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Lorven Pharmacy
Culture on the Cheap
Spotted On Manhattan Avenue: Chili
That’s right, folks. This upcoming Sunday the Habitat will be hosting its Third Annual Chili Cook Off! Given we are set to get yet more snow, the timing could not be more fortuitous. Check it out!
Third Annual Chili Cook Off
January 9, 2011 starting at 6:00 p.m.
The Habitat
988 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
Miss Heather
LAST GASP: Pablo Airaldi In The Village Voice!
Yes, dear readers, The Village Voice has published the long-awaited feature* about Pablo Airaldi! Do give it a read and I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone his hearing is this upcoming January 6th at 9:00 a.m. Be there!
201 Varick Street, Room 1140
New York, New York 10014
UPDATE, January 5, 2011: I have gotten word as of tonight or tomorrow Pablo will be free!!! More details and a confirmation (hopefully) to follow!
Miss Heather
*One of my favorite passages/teaser:
…Ziiggie explains recently at Manhattan Avenue’s Acapulco restaurant, over French fries and a pint of blackberry-flavored brandy he had smuggled in his coat. “If he had tits, I’d fuck him.”
Now who can argue with that?
American Playground Watch: Before & After
On December 30, 2010 our Parks person wrote:
…We are doing all possible with the resources at hand. Right now, Mother Nature giving a few sunny, non-freezing days would be the most helpful thing possible.
On January 1, 2011 Miss Heather writes (on the Community Board 1 Yahoo Group):
Today I saw a tractor cleaning up the sidewalk in front of Jerzy Popieluszko Square and a group of sullen Parks employees with a truck equipped with a plow at McGolrick Park. One employee was complaining on her cell phone that it was cold. Perhaps when our Parks advocate(s) are done pontificating/congratulating themselves and/or making excuses they could see fit to send these people/equipment my direction?
It would appear that Mother Nature not only gave us a few days of mercifully temperate weather but also a snow plow. Thank you, Mother Nature!
Miss Heather
The Word On The Street: YO
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, The Word On The Street
From Manhattan Avenue.
Miss Heather
From The New York Shitty Inbox: Snow Woes On Vandervoort Avenue
(Or: The DOT Builds a Snow Fort!)
Tara on Beadel Street (who forwarded me the above photograph) writes:
Hi Miss Heather
I have been reading your blog for years and enjoy it. I live on beadel street and vandervoort ave. I don’t know if you have seen the huge pile of snow the city started dumping last Thursday on vandervoort which has caused a ton of honking and horrible traffic. It’s now Monday and the ave is still shut down. The city has been loading garbage trucks filled with snow and dumping them in front of key span on vandervoort – the actual street itself for more than 5 days now. Why would the city do this? Seems very unproductive. Thought you could solve this riddle.
Aside from basic municipal incompetence I honestly do not know what to say. But then again, it was on Vandervoort where I once saw this:
The above photograph was taken March 10, 2010. A month or so later the DOT saw fit to stick a street cone in it. I can assure you this was truly a vision.
My advice:
- Call 311 and complain.
- Get a complaint number.
- Forward this number along with a general description of your complaint to your City Councilperson (in this case, Diana Reyna), your local Community Board and State Assemblyman Joe!
Update, 5:35 p.m.: unlike a lot of the Snowmageddon posts I have erected over the last week, I have some very good news to report! After receiving Tara’s email— but before I wrote this post— I advised her to contact a number of people. This list included Community Board 1’s Transportation Committee Chair, Karen Nieves. Tara writes:
I got in touch with Karen and she has been a great help today. We had called 311 on Thursday night as well… She came and took pictures of the snow pile.* I wish I had taken pictures on Thursday when it was a complete nightmare.
You rock, Karen!
Miss Heather
*Here are a couple!
What were these people thinking?
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