I almost did not see her up there on the roof, amongst the vents and the chimneys. She was looking towards downtown.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The EPA Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group will meet at its general meeting tonight, Tuesday, September 27 at PS 58, 330 Smith Street from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
NYC Department of Environmental Protection's Commissioner Carter Strickland will be attending the meeting with members of his staff.
This will be the community's first opportunity to speak to the new Commissioner on his agency's activities as they relate to the Gowanus Canal.
Mayor Bloomberg appointed Strickland as commissioner of NYC DEP in August '11. He was previously DEP's Deputy Commissioner for Sustainability and was a principal architect of Bloomberg's City’s Green Infrastructure Plan.
There will be a question -and-answer period with members of the CAG.
Also on the agenda is a vote on a motion for the CAG to request TASC assistance (Technical Assistance Services for Communities). EPA has received a request from a community member, but has indicated that the formal request must come from the CAG.
As always, the community at large is invited to attend the meeting.
To access all documents relating to the Gowanus CAG, click here.
Monday, September 26, 2011
The Gowanus Canal as a backdrop for a wedding ceremony? Why not? It may not be Venice, but our very own industrial waterway has its own charm, no?
Proving that the canal can be a terrifically romantic place, Ariana Souzis and Joel Hamburger got married at the Gowanus Grove at 400 Carroll Street in front of friends and family this past Saturday. After the ceremony, the newlyweds climbed into a beautifully decorated canoe navigated by Eymund Diegel of the Gowanus Dredgers. They were rowed a ways on the canal to the Union Street Bridge, where they were successfully dropped off and regained terra firma by climbing up the stairs to the street.
Why wed on the shores of the Gowanus? Apparently Joel had proposed to Ariana on the Union Street bridge and the place obviously holds a lot of meaning for the two.
A bit unusual, yes, but it looked like a lovely ceremony.
Congratulations to the newlyweds.
This afternoon, after school, take the kids to see Charlie Chaplin in "The Circus." Not only will they enjoy it, so will you.
BIG MOVIES FOR LITTLE KIDS
Monday, September 26th
at 4pm Cobble Hill Cinemas
Season Premiere!
Charlie Chaplin’s THE CIRCUS
In order to evade police who suspect him of being a thief, the tramp ducks into a circus tent and acts as if he is part of the show. The cops follow and try to apprehend him, with hilarious results. The crowd goes wild, believing all this was planned ahead of time. The scenes in which the tramp is pursued through a hall of mirrors, trapped inside a lion's cage and forced to double for the missing tightrope walker are among Chaplin's best! (USA; 1928; not rated; black and white; silent with intertitles; running time: 71 minutes)
At Cobble Hill Cinemas Time: 4pm (every other Monday, following the public school calendar)Ages: 2 and up (all ages welcome)
Location: Cobble Hill Cinemas, 265 Court Street @ Butler Street, BrooklynSubway: F train to Bergen Street
Cost: $7.00 per person (as per theater policy, all walkers need a ticket)
To secure seats at Cobble Hill Cinemas, tickets may be purchased on-line at:www.cobblehilltheatre.com
For the complete fall schedule and more information:
See you at the movies!
Joey - also from Henry Street has left the following comment on the post ""Go Sit On Your Own Stoop!": John Khoury's Stories Of Growing Up In Brooklyn In The 1970s":
Hey Anonymous,In 10 minutes, I can call at least 25 people who will not only vouch for every recollection and personality recounted in John's book, we can introduce you to them!You can wonder all you want, but John John's "memoir" is spot on in almost every detail of the life we experienced growing up during the 1970's on Henry Street - in South Brooklyn.One day in 1973, in Carroll Park, playing on the see-saws, when Carroll Park had see-saws (and kick-ass monkey bars!), I broke my leg. With no adults around, my brother and best friend Mario, practically dragged me to Long Island College Hospital. I was 8. I didn't call my parents because I thought I'd get in trouble. It was indeed a different time.We would spin tops, play fist, stoop ball- when a rare open parking spot permited it- skelly and ring-a-levio in the streets to keep us busy. I still own a pimple ball!As John mentioned, it wasn't Disneyland, but we didn't know any better. Looking back, we wouldn't have wanted it any other way.Katia, thanks for allowing John the opportunity to tell his story. He captures that period of time perfectly and I am happy he put it out there.I only wish he would have mentioned how Nicky Neck would spit at you though the hole in his throat when we ranked on him.Ahh, good times!
Friday, September 23, 2011
Proposed Whole Foods Store on Third Street, just feet away from this intersection.
This is what Third Street looked like this afternoon after about 2" of rain. A Gowanus resident sent me these photos taken at the Third Street Bridge, just feet away from where Whole Foods is planning to building its Gowanus store.
The resident writes:
It doesn't take a hurricane to flood things around here. Traffic is backed up on Third Street as cars try to "navigate" the lakes on the street. The lake on the east side of the bridge formed before the one on the west side. This is the same street that Whole Foods wants to add significant additional car trips per day to while at the same time adding to the flooding problems in the area.Good point. And may I just add that Third Street is this neighborhood's Hurricane Coastal Evacuation route to Park Slope? What a joke!
At least Community Board 6 will be following up with the Office of Emergency Management to ask that traffic be re-routing to Smith Street in case of flooding. Can you imagine what traffic mess that will create in an evacuation?
From CB6's The Sixth Sense
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