The team [was] told by Markowitz that he had many objections, the same as those brought forth by Community Board 1 the week before, when the project was voted down in a 31-8 vote… “They are my appointees. I appointed them, you do understand, right?” Markowitz asked, referring to CB 1 board members.
The Eagle reports that Rose Plaza’s development team may be preparing to respond those objections.
Mental health break, NYC architecture edition.
If you are looking for something interesting to do on a rainy December evening, head on down to the foot of Grand Street and check out the opening at the International Museum of Paper. The museum is displaying its enormous collection of Chinese handmade papers and unusual artifacts pertaining to how papermaking was invented in China and developed through the centuries. The collection has been amassed during field expeditions to remote villages of China where traditional papermaking still exists.
The opening reception is tonight (December 13) from 5 to 8 p.m. The museum is located at 31 Grand Street (corner of Kent Avenue). The exhibit continues through June 6, 2010, with regular hours on Thursdays, 2-6 p.m.
Over the past few years, Grand Street west of the BQE has evolved into a great shopping and eating district. Which makes sense, since Grand Street has been the commercial core of Williamsburg going back to its village days in the 1820s.
Starting tomorrow night, the merchants on Grand Street will give you even more discounts, freebies and other incentives to shop, eat and drink there. You’ll find some of Williamsburg’s best retailers (Sprout, Moon River Chattel, Tracy Feith, Sodafine, Bird) and eateries (Mercat Negre, Santorini, Walter Foods) on the list (full list after the jump).
Grand Adventure takes place this Friday (11 December) and next Friday (18 December). To find participating establishments, just look for the lit farolitos in front of each store.
NAG has some really great items on its silent auction list (tonight!). But if art or open space is more your thing, check out OSA’s silent auction going on now at BraveBrooklyn. (Better yet, bid at both auctions – they both support good local causes.)
The auction features work donated by artists Fred Tomaselli, Richard Serra, James Case Leal, Nathan Koch (shown here), Adam Taye, Chris Burnside, James Woodward, Robbert Jan de Oude, Bradly Brown, Matt Jones, Monica Cook, Jesse Witkin, Khris Graves, Karen Bausman, Skewerville, Paul Campbell, Sean Hemmele and more. There are also signed books by Matthew Barney, Joel Shapiro and Mark Di Suvero.
You can online at BraveBrooklyn or show up on Friday December 11th from 6-11pm for the closing reception and final bidding at 30 Nassau Avenue, at Dobbin Street.
Good for him.
In six months New Yorkers will be complaining because the City is ticketing them exactly five minutes after the meter expires. What is the Council going to do then? Tack another five minutes on?
What a stupid bill.
The charges are relatively minor, and the two “self-hating Jewish hipsters” were released with desk appearance tickets.
“That unauthorized painting on New York City property is unlawful, but that is overlooked because it’s committed against the terrible Hasidim,” [neighborhood resident] Moshe Goldberger said.
Uh, no Moshe, it’s called civil disobedience, one tenet of which is taking responsibility for your acts of civil disobedience. By turning themselves in, Hechtropf and Piccochi seem to get that. Good for them.
Are businesses on Manhattan Avenue refusing to pay for Christmas decorations?!?
So says the Brooklyn Paper.
A quick reminder that this Thursday (10 December) from 7 to 10 pm there is a benefit for NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth – the second G is silent) at the Woods on South 4th Street. No cover, but donations are welcome. There will be plenty of booze, and a silent auction featuring goodies from local institutions (a lot of new additions since my last post on this), such as:
and even some Polish and ESL lessons!
