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Surviving COVID-19 With Puppets

Cow, the title character of Cow and COVID19: Don’t Lose Your Sh*t! Courtesy of Isabelle Garbani.Equal parts informative, and entertaining, Cow and COVID19: Don’t Lose Your Sh*t! YouTube series consists of seven two- to three-minute YouTube videos, produced by Brooklyn-based sculpture artist Isabelle Garbani [http:

Announcements

No Pants? No Problem! Take a Subway Ride in Your Underwear this Sunday

No Pants Subway Ride. Photo by Arin Sang-Urai.Take off your pants and join improve theater troupe Improv Everywhere [https://improveverywhere.com/2019/12/02/save-the-date-no-pants-subway-ride-2020/] for their 19th annual public prank No Pants Subway Ride [https://improveverywhere.com/missions/the-no-pants-subway-ride/] on Sunday, January 12 in New York City. Who

Arts & Culture

Pizza Duct-Taped to a Wall on Sale in Greenpoint for $100,000

The masterpiece “Pizza” at Fornino. Courtesy of Michael Ayoub.GREENPOINT — Brooklyn chef and restaurateur put up a $100,000 masterpiece titled “Pizza,” for sale in his Greenpoint pizzeria, Fornino. Micheal Ayoub, owner and founder of Fornino pizzeria [https://www.fornino.com/], put up an artwork titled “Pizza” on the wall

Holidays

A Surprise Thanksgiving Dinner Took Over The L-Train Sunday Night

Thanksgiving on the L-train. Courtesy of Reddit User. [https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/e17sfi/thats_one_way_to_make_sure_your_guests_arrive_on/] L TRAIN — Around 7 p.m. on Sunday, a surprise Thanksgiving dinner took over the L-train from Union Square to Brooklyn. Every commuter on

Boerum Hill

Eastville Comedy Club Moves The Laughs To Brooklyn

BOERUM HILL – With the lease expiring on their subterranean Eastville Comedy Club [http://eastvillecomedy.com/], owners Marko and Tia Elgart knew it was time for a change. “Dive basement venues like our old location were cool 10 years ago when we opened, but that has completely dissipated,” Marko explained. They

Boerum Hill

Eastville Comedy Club Moves The Laughs To Brooklyn

BOERUM HILL – With the lease expiring on their subterranean Eastville Comedy Club [http://eastvillecomedy.com/], owners Marko and Tia Elgart knew it was time for a change. “Dive basement venues like our old location were cool 10 years ago when we opened, but that has completely dissipated,” Marko explained. They

Bensonhurst

Back to Bensonhurst!

Spotted in Park Slope by Tom PendergastFrom our inbox this weekend: I was in Bartel Pritchard Square and this vehicle just appeared. I approached the driver to ask who and why was he parked here.He said, in garbled English that he had read De Blasio and Lander were bragging

Central Brooklyn

Stuck Underground? You’re Going To Need A Good Laugh

Photo via Flickr/MTAFor a moment, finding this twitter account made it all seem worth it. The long nights anxiously waiting for a ghost train, the vomit-caked seats, the unexplained delays, the ‘showtime’s, the snail-slow service when the train finally does show up, the rat parades, the overcrowding, the

City Kid Corner

5 Dilemmas Brooklyn Parents Face In Winter

Raising a child in Brooklyn is not for the faint of heart. This is especially true during the winter months, when things like flesh burning radiators, cabin fever, and icy temperatures take hold of the five boroughs – bringing many parents to their breaking point. While we can’t make spring

humor

From Asgard To Zombies: 10 Hilarious South Slope Wi-Fi Names

South Slope is home to some of the most creative minds in NYC, so it should come as no surprise that we like to go above and beyond when it comes to our Wi-Fi names [/blog/neighbors/from-awwesome-to-time-lord-tech-10-south-slope-wifi-names]. Below are ten of our favorites from around the neighborhood. The one

broadway comedy club

Comedian Rocco Deserto Talks Italian Parents, Growing Up In Bensonhurst & Being Fat

The last time we wrote about Rocco Deserto, his wedding party had just been photobombed [/smoke-from-a-three-alarm-fire-photobombs-local-comedians-wedding-photos/] by a giant plume of smoke. Most of the time, Deserto’s life is not that eventful. The Xaverian High School [http://www.xaverian.org/] alum and proud six-time college dropout spends his the

blizzards

Shut Up, This Snowbro Is Cooler Than You Are

Photo by Joseph ZayatsSure, any snowman is literally cooler than you are by simple virtue of being made of actual frozen stuff, compared to your warm, squishy self. But this one is actually cooler than you are. Like, he hangs out in parking lots in the shadow of the dirty,

annabelle cazel

It’s The End! Bushwick Hipster Whines About Friends Moving To Sheepshead Bay For Cheaper Rents

