amusements
Source: Wikimedia CommonsOnce upon a time, long before Thor Equities, the Coney Island Cyclone, and even before Rabbi Abraham Abraham [/brooklyn-mourns-the-loss-of-rabbi-abraham-abraham/] came into the world, there was Dreamland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamland_(amusement_park)], an aptly-named Coney Island amusement park, which served as one of the area’s
Borough President
The writing contest is held in conjunction with the Brooklyn Book Festival. Ready, set… “write” on! Borough President Marty Markowitz is reaching out to all of Brooklyn’s high schoolers (high school students attending school in Brooklyn or who live in Brooklyn) to participate in his Sixth Annual “Brooklyn Lit
Jews
Source: Google MapsA less-than-heimishe nightclub is eager to open for business in the heart of Gravesend, but Orthodox residents in the area do not want any of their crazy tsures, Vos Iz Neias is reporting [http://www.vosizneias.com/83949/2011/05/18/brooklyn-ny-community-urged-to-rally-against-proposed-brooklyn-nightclub] . The business, called Pleasure, would be
Classical Music
A performance by Mikhail Svetlov (Source: mikhailsvetlov.com)Principal soloist from the Bolshoi Theater and Metropolitan Opera, Mikhail Svetlov [http://www.mikhailsvetlov.com/home.html], will perform “The Cosmos, the Singer and the Stars,” May 22, 5 p.m. at the Shorefront YM-YWHA, 3300 Coney Island Avenue. The Grammy-nominated bass,
groceries
Photos by Erica ShermanNow bereft of my local Pathmark supermarket since April 15, and having to travel a mile on public transportation to get to Waldbaum’s, or be a lazybutt and order groceries from the wildly expensive Fresh Direct, this photo I shot last week reminds me of the
Coney Island beach
Rabbi Abraham Abraham. Source: The Village VoiceSouthern Brooklyn has a lot less spirit this morning, as a kindly Herculean rabbi — infamous for donning bright orange Speedos while plunging every New Year’s Day into the freezing Atlantic waters off Brighton Beach, and who once froze himself [http://www.magictimes.com/
community colleges
Calcified caveman poop? Or a prehistoric meteorite containing the mineral Krotite? Source: MSNBC.comThe next time you hear someone coolly drop the old maxim, “Those who can’t do, teach,” remind them of Kingsborough Community College Physical Sciences Professor Dr. Harold C. Connolly, Jr. and his research partner, CUNY undergraduate
fraud
Hopefully this will help heal the economy a little bit. If you’ve ever cogitated on the injustices of people being eligible for free health insurance while living in million dollar mansions and driving an Infiniti G37 Cabrio, as you work two jobs to make ends meet and pay a
beach
Source: preservationnation.orgDid we all see the other day how Ned cleverly inserted the word “Jerk-hattan [/sunday-bayfest-2011-weve-got-the-program-guide/]” into a post? I loved it. As a good friend of mine [http://cheeseaisle.blogspot.com/] is fond of saying: “I laughed [http://elisson1.blogspot.com/2005/01/team-america-world-police-movie-review.html] ’til I peed
brightwater ct
The Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach will host art historian and cultural critic Maya Pritsker, who will lead a discussion, entirely in Russian, entitled “From the Lower East Side to Broadway: The Jewish Mark on American Theater,” May 15, 4 p.m. at the Y, 3300 Coney Island Avenue, at
amoako buachie
Source: NYDailyNews.comIf you do not take into account local mobsters named Jimmy Whispers and Jojo the Whale sitting around their Belmont Avenue social club, discussing who to whack next, so many of the quotes from A Bronx Tale have this refreshing tendency to supersede their immediate surroundings and kind
46th city council district
Source: council.nyc.govI read this [http://www.metro.us/newyork/newyork/article/855147--council-criticizes-school-bullying] and thought, “Where was Lew Fidler when I was growing up?” Since the widely publicized suicide last year of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Tyler_Clementi]shocked the nation,