"Mettle": Documentary Shot Almost Exclusively In Cobble Hill, To Premiere At Jalopy

On July 28th, "Mettle," a documentary by Brooklyn resident Andrew Arrow will be premiered at Jalopy Theatre on Columbia Street. The film, completed in April 2013, is almost entirely shot in Cobble Hill and shines a light on a little-known fact: that collecting recyclable material on New York City sidewalks is illegal. Those who do so to earn money can be cited, fines and even arrested.

Who knew that people who eek out a living by going through our recycling bins to look for empty cans or heap our old discarded air conditioners onto rusty shopping carts to bring them to scrap metal places like Benson Scrap Metal in Gowanus can be fined up to $10,000.
Through interviews with politicians and those who collect recyclables , Andrew Arrow investigates why this is should be. He writes:
"On a whim, using a $300 Handycam, I interviewed several people in my neighborhood about this phenomenon. The information I received and the incidents I recorded were quite unexpected, and led to the creation of a full-length film that includes interviews with some of New York City's (and the country's) environmental thought leaders and pioneers. The result of this effort is certain to surprise and entertain."

You can find more information about "Mettle" on the film's Facebook page.

"Mettle, The Movie" Premiere

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Jalopy Theatre

315 Columbia Street (corner of Hamilton/BQE)

Brooklyn NY

718.395.3214

7PM reception

8PM screening

9PM brief Q&A with the produce

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Cobble Hill Walking Tour With Historian Francis Morrone

The Cobble Hill Association has just announced that historian Francis Morrone will once again lead a Historic Walking Tour through Cobble Hill. If you have never accompanied Morrone on one of his tours, you should reserve a spot now.

Cobble Hill History Walking Tour

With Historian Francis Morrone

Sunday June 9th 

2PM TO 4PM

Join Francis Morrone, director of the CHA Cobble Hill History Project, on a walking tour of Cobble Hill history and architecture. This year’s tour will focus on the landmarks and history of the southern Cobble Hill. So, even if you have been on other Cobble Hill History Tours, you won’t want to miss this one! Travel + Leisure magazine named Francis as one of the 13 best tour guides in the world.The roughly two-hour walk begins at Clinton and Kane Streets in front of Christ Church.
$10 for CHA members and $20 for non-members Tour Limited to 30 Participants

Please RSVP: CobbleHillAssociation@gmail.com

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"Tropic" Juice Bar & Grill Brightening Up Court Street

Tropic, a new juice bar/deli has opened its doors at 205 Court Street just recently.  Aside from smoothies, protein drinks, and aloe drinks.  Tropic also offers wraps, sandwiches and granola bars.
Though they are a few seats in the back, the place is more of a take-out place.
This location was the home of Wyckoff Corner Pharmacy for many years. (The pharmacy has relocated  across the street to 203 Court Street)

Have you stopped in yet?  What do you think?

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The Chocolate Room On Court Street Expanding To Offer More Sweet Temptations

Great new, especially for those with a sweet tooth! 
The Chocolate Room at 269 Court Street is expanding into the small neighboring storefront, which was recently vacated by Cobble Hill Car Service.  Combining the two spaces will allow Chocolate Room's owners Jon Payson and Naomi Josepher to serve more of their signature desserts and add home-made ice-cream, sorbet and toppings.
Can't wait...

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Awash, Court Street's New Ethiopian Restaurant To Open On Tuesday

Get ready for AWASH at 242 Court Street.  According to a sign in the window, the new Ethiopian restaurant in Cobble Hill will be opening its doors this Tuesday, May 22nd at 5 PM.
Amidst all the Thai and Hamburger joints in the neighborhood, this will be a nice addition.

Here are some of the items on the menu:
*Yetimatim Fitfit: tomatoes, hot green peppers and onions mixed with injera and seasoned with lemon and olive oil.
*Gifilfil: beef strips sauteed in berbere (hot sauce) and mixed with injera.
*Yebeg Wat: succulent lamb stew seasoned in hearty berbere sauce.
*Doro Alicha: chicken cooked in kibbe ethiopian butter, onions and green peppers.
*Yatakilt Alicha: cabbage, carrots and potatoes delicately sauteed with peppers, onions and garlic.

The menu also features combination platters and vegetarian options.

The prices seem reasonable.  Appetizers range from $6 to $7.50,  main dishes range from $12 to $17

For further menu info, click here.

Until recently, this location was home to Quercy, a french bistro.

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Sweet News: "Sugar Shop" Candy Store Coming To Baltic Street

When the storefront at 232 Court Street, which now houses Ideal Properties, was renovated, the two carriage houses attached to the building on Baltic Street also got a makeover and were turned into a small storefront. It sat empty for quite a while, but now comes word that a candy store will be opening at this location.
'Sugar Shop', as it will be called will offer "vintage, modern candy store, old world nostalgic, hard to find candy, local home grown candy, best birthday place for kids, New York, Brooklyn."

No doubt, this place will do very well, especially with all the kids in the area. Besides, it's right next to Families First. Good luck walking by with the little ones...