Remember that time when Brooklyn Industries used devastated Sandy communities as the backdrop for an ad shoot? Très cool. (Source: BrooklynIndustries.com) Sheepshead Bay is very expensive. You don’t want to move here. People get stabbed all the time, bicyclists are run off the road and we don’t

caity weaver

A Gawker Writer Suffered Through 14 Hours Of Endless Mozzarella Sticks At Sheepshead Bay’s T.G.I. Fridays

Source: FridaysThank the lord for America’s independent, free press, delving into the weightiest and most controversial of issues, serving as a public watchdog, the fourth estate, protecting our freedoms… and eating mozzarella sticks for 14 hours so we don’t have to. In case you haven’t heard, T.

65th st

Tragedy Strikes! Flower Butcher Rampages On Dahill Road

The murder scene.Murder! Mayhem! Magnolias! A brazen criminal is on a rampage near Dahill Road, beheading the carefully tended tulips of neighbor Diane Pagen and leaving the disembodied buds as a demoralizing force to future blooms. Pagen emailed us about the tragic killing spree, which now spans two spring

goats

1915: Cops From Sheepshead Bay Precinct, Crying “Ki-ya,” Corralled Invading Army Of Gravesend Goats

Sheepshead Bay Police Precinct – now the NYPD’s 61st Precinct – was once located on Avenue U and East 15th Street. I stumbled across the photo above and set about doing some research. Unfortunately, I couldn’t learn when it was built or torn down and, quite frankly, stopped giving a

Craigslist

Bensonhurst Mom Touts Benefit Of Kids Moving Out On Craigslist

A real sun-filled room! (Source: daspader/Flickr)We’ve stumbled across yet another gem of a posting on Craiglist that gave us a chuckle. “YOU BENEFIT IN BENSONHURST FROM KIDS MOVING OUT” the listing’s headline declares. It seems some enterprising empty-nester has decided to take advantage of her kids

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Di Fara’s Pizza Dragged Into Mayoral Race, Called Food For The One Percent

Source: DiFara.comThe beloved dough-tossers at Midwood’s Di Fara Pizza were forced to defend themselves against allegations that they existed only to feed New York City’s elite, after mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio declared it his favorite pizza. The issue surfaced after the Daily News, in yet another

humor

Open Thread: The Midday Commute

Source: CityCynic.comI’ve been riding the subway a lot lately. For the past four years or so, I haven’t had to. My commute, as it were, comprises of going from the top of a flight of stairs to the bottom, through a room, ’round the way, and suddenly

humor

Video: The Lady Lifeguards Of Manhattan Beach, Circa 1940

We came across this incredible historic gem of a film this week, featuring the extraordinary training of the first female lifeguards of Manhattan Beach. The film, dug out of the public domain section of the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive (the wing housing the collection of U.S. cultural history)

humor

Brighton Beach: Come For The Sun, Flee From The Speedos

Brighton Beach’s Bureau of Tourism* recently commissioned its award-winning marketing team to create a documentary on the wonders that are Brighton Beach. Experience the beach, the sun, the ill fitting speedos, and the worldly shopping choices of “Little Russia by the Sea.” Don’t take our word for it,

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Craigslist Works (With Sheepshead Bites’ Help) In Getting Fallen Branch Removed

Fidler smash! Fidler bash! Fidler make city agency do job! (Source photo courtesy of GerritsenBeach.net)Yesterday we told you about a Craigslist post in which a Batchelder Street man (oh, and the manliness of said man was never fact-checked, so it may just be a wo-man) asked someone to

accidents

Photo: Car Vs. Bus Shelter, Avenue Z & E. 13th Street

Photo by David T.In the ongoing war between private and public transportation, there is no compassion, no kindness, no mercy. No one is spared, not even innocent bus shelters standing by the side of the road, doing nothin’ to nobody. Everything is fair game, and curbs mean nothing to

Anthony Weiner

10 Politicians Who Committed Worse Sins Than Anthony Weiner And Still Stayed In Office

Photo by Erica Shermanby Willie Simpson Poor Anthony Weiner. Publicly shamed and denied a dignified departure [/video-weiner-resigns-at-press-conference-heckler-denies-chance-at-dignified-departure/] for a sin most constituents see as inconsequential, it’s hard not to feel a bit sorry for the man. His colleagues turned their backs on him, he was forced to leave Congress,

garbage

Pizza & Home Brew Abandoned On E. 18 St

Pizza left on sidewalk, E 18 St. (Photo by Ray Johnson)This pizza and an unknown decoction in an olive jar was seen on the sidewalk on East 18 Street, between Avenue Y and Avenue X. Leftover pizza for breakfast can be a real treat, but this Thursday morning leftover