Sunshine, Music and Hundreds of Kids at 2013 Brooklyn Heights Egg Hunt

The sunny weather brought hundreds of kids and their families to the annual Easter egg hunt at Pierrepont Playground in Brooklyn Heights on Saturday morning. You have to get up pretty early for this one -- the line wraps around the entrance on Pierrepont Street to Columbia Heights and all the way to Remsen Street. (There was a huge crowd last year, too.)

The Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee hid 500 eggs in the playground, but there were several hundred children, so . . .

On your mark, get set . . . go!

The grassy area was set aside for the youngest ones.

While the eggs ran out pretty fast, there was still the playground to play on, plus music, balloons (donated by Heights Kids), and face painting, too.

Lots of delicious treats were baked by members of the Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee. Proceeds from the event fund the Summer Arts and Science programs.

Photos copyright MK Metz

- Brooklyn Height's Spring Egg Hunt 2012
- Brooklyn Heights Spring Egg Hunt 2011
- Egg Hunt at Plymouth Church, 2011 
- Brooklyn Heights Sprint Egg Hunt 2010
- Egg Hunt at Plymouth Church, 2009 
- Egg Hunt at BBP, 2008 


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Mayoral Hopefuls Come to Brooklyn Next Wednesday, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Mayoral candidates to duke it out in Brooklyn on April 3 in Brooklyn Heights. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Sick of its rapid boom, community leaders are asking the city to rezone Bushwick. [DNA info]

- A Brooklyn judge denied the city’s motion to dismiss a parent lawsuit to get PCBs out of schools, finding the city’s arguments “disingenuous.” Brooklyn Eagle

- Quinn folds, makes deal to give New Yorkers paid sick leave. [NY Magazine]

- Workers constructing City Point in Downtown Brooklyn not getting paid very much, want to halt work. [NY Daily News]

- The Fung Wah bus line was scarier than anyone thought. [NY Magazine]

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This Guy Was Running Around Downtown Brooklyn Thursday

Corpus Hernandez. NYPD

Corpus Hernandez, 37, escaped from Brooklyn criminal court on Schermerhorn Street Thursday and took off down Smith Street, the NY Daily News reports.

Hernandez was found at his mother's in East Flatbush hours later. He has at least 30 priors.

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TSA Agent Finds Pepper Spray, Shoots It, Sends TSA Squad to Hospital

Curly Howard, Stooge

More antics from those madcap TSA screeners at JFK:

TSA agent Chris Yves Dabel, from Brooklyn, found a pepper-spray container at Kennedy Airport and -- just for fun -- fired the eyeball-melting liquid at five fellow TSA screeners, the NY Post reports.

He told Port Authority cops that he “found the canister on the floor and thought it was a laser pointer.”

All six TSA agents ended up at Jamaica Hospital, and security checks were halted at Kennedy for at least 15 minutes, but likely it was much longer.

Thanks goodness he didn't find a detonator.

More at the Post.

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State Senate Kills 'Speed Cams'

Councilman Stephen Levin’s effort to get the city to install speed cameras has hit a bump, the Brooklyn Eagle reports. The State Senate refused to fund the cams during this week's budget talks in Albany. Without senate support, the cameras won’t be installed.

In blistering language, the mayor singled out for blame state Sen. Marty Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-southern Brooklyn) and state Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Midwood-Flatbush) for killing the speed camera bill.

Instead of speedcams, Councilman Vincent Gentile wants to hire 200 additional police officers to catch drivers who speed.

(For a technical explanation of speed cams, see here.)

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FEMA Extends Sandy Assistance to April 13

FEMA.gov

The deadline to register for Hurricane / Superstorm Sandy disaster assistance has been extended to April 13. If you need to apply, visit this page soon.

BTW -- FEMA is pretty busy lately -- more than half the states in the U.S. are under active disaster declarations.

These range from the recent declarations of disasters in Maine and Rhode Island -- hit by severe winter storms -- to flooding in Louisiana, tornadoes in Mississippi, and the devastation caused in twelve states by Sandy.

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Line For Free Yogurt at DUMBO's New Pinkberry Stretched Past Foragers

Photo: MK Metz

Just in time for warmer weather, DUMBO's new Pinkberry frozen yogurt outpost opened in at 117 Front Street on Wednesday -- and the line for free yogurt stretched to the end of the block and wrapped around Foragers.

The store's director of operations Michael Warren told Gothamist that "small scoops of original, mango, salty caramel, chocolate hazelnut, pomegranate and key lime flavors" would be available until roughly 9 p.m.

Apparently there's going to be a thing called #pinkberrygreek where they give out free Greek yogurt on Wednesdays in April between 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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— Pinkberry (@PBerryNOLA) March 26, 2013

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West Elm Market -- Nice Place for Coffee in DUMBO

Photo: MK Metz

We had forgotten about West Elm's new Market at 50 Washington Street, around the corner from West Elm's main DUMBO location.

But we ran in out of the rain the other day and discovered that the shop has some attractive kitchen and gardening stuff, plus a little cafe with coffee and croissants. It was a nice place to wait out the storm.

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Old Fulton Ferry Landing; GoogaMooga; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Cyclists will be racing like maniacs through the streets of Red Hook Saturday night. [Gothamist]

- 'For-profit’ hospital in Brooklyn shot down in state budget. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The GoogaMooga Festival returns to Prospect Park, after last year's debacle. [DNAinfo]

- Booze spots in Bushwick will be facing a midnight curfew on Sundays. [Brokelyn]

- Best places to eat and drink in Red Hook. [NY Times]

- 14 photos of Fulton Ferry Landing from the 1970s. [Gothamist]

- We knew we'd seen those hands somewhere before... [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Teen's wild dash across subway tracks ends in tragedy. [NY Daily News]

- Old man Astor is headed for the slammer. [NY Magazine]


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Worst Bathrooms; Cheap Apartments; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- 10 worst NYC bar bathrooms, with 5 right here in Brooklyn. [NY Daily News]

- The daughter of the multimillionaire former owner of the NY Post /MTA chairman Peter Kalikow was arrested peddling heroin. [NY Daily News]

- After 25 years, the Celeste Diner on Tillary Street has finally bit the big one. [Brownstoner]

- Brooklyn owners of East Hampton property say home has become ‘House of Ill Repute.' [Brooklyn Eagle]

- How to get an apartment for $600 a month in Downtown Brooklyn. [Brownstoner]

- The ‘Brooklyn hipster musical’ doesn’t totally suck after all. [Brokelyn]

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