Sugar Shop

Opening Soon

254 Baltic Street between Court And Cllinton

www.brooklynsugarshopbrooklyn.com

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Poetry Night At BookCourt With Denver Butson, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and James Tolan

Brooklyn poets Denver Butson, Jennifer Michael Hecht and James Tolan will be appearing at BookCourt for a Poetry evening and book signing this Tuesday. Don't miss it.

Poetry Night 

With Denver Butson, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and James Tolan

Tuesday March 13 at 7:00PM

7at Book Court 

163 Court Street between Pacific and Dean Street.

Denver Butson is the author of three books of poetry: triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999), Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews College Press, 2000) and illegible address (Luquer Street Press, 2003). His poems have also appeared in journals such as The Yale Review, Ontario Review, Field, Willow Springs, knockout, exquisite corpse¸ and The Chattahoochee Review, among others, in anthologies edited by Billy Collins, Garrison Keillor, and Agha Shahid Ali, and on Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac on National Public Radio. A frequent collaborator with artists in other media, Butson has worked with Pietro Costa (on the NYFA-winning Blood Works and on the internationally exhibited grace), Bush-Fellow Photographer Cedric N. Chatterley, and Grammy –nominated violist Mat Maneri. 

Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Eric Maierson is currently working on a film adaptation of Butson’s poem “what she was wearing,” to feature Butson’s wife -- local actress/filmmaker Rhonda Keyser. Butson has recently finished two new manuscripts of poems –the invention of your sleeping body and sixty-five drowning ghazals.

A long-time resident of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, Butson lives with Keyser and their daughter, who attends PS 29.

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of three history books and two volumes of poetry. Her bestseller Doubt: A Historydemonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt. Hecht’sThe End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology won the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” Her most recent book, The Happiness Myth brings a skeptical eye to modern wisdom about the good life. Hecht’s poetry books are The Next Ancient World which won three poetry awards, and Funny which Publisher’s Weeklycalled “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.” In 2010 she served as one of the five judges for the Nonfiction category of the National Book Award. Her prose and poetry appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Hecht earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Columbia University in 1995 and now teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School University and the MFA Writing Program of Columbia University. Her new prose book, Stay: A History of Suicide and a Philosophy Against It will be coming out with Yale University Press in 2013 and her new poetry book, Who Said, will also be coming out next year, with Copper Canyon.

James Tolan is author of the chapbooks Red Walls (Dos Madres Press) and Whiskey and the Rake of Mourning (Deadly Chaps). His poems appear in such journals as American Literary Review, Atlanta Review, Fairy Tale Review, Fulcrum, Gargoyle, Indiana Review, Linebreak, and Ploughshares as well as a number of anthologies, including the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He is co-editor of the forthcoming New America, an anthology of contemporary literature (Autumn House Press) and an Associate Professor at the City University of New York. He lives a few blocks down Court Street with his wife Holly Messitt, son Junuh, and their five-pound papillon Prue.

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Goldy + Mac: Another Trendy Clothing Boutique For Court Street

Late last week, Goldy + Mac opened its doors at 195 Court Street, joining the ever growing number of small trendy women's clothing boutique in the neighborhood.

Goldy + Mac's owners, Ashley Gold and Susan McInerney, already operate a boutiques on 7th Avenue and one on 5th Avenue in Park Slope, as well as a sister store in Greenport.
For the moment, the Court Street store carries a small selection of clothing by such companies as BCBG and Suzi Chin, but more pieces will be added soon. The boutique also features a small but fun selection of handbags, jewelry, scarves and other accessories.

Prior to Goldy + Mac, this retail space was the home of Bococa Café.


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After 34 Years On Court Street, Belanthi Gallery Closes

Another longtime Court Street fixture just closed its doors. Belanthi, a gallery that exhibited art in all styles and media, first opened its doors at 142 Court Street, corner of Pacific Street, back in 1978. It's owner, Paulette Hios, gave piano, voice and music theory classes out of the space for just as long.

The space, which is on the same block as Trader Joe's, is now for rent by Schuckman Realty, "a strategic planner of retail stores and shopping centers" that has "has been responsible for millions of square feet of leasing and development; and has been hired by numerous national retail chains to facilitate market penetration."
No doubt, that means that the next tenant will be a chain store.

Meanwhile, the storefront at 140 Court Street just next door, has been sitting empty for a very long time.



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Moscot, Iconic Manhattan Eyewear Store, Now Open On Court Street, Brooklyn

Moscot, the nearly hundred year old New York City eyewear institution with flagship stores on Orchard Street and 14th Street in Manhattan, just opened in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, this week after a tasteful renovation to the old storefront at 159 Court Street.
According to its web site,  Moscot, a family business,  was started by patriarch Hyman Moscot, "who arrived from Eastern Europe via Ellis Island in 1899.  He began selling ready-made eyeglasses from a pushcart on Orchard Street on Manhattan's famed Lower East Side."

One wonders why it took so long for the Moscot family to have ventured into our fair borough.

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