurants is now live. Stop by the Picket Fence, still the lone participant from our neighborhood, and check out what other neighborhoods have to offer. Any neighbor favorites on the list?
NY1 reports on tenants taking their landlord to court in Ditmas Park:
With the tiles disintegrating, cracks zig-zagging along the wall, and the ceiling sagging from water damage, Gloria Campbell says she loathes stepping into her bathroom. But she says she’s been forced to live with it because the owners, East 22 Realty will not make repairs.
“Do your job. You want us to pay rent, fix up the place so it’s livable,” Campbell said. “We’re not animals. We’re people.”
Campbell and her neighbors in this 16-unit building in Ditmas Park say they’ve been living with exposed walls, crumbling floors and chronic water leaks for months. Last August, the Department of Housing and Preservation took the rare step of launching court action against the company, which faces 172 building code violations.
Full story and video here. I believe the same building was in the news last fall . The address is 596 East 22nd Street, between Newkirk and Foster, the “greater Ditmas Park”, so to say.
I live in the ever growing Ditmas Park neighborhood in Brooklyn. In the past year, our neighborhood has acquired many things one of which is an herbal apothecary store called Sacred Vibes. I live next door to this shop and have been curious about it since its opening. So when it came to some herbal [...] […]
Well, Scribd has logged in more than 400 free downloads of Memoirs of an Occasional Superheroine, and over 1,600 on-site reads. This is probably the last week I will have it up. It was a good experiment, all-in-all. I'm not sure if the "free" approach is going to save the media as we know it, but I do think it definitely has its place. What me […]
These limited edition Barbies inspired by the AMC show Mad Men are the bomb-diggity, and one of the more improbable toy tie-ins in licensing history. But somehow I don't think Mattel is marketing this line to the kiddie crowd.Suggested future TV tie-ins for Barbie:Actually, I'll just take the last one. […]
Tucker Stone over at Comixology has a pretty powerful take on the whole Amazon.com "Comicgate'' controversy. Just to refresh the memory of the few who may not have heard of this massive clusterfuck, over last weekend Amazon.com's pricing on graphic novels and omnibuses (omnibi?) got screwed up, seemingly offering huge discounts for pricey […]
When talking lovingly about Eighties Retro, I think many times people skip over those last couple of years at the end. The late 1980s were almost like the Seventies of the Eighties. A lot of the tropes that were cool and unique from the early-to-mid 1980s sort of were done to death by 1989. Fluorescent clothing. Big hair. The Cosby Show. Actually, the whole […]
The Judges: Cathy Erway, Jake Schiffman, Gabrielle Langholz, Sherri Brooks Vinton (left to right) The Winning Recipes First Place: Sam Mason-Green Chile Chicken Corn Chowder (Recipe to be posted on Friday) Sam Mason dishing out his award-winning green chile chicken corn chowder Second Place: Karol Lu-Roasted Parsnip and Sweet Potato Soup w/ Fresh Apple S […]
no lengthy essay but commentary on the satisfaction of a non-snowy sunny 1st real warmish new york city day and a friend to share it with. no popping hats on and off to avoid the cold air rush to my sensitive eardrums. the very first sightings of restaurants with their doors open and outside cafe [...] […]
You choose the best cartoon intro!Hanna-Barbara's World Of Super Adventure: orChallenge Of The Superfriends: I found both in my youth to be quite awesome...and a touch overwhelming. […]
For the past ten days, I’ve been sick in a very Victorian invalid sort of way. Meaning that if I had a fainting couch, I’d be lolling about on it (preferably in a velvet day gown while clutching a bottle of laudanum). I’ve even been without a voice for four days. The good news is [...] […]
The Souperama held at Jimmy's No. 43 in NYC As I have been mentioning, myself and 15 other soupy lovers recently participated in the First Annual Souperama held at Jimmy's No. 43 in NYC. A great concept that brought chefs and amateur cooks together to showcase their specialties, family recipes, and inventive twists on their favorite soups. It was […]
