Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT) will be featuring Bay Ridge this Tuesday, October 9 at 8:30 p.m. BCAT visits Jerry and Judy Polizzi, owners of Polizzi Fine Art on Third Avenue for nearly 30 years; shops for ultra chic couture and vintage items at Lola's Boutique; checks in with T-shirt designer Roberta Thompson and much more.
Other shows this week include a visit to Brooklyn Hospital's Sleep Disorder Lab; Brooklyn Review's exploration of the anti-Semitic graffiti in Brooklyn Heights; a look at restaurants (and their effect on Brooklyn's economy); and so much more.
More information here.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
What's On BCAT This Week?
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Moon Over State Street
This huge sphere of light was raised by crane over State Street in Brooklyn Heights Friday night to aid in the filming of "Burn After Reading," set for release in 2008, starring John Malkovitch, George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt.
- Clooney Clowns Around in Brooklyn Heights
- This Week's Filming Makes Parking a Disaster in Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights
Photo by MK Metz
Second Chance for Duffield Street Underground Railroad Homes, and More Brooklyn in Brief, Weekend Edition
- The city is withdrawing Duffield Street eminent domain findings and will be holding a new hearing. According to Duffield Street Underground, this "gives Duffield advocates a chance to use political pressure to change the footprint of properties threatened with governmental confiscation."
UPDATE: Raul Rothblatt sent us this statement about the eminent domain findings:
"In response to the Eminent Domain Procedure Law Petition filed by advocates for the residents and businesses of Downtown Brooklyn, the City is withdrawing its eminent domain findings and holding a new hearing. This does not mean the City is starting over on the issue of historic preservation, but it gives Duffield advocates a chance to use political pressure to change the footprint of properties threatened with governmental confiscation. This is pretty unprecedented in the world of New York eminent domain law. This appears to be an important victory to those challenging the Downtown Brooklyn rezoning. Please stay posted as the situation develops."
- Some people are robbing bars in Brooklyn in broad daylight -- at gunpoint. The bars that have been robbed are Bait and Tackle on Van Brunt Street, Floyd on Atlantic Avenue and Moonshine on Columbia Street. Gowanus Lounge
- The city's plan to dump the last working port in Brooklyn and turn it into a "trendy brew pub and marina" now appears all but dead in the water. NY Daily News
- It was supposed to be the "exclusive" East Side, but this week's episode of "Gossip Girls" was filmed mainly at in Brooklyn Heights, at venues like the hallowed halls of Packer Collegiate Institute and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Oh -- and nobody rides in stretch limos anymore, Chucky boy. Gothamist
- Bring back the Bay Ridge ferry! Green Brooklyn
- Excellent ratter in Bay Ridge: four rats in two/three weeks, one of which was eight inches long, not including the tail! Bay Ridge Eagle In related news, New York was named on Thursday "the U.S. city most vulnerable to a rat attack!" Reuters
- Long-time Brooklyn tenants band together to fight displacement. NY1
- New York Magazine swears off Britney Spears. For good. This time. Really. NY Magazine
- Is it any surprise that sexually transmitted diseases were found in the Gowanus Canal? (We didn't know canals could even -- you know -- do it.) Brooklyn Eagle
- Brooklyn prosecutors apparently have mounted a criminal investigation into two Bear Stearns hedge funds that collapsed during the sub-prime crisis. It's a tough case. London Times
- Buildings Shooting Up in Downtown Brooklyn, Why Offer Incentives?
- Goodbye Duffield Street Underground RR Homes
- Video Explains All: Brooklyn's Duffield St. Houses
- Lawsuit to Save 'Duffield Seven' from Downtown Brooklyn Plan
- Brooklyn Underground Railroad Home for Sale for $4.5 Million
- Underground RR Consultants Tried to Pull (Another) Fast One
- Atlantic Yards Consultant Bill Up to $4.8 Million
- Red Hook Lane Demapped, No Longer Exists
- Is $500,000 Underground Railroad Study Bogus?
Photo by MK Metz
Friday, October 5, 2007
Aspiring Writers Finding It Tough Going in Fort Greene?
Stephanie at IntoTheBox.tv sent us this video about luxury condos sprouting up in Fort Greene -- like Greenhouse, for example. This seems to be impeding the ability of aspiring writers to find a place to live.
Marty Tankleff's Final Bid for Freedom in Brooklyn Today
From the Marty Tankleff web site: "Marty Tankleff had just turned 17 when he was arrested for killing his parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff, in their home on Long Island, NY. Based on a dubious, unsigned 'confession' extracted from him following hours of interrogation by a detective with a questionable background, Marty was convicted and sentenced to 50 years to life, and has already served 17 years in maximum security prisons for a crime he did not commit."
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Elevator Coming to Jay Street Station in Downtown Brooklyn
MTA workers told McBrooklyn that an elevator is being constructed at the Jay Street subway station (at Jay and Willoughby Streets, across from Sids) in Downtown Brooklyn, serving the A, C and F trains.
That will help the handicapped, right?
"That will help me," one worker said. "I have a bad knee."
Photos by MK Metz
Bird Home, Used, Thrown onto Sidewalk
It was built out of the best materials they could find, along with sweat equity and tears. The kids were born there; it seems like only yesterday that they grew up and left the nest.
Then one day they came home to find that someone had thrown their hopes and dreams -- as if they were garbage -- onto the sidewalk in front of 357 Atlantic Avenue ...
Photo by MK Metz (click photo to see more)
Baby Dies in Brooklyn Fire; Mother Can't Mourn Till Jewish Holidays Over
A tragic fire left a baby dead in Kensington, and the Orthodox mother is not permitted to mourn till the Jewish holidays are over.
Show Your Love -- Vote for the Floating Pool!
A supporter of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy emailed McBrooklyn to ask all those who loved the floating pool on the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront this summer to click here and "vote for the spectacular Floating Pool Lady in the Cooper Hewitt Museum's prestigious People's Design Award competition."The pool has made the list of top nominees, putting it in the company of the iPhone, the PlayPump (sustainable, life-saving water pump powered by children at play); Tom's Shoes and the Lifestraw portable water purification device.
- Floating Swimming Pool and New Brooklyn Beach Officially Open
- Half-Naked Swimmers, Heading to Floating Pool, Scandalize Brooklyn Heights Residents
Photo by MK Metz
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