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TOMORROW: Free/Low Cost Spay And Neutering
Sunday, April 20th, the ASPCA will be providing free/low cost spay and neutering for your dog or cat right here in Greenpoint! Pet owners who can provide proof or public assistance or a Medicaid card can have their pets neutered for absolutely FREE! Everyone else is requested to donate $25.00. This is not only a great deal, but it also reduces the number of unwanted pets that end up being euthanized— or worse— every year.
Free/Low Cost Spay and Neuter Clinic
@ Petland Discounts
846 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
Those of you who wish to learn about more dates and locations the ASPCA will be conducting free/inexpensive spay and neutering in Brooklyn can contact them at the above-listed telephone number, check out their web site or click on the above flier.
Miss Heather
Get A Load Of This: The Power Plant That Won’t Die
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
Via my comrades at Curbed:
On Friday, April 18 TransGas Energy Systems LLC will petition the NYS Siting Board to reverse its March 21, 2008 decision denying TransGas’ application for the permit required to build its state-of-the-art, clean, environmentally positive cogeneration plant in Greenpoint Brooklyn.
In its zeal to appease former Deputy Mayor Doctoroff and the newly gentrified community of Greenpoint, the Siting Board, guided by the staff of the Department of Public Service, gutted the State’s authority over the licensing of electric generating plants and transmission facilities. The Siting Board opted to defer to local governments on whether and where to build new electric infrastructure. The decision to mollify a well-heeled, largely white, professional neighborhood – who simply did not want to have a new power plant in their backyard, however clean it might be – confirms what many observers have come to conclude: that New York State is on a suicide mission to sacrifice the State’s future in order to cater to NIMBY’s.
Um, has Transgas ever tread north of Greenpoint Avenue? Given this snippet of rhetoric I doubt it. Get with it, assholes. This community is not solely white, well-heeled or professional; it is a working class neighborhood that is sick and tired of being used as a dumping ground to mollify other “well-heeled, largely white, professional(s)”.
Miss Heather
Comment Of The Week
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
Marty should give up politics and be a talk show sidekick.
— Spanky
Rarely has a comment moved me as much as this one has— and I mean this in a good way. I was not compelled to refresh my knowledge of New York State’s Stalking Law and I found it very witty to boot.
WAY TO GO SPANKY!
Miss Heather
P.S.: No disrespect intended to Mr. Markowitz. He’d make Ed McMahon look a dime store amateur! Ed? Fuggedaboutit!
Al Capone: Greenpoint Kitty
This little guy was born April 15th right here in Greenpoint!
Lisacat writes:
“I’m innocent!” He’s more active and feisty than the older Weakerthans kittens I’m fostering. They’re born tough in “Greenpernt”. Note: the pink thing does not become him and is probably too stringy to be safe for kittens. I’ll have to find something more suitable for his next clip!
What else would one possibly expect from a Garden Spot cat? I should know: I have one of my own! They’re small, but they pack a lot of punch! You can learn more about Greenpoint’s littlest and cutest newcomer by clicking here.
Miss Heather
Greenpoint Photo du Jour: Manhattan Avenue
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
If a person is too damned lazy to buy their own condoms can you imagine what he (or she) must be like in the sack? Just a little food for thought for this lovely Friday afternoon.
Miss Heather
Greenpoint Back In The Day: Play Ball!
A number of you old(er) timers out there will recognize the tanks in the background. They were imploded back in 2001. What you may not recognize, however, is who is throwing the ball at this baseball game long past. It is a very young Joseph Lentol!
Miss Heather
Greenpoint Photo du Jour: Patience and Swe(a)t
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
From McGuinness Boulevard.
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Hits Terrible Two!
As of today New York Shitty has been in effect for two whole years! To celebrate this most auspicious event, I will share cavalcade of colorful crap brought to my attention by none other than the proprietor of Brooklyn11211. He writes:
The Junior High school on South 3rd between Driggs and Roebling has a bunch of tagged poop (yellow, in that case).
Roebling is a wonderland of festively colored fecal matter! Read on and see for yourself.
This King Midas merde can be found between South 1st and South 2nd Street!
Here’s a pair of regal purple poops for your edification.
Just down the street there is this pink poo and its ghost (dogly) companion.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Shitmas!
As Crystal Gayle once sang:
Don’t you turn my brown eyes blue.
And last, but hardly least, my favorite.
I call this composition tree pit with peel and poop. Here’s a close-up.
Looks like the Easter Bunny left Williamsburg with much more than just Easter eggs last month!
Miss Heather
Greenpoint Photo du Jour: Reverse Psychology, Part II
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
For reasons I cannot exactly pinpoint, this marketing strategy is NOT having its desired effect on yours truly.
Miss Heather
P.S.: I think I will put Mr. Heather on a diet of these meat stuffs just to see if he ends up looking like this guy. I suspect all that will happen is he’ll get is a clogged colon, but hope springs eternal!
Greenpoint Photo du Jour: Reverse Psychology, Part I
Filed under: Greenpoint Magic
The author of this sign (which is located on Eckford Street) may very well have found the most cunning way to discourage would-be bikes thieves yet.
Ask them to take your bike.
Miss Heather
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