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Q at Parkside To Open Southbound Next Week!
From the MTA Website: Coney Island-bound platform at Parkside Av is closed for renovation All times until 5 AM Thursday, Jun 19
View ArticleMore Real Estate Tidbits For Your Consideration
The Real Deal today reports that Douglas Ellisman (or as I like to call him Doug E. Fresh) has once gain noted the rental price gains in Brooklyn. And once again, he's defined an area known as...
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Site Specifc Theater This Saturday In Prospect Park Train Station
Now THIS is what I'm talking about!Spellbound storyteller Lauren Jost takes preschoolers and their grownups on a journey through the subways of New York. This site-specific and interactive storytelling...
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I Don't Know About You, But I Live In Melrose Park
Thanks Bob Marvin, for setting the record straight. I live in Melrose Place Park. Not to mention, I need to change the name of the blog to the "L at Woodruff." Priceless, Bob!Hope you're reading Nicole...
View Article626 Debate on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show
The last bit of this piece is on 626 Flatbush. Other interesting bits on the seniors being kicked out of PPW and the Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper in the East Village.I would encourage you to listen in...
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Carpenters Nail Hudson
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters was out again today, taking aim at Hudson Companies for hiring subs who don't do the job via union workers. So if you were strolling the Flabenue today and wondered...
View ArticleNeeded: Strong Dude Or Muscle Lady
I want to grab some awesome wooden planters for the bald spots on Clarkson Avenue. If you read this and have some strength, will you please email me? I want to do this tonight, just around dusk so it...
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PLG Arts Invites You To a Party - This Weekend
These guys are the real deal. A powerhouse hyper-local arts group that you need to be supporting, because they be supporting you and your neighborhood! Plus, you get to check out Dorsey Gallery over on...
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Safety Help For Parkside Playground
Hail to the ChiefParkside Playground activist Pavani T. and Officer Martinos at the 71st confirmed that the Playground will get a full-time security officer, at least during the hours of greatest use,...
View ArticleThe Best Offense Is a Zone Defense
Rezoning alert! Rezoning alert! Not riveted yet? Let me try again.Rezoning YOUR block alert!!! Still heavy-lidded? Then you probably won't be interested in the rest of this post. I've been fortunate to...
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Actual Real Life Authors To Read Books Out Loud. Books They Wrote Themselves!...
PLG Arts Launches New Brooklyn Reading Series Two much-loved Brooklyn authors – Emma Straub and Elizabeth Mitchell – will kick off PLG Arts’ new Meet-the-Author Reading Series with a joint reading and...
View ArticlePPEN et al Lose Suit Against 626: Silver Linings Abound
the full decision was uploaded by brownstoner...read it here.The Honorable Supreme Court Justice Peter Moulton has rendered his decision, and the answer (and now I jump to the legalese) is ixnay on...
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Bluestone Cafe Review: From the PLGourmand
Debra weighs in with another review of an outstanding place for eats. But...as of yet no beer/wine, and they've been super flaky on hours. So call ahead (or imbibe ahead, or both). Is it actually IN...
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COME FLYer WITH ME
pic by Jeffrey JoslinSure looks sneaky, don't it? These gentlemen were snapped on the first block of Midwood from Flatbush (Midwood I to the newcomers out there) They're loading up the circulars,...
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Bard in the Park Thru Sunday
You, lucky near-the-second-greatest-park-in-the-world sort, YOU can zip up on the B41 to Grand Army Plaza, or walk across the luscious center of our Park, to see the New York Classical Theatre's wild...
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Breaking News: CB9 To Get New Leadership
Sometimes, nice guys finish first!The Q will happily share the outcome of tonight's elections at Community Board 9, but in the lead-up to the vote, I've just learned that longtime chair, Rabbi Jacob...
View ArticleCB9 Votes In (Almost) Entirely New Leadership
Whoa Nelly! Now THAT's entertainment. In a mtg that lasted past 10:30pm, we saw the "retirement" of Rabbi Jacob Goldstein after 34 years as Community Board 9 chair. We voted in a new 1st Vice Chair,...
View ArticleLeffets Goes Arty
Central Brooklyn is teeming with tax preparation places. Often offering loans so you can get your return cash faster, the storefront joints seem to proliferate in low-income neighborhoods. (Along with...
View ArticleFlatbush BID Street Fair - Sunday!
The Q has never been a huge fan of street fairs, but as they go the Flatbush BID's street fair (from Parkside down to Beverly) is pretty fun, with an especially high quotient of Caribbean good times....
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