Here's that rat that scampered all around the A train yesterday near Fulton Street, causing grown New Yorkers to shriek and stand on subway seats.
Some of the comments on YouTube are hard, just hard:
"Next time someone says they are tough because they lived in new york I'm going to show them this."
"Pussification of America. That's why you will all fall. HAIL HYDRA!"
"People in third world countries will laugh at these people hahah"
"It occurred to no one that they can kick it, debone, and stir fry until golden brown? (-.-) Such first world problem… ;P"
Thank goodness some kind souls thought about the rat:
"That rat is gonna need some serious trauma counseling after having gone through this."
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Here's That Rat on the Brooklyn Subway Video. Shrieking Riders Get No Sympathy from Viewers
Barclays Center Getting a Green Roof, and Problematic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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| Green roof at Barclays Center. Courtesy Shop |
More Barclays News:
- Miley Cyrus, at her “Bangerz” show at the Barclays Center on Saturday night was "so insistently gross — grabbing her crotch constantly, spread-eagling on the hood of a car, and twerking with a steatopygic midget "— she seems determined "to avoid seeming remotely sexy." [New Yorker]
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dinner and show scheduled for Thursday at Barclays Center is a "disaster in the making." Cat Stevens' visa is up in the air. No one from Brian Epstein’s family has been invited, and Andrew Loog Oldham says thanks but no thanks. [Showbiz411]
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Final Hip Tot Music Fest of the Season in Park Slope this Sunday
Special guest, Suzi Shelton, Brooklyn Kindie favorite, will join Little Miss Ann's Band. We're told fiddles and ukuleles are involved.
Hip Tot’s resident author/illustrator, Melanie Hope Greenberg, will read her classic story “A City Is”. (Plus everyone will get a $75 discount to car sharing company Carpingo.)
Astrograss concerts feature sing-a-longs, dance contests, and high-energy fiddle hoedowns.
Details:
Sunday, April 13th at11am
Shapeshifter Lab: 18 Whitwell Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn 11215
$10 in advance | $15 at the door (non-walkers FREE)
NOTE the secret code in the grapgic above for discount tickets
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Prisoner Escapes from Cops Monday Night Near Barclays Center, Brooklyn
Darnell Thomas, 26, escaped from police custody shortly after 6:30 p.m. at Atlantic and South Portland avenues, near Barclays Center in Brooklyn, CBS reports.
He was being taken to Central Booking at the time. Thomas was in handcuffs when he escaped. Police were still looking for him around midnight.
More here.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Jay Z Racist? 12-Year-Old Hit by Car; and More Brooklyn Briefs
- A Marine Park woman was weirded out when a letter postmarked in 1969 arrived in the mail last week. [Brooklyn Paper]
- Teachers at Park Slope’s P.S. 321 protest ‘horrendous’ Common Core English tests. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Jay Z is under fire for wearing a blatantly racist medallion to a Brooklyn Nets Game. [Design Trend]
- Police are asking cabbies in Brooklyn to be on the lookout after two livery cab drivers were robbed at gunpoint in Bushwick. [NY1]
- A 12-year-old girl is in critical condition after she was struck by a driver in Borough Park on Saturday. [Gothamist]
- Opening of "Top Chef" winner Ilan Hall's restaurant at Williamsburg Urban Outfitters is delayed. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Habana Outpost is reopening next Saturday, on Earth Day. [H.O.]
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Brooklyn Residents Smell Fire for Hours Early Monday Morning
Hey #Brooklyn (esp folks in Bensonhurst, Midwood, Ditmas Park, Kensington, etc.): anyone else smell weird burning/fire odor around midnight?
— Jennifer L. Pozner (@jennpozner) April 7, 2014
Brooklynites reported the strong smell of fire from midnight to 2:45 a.m. or later Monday morning. McBrooklyn can smell it in Brooklyn Heights, and residents of Bensonhurst, Bushwick and Staten Island report smelling it, too.
It's a very very strong smell! Go outside. check it out! #Brooklyn
— #LechaimYidden (@LechaimYidden) April 7, 2014
Update: the odor is likely from a large forest fire in Burlington /Wharton State Forest in New Jersey. #Brooklyn #FDNY
— Breaking/news/wx (@YYB69) April 7, 2014
Due to a brush fire in the Wharton State Park in New Jersey, residents in Staten Island & Brooklyn may smell smoke.
— NYC OEM - Notify NYC (@NotifyNYC) April 7, 2014
The city confirms the smell is from a fire in New Jersey.
There's something on fire outside. It stinks. #Bushwick #Brooklyn
— Johnny Ford (@PistOffJohnny) April 7, 2014
Why #Brooklyn Smell Like That
— James Cash Penney (@_MusicSoulChild) April 7, 2014
Terrible Smell in #Brooklyn comes from brush fire in #NewJersey
— mark kennedy (@marksmile100) April 7, 2014
According to SILive, approximately 30 acres of the park burned on Sunday.Smoke could be seen for miles, said NBC 10 Philadelphia. Crews dropped water on the fire from airplanes and used backfires to contain the fire, and the fire did not threaten structures or people, the report noted, adding how the fire started is under investigation.
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Crocuses Herald Spring in Brooklyn Bridge Park
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| Photo: MK Metz, McBrooklyn |
Factoid: The dried stigmas of a variety of crocus make saffron. It takes about 30 stigmas to make a "pinch," the amount used in a recipe of saffron rice.
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Coney Island Opens Next Weekend with Noisefest and Rides
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ROCK'N'ROLL KARAOKE: Mystical Children and the audience sing "Twist N Shout" or "Satisfaction" or "Eighteen" or the original song "Pain In Ass" at Shooting Gallery Arts Annex 1214 Surf Ave. 2 - 5 p.m.
At the same time: FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL VINTAGE MOVIE SINGALONGS presented by The Museum of Interesting Things at Sideshows at the Seashore Surf Avenue and West 12th Street.
Luna Park opens on April 13 as well. The first 100 riders on The Cyclone Rollercoaster get to ride for free.
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Friday, April 4, 2014
From Bloomberg: Brooklyn Is Shifting NYC's Center of Gravity
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| Photo: MK Metz, McBrooklyn.com |
From a booming population to growing political power, Brooklyn has become the borough of MORE:
- More people
- More restaurants
(- Less crime)
- More jobs
- More sports
- More expensive residences
- More arts
- More political power
- More soul
- More enterprise
- More media
- More gentrification
In related news, the Daily News reports that the median rent in Brooklyn is now $2,890 — up 11.6% in just a year.
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Despite Hospital Pick for LICH, Supporters Remain Cautious
Yesterday SUNY announced that Brooklyn Health Partners' bid for Long Island College Hospital scored highest in the RFP process.
BHP offers to operate a full-service hospital on the LICH campus, which is what supporters have been fighting for. But members of the LICH coalition are restrained in their applause.
The scoring of the proposals is questioned becasue the bids that came in second and third are not hospital bids. The RFP requires hospital bids be scored higher than non-hospital bids. This "irregularity" is a flag to LICH advocates who have spent the last year fighting SUNY's illegal attempts to close LICH and non-stop rule-brealing.
There are two other qualified hospitals that somehow ranked lower on the list.
Advocates fully expect SUNY to find a reason to drop BHP and move on to their real choice -- Peebles, which came in second, or Fortis, in third place.
Full story at Brooklyn Eagle.
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