There Will Be a Few Subway Changes This Weekend

It took six posters (at the St. George subway station in Brooklyn Heights) to list all the subway changes happening this week and coming this weekend.

If you need to take the subway somewhere, go to the MTA's Service Advisory page and plug in the line you want to take to get the latest information.

Photo by MK Metz

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Almost Holiday Craft Fair Time in Brooklyn: Brooklyn Friends School Winter Festival

Here's one of our favorites, a huge all-school event, and great fun for kids:
 Brooklyn Friends School will be having their Winter Festival on Saturday, December 4.

Get a jump on holiday shopping and have a blast with your children at this Downtown Brooklyn school's 31st annual holiday extravaganza. Festivities include an "all by hand" craft fair with 45 local artisans; holiday plant and wreath sale; book fair, children's carnival with bouncy rides, mazes, and games; a children's craft activity center; and readings by local children's book authors, headlined by Tad Hills of "Duck and Goose" fame.

Spend the day: Saturday, December 4, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Brooklyn Friends School is located at 375 Pearl Street, Brooklyn (one block from Borough Hall and the Marriott Hotel).718-852-1029 www.brooklynfriends.org/winterfestival

Free admission, although tickets at a nominal cost will be sold to the Children's Carnival and Craft Center. Proceeds benefit the Horizons at Brooklyn Friends School summer enrichment program for public school children in Downtown Brooklyn.

Photo by Taylor (Zach) Klein, Creative Commons license

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'Too Big to Park' in Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

It's a BIG film with a BIG cast and it's gonna cause BIG parking problems in Brooklyn Heights around Borough Hall from today through Sunday.

Trucks and production equipment for HBO's "Too Big to Fail" will be taking over Court and Remsen Streets near Borough Hall today and Friday; Court, Montague and Joralemon Streets near Borough Hall Saturday; and Joralemon Street from Adams to Court on Sunday.

Expect lots of stars: William Hurt, James Woods, Billy Crudup (playing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithne), Paul Giamatti (playing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke), Cynthia Nixon, Tony Shalhoub, and many more. (Ed Asner's playing Warren Buffet!) Curtis Hanson is directing.

The film is an adaptation of New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves.”

 Click on photo to read the parking details.

Want to be in the film? TBTF is looking for extras. They are seeking: "men and women business types with upscale navy, gray or brown conservative business suits; men, early 20s to late 30s, who can play squash."  

Photos by MK Metz

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Atlantic Yards Review Ordered, Brooklyn's 'Scariest Bar,' and More Brooklyn Briefs

- A state judge ordered the Empire State Development Corp. to revisit its environmental review for Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project. NY Post

- The Willowtown Association to present the "Alfred" Awards.  BHB

- Did you know you shouldn't try to rinse mace out of your eyes with water? Especially in a Duane Reade?  Brooklyn Eagle

- People don't want to eat in C-grade restaurants.  Gothamist 

- Brooklyn's "Scariest Bar" is no more.  Grub Street

- Growing Threat: Healthy woman takes antibiotics for minor dental problem, dies days later from super bug.  Brooklyn Eagle 

- The woman who fell through a crack in the sidewalk. NY Magazine 

- One of our favorite old buildings, the historic Jay Street firehouse, is finally going to be renovated.  Brownstoner

- The art of the Facebook Super Log-Off. NY Magazine

- Have you seen this missing Brooklyn teen? He was last seen on Adams Street near Tillary.  Village Voice

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Tragic St. George Fall, Marathon Time Lapse Video, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- More about the tragic fall of a Brooklyn College student from the St. George dormitories in Brooklyn Heights. Brooklyn Eagle

- Fort Greene people only want to sleep. The Local

- The brick facade of 200 7th Avenue will soon be getting some new "drips," the hanging artwork that building owner has been affixing to the facade for the past 20 years. Here's Park Slope

- Inexpensive ways to learn office technology 101. Brokelyn

- The MTA has posted a cool time-lapse video of the Marathon.  Gothamist

- Hard-working Brooklyn woman runs her 25th consecutive NYC Marathon, emailing her boss during the race.  Brooklyn Eagle 

- Here's how to spot a BPA-free store receipt.  Fast Company

- Pistols and Popcorn is stepping out to have her twins today.  P&P 

- Free home buyer financial night tonight in Bed-Stuy.  Bed-Stuy Blog  

- The L Magazine has posted a slide show of Ruby's Last Hurrah, about the Coney Island eatery's last day.


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4,500 Chasidic Men Dance on Brooklyn's Pier 12

A warehouse at Brooklyn’s Pier 12 (at the Cruise Terminal) erupted in dance Sunday night as approximately 4,500 men got on their feet, locked arms, and circled around the giant room to the rhythmic chords of traditional Chasidic melodies, according to Chabad.org. 

See a cool 360 degree view of the banquet at Crown Heights Info.

Also on Sunday, 4,000 rabbis assembled for group photos. Here. 


Here's a video of the photo session.

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Tonight: Galapagos Futurist (and Kite Flying!) Society Presents Dr. Despommier

Galapagos Art Space announces that Galapagos Art Space Futurist (and Kite Flying!) Society has landed the esteemed Futurist Dr. Dickson Despommier to talk about the future of urban Vertical Farming. Galapagos tentatively believes it is possible that Dr. Despommier is also an avid constructor of kites.

There will also be a Trapeze Artist.

This is the first meeting of the Society.

DOORS: 7PM | SHOW: 8PM
TIX: FREE

Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn

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CB6 Comments On New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan

Brooklyn Community Board 6 has just uploaded comments prepared in response to the Department of City Planning's Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan Draft Recommendations issued on September 7, 2010.

The document is available as a download on CB6's Economic/Waterfront/Community Development & Housing committee's homepage, at the following link: http://bit.ly/Vision2020comments

Anyone is free to comment on the City's draft recommendations before November 12, 2010. More information is available on the City's website at: http://www.nyc.gov/waterfront

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'Blue Bloods' in DUMBO, Sex Extortion Plot, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Filming in Dumbo today: "Blue Bloods," a drama about a “multigenerational family dedicated to the NYC law enforcement.” Starring Tom Selleck and others.  Dumbo NYC

- You don't have to be in the marathon to walk the route and take pictures of the spectators.  PMFA

- Report claims that a student at the Hotel St. George dorm died after falling from a window, possible after using "magic mushrooms." BHB

- A sex extortion plot was foiled -- by a pederast's son.  Brooklyn Eagle 

- Mayor Bloomberg's daughter falls from a horse, suffers concussion and cracked spine. NY Magazine 

- Woman solves "Wheel of Fortune" puzzle with just one letter.  Huff Post


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Plymouth Church Yankee Fair, 2010

It didn't rain after all this past Saturday, so lots of kids and their grownups headed to the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims' Yankee Fair in Brooklyn Heights.

Much of the action took place on Orange Street, right outside the church. Pony rides!

The inflatable castles were quite popular.

Kids took off their shoes before jumping in.

Wish they had one of these for the grownups.

Inside the church buildings there were all kinds of things for sale -- clothing, antiques, jewelry and books -- and chili, sandwiches and lots of baked goods for lunch. The kids enjoyed entertainers like Liam the Magician and Gina Sing, and the adults heard Will Erat belting out Broadway tunes and soprano Alexis Lum and mezzo Caitlin Burke sing beautiful opera together.

A Viking was selling raffle tickets.

Photos by MK Metz

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