A wonderful week-end to everyone. Enjoy the sun and the blooms. Meet you back here on Monday!°°°°°°°°°°°...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Anonymous has left the following comment on the post "Spiffy Brochure, 360 Degree Views And Steep Rental Prices At 360 Smith Street": And you'd also be paying for the privilege of being vibrated right out of bed when the F & G trains enter and leave the station in the middle of the night...°°°°°°°°°°...
Samuel Mills Sprole school building on Hoyt StreetGetting the roof ready (photo courtesy of MS 442)Dirt being lifted onto roof (photo courtesy of MS 442)The roof garden this morning. The Center area is planted with native plants.Students with young tomato plants.Garden gloves for everyoneScience teachers Jason James and Maureen Anderson giving advice as the students plant tomatoesMS 442 Principal Deanna Sinito with studentsI couldn't think of a better...
It's supposed to be a really sunny week-end, so everyone will be looking for outdoor activities. Whatever you decide to do, don't miss the Court Street Festival on Sunday, May 1st. Court Street will be closed from Union Street to 9th Street and 200 vendors, children's rides and music will take the place of cars. It starts at noon and will go till 6 PM. See you there?°°°°°°°°...
Spring means 'Stoop Sales' here in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. The season is off to a great start this Saturday as "Third Street "from the tracks to the canal" is having a Super Spring Stoop Sale. Lots of treasures, friendly neighbors, art bargains, and more. Check it out."April 30 from 11am-5pm. °°°°°°°°°°...
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Brochure images and renderings via 360 Smith Street 360 Smith Street +70 feet= 360 degree views. Get it?Someone forwarded me the entire rental brochure for 360 Smith Street, the almost completed, quite controversial 70 foot building at the corner of 2nd Place and Smith Street.According to an agent, there are no rental fees, the first month is free and utilities, except for electricity, are free as well.Sounds good, but the rental fees are rather...

Friend Paco from the Cobble Hill Association has forwarded me information on three green events held in the neighborhood this Saturday. Read on:Electronics Recycling, Plant Sale, & the Brooklyn Bike Fest!Saturday, April 30th, 2011From 10am to 4pm, PS 29 & the Cobble Hill Association are hosting the Lower East Side Ecology's Electronics Recycling Event. We've spared tons (literally) of e-waste from landfills and hope to have the same success...
Forget those chi-chi Steak & Frites places around the neighborhood. That's so passé as the ordinary hamburger seems to be undergoing a renaissance. Two 8 Two burger just opened on Atlantic Avenue, Moo Burger is in the works on Court Street, in a space formerly occupied by a chinese take-out place, and just a few doors away, the Five Guys Burger joint at 266 Court Street is moving right along.If hamburgers is what everyone wants, I say, by...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Operating Procedure Committee members:From L to R: Craig Hammerman, Rita Miller, Steven MillerCAG Neutral Facilitator: Jeff EdelsteinNatalie Loney of the EPA addressing the CAGThe April meeting of the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG) took place at Metro Tech last night and foremost on the agenda was the ratification of the proposed charter presented by the Operating Procedure Committee.Since the CAG has been operating without a framework...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
"No more schlepping for your smoked salmon and herring fix! Shelsky's Smoked Fish is coming to Brownstone Brooklyn!"Get ready for Shelsky's. The new grocery is bringing smoked fish and herring to 251 Smith Street "with a nod to the traditional Lower East Side." The little storefront is right next to Oaxaca and once housed Handmade, a gift boutique.No further details are available yet on Shelsky's web site or on their brand new Facebook and Twitter...

Anonymous has left the following comment on the post "Exaggerate Much? Rendering On 360 Smith Street's Brochure Not Quite Reality":This is typical for RE developers. My father was an architectural illustrator for years, and his clients were always asking him to do ridiculous things, like making the building seem shorter because they were pushing zoning, or plazas look bigger to attract buyers. He just did it because they wrote the checks.A very unscrupulous...
On this sunny April morning, local artist Jorge Luis Codero had set up his easel right outside of his studio on DeGraw Street. Most passers-by expected him to be painting the Carroll Gardens street scene in front of him, but, to their surprise, he was working on a Tuscan scene, evoked from memory. "This is part of a series called 'Lived Experiences' "he tells me. "When I was young, I traveled to many places, to Paris, Florence and Sienna." Those...
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