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New York Shitty Day Ender: Kent Street
It would appear the residents of 119 Kent Street— or at least the younger ones, anyway— are taking this whole skull business in stride.
Miss Heather
Spotted At 984 Manhattan Avenue: WPIX
Filed under: 11222, Asshole, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Plagiarism
Today yours truly decided to take it easy and knock around the Garden Spot. You can imagine my surprise when I spied a television crew on Manhattan Avenue between Huron Street and India Street. It was Greg Mocker from Channel 11, and yes, he was interviewing people regarding the “beeping” fliers yours truly wrote about yesterday. For shits and giggles I decided to hang around and watch him at work. Hilarity ensued. (TEASER: Those of you who are fans of our Community Board’s Public Safety Chair— and you know who you are— will be pleased to know he makes a cameo appearance at the very end!)
Here’s the deal, folks:
1. Aside from flat-out lying to a chap he was interviewing about the provenance of the story he was “reporting” I find it rather sad that this is the kind of “new item” that apparently merits the professional media’s attention nowadays. There a lot of great stories to be found in Greenpoint. This is not one of them. So much for the media being the “watch dogs” for the people.
2. Those of you who live in the area know (as I do) that the gentleman he is interviewing is not normal. He is very nice, to be certain but I do not know if he is merely learning disabled, has a speech impediment or is struggling with addiction (as many people hereabouts are)— or all of the above. For this reason I find it utterly reprehensible that Mr. Mocker would consider subjecting this man to media attention (and therefore ridicule). This chap cannot help being what god made him. Therefore, it would seem to me that the responsibility falls on Mr. Mocker— as a human being— not to exploit this gentleman’s shortcomings. But this seems to be what he was up to and as such he is putting a “face” on this community that is not only highly inaccurate, but quite frankly also insulting. We come in all shapes and stripes here.
UPDATE, 10:24 p.m.: I have word from my buddy Kevin over at Forgotten-NY that yours truly was given props (albeit as “thatgreenpointblog”) from Mr. Mocker himself! In addition our Public Safety Chair makes a rather amusing appearance. See for yourself:
As you can imagine I am very pleased by these developments. However:
1. I doubt I would have been credited had the above exchange not taken place.
2. I would be really, truly grateful if Mr. Mocker would cover more substantive issues in my community moving forward. And believe you there are plenty of those to be found!
Miss Heather
Spotted At 1059 Manhattan Avenue: Something Neat!
I stumbled upon this rather nifty item today while knocking around the Garden Spot. Those of you who have the opportunity really should go by and see it for yourselves! Otherwise does anyone reading this know who is responsible for this? If so please share via comments or email at: missheather (at) thatgreenpointblog (dot) com. Thanks!
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Street Seating du Jour: McCarren Park
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Feral Furniture, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Street Furniture, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Taken June 1, 2011.
Miss Heather
From The New York Shitty Inbox, Part II: Vollies Wanted
This item comes courtesy of a lady named Kat. She writes:
Hey Heather! I hope you are well.
I contacted you a month or so back when I was brainstorming about venues for the Greenpoint Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry benefit concert that I was proposing. Thank you again for your suggestions.
You’ve been in touch with my friend and co-organizer, Jennifer Basset so I’m not sure if she’s told you, but we decided to make the church the venue. We’ll have food and drinks in the backyard and bands and authors in the chapel. Should be ok…fingers crossed.
You offered to help with publicity before so I wanted to check in with you to see when you would like to receive info from us about the event? It’s scheduled for July 9.
Also, I don’t know if this is something you typically do or not, but I’m not having the best of luck with gathering volunteers to help on the day of the event. We still need about 15 people…do you ever post like a “Call for Volunteers” on your blog? Or do you have any suggestions about this?
Here’s the deal: I am more than happy to get the word out about events which will help our community’s neediest. To this end I asked Kat to give me a break-down of what kind of help is wonting and how she can be contacted. Here’s the rundown:
The event is from 12:00 PM (set up) until 8:00 PM plus clean up (1 hour tops) and
we are looking for people to do a couple of things (below):1. Bartender/bar back (make SIMPLE drinks, pour beer, manage ice, cups, etc.)
2. Take money at the door and stamp hands of those who’ve entered
3. General help (to hang out and do whatever is needed, i.e.; manage recycling, trash, etc.)We are asking people to commit to 2 -3 hr blocks to help and people can volunteer solo or in pairs.
Any and all who are interested in lending a hand should contact Kat via email at: kat (dot) carlton (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks!
Miss Heather
Photo Credits: The Greenpoint Reformed Church
From The New York Shitty Inbox: Green Sweep Greenpoint
This item comes courtesy of my buddy (proprietor of Red Star Bar and Greenpoint Business Alliance Co-Chair) Eric Hall. He writes:
This is the flyer for this Sunday’s “Green Sweep” , neighborhood clean up. If you could show us some love and post it on your blog, it would be much appreciated.
Gladly done! Those of you who would rather Greenpoint be the Garden Spot instead of the Garbage Spot mark your calendars, roll up your sleeves and be ready to get dirty for a good cause. Hey, you’ll even get a free lunch out of the deal!
Green Sweep Greenpoint
June 5, 2011 starting at 9:00 a.m.
Meet at Red Star Bar
37 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
Miss Heather
Spotted On Manhattan Avenue: A Query
I happened upon a number of these fliers while walking down Manhattan Avenue this morning. I must have encountered at least eight between Huron and India Street alone. Clearly this person is annoyed. Believe you me yours truly feels his (or her pain); several years ago I had the misfortune of having a neighbor who was seemingly unaware that smoke detectors require batteries in order to function simply jettison it out the window in a fit of pique. As a result we had to listen to its dulcet mating call for 24 hours straight. This made me very unhappy.
The good news is methinks I have located the source of this sound! Last night as the Mister and I were walking down Manhattan Avenue we were rather mystified by a strange beeping sound originating from the pay phones located in front of Ott Restaurant. Feeling cheeky, I answered both pay phones with an enthusiastic:
Dobranoc!*
I was met with silence— and the beeping kept right on going! If the author of the above missives is reading this methinks this is where you’ll find your culprit. Good luck!
Miss Heather
*This means “Good Night” in Polish.
